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FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS.
VENDIDAD II, 20 a (Westergaard). • Then Yima drew to a close the holy first millennium of years".'
VENDIDAD II, 20 b. avaiti bãzô.— Of the same thickness ...
That Gim, three times, made the earth as large as it was before, appears from the passage :
avaiti bãzo.'
VENDIDAD II, 20 C. 'Auhrmazd kept this world for three thousand years in a spiritual shape; for three thousand years he kept it in a material shape, but without any opposition; three thousand years elapsed from the coming of the Opposition to the coming of the Religion ; three thousand years will elapse from the coming of the Religion to the resurrection. As follows from the passage:
Kvantem zrvânem mainyava stis ashaoni data as.
" How long did the holy creation remain in a spiritual form ?”
VENDÎDÂD III, 14. nôid makhshi-beretô.—Nor brought by flies' ( = Vd. V, 3; see above, p. 50).
yô visad aêtayım? zaothrãm âtarem â frabarðid. It appears from this passage that if a man throw his
For three times three hundred years Yima had governed and increased the earth : the last century of his millennial reign was passed in building and organising the Var. (Cf. above, p. 14, note 1.)
* aêtayam in M1 and B' (West); Spiegel has ałyãm, Westergaard has aêvãm.
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