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ever, and then shall they produce the resurrection, or how is it?
2. The reply is this, that this world, continuously from its immaturity even unto its pure renovation, has never been, and also will not be, without men; and in the evil spirit, the worthless (asapir), no stirring desire of this arises. 3. And near to the time of the renovation the bodily existences desist from eating, and live without food (pavan akhûrisnih); and the offspring who are born from them are those of an immortal, for they possess durable and blood-exhausted (khûn-girâî) bodies. 4. Such are they who are the bodily-existing men that are in the world when there are men, passed away, who rise again and live again.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
1. The thirty-fifth question is that which you ask thus: Who are they who are requisite in producing the renovation of the universe, who were they, and how are they?
2. The reply is this, that of those assignable for that most perfect work the statements recited are lengthy, for even Gâyômard, Yim the splendid, Zaratust the Spitamân3, the spiritual chief (radŏ) of the righteous, and many great thanksgivers were
1 Bd. XXX, 3 states that men first abstain from meat, afterwards from vegetables and milk, and, finally, from water.
See Chap. II, 10. His title, which is nearly always written Spitamân in K35 (rarely Spîtâmân), is Av. spitama or spitâma, but is usually understood to mean 'descendant of Spitama,' his ancestor in the ninth generation (see Bd. XXXII, 1).
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