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monial of righteousness is not such as that he praises, O Zaratūst ! the priestly authority of the worldly settlements (gêhânân) that he mentions thus : “In priestly authority and high-priestship I am better (sa pir) and am better suitable;" and not so, O Zaratûst ! is that excretion (můtrisno) · he stirs up for mankind; that which he mentions to them becomes a perpetual effusion from him, and they who stirred up the excretion afterwards think it theirs, and that which is a perfect ceremonial of the demons occurs. 16. Through the opposing arrival of Srôsh , the righteous, the ruler is in vexation with that person ; that ruler who is a protection of these others through good emanation —not through evil living--and at every time a distresser of the wicked 4'
17. About the peculiarity of attracters to the religion, and the good works of those attracted 6. 18. About the signs of the last times, which are the millenniums of the sons of Zaratust.
19. This, too, that they cause disturbance (aaramênd) unto the sovereignty, and they who are Kais and Karaps, those even who are the most evilruling in the country—who by villanous deeds are those who destroy the existence of mankind through statements, and destroy their own souls ? - also destroy the material world which, confused by them,
Compare Pahl. Yas. XLVII, 10 b.
See Bk. VIII, Chap. IX, 3 n. . See Pahl. Yas. XLV, 8c, d. This last word (h Q-zahisnih) ought certainly to be ha-zîvisnih, good living.' • Ibid. 8 e.
Ibid. rod, e. . Ibid. 11a; also see Bk. VIII, Chap. XXXV, 13 n. . 1 Ibid. 11 b, c.
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