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the Visraps, the early bestower (levino-vakhsh), he stood still and so he spoke in words thus : 'For righteousness I give thee, O mighty Kai-Vistâsp! this chariot which is without a driver, only for love of the righteousness which is owing to the perfect existences. 10. As much for righteousness as is best for righteousness, and as much for the soul as is best for the soul, the gift of the whole was secured (that is, its acceptance was announced as often as three times)
II. Then that chariot became two chariots, one spiritual and the other worldly; in the worldly one the exalted Kai-Vistâsp travelled forth unto the village of the Nôdars 1 in the joyfulness of good thoughts, and in the spiritual one the soul of Sritô of the Visraps travelled forth unto the best existence.
12. One marvel is this which is declared that in fifty-seven years onwards from the acceptance of the religion by Zaratůst ?, the arrival of the religion is published in the seven regions 3; and within the lifetime of Vistâsp, the circumstance (aêdùnõih) is manifested by the coming of some from other regions to Frashốstar of the Hvôbas - for enquiry about the
1 Nôdar (Av. Naotara) was a son of king Mânûskîhar (Bd. XXXI, 13) and an ancestor of king Vistâsp. Vistâsp being a descendant of Kai-Kavad (Bd. XXXI, 28, 29) who was the adopted son of Aůzôbô (Bd. XXXI, 24) a son of Zâgh, son of Masvâk, son of Nôdar (Bd. XXXI, 23 corrected from XXXIII, 5). Hûtôs, the wife of Vistâsp, was also of the village of the Nôdars (Yt. XV, 35).
? That is fifty-seven years after the conference of Zaratûst (see Chap. V, 1).
See the summary in Dk. VIII, xiv, 10:— Likewise, about the communication of Zaratûst's knowledge of the Mazda-worshipping religion to the world, his attracting mankind to the religion, and the ages, after Zaratûst, until the renovation of the universe.'
+ Av. Ferashaotrô Hyogvô (Yas. LI, 17); he was a brother
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