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lised the country of Irân, and increased the many streams and cultivated lands in the country of Irån.
32. At another time it came to Kerêsâspô the Sâmân”, owing to the share of warriorship which is the second avocation of the religion, through allotment from the glory of Yim ?; and, through it, the serpent Srôbovar which was swallowing horses and swallowing men, the golden-heeled demon Gandarepô, and much other production of adversity by the demon and the fiend—the murderess of the creatures—were destroyed by him.
33. At another time it came to Kat-Kobâds, the progenitor of the Kayâns; through it he arranged the realm of Irân, he united the sovereignty with himself in the Kayân race, and he thereby occasioned much splendour and actions of advantage to the creatures.
34. And it came to Pâtakhsrôbô 4, son of Afryefshvâ , son of Tâz, who was king of the Arabs, through the mindfulness of the archangel Ashavahistô, and his enquiry about it from its own tribe 6for the demon of greediness (â zo), with one similarly corrupted into Frâsîyâv, as it is also hereafter in Chap. II, 68; Zs. XII, 3
A famous hero whose exploits, like those of Hercules, have given birth to many legends; see S.B.E., vol. xviii, pp. 369-382. * Compare $ 25. 3 See Yt. XIX, 71; Bd. XXXI, 24, 25, 28; XXXIV, 7. • Or Pâtâsrôbô, spelt Pâtsrôbô in Pahl. Vd. XX, 4 (Sp.).
• Or Airyêfshnîg; evidently the same as Virafsang in Bd. XXXI, 6, which is spelt Avirafshanêg and Airafshanig in two MSS. of the Iranian Bundahis. Hence we may conclude that Pâtakhsrőb was a brother of Zaînîgâv, and a great-uncle of Dahâk; but how his daughters could have been married to the three sons of Fredûn, as stated in the Kitradad Nask (see Dk. VIII, xiii, 9), is a chronological difficulty that throws doubt upon this identification.
• The people of the primitive faith, who are supposed to have
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