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CHAPTER IV, 82-86.
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into the existence of the spirits, the enlightening food by means of which great glory and beauty are seen by Vistâsp.
85. Just as this passage of revelation mentions thus: ‘And he who is the creator Adharmazd spoke to the angel Nêryôsang thus : “ Proceed and travel, O Nêryôsang the assembler'! unto the abode of Vistâsp, whose resources are cattle and who is far and widely famed, and thou shalt say this to Ashavahistò, thus : 0 Ashavahistô! do thou authoritatively take this fine saucer (ta stô), which is fully finer than the other saucers that are made (that is, the cup (gâm) is as fine as is possible to make for royalty), and carry up to Vistâsp the Hôm and Vars ? (mûi) which are for us; and do thou give it 3 unto the ruler Vistâsp to drink up, by whose word it is accepted.'” 86. Ashavahistò authoritatively taking the fine saucer from him, also, thereupon, gave it unto the exalted ruler Kai-Vistâsp to drink from 4; and the ruler of the country (dih), the exalted KaiVistâsp, lay down when divested of his robes, and he spoke to Hûtôs • thus : “ You, O Hûtôs ! are she
Compare Vd. XXII, 7. 2 A lock of three, five, or seven hairs from the tail of a white bull, that is tied to a metal thumb-ring which is put into the Hôm-strainer when the Hôm-juice is about to be poured through it. See Haug's Essays, 3rd ed., pp. 397-403. This ring and lock of hair may be the relic of a hair-sieve that may have been used for straining the Hôm-juice in former times.
• The saucer, or cup, of strained Hôm-juice.
• The foregoing twenty-six words, excepting two, have been here repeated by the writer of the old Bombay MS., after turning over a folio.
5 Av. Hutaosa, wife of Vistasp and descendant of Nôdar (Av. Naotara); see Yt. XV, 35, 36. According to the later authority of the Yâdkar-i Zarîrân, $ 48she was also a sister of Vistas.
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