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EPISTLES OF MÂNUSKHAR.
which is fulfilled. 3. It is said, if one's defilement be owing to depositing any bodily refuse (higar-1), then nothing of this is ever necessary for him, for one reckoning (mar-1)' will smite that which he takes hold of with a finger and it is clean, or it will smite a golden yellow clean, or whatever ? it shall smite is clean; but nothing merely clean is purified, unless a demon be clean
4. And this, too, is very amazing to me, that when this is not taken into account by you, that when there should be, and one should obtain, no purifier it would then be necessary for him to operate himself", how then is this knowledge obtained ly you, on which information (âgahih) has reached you, that the purifying of all the purifiers of the country of Irân is just as they should always perform it. 5. When, as I consider, there is then no complete acquaintance with the management of a house in you, its own master, in what manner then is your account of the gossip', and your information, about all the purifiers of the country of Irân
1 That is, a single washing, which is sufficient for ordinary defilements unconnected with the dead.
? This is doubtful; the word seems to be kikê in Pazand, but, as the Av. î and a are much alike in Iranian MSS., it may be read kak-e, and the phrase would then be or it will smite a penis clean.'
That is, cleanliness can no more be considered purification than a demon, who is supposed to be an embodiment of impurity, can be considered clean.
.J has when there should be no purifier it would be necessary to beg the help of a chief of the religion, and when one should not obtain that.'
• As directed in Vend. VIII, 299 (see App. V). • Reading vak sakhûn, but this is uncertain.
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