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deponent1; and, on that account, the statement is to be made as long as Mêdyôk-mâh is preserved, but as regards the opinion of the words of Afarg it is to be maintained in a state of preservation.
7. As to that which Afarg has said, that 'two purifiers are requisite,' Mêdyôk-mâh has also said that one is plenty; and, since the teaching of Sôshâns is similar evidence to his, as to that which is said by him, they have thus been more unanimous that when there is one it would be proper; and as several high-priests have announced just the same evidence, and Afarg himself and other priests have been of the same opinion where it is the performance of the beginning of the Vikaya ('exorcism'), Mêdyôk-mâh is preserved. 8. Not on this account, that Afarg is more preservative' through once washing, is the operation to be performed according to the teaching of Afarg, but the once washing from Afarg who is the prior deponent, and the one purifier from Mêdyôk-mâh who is the most corroborated are to be accepted and to be conducted.
9. And even the computers of the stars would make the position of the stars which exists when that of the sun and moon is from the direction (min zik) of Satvâharân, that of Saturn from the direc
The words pasimal, after deponent,' and pêsmål, 'prior deponent,' are here written alike (see Ep. I, vi, 10, note).
In Pahl. Vend. IX, 132, 6 (see App. IV and compare Ep. I, vi, 1-4).
• See Ep. I, v, I.
• See Ep. I, vi, 6.
From pollution (see § 6).
The high-priest of the Parsis in Bombay is of opinion that the names of the three directions' mentioned in this section are the Pahlavi forms of the names of three of the lunar mansions, whose
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