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IV. THE BARESHNUM CEREMONY.
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119. 'At the first hole the man becomes freer from the fiend of corruption, [that is, it shall depart a little from his body, like a flock when they disperse it.]
120. 'Then these words are to be murmured by thee, &c. [as in SS 33-118. All the second (hole, &c., as in $ 119. And the same routine is to be followed at] the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth Choles]".
Afterwards he shall sit—he who has been by the dead—within the precinct (sitra) of the holesa apart from those holes (which are for bull's urine) 121. So much from that [of the previous ones for bull's urine) as four finger-breadths. 122. They shall also dig up those full diggings up of this earth, (they should accomplish this well.] 123. They shall scrape together fifteen handfuls of the earth, (so that they shall quite dislodge the damp purely.]* 124. And they shall remain about it the whole period from that time until the time when the hair on his head shall become dry, (125) and until the time when the wet earth on his body shall become dry.
126. Then he who has been by the dead shall come to that approach to those other holes (which are for water] 127. At the first hole he shall then purify over his own body once with water. 128. At the second hole he shall then purify over his own
1 This paragraph is omitted in the Pahlavi text, being merely given in the Avesta (for the sake of brevity) so far as the words are not included in the brackets.
* The three holes for washing with water.
. That is, three English inches south of the six furrows which separate the first six holes from the last three, at the point Don the plan.
• That is, the person undergoing purification shall be rubbed with dust until he is quite dry,
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