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CHAPTER XXXIII, 4-11.
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of Mah-ayår son of Mah-bôndak, son of Måh-bakht. 8. Payisn-shånd is son of Mardân-vêh, son of Afrôbagvindåd, son of Vindad-i-pêdåk, son of Vaê-bakht, son of Bahak, son of Vâe-bakht. .
9. All the other Môbads who have been renowned in the empire (khở dà yih) were from the same family it is said, and were of this race of Mângskihar 1. 10. Those Môbads, likewise, who now exist are all from the same family they assert, and I, too, they boast, whom they call a «the administration of perfect rectitude' (Dadakih-i Ashôvahistô). 11. Yadân-Yim son of Váhrâm-shåd, son of Zaratūst, Åtarô-påd son of Maraspend, son of Zâd-sparham“,
were his mother's father, the former was probably his own father or grandfather. Unfortunately the text makes no clear statement on the subject, and § 10 affords further material for guessing otherwise at his name and connections.
Compare Chap. XXXII, 4. • Reading va lik laband-i karîtûnd.
* This looks more like a complimentary title than a name, and if the editor of the TD recension of the Bundahis were the son or grandson of Mitro-akâvîd ($ 6) we have no means of ascertaining his name; but if he were not descended from Mitro-akâvid it is possible that $$ 10, II should be read together, and that he was the son of Yûdân-Yim. Now we know, from the heading and colophon of the ninety-two questions and answers on religious subjects which are usually called the Dâdistân-i Dînîk, and from the colophons of other writings which usually accompany that work, that those answers were composed and certain epistles were written by Mânûskîhar, son of Yadan-Yim, who was high-priest of Pârs and Kirmân in A.Y. 250 (A. D. 881), and apparently a more important personage than his (probably younger) brother Zâdsparham, who is mentioned in § 11 as one of the priests contemporary with the editor of the TD recension. If this editor, therefore, were a son of Yûdân-Yim (which is a possible interpretation of the text) he was most probably this same Mânûskîhar, author of the Dâdistân-i Dînîk (see the Introduction, $ 4). * The last name is very probably superfluous, Zâd-sparham
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