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VI. EKPATISTÂN AND NÎRANGISTÂN. 367
106. What is the least load of wood accepted?
107. One may use a mortar of [silver], metal, or earth,
If it let nothing through (?)1.
One of bone, wood, or lead is not accepted.
Such is the rule for both parts of the mortar 9.
108. Of what size at the least must a mortar be to be accepted?
Large enough for three stems of Haoma to be prepared [therein]
What shall those stems be like?
As long as a joint of a finger, as thin as a hair. Shall he put them in at three times or not? As long as he puts in three stems3, he is accepted. Also water enough to overflow them1. However little milk he puts in", he is accepted.
He may use either his own mortar, or one that is not his own;
And so it is as to the Haoma, the water, the Varesa, and the tie";
But the milk must be his, the wood must be his, the Baresman must be his.
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''If it let anything escape, it is good for nothing' (Comm.) The mortar proper and the pestle.
Whether he puts them all in at once or otherwise.
For the straining.
A few drops of gîv are enough. • Supplied from the Pahlavi translation (îtûn vars).
'The vegetable tie that is bound around the Baresman, the so-called Aiwyaunghana (Evânghin).
8 Supplied from the Pahlavi translation (barâ zag-î nafshâ basryâ).
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