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

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________________ 454 APPENDIX. detail of driving the fiend of corruption from one part of the body to another (by sprinkling with the good waters ') till it flies away to the north as in Vend. IX, 117. But it omits the description of the purifier, the dimensions of the purifying place, the scoring of the furrows, the placing of the stones, the exorcism , the seclusion for nine nights, and all the washings after the first day. The other account, which is much shorter, is given in Vend. XIX, 67-84. It specifies that the urine must be that of a young bull, and that the purifier must score a furrow; it mentions the recitation of a hundred Ashem-vohûs and two hundred Yathâ-ahdvairyôs, four washings with bull's urine and two with water, nine nights' exposure, followed by attention to the fire and fumigation, when the man clothes himself while paying homage to the sacred beings, and is clean; but no other details are given. 1 That is, the exorcism is not found in the Pahlavi version, but is introduced in the Vendidad sâdab in an abbreviated form, possibly copied from Vend. IX, 118. Digitized by Google

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