Chapter LXXIV

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 5 on the hands, that is the

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hand-cleansing 1. 2. Afterwards, they are to wash the hands quite clean with water, in such manner that they are to wash the hands three times from the forearm (sâ’hid) to the end of the hand; and the face is washed from behind the ears to below the chin and up to the crown of the head; and one washes the feet three times thoroughly, as far as the leg (sâq); then one recites the Kem-nâ-mazdâ 2.

3. If it be a place where there is no water, and the risk be that the time for the Nyâyis 3 should pass by, it is requisite to cleanse 4 the hands three times with dust, and to perform the Nyâyis. 4. Afterwards, when one arrives at water, he is to wash the hands and face a second time, and to accomplish the Nyâyis 5.

5. Before the time when one throws something on the hands it is not proper to wash the hands and face, and it is a Tanâvar sin; it is also not possible to work at anything whatever with the hands and face not washed.

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