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3. This seventh book commences with a detailed statement of the descent of the glorious ruling dynasty from the primeval man Gâyômard, through his descendants, the Pêsdådian and Kayânian rulers, to Kaî-Vistâsp. Among the individuals, rarely mentioned elsewhere, are the sacred being Hadish (the protector of homesteads in the Visperad), Vâêgered the brother of king Hôshầng, Pâtakhsrôbô king of the Arabs, and Aðshnar the chancellor of Kaî-Us. Zaratûst and the three millennial apostles are also mentioned, but the contents of this first chapter are probably derived from the Kitradâd Nask (see Dk. VII, xiii, 20) and from Yt. XIX, 25-93.
4. Chapter II begins the legendary history of Zaratûst with the descent of his glory, from the presence of Adharmazd to the house in which Zaratûst's mother was about to be born ; and, alarmed at her radiance, the Kavîgs and Karaps, or ruling priests of the district, oblige her father to send her away to another valley, where Pôrů. shâspô resided, to whom she was afterwards married; and several legends are related, in which both the archangels and archdemons are active agents, which lead on to the birth of Zaratust, thirty years before the end of the ninth millennium of the universe, and his complete genealogy is given.
5. Chapter III begins with his laughing at birth, and describes the ill-will of the Karaps, or priests of those times, and their many attempts to destroy him during his childhood, till he openly defied them at the age of seven. At the end of the ninth millennium, when he was thirty years old, as he was bringing Hôm-water out of the fourth
f the Dâîtî river, he met the archangel Vohumano who had come to invite him to a conference with Allharmasd, about which no details are given.
6. Chapter IV, however, proceeds to mention that, in two years, he returned from his first conference, by order of Allharmazd, to preach his religion to the Kîgs and Karaps in the presence of their ruler, Aurvâstâ-dang the Tur. They seem to have listened attentively till he advocated Khvêtûkdas, when they demanded his death, and
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