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the devastators in Dk. VII, vii, 29–38; viii, 4-9, but, like most Pahlavi writers, he is careful not to mention Muhammadanism. Dk. VII, vii, 33, 34 seem to refer to some particular individual of this later time; but the references to Kaîsar and Khâkân, the Turkish demons with dishevelled hair, the Arab, and Shedâspô (Theodosius ?) of Arûm, may all have been taken from a Pahlavi version revised in the time of Khûsro I.
28. That the original Pahlavi version was translated from an Avesta text, though many Pahlavi commentaries were intermingled, appears certain. Apart from the numerous quotations from revelation (dênô), which may be safely assumed to have had an Avesta original, there are many passages interspersed with glosses, such as the Pahlavi translators habitually used, as well as numerous sentences beginning with a verb, an Avesta peculiarity which generally disappears in an English translation. Regarding the age of this Avesta text it would be hazardous to speculate without further information than we yet possess.
29. The principal details connected with the Zoroastrian legends which have been noticed in other Pahlavi and Pâzand texts, with references to the passages where they occur, are as follows :
Gôsûrvan informed of the future coming of Zaratûst in Bd. IV, 4. Zi's genealogy and family in Bd. XXXII, 1-10. Summary account of Z. and Zoroastrianism, from the creation
to the resurrection, in Dk. VIII, xiv, 1-15. The abode of Z.'s father, when Z. was born, was on the bank of
the Dârega river (Bd. XX, 32; XXIV, 15). 150 demons were prevented from destroying Z., before his birth, by the presence of a fire in his father's house (Sls. X, 4; XII,
II; Sd. XVI, 3). Detailed account of the birth of Z. in Dk. IX, xxiv, 1--18. When Z. first saw the archangels, he thought they were arch
demons (Ep. I, X, 9). Omniscient wisdom temporarily conferred upon Z., and what he
then saw (Dk. IX, viii, 1-6; Byt. I, 1-5; II, 5-22). He saw the soul of Davâns tormented in hell, excepting one foot
(AV. XXXII, 1-6; Sls. XII, 29; Sd. IV, 3-11).
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