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worthy of death?. 2. Anda it asserts in revelation, that any year when the locust comes profuselys, it comes for the reason that dead matter is brought to water and fire. 3. And, in like manner, the winter is colder, and the summer is hotter.
CHAPTER LXXIII. 1. The seventy-third subject is this, that, when a cow or a goat has eaten dead matter", in any place, nothing whatever of its flesh, or milk, or hair, should come into use for one year. 2. After that one year it is clean : and, if it be pregnant, its young one is likewise not clean for one year.
3. And if a domestic fowl has eaten dead matter, its flesh and eggs are, in like manner, not clean for one year.
CHAPTER LXXIV. 1. The seventy-fourth subject is this, that at dawn, when they rise up from sleep, it is first necessary to throw something on the hands, that is the hand
1 See Pahl. Vend. VII, 65-71. Lp, B29 have 'for.'
. La has sal, and B29 san for year; ' Lp has that when the bês and locust come profusely. The bês may be either a poisonous plant (Napellus Moysis), or distress.'
• See Pahl. Vend. VII, 189-192, Sls. II, 109.
& According to the long-metre Sad Dar this something' (as in Chap. L) is Nîrang, the ritualistic liquid or consecrated bull's urine (see Chap. XXXVI, 7 n). This chapter is, to some extent, a repetition of Chap. L.
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