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CHAPTER X, 6-11.
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8. The rule is this, that reverential should be the abstinence from unlawfully slaughtering of any species of animals; for in the Stadgar Nask' it is said, concerning those who have unlawfully slaughtered animals, the punishment is such that each hair of those animals becomes like a sharp dagger (têkh), and he who is unlawfully a slaughterer is slain. 9. Of animals, the slaughtering of the lamb, the goat (va hik), the ploughing ox, the war-horse, the hare, the bat (kiharâz), the cock or bird of Vohûman, and the magpie (kaskinak) bird, and of birds that of the kite, eagle (hů mâi), and swallow is most to be abstained from.
10. A pregnant woman who passes away is not to be carried away by less than four men', who are at it constantly with united strength; for with other corpses, after a dog's gaze, when they carry them along by two men with united strength, they do not become polluted; but for a pregnant woman two dogs are necessary, to whose united power she is to be exposed; and they carry her along by four men with united strength, and they do not become polluted; but when they carry her along by two men they are to be washed with ceremony (pisak).
11. The rule is this, that when they beg forgiveness for a person (mardum) who has passed away,
See B. Yt. I, 1. The passage here referred to is probably one in the middle of the seventeenth fargard of this Nask, which is mentioned as follows, in the ninth book of the Dinkard: And this too, namely, those who unlawfully slay sheep and cattle, which diminishes their life and glory.
* This is the usual custom, while that mentioned in Chap. II, 6 is the exceptional case, mentioned at the end of this section, which necessitates extraordinary purification.
* That is, with the Bareshnům ceremony (see Chap. II, 6).
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