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were from a serving wife, she then delivered them over to Isadvâstar through adoption. 8. This, too, one knows, that three sons of Zaratast, namely, Hashêdar, Hashedar-mâh”, and Sôshyans, were from Hvôv3; as it says, that Zaratast went near unto Hvôv three times, and each time the seed went to the ground; the angel Nêryōsango received the brilliance and strength of that seed, delivered it with care to the angel Anâhido, and in time will blend it with a mother. 9. Nine thousand, nine hundred, and ninety-nine, and nine myriads of the guardian spirits of the righteous are intrusted with its protection, so that the demons may not injure it?
10. The name of the mother of Zaratust was Dughdâ s, and the name of the father of the mother of Zaratûst was Frahimrava o.
· Av. Ukhshyad-ereta and Ukhshyad - nemangh of Fravardîn Yt. 128.
Av. Saoshyás of Vend. XIX, 18, Fravardin Yt. 129, &c. See Chaps. XI, 6, XXIX, 6, XXX, 3, 4, 7, 17, 25, 27.
Av. Hvõvi of Fravardîn Yt. 139, Din Yt. 15; the Pahlavi form of the name, as given once in TD, is Hâvâôbo. • See Chap. XV, 1.
Av. anâhita of âbân Yt. 1, &c.; a female personification of "unsullied' water, known generally by the epithet ardvî sûra (the Arêdvivsûr of Chap. XIII), and whose name is also applied to the planet Venus (see Chap. V, 1).
So in M6; other MSS. have '9,999 myriads,' but see Fravardîn Yt. 62.
? This last phrase, about the demons, is omitted in TD and the Vagarkard-i Dînîk.
& The Avesta word for daughter.' ITD has Paz, Fereâhimruvânâ.
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