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with the good; even so it is revealed in the Kidrast Nask that Spendarmad spoke to Mânûskihar thus : * Even the swiftest horse requires the whip (tâzâ
1 This was the twelfth nask or 'book' of the complete Mazdayasnian literature, according to the Dînkard, which calls it Kidrasto or Kidrôsto; but according to the Dinî-vagarkard and the Rivâyats it was the fourteenth nask called Girast. For its contents, as given by the Dînî-vagarkard, see Haug's Essays, p. 131. The following is a summary of the short account of it given in the eighth book of the Dînkard :
The Kidrôstő is a treatise on the race of man; how Adharmazd produced the first man, Gâyômard, how the first pair, Mashya and Mashyôi, arose, with their progeny, till the region of Khvanîras was full, when they supplied the six surrounding regions, till they filled and cultivated the whole world. The Pêsdadian dynasty of Hôshầng, Tâkhmôrupo, and Yim, the evil reign of Dahâk, descended from Tâs, the brother of Hôshang and father of the Arabs, then Frêdan who divided Khvanîras between his three sons, Salm, Tag, and Airîk, who married the daughters of Pâtsrôbô (compare Pahl. Vend. XX, 4) king of the Arabs, then Mânùskihar, descendant (nâpô) of Aîrîk, the penal reign of Frâsîyâv ruler of Tūrân, then Aůzôbô the Tamáspian, descendant of Mânûskihar, then KaiKavâd and the penal reign of Karsâspô. The Kayânian dynasty of Kâî-Us, Kai-Khûsrôb son of Sîyâvakhsh, with many tales of the specially famous races of Iran, Tūrân, and Salmân, even to the reigns of Kaî-Lôharâsp and Kaî-Vistâsp. The apostle Zaratust, and the progress of time and events from the reign of Fredan till Zaratust's conference with Adharmazd. The race of Mânûskîhar, Nodar, and others. Avarethrabau's (see Fravardin Yt. 106) father, Âtarô-pâd son of Mâraspend. On future events and the reign of the renovation of the universe; the origin of the knowledge of occupation, and the care and industry of the period; the great acquaintance of mankind with the putting aside of injury from the adversary, the preservation of the body, and the deliverance of the soul, both before and after the time of Zaratust.
As Mânûskihar is several times mentioned there are several places in this Nask where the statement, quoted in the text as a saying of Spendarmad, the female archangel who has special charge of the earth (see Chap. XV, 5, 20-34, and Bund. I, 26), may have occurred.
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