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SELECTIONS
OF
ZÂD-SPARAM.
THEY call these memoranda and writings the Selections (kidak thâ) of Zâd-sparam, son of YûdânYim.
CHAPTER I.
o. In propitiation of the creator Aûharmazd and all the angels-who are the whole of the heavenly and earthly sacred beings (yazdân)— -are the sayings of Herbad Zâd-sparam, son of Yûdân-Yim, who is of the south', about the meeting of the beneficent spirit and the evil spirit.
1. It is in scripture thus declared, that light was above and darkness below, and between those two was open space. 2. Atharmazd was in the light, and Aharman in the darkness 2; Aûharmazd was aware of the existence of Aharman and of his coming for strife; Aharman was not aware of the existence of light and of Aûharmazd3. 3. It happened to Aharman, in the gloom and darkness, that
1 Zâd-sparam appears to have been dastûr of Sîrkân, about thirty parasangs south of Kirmân, and one of the most southern districts in Persia (see Ouseley's Oriental Geography, pp. 138, 139, 141, 143-145).
See Bund. I, 2−4.
Or of the light of Aûharmazd' (compare Bund. I, 8, 9).
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