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CHAPTER XXII, 8-XXIII, 1.
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thorough destroyer of the high-priest of Târân; because owing to this man will be born him whose name is Siyâvakhsh, and owing to Siyâvakhsh I shall be born, who am the Khusrðf who will entice the most heroic : one of Tûrân-who is mostly the destruction of champions and troops to the numerous heroes of the religion, so that I may accomplish the destruction of his champions and troops, when * I would occasion a distant Aight of the sovereign of Tūrân.' 12. Through these words the guardian spirit of Khusrồi delighted Nêryösang, the promoter of the world ; and, on these words, the latter was releasing him and that Kâf-Us who thereby became discreet.
13. Perfect is the excellence of righteousness.
CHAPTER XXIII.
Sadkar Nask. 1. The twenty-second fargard, Airyaman', is about the meeting of Kal-Khusroto and Vâê, the long-continuing lord? next to the renovation of the
* See Bk. VIII, Chap. XIII, 15. . See Bk. VIII, Chap. XIII, 14.
* A single particular hero appears to be meant, although this is not quite certain.
• Assuming that man, who,' stands for amat, as in Chap. XIII, 2.
o The appellation of Yas. LIV which begins with the words â airyemâ ishyo; it is here written aîrêmano (B) and airemano (K) in Pahlavi.
• See Bk. VIII, Chap. XIII, 14.
? Pahl. vâe-i dêrang-khûdâ i=Av. va ya dareghôhvadhâta who is mentioned as a good spirit in Ny. I, 1. There are, how
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