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the coming of a report about the marvellousness of that chariot to Vistâsp, Vistâsp's begging that chariot from Sritô, and Sritô saying in reply to Vistâsp: ‘That chariot is for a righteous man, in which the soul of Sritô in the lifetime of Srito's body!, and that of that man in the lifetime of his body, come visibly together once in the worldly existence. 3. And the soul of Sritô, through the generosity of that Sritô, presents that chariot to the eyesight of that man of righteousness; thereby it becomes evident he had seen it, and is told not to act in another manner. 4. The exalted Kai-Vistâsp, as becoming from revelation more particularly aware of this marvel about the future at that time, and for the sake of this marvel being published to the worldly existence (gêhânigih), and of his becoming
Visrapân, and in $ 7 the first letter is omitted, leaving only îsrapân. In Pahl. Vd. XX, 11 (Sp.) we have Srît-î ye. (in L4), which latter name may also be israpano, though more likely to be read Sêr zâno when considered by itself. It is almost certain that the person mentioned in Pahl. Vd. XX, 11 is intended to be the same as that named here in the text. But it is doubtful if this person be the Av. Thrita son of Sâyuzdri (or Sâizdri) of Yt. V,72; XIII, 113. As the legend in the text appears to refer to the soul of Srîtô, or Thrita, revisiting the world to meet Vistâsp, this Srîtô may have been the warrior Srîtô, the seventh brother, employed by Kai-Us, about 350 years earlier, to kill the frontier-settling ox of that time, but there seem to be no means of so identifying him with absolute certainty.
1 This is the literal meaning of the Pahl. mûn râbân-i Srîtô pavan zîndagîh-i Srîtô tano,' but it is not quite consistent with Srito's return to the earth as a spirit. The Indian copyists seem to have observed this, as they have omitted several words, so as to alter the meaning to the following :-'That chariot is for a man of the righteous, with whom Srîtô in the lifetime of that man's body comes visibly together, &c.' But the sentence is not quite grammatical.
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