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CHAPTER XLIII, 9-XLIV, I.
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cation as that of yesterday, or the day before, is for this day.
10. So that when it is the propitiatory dedication for the day Khår of the month of consecration Avân?, the day and month are such that their order and the Åtûr ('fire') and Âvân ('waters') succeeding them are thereby set in reverse order to the proper sequence? 11. Then, too, when in the same months its propitiatory dedication for the day and month becomes alike for day and month“, it is recited as regards both the month and the waters' (âvân), because they are not connected together and have again become non-inclusive; and then one is to consider them as proper.
Chapter XLIV. 1. As to the forty-third question and reply, that which you ask is thus: There is a man who is superintending (avar-mândakako) and skilful, in whom great skill as regards religion is provided, and the high-priest's duty and officiating priest's duty (magôpatih) are performed by him; or they are not performed by him, but in him great skill as regards
The eleventh day of the eighth month.
The meaning is that in such a case the dedications for the day and month, and the fire and waters (Yas. III, 52, 53) which follow, will stand in the following order :Khôr, Âvân, Atûr (the second Avân being omitted as directed by $ 7), which is precisely the reverse order of those names among the days of the month.
* The eighth month, Avân.
• That is, on the tenth day of the eighth month, when both day and month are Avân, in which case there would be three Avân dedications, but only two are to be used as here directed.
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