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stalk, the date is clean, and the washing of the stone is just like that of wood. 123. The pomegranate, citron, quince, apple, pear, and other fruit, when in bearing and the rind (pazavisno) is perceptible on it, when dead matter comes upon it there is no pollution of it; and when the rind (pa zâmisno) is not perceptible on it, its washing is just like that of corn ; and rind is ever with the citron'. 124. For meat, butter, milk, cheese, and preserves (rikâr) there is no washing
CHAPTER III. 1. The clothing of a menstruous woman which they shall take new for her use is polluted, and that which is in use is not polluted? 2. When a bedchamber (sh âd-aûr vân) is overspread, and a carpet (būp) is laid upon it and a cushion on the two *, and
· Pahl. Vend. VII, 93 says, 'fruit whose rind (pazâv) exists is also just like that in a pod (kûvak), and for that which does not remain in a rind, when pollution shall come upon it, there is no cleansing whatever. Afarg said that there is ever a rind (pazâvisno) with the citron.
: Pahl. Vend. VII, 93 says, 'for everything separated there is a washing, except meat and milk.' Articles for which there is no washing cannot be purified.
Pahl. Vend. XVI, 5 says, 'when in the place she remains in for the purpose, she does not make the clothing she wears on her body polluted, it remains for use within the place. The meaning is, probably, that clothing already set apart for the purpose does not become further polluted, so as to be unfit for her use. It appears also (Pahl. Vend. XVI, 5) that on the spot where menstruation first appears, not even the twigs uplifted in the sacred ceremony are polluted, unless the circumstances are abnormal.
* This phrase, about the carpet and cushion, is omitted in K20 by mistake.
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