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and much other learning of advantage to mankind who are unaffected by the utterance of replies of a foreigner; he also advised the Iranian country with the best-instructed counsel.
38. And its coming to Kai-Siyavakhsh the illustrious, through the wondrous-formed Kangdez being held by him for the retention of protection for the much splendour and suitable glory of the religion, from which the restoration of time, the re-arrangement of the realm of Irân, and the reunion of power and triumph with the religion of Adharmazd are manifest.
39. It came to Kal-Khûsrôi?, son of Styâvakhsh, and through it he smote and vanquished Frangrâsiyâk 3 of Tūr, the wizard, and his fellow-miscreation Kêrsêvazd • of those of Vakgiro, and many other very evil devastators of the world; he also joined in the destruction of that idol-temple which was on the shore of Lake Kêkast®, and demolished that fiendishness which was awful. 40. On account of the desirableness of means for the renovation of the universe, he is also on a throne (na młko), which is assuredly selected by that destiny, at a secret place where there is an immortal preserver for his body until the renovation, through the will of the creator.
41. And it came from him, after Zaratůst of the Spitâmas came to the conference of the creator
* See Yt. XIX, 71, 77; Bd. XXXI, 25; Byt. III, 25, 26. • See Yt. XIX, 74, 77, 93 ; Bd. XXXI, 25. * See $ 31. • Brother of Frangrâsîyâk, see Yt. XIX, 77; Bd. XXXI, 15.
* Reading Vakgiragano, probably the inhabitants of the Bakyîr mountain, mentioned in Bd. XII, 2, 20 as a stronghold of Frâsiyâv (=Frangrâsîyak).
• See Bd. XVII, 7; Mkh. II, 95.
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