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24. Grass which is growing on the ground also becomes purified with the drying and disappearance of the najâsat. But if the grass is cut, it will not be purified without washing.
25. If impure knives, earthen and copper utensils are placed on a blazing fire, they will also get purified.
26. There was some impurity on one's hand. Someone removed this najâsat by licking it off three times. It will become purified, but it is prohibited to lick it. A child vomitted milk on one's chest, and thereafter it licked the vomit and drank it up. The chest will be purified.
27. If an unused earthenware utensil becomes impure, and it is such that it absorbs the impurity, then it will not become purified by merely washing it. Instead, it should be filled with water and when traces of the impurity appear in the water, the utensil should be emptied. It should be filled again, and emptied again. This should be continuously done until no sign of the impurity remains - neither its colour nor its smell. Only then will it be purified.
28. The utensils which a potter makes with impure clay will remain impure as long as they are unbaked. Once they get baked, they will become pure.
29. Honey, syrup, ghee or oil became impure. Whatever the amount may be, add the same amount or more of water to it and keep it to boil. Once the water has evaporated, add more water and do the same three times. In this way it will get purified. Alternatively, add the same amount of water and stir the contents. Once it comes on of the water, remove it in some way or another. Repeat the process three times and it will be purified. If the ghee is gone hard, add water to it and heat it. Once it melts, remove it.
30. Clothes were dyed in an impure dye. It should be washed until clean water begins to come out of it. It will now be purified, irrespective of whether the dye comes out of the clothes or not. However it is preferable to wash it at least three times.
31. The ashes of dung-cakes, droppings of goats and other impure things are pure. Their smoke is also pure. If it comes onto one's bread, there is no harm in it.
32. One corner of a mat is impure and the balance of it is pure. It will be permissible to offer salât in the corner that is pure.
33. Land that has been plastered by dung is impure. Salât on it is not permissible without having laid some pure thing over it.
34. If the land which has been plastered by dung is dry, then it is permissible to spread even a wet cloth over it and offer salât. But it should not be so wet that some soil from that ground comes onto one's clothing.
35. After having washed his feet, a person walked bare-footed on some impure place and his foot-prints were visible on that place. His feet will not become impure. However, if due to the wet feet, the ground gets so wet, that some sand or impurity from that ground comes onto the feet; then they will become impure.
36. A person slept on an impure carpet and due to perspiration his clothes became damp. The same rule applies here, i.e. his clothes and body will not become impure. However, if they get so wet that some impurity from the carpet gets onto his clothes or body, they will be rendered impure.
37. A woman applied impure henna (mehendi) on her hands or feet. By washing them thoroughly until clean water flows out of them, the hands and feet will be purified. It is not obligatory to remove the colour.