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SHẦYAST LÂ-SHAYAST.
105. A pregnant woman who devours dead matter through sinfulness is polluted and worthy of death, and there is no washing for her 1; and as for the child, when it has become acquainted with duties (pisak-shinâs), ashes ? and bull's urine are for its eating and for its washing. 106. As for a child who is born of solitary carriers of the dead, although its father and mother may both have devoured dead matter through sinfulness, that which is born is clean on the spot, for it does not become polluted by birth.
107. Rôshan * said that every one, who, through sinfulness, has become polluted by means of dead matter, is worthy of death, and his polluted body never becomes clean; for this one is more wretched than the fox which one throws into the water living, and in the water it will die. 108. One worthy of death never becomes clean; and a solitary carrier of the dead is to be kept at thirty steps from ceremonial ablution (pâdiyâvih).
109. Whichsoever of the animal species has eaten their dead matter", its milk, dung, hair, and wool are polluted the length of a year; and if pregnant when it has eaten it, the young one has also eaten it, and the young one is clean after the length of a year from being born of the mother. 110. When a male which has eaten it mounts a female, the female is not polluted. In. When dead matter is eaten by it,
1 That is, she cannot be purified. • Reading var (see note on § 49).
• Carrying a corpse by a single person being prohibited (see $$ 7, 8); but why he is supposed to devour it is not clear,
• See Chap. I, 4, note. • Compare Pahl. Vend. VII, 192.
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