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is unsuitable; when there shall also be one who is suitable? he fully solemnizes a Vendidad service, for this purpose, with a dedication (shnumano) to Srôsh.
c. For every single person, at the least, one cup, alike of water and bull's urine, is to be set down in that place?, and at the beginning of its consecration it is to be thoroughly inspected, and at the Vendidad it is to be thoroughly inspecteds; afterwards, when it is covered, it is also well; the pebbles cast into it they should carry back to the holy-water, there is no use for them; when thoroughly consecrated it is always suitable, until it becomes quite fetido.
d. For the avoidance of an unsecluded (aga bâl) menstruous woman nava vibâzva dragó ('the length of nine fathoms')* from her is necessary, when she stands nearest; in a wild spot the herbage is to be dug up?; when they shall make the purifying place in the town, and a path, or a stream, or a wall does not extend into it, it is suitable; and the cleanly plucking up of its small trees, extracting them in the daytime with recitation of the Avesta of Zaratast 8
—those which are thick not existing among the holes—is proper.
e. And every one who digs the holes, with whatever he digs, and whenever he digs, is suitable; four finger-breadths and two finger-breadths' is no matter;
1 See Ep. I, vi, .
* See Ep. I, vii, 1. . L4 has it is to be taken up,' by omitting the first letter of nikirisno.
• See Ep. I, vii, 16, II, iii, 12. See Ep. I, viii, 1-6. • See $ 8.
See $ 7. • These twelve words do not occur in L4. • See $ 13
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