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

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________________ EPISTLE II, CHAPTER IV, 3-V, 2. 343 obtained ? 6. If your people should abandon that which is most indispensable, and your account of the gossip, as regards that which the whole realm has done, be not according to the commands of religion and to sound wisdom; and if it has not come completely to your knowledge as the washing of the purifiers of the country of Irân-because, when you do not fix the number even of their footsteps', it is certain that your understanding of their disposition and virtuous practice is even less—then it was necessary for you to determine the reason that all the purifiers in the country of Irân always wash that way that is declared as improper, with whatever certainty it be uttered or written. CHAPTER V. 1. If this which is said by you be a knowledge that is replete (avkår) with advantage, why was it then necessary for you to keep it as it were concealedfrom me, when I thus consider that, if a knowledge should be rightly obtained by you, it should then have been needful for you to report unto me on the first rumours from every one who is well-enlightened (hQ-bâm)? 2. If this decree 1 Referring probably either to the distance of the Bareshnüm place from pure objects, or to the distances between the holes or ablution seats, and from them to the furrows, mentioned in Vend. · IX, 12, 14, 18, 22 (see App. IV). * Reading nthånd, as in J, but K35 and BK omit the first letter. • Assuming that mayåg is a pseudo-Huzvâris equivalent of avâg (Pers. âvâ); mayå being the true Huzvâris of av, 'water.' Digitized by Google

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