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Irân and Tûrân; the purity of the sacred fire of great glory and the recital of the liturgy exist there, and the practice of religious rites (dino) is provided. 7. The custom, also, of him (Peshyôtand) and his companions and coadjutors (ham-bar), in the appointed millenniums, is the great advancement of religion and good works in other quarters likewise ?
8. But, secondly, as to the whereabouts of the places which are theirs-just like his-of which there is no disquisition by me, this also is even owing to my not remembering %.
1 Literally fire of Varahran.'
? He is expected to be summoned by the angels to restore the religious rites to the world, after the conflict of the nations in a future age (see Byt. III, 25-42).
s In the detailed account of the contents of the Sadkar (or Stüdgar) Nask, given in the ninth book of the Dînkard, the latter part of its fifteenth fargard is said to have been on the seven immortal rulers who are produced in the region of Khvanîras, and also about the determination of their glory, and the goodness, too, of their assistants and living sovereignty in both worlds. The tree opposed to harm is on Aîrân-vêg in the place of most excavations (frêh-nigânân?). Gôk-pato is in the non-Aryan countries. Peshyôtanû son of Vistâsp is in Kangdes of the hundred-ribbed shape (sad-dandako kerpih?), in which a myriad of the exalted, who wear black marten fur (man siyah samar yakhsenund), are righteous listeners out of the retinue of Peshyôtand son of Viståsp. Fradakhstỏ son of the mortal Khâmbiks, who is sovereign on the water of Naivták. Ashavazd son of Pôrůdakhsto, who is sovereign over the most manifest among uplands, the plain of Pêsinas Barâzd the causer of strife. And of the father-in-law's race (khast-tômagag?) of the famous Vistasp is he who is called Kaf-Khûsrôî, who produces even an advance of thy religion of the Mazda-worshippers, and also understands about it; and who gives my good practices further blessings, so that the world maintains my doings with benedictions. Perfect is the excellence of righteousness."
In this list of the immortal rulers of ancient times, the names of Barazd and Kai-Khüsrôt are substituted for those of Yôsto and
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