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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.
(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. ↩︎