And a pure man shall gather the ashes of the heifer and place them outside the camp in a pure place; and it shall be for the congregation of the children of Yisrael for a keeping, for water of sprinkling; it is a chatas.
Torah Temimah: Menachos 51b — It teaches that meilah applies to it; “it” — meilah applies to it, but meilah does not apply to its ashes.
English: It teaches that meilah applies to it; “it” — meilah applies to it, but meilah does not apply to its ashes.
Limitation of the meilah prohibition from the designation “chatas.”
The law of meilah (misuse of consecrated property) applies to the living para aduma, but once it has been reduced to ashes the prohibition of meilah no longer applies to the ashes.