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APPENDIX.
I. LEGENDS RELATING TO KERESASP.
THE Avesta informs us that Keresâspa was a son of Thrita the Sâman, and the brother of Urvâkhshaya1. From the name of his father's family he is sometimes called Sâma Keresâspa2, but his more usual title is Naremanau or Nairimanau, 'the manlyminded. He is described as 'a youthful hero, wearing side-locks and carrying a club,' to whom the witch Knathaiti' attached herself; she whom Zaratûst promised to destroy by means of the apostle Saoshyãs, who is to be born hereafter". And his watched over by 99,999 guardian spirits".
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1 See Yas. IX, 30, 31.
* See Fravardin Yt. 61, 136. Hence he is often called Sâm in Pahlavi works (see Bd. XXIX, 7, 9, Byt. III, 60, 61); and, in a passage interpolated in some manuscripts of the Shâhnâmah, we are informed that Garsâsp was son of Atrat, son of Sam, which is evidently a reminiscence of Keresâsp being a son of Thrita the Sâman (see also Bd. XXXI, 26, 27).
* See Âbân Yt. 37, Râm Yt. 27, Zamyâd Yt. 38, 40, 44. Hence we have Sâm, son of Narîmân, as the grandfather of Rustam in the Shâhnâmah.
See Yas. IX, 33. M. de Harlez converts the side-locks into some weapon called gaêsus, but this word still survives in Pers. gês or gêsû, 'ringlet, side-lock.'
"See Vend. I, 36. Or it may be the witch whom one destroys, or to whom one prays,' if we translate the name.
See Vend. XIX, 18.
7 See Fravardin Yt. 61. For the reason of this watchfulness, see Dd. XVII, 6 n.
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