Book Title: Sacred Laws of Aryas
Author(s): Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford

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________________ EPISTLE I, CHAPTER IV, 4-9. 295 from revelation and the teaching of the high-priests is then not authorisedly changed by that priestly man whose decree of the fifteen ? washings is written in your epistles; because, on account of the whole and any perversion (gastakih) of the same writing, not of similar utterance with revelation, before which the custom did not exist, I am without doubt as to that decree. 8. And in it, moreover, is written, declared, and contained (vangido) that once washing is mentioned", until a purifier comes who is acquainted with the ritual, who washes just as declared in revelation. 9. To be so washed I consider just as a thing for which he is even now as it were a purifier who is a good washer°, that of which it is written below and clearly realised that it should not be decreed; and through the scanty deliverance written therein' it is manifest it would not be the statement above 8. * J has which is brought out with knowledge of the purifying cup (tâstik), with preservation of faith, and with manifestation from revelation.' * All three MSS. have sixteen 'in ciphers, but it is evident that Zad-sparam and his erroneous teaching of the sufficiency of fifteen washings (see Ep. III, 1, 2) are here referred to. * Reading semag, a Huz. hybrid for nâmak. The decree of Zad-sparam, apparently. Referring probably to Vend. VIII, 299, which provides a washing for the polluted person by himself, if he can find no one willing to purify him (see App. V). • That is, for such a purpose any ordinary washer would be sufficient. * In Pahl. Vend. VIII, 299, which states that, although pure enough for ordinary purposes, he must still abstain from engaging in ceremonies for others (see App. V). . That is, it is very different from the propitiation mentioned in $ 3. Digitized by Google

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