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she is not able to eat they should not give her more, and in the same manner as regards water, on this account, that whatever remnant comes from that menstruous woman does not come to any use.
3. When they wish to provide bread they put the hand into the sleeve, or they place something on the . top of the sleeve, and it is necessary that her bare hand should not come forth again in any place. 4. Because every drop of water that trickles on to a limb of a menstruous woman becomes a sin of three hundred stirs“. 5. And it is requisite for a menstruous woman to avoid everything that is washed with ceremony by fifteen steps. 6. It is also necessary for her to be at least three steps distant from a righteous man, and on whatever her eye casts a look it diminishes the glory of that thing.
7. And on every woman the twelve ceremonials, atoning for the offence of menstruation, are incumbent. 8. One on account of the offence that has occurred as regards the spiritual existence?. 9. The second on account of the offence that has occurred
1 That is, as soon as her hunger is satisfied.
Lp, B29 have it is not possible to make of any use.' * Lp, B29 have 'bring.' • The amount of a Tanâvar or Tanâpühar sin (see Sls. I, 2).
Lp, B29 add and purity.' . These resemble the celebration of the Hômâst, but are shorter and less onerous. The Hômâst consists of a Yasna each day for 144 days in honour of twelve angels, each angel being reverenced for twelve successive days. The angels are nearly the same as stated in the text, but the celebration of the Hômâst is twelve times as long. The cost of this latter is said to be 350 rupis (see Byt. II, 59 n). Occasionally a still more onerous celebration is said to be incumbent on such women as can afford it (see Chap. LXVI).
? Lp has the spirits,' and B29 has 'mankind.'
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