Chapter XXXV

Pahlavi Texts, Part III (SBE24), E.W. West, tr. [1885], at sacred-texts.com

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CHAPTER XXXV.

1. The thirty-fifth subject is this, that, when they wish to wash the face ¹, they should recite ore Ashem-vohû ², and set the mouth firmly closed, so that the water, not staying away from it ³, shall not go into the mouth. 2. And, as one washes over the face, they should recite the Kem-nâ-mazdâ ⁴, so that the fiend Nasrust ⁵ may become smitten.

Footnotes

296:1 Compare Chaps. L, LXXIV.

296:2 See Chap. VII, 7 n.

296:3 B29 omits these five words.

296:4 A stanza of the Ustavaiti Gâtha (Vas. XLV, 7) beginning with those three words (see SBE, vol. xviii, p. 443).

296:5 Or nisrûst, 'contamination' (see. Sls. X, 32); probably the same as the demon Nas or Nasu (see Bd. XXVIII, 29). Also mentioned in Chap. XXXVI, 7.