Mesorat%20hashas for Zevachim 185:4

ואמר רבה ר"א בשיטת ר"ע רבו אמרה דאמר העברת כלי על גבי מקום טמא כמונח דמי

for lo, we sprinkle [the water of lustration] upon a niddah.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If a niddah was defiled through the dead, thereby becoming doubly unclean, both as a niddah and as one defiled by the dead, we besprinkle her with the water of lustration, while she is still a niddah, and the subsequent immersion counts for both forms of uncleanness, since we do not find Scripture ordering her first to perform immersion as a niddah and then to be besprinkled and repeat her immersion on account of her defilement through the dead. Now, as the water of lustration touches her, it is defiled itself through contact with a niddah, and yet it cleanses her. Now the analogy is apparently faulty, for here the defilement of the water and its sprinkling upon the woman are simultaneous, whereas R. Eleazar speaks of a case where the water was defiled first. Rabbah proceeds to explain why R. Eleazar regards it nevertheless as a true analogy.');">⁵</span> Now Rabbah observed: R'Eleazar said this in accordance with the thesis of R'Akiba, his teacher, who maintained that when the vessel [containing the water of lustration] is carried over an unclean place, it is as though it rested there.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And unclean.');">⁶</span>

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