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Aûharmazd a second time, and spoke thus: 'I am Zaratust, more righteous and more efficient among these thy creatures, O creator! when thou shalt make me1 immortal, as the tree opposed to harm2, and Gôpatshah, Gôst-i Fryân, and Kitrôk-miyân son of Vistâsp, who is Pêshyôtanû, were made 3. 2. When thou shalt make me immortal they in thy good religion will believe that the upholder of religion, who receives from Aûharmazd his pure and good religion of the Mazdayasnians, will become immortal; then those men will believe in thy good religion.'
3. Aûharmazd spoke thus: 'When I shall make thee immortal, O Zaratust the Spitâmân! then Tûr-i Brâdarvash the Karap' will become immortal, and
itself, but merely an epitome of it. The Pâz. MSS. which have been examined, begin with this chapter.
1 Or, 'when I shall become;' the verb is omitted by mistake in K20.
2 Three of these immortals are mentioned in Bund. XXIX, 5, and Gôst-i Fryân is included in a similar enumeration in Dâd. (Reply 89). The tale of Gôst-i Fryân (Av. Yôistô yô Fryananam, of Abân Yt. 81 and Fravardîn Yt. 120) has been published with 'The Book of Ardâ-Vîrâf,' ed. Hoshangji and Haug.
Or, 'became;' most of this verb is torn off in K20.
The verb is placed before its nominative in the Pahlavi text, both here and in most similar sentences, which is an imitation of the Avesta, due probably to the text being originally translated from an Avesta book now lost, or, at any rate, to its author's wish that it might appear to be so translated. In such cases of inverted construction, when the verb is in a past tense, the Pahlavi idiom often requires a pronominal suffix, corresponding to the nominative, to be added to the first word in the sentence; thus, gûftos Aûharmazd, or afas gûft Aûharmazd, does not mean 'Aûharmazd spoke to him (or said it),' but merely 'Aûharmazd spoke' (lit. 'it was said by him, Aûharmazd').
According to an untranslated passage in the Selections of Zâd-sparam, mentioned in the note on p. 187, this is the name of
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