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CHAPTER III, 12-17.
women, and a religious prince is born to him; he calls his name Vâhrâm the Vargâvand',' some have said Shahpur. 15. 'That a sign may come to the earth, the night when that prince is born, a star falls from the sky; when that prince is born the star shows a signal.' 16. It is Dâd-Aûharmazd who said that the month Avân and day Vâd3 is his father's end; 'they rear him with the damsels of the king, and a woman becomes ruler.
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17. That prince when he is thirty years old'— some have told the time-' comes with innumerable banners and divers armies, Hindu and Kini', having uplifted banners-for they set up their banners -having exalted banners, and having exalted weapons; they hasten up with speed as far as the Vêh river'-some have said the country of Bambŏ®—— as far as Bukhâr and the Bukhârans within its bank,
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1 Bahram the illustrious or splendid (Av. varekanghand, compare Pers. varg), an epithet applied, in the Avesta, to the moon, Tistrya, the scriptures, the royal glory of the Kayânians, the Kayânians themselves, and the hero Thrita. This personage may possibly be an incarnation of the angel Bahrâm, mingled with some reminiscences of the celebrated Persian general Bahrâm Kôpîn; but see §§ 32, 49.
A commentator who is quoted in the Pahlavi Yas. XI, 22; see also Chap. I, 7.
The 22nd day of the eighth month of the Parsi year, corresponding to October 7th when the year began at the vernal equinox, as the Bundahis (XXV, 6, 7, 20, 21) describes.
That is, Bactrian and Samarkandian.
Or, 'light up with glitter,' according as we read tâgend or tâvend. The Pâz. MSS. omit §§ 17-44, except one or two isolated phrases.
• Spiegel was inclined to identify this name with Bombay, but this is impossible, as the MS. K20 (in which the name occurs) was written some two centuries before the Portuguese invented the name of Bombay. Its original name, by which it is still called by
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