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third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, or tenth century ?' 14. And Adharmazd spoke thus : • The sun conceals itself.'
15. And when thirty winters of the tenth century are unelapsed, that maiden, who is Gôbâk-abů 1, walks up to the water ; she that is the mother of that testifying Sôshậns who is the guide to conveying away the opposition of the destroyer, and her former lineage is from Vôhù-rôkô-i Frahânyânâ in the family of Isadvâstar, the son of Zaratûst that is brought forth by Arang. 16. 'That maiden whose title is All-overpowerer is thus all-overpowering, because through giving birth she brings forth him who overpowers all, both the affliction owing to demons, and also that owing to mankind 3. 17. Then she sits in that water, when she is fifteen years old, and it introduces into the girl him 'whose name is the Triumphant Benefiter, and his title is the Bodymaker; such a benefiter as benefits (savînêdo) the whole embodied existence, and such a body-maker, alike possessing body and possessing life, as petitions about the disturbance of the embodied existences and mankind 4' 18. Not before that has she associated with men; nor yet afterwards, when she becomes pregnant, has she done so before the time when she gives birth 6.
1 Having a testifying father,' the Pahlavi of Av. Eredad-fedhri, Yt. XIII, 142.
? See Chap. VIII, 55-57. 3 The Pahlavi version of Yt. XIII, 142, latter clause. * From the Pahlavi version of Yt. XIII, 129.
6 Compare the summary in Dk. VIII, xiv, 14, 15, as follows: "The coming and arrival of Sôshâns, son of Zaratûst, at the end of the third millennium, the destroyers of the organizers who were within the millennium of Allshedar-mâh, the arrival of Sôshans,
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