________________
CHAPTER JII, 15–22.
281
from the second menstruation she is not in cleanliness for nine days and nights,—these days and nights are for watching,—and then she is to be washed; when the nine days and nights are completed, on the same day washing is good.
19. Of leucorrhoea (kiharak)?, when it has quite changed colour, that which comes on before and also that which is after menstruation, the pollution is just like that of menstruation.
20. When she has become so completely clean from menstruation that her, washing may be as usual (dastô barag hầe), she does not make the sacred twigs (baresôm), nor even other things, polluted when beyond three steps.
21. On account of severe cold it is allowable for her to sit out towards 8 the fire; and while she washes a prayer (våg) is to be taken inwardly by her", and the washing of her hands, except with bull's urine (gômêz), is not proper till then; and when they are washed by her, two hundred noxious creatures are to be destroyed by her as atonement for sin.
22. A woman who goes beyond the period of menstruation", and, afterwards, sees she is polluted, when her pregnancy is certain-except when her
" In such abnormal cases the Hebrew law (Lev. xv. 25-28) prescribes seven days' seclusion after recovery
* Av. kithra, see explanation of kiharak-hômand (Av. kithravand) in Pahl. Vend. XVI, 1, 34.
Dastûr Jämâspji reads val bavan-i atâsh, 'to the part of the fire.' From what follows it would seem doubtful whether this distant approach to the fire is allowable until she is ready for washing.
• See $ 6, note. • Or, goes up from the place of menstruation.'
Digitized by Google
