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OTHER DETAILS OF NASKS.
bringing forth offspring for the sacred beings through instruction.
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FROM PERSIAN RIVÂYATS 2. 1. FROM THE RivÂYAT OF BAHMAN PONGYAH :
The names of the twenty-one Nasks, from the Yathâ-ahd-vairyo:-Yatha, the Stadkar; aha, the Varstah-mânthrah; vairyô, the Bagh; atha, the Damdâd; ratus, the Nâdûr; ashâd, the Pâzân; kid, the Ratustâyid ; haka, the Baris; vangheus, the Kassrób; dazdâ, the Vistâspâd; mananghô, the Dâd; shyaothananãm, the Kidrast; angheus, the Spentah; mazdâi, the Bayân-yast; khshathremkâ, the Niyâdâm; ahurâi, the Duvâsarôgid; à, the Haspârâm ; yim, the Sakadâm; drigubyo, the Gud-dêv-dâd 4; dadad, the Hâdokht of the Dvâzdah-hâmåspah ; vâstârem, the Yast 6.
· Then follows a briefer account of the remaining three archangels.
These extracts from the Persian Rivâyats are taken from MS. 29 belonging to the Bombay University Library, which is a copy, made A.D. 1679, from a long Rivâyat said to have been compiled by Barzů Kâmdîn. The same extracts are to be found in many other MSS.
3 Bahman Pùngyah of Surat, a layman whose father's name appears to have been Isfendyâr, returned from Persia A. D. 1627, with letters and MSS. from priests in Irân in reply to letters from priests in India. • The Vendîdad.
The order in which the Nasks are here arranged is the same as that employed in Dk. VIII, Chap. I, 12, and was in general
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