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CHAPTER IV, 24-32.
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they will have stood aloof from alongside his life (that is, they will have stood away from assisting it); those seven of them who are radiant and brighteyed (spêdo dôisar) make him rush up on high, and up there on high he shall be fed upon mouldy bread (parnân).'
29. One marvel is the great healthfulness owing to the Hôm-water and the bringing of this by Zaratûst from the river Dâitt, which is manifested when Vohumanô was conveying him to the conference. 30. Just as is declared in the words of Allharmazd to Zaratûst thus : 'For them is the Hôm-water which thou bringest, O Zaratûst! not for those demon-worshipping people who worship the demons, or for a satisfier of courtezans (gêh-vigâr); they shall sprinkle it on to that bull thou shalt bring forward, who is a four-year-old of exhausted vigour, black-haired and useful; on drinking up the water, that bull will become quite sound from that infirmity.'
31. Thereupon, Zaratûst went on first into the embodied existence, on which dwelt, at the end of Sagâstân”, that same Parshad whose title was Tôrâ (the Bull). 32. Parshad-tôrâ ? also spoke to him
which the soul is supposed to have its destination determined, until the resurrection (see Hâdôkht Nask, II, 18; III, 17). If the seven sacred beings who stand aloof from him be the archangels, they treat Vêdvoist very leniently; but this legend treats of a period which it assumes to be earlier than the laws of Zaratůst.
1 The modern Sîstân, bordering upon Afghanistan and Bulûkistân.
: Av. Parshad-gau, mentioned twice in Yt. XIII, 96, 127, but it is not certain that both allusions refer to the same individual. The name also occurs in Bd. XXIX, 5, but only in one old MS.; in all others another name is given, though the locality appears to be
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