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pollution diminishes, about which it speaks in the religious cleansing, during so many times washing as is declared, then the consideration of it is a consideration about the one time which is the first computation. 10. That which mentions more than once washing is a contradiction of the prior deponent, not a declaration; and the consideration of that operation, so long as it is declared, is about the statement of him who has mentioned once washing with the opinion of a prior deponents, owing to the same reasons. II. But if it be even that much washing which is the merit of the operation, then the statement of Afarg about these times 8 is manifestly very preservative, and that of Mêdyôk-mâh is a necessity for declaration.
CHAPTER VII. 1. And as to that which is written 4, that 'in the teaching of Afarg it is thus declared, that "for every single person, at the least', one cup of water and
1 In Vend. IX, 48-117 the washings of the several parts of the body are mentioned only once, which is the first computation here mentioned.
? Reading pêsmal, as equivalent to the pêsmål or pêsimal previously used; but the word can also be read pasîmal, after deponent,' which would be inconsistent with the context. The two terms are very liable to be confounded in writing Pahlavi, and in Ep. II, ii, 6 they are again written alike, though put in opposition to each other. The 'prior deponent' is Afarg.
* That is, 'about this one time,' as J has it. • In the epistle to which he is replying.
The words pavan kamistih, both here and in $$ 5, 6, would be better translated as a desideratum, or desired quantity;' but in
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