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the congregation, males and females, I reverence; and the archangels, who are also male and female, they are good.
CHAPTER III. 1. Zaratůst enquired of Adharmazd thus : 'O Adharmazd, propitious spirit! creator of the material world, righteous one! whence do they restore this good religion of the Mazda yasnians ? and by what means will they destroy these demons with dishevelled hair of the race of Wrath ? 2. O creator! grant me death ! and grant my favoured ones death! that they may not live in that perplexing time ; grant them exemplary living! that they may not prepare wickedness and the way to hell.
3. Adharmazd spoke thus: 'O Zaratūst the Spitamân! after the ill-omened 2 sovereignty of those of the race of Wrath 3 there is a fiend, Shêdaspih - of the Kilisyâkih, from the countries of Salmân”;' Mâh
1 The Pâz. MSS. insert, and black clothing' here. ? Literally, 'black-marked,' or possibly, black standard.'
• The Paz. MSS. add, the leathern-belted Tärks,' that is, people of Turkistân.
*This fiend appears to be a personification of Christianity or ecclesiasticism' (Kilisyâkîh, see Chap. II, 19), and the writer seems to place his appearance some time in the middle ages, probably before the end of the thirteenth century (see the note on § 44). Darmesteter suggests that Shedâsp may have been intended as a modern counterpart of Bêvarasp (As-i Dahâk), the ancient tyrant; and that this Christian invasion may be a reminiscence of the crusades.
• I have formerly read Mūsulmân instead of min Salman, and hence concluded that the text must have been written long
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