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husbands. 8. For, every time that one of them gives herself four times to another person, she is, after that, unlawful as long as she may be in the house of her husband, and new sin is increasing in connection with her souls.
CHAPTER LXVIII. 1. The sixty-eighth subject is this, that for a menstruous woman who casts an eye upon a fire it is a sin of twelve dirhams in weight 4; and if she goes within three steps of the fire it is a sin of a thousand and two hundred dirhams in weight for her; and when she puts her hand to the fire it is a sin of fifteen Tanâvars for her.
2. In like manner, if she takes a look at running water it is a sin of twelve dirhams in weight for here; if she goes within fifteen steps of running water it is a sin of fifteen dirhams in weight for her; and when she sits down in running water it is a sin of fifteen Tanâvars for her. 3. And when she walks in the rain, through every drop that drops upon her limbs there arises a sin of one Tanâvar for her.
4. If she comes to a Khurshed Nyâyis?, to observe it, it is not proper for her to speak a word with a
1 B29 has unlawful when.'
2 This seems to be the author's interpretation of the following commentary (Pahl. Vend. XVIII, 124a) :-And it is no matter to her; for, when cohabitation is three times conceded by her, she is worthy of death. Gôgôsasp said that this is an adulteress who is kept within bounds.'
9 B29 has 'increasing as to water and fire.' • About 756 grains, possibly four Farmân sins (see Sls. XI, 2). • A Tanâvar or Tanâpûhar sin (see Sls. I, 2). • B29 omits this clause. ' Or salutation of the sun.
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