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CHAPTER II, 39-45.
or a month 1. 42. Clothing also in like manner, except that which one wears on the body; that, even in that time, is not clean, since it remains in use. 43. And the holy-water (zôhar), too, which is taken and remains in that place, is to be carried away immediately to the water; also the sacred milk (giv) and butter (gum) in like manner. 44. Of the prayer clothing Vand-Aûharmazd said that it is usable in the length of nine nights or a month; the writer (dapir) said that it is when they perform the washing of hands, and wash it thoroughly, it will become clean at the time.
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45. If in a house there are three rooms (gunginak), and one shall die in the entrance place (dargâs), if it be so that they may set the door open, and the corpse comes to this side, only this
1 According to the season of the year, the period of uncleanness being nine nights in the five winter months, and a month in the seven summer months (see Vend. V, 129).
Av. zaothra; this holy-water is consecrated by the priest reciting certain prayers while holding the empty metal cups in his hands, while filling them with water, and after filling them (see Haug's Essays, p. 397).
The Av. gâus gîvya, 'product of the living cow,' which is kept in a metal saucer during the ceremonies, and used for sprinkling the sacred twigs (baresôm), and for mixing with the holy-water and Hôm-juice in the mortar (see Haug's Essays, pp. 403, 405, 406).
Compare Pers. kûm, 'fat;' it is the Av. gâus hudhau, 'product of the well-yielding cow,' a small piece of which is placed upon one of the sacred pancakes, or wafers (drôn), during the ceremonies (see Haug's Essays, pp. 396, 407).
Reading yast; but it may be gast, 'changed.'
See the note on Chap. I, 4.
There appear to be, as yet, no means of ascertaining the name of the writer of the Shâyast lâ-shâyast, who gives his own opinion here.
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