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I. LEGENDS RELATING TO KERESASP. 373
Rivâyats'. The Pahlavi legend is included among a series of quotations, regarding the importance of fire, contained in a Pahlavi Rivâyat preceding the Dâdistân-i Dinik in some manuscripts; and its close correspondence with the above summary of the fourteenth fargard of the Sûdkar Nask will be seen from the following translation of it :
'And it is declared that fire is so precious that Aûharmazd spoke unto Zaratust thus: "Of whose soul is it that the actions, position, consciousness, and guardian spirit seem best when thou shalt behold it?"
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'And Zaratust spoke thus: "Of him who is Keresåsp."
'Aûharmazd summoned the soul of Keresâsp, and the soul of Keresâsp saw Zaratûst and, on account of the misery which it had seen in hell, it spoke unto him thus: "I have been a priest of Kâpul", which should be a power in support of me ; and for the sake of begging life I have ever travelled through the world, and the world would have become hideous in my eyes, the world which should have feared my splendour"."
1 In B29, fols. 167-169, where it is quoted from a work called the Sad-darband-i Hush.
* In BK and J; but in K35 this portion of the Rivâyat has been lost, with the first 71 folios of that MS.; it also appears to have been similarly lost from the older MS. belonging to Mr. Tehmuras Dinshawji Anklesaria.
Jomits this word.
Jomits the seeing.
Kâbul. One of the three most sacred fires, the Frôbak fire, is said to have been removed by Vistâsp from Khvârizem to Kâvulistân (see Bd. XVII, 6). The Persian version has 'would to God (kâskê) I were a priest !' and alters the rest of the sentence to correspond.
• Reading rê-î li; J has 100 var, 'a hundred lakes (or ordeals or results).'
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