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19. When that man becomes thirty years old, the sun stands still in the zenith of the sky for the duration of thirty days and nights, and it arrives again at that place where it was appointed by allotment.
CHAPTER XI. 1. About the marvellousness which is after the end of the millennium of Aushêdar-mâh and the arrival of the Triumphant Benefiter, until the end of the fifty-seventh year of Sôshâns and the production of the renovation among the existences.
2. Concerning the marvellousness of Sôshâns as to splendour and glory of person, it says that when the coming of the last rotation of those rotations of the seasons of Allshedar-mâh occurs, the man Sôshậns is born whose food is spiritual and body sunny (that is, his body is as radiant as the sun);' also this, that he looks on all sides with six-eyed power (6-dộisarih), and sees the remedy for persecution by the fiend.'
3. This, too, that with him is the triumphant Kayân glory which the mighty Frêdùn 2 bore when Az-i Dahâk 3 was smitten by him; also Kal-Khúsrộio was bearing it when the Tûr Frangrâsiyâk was smitten by him; also Frangrâsiyâk bore it when the Drvê Zênigâk 6 was smitten by him; and Kal
and information about Sôshậns and his time. Also, as to the renovation of the universe and the future existence, it is declared that they arise in his time.'
1 The date here indicated seems to be about twenty-eight years later than that intended in Chap. X, 15-19. 2 See Chap. I, 25.
See Chap. I, 26. • See Chap. I, 39.
5 See Chap. I, 31, 39. • Av. Drvau Zainigaus, an Arab chieftain who invaded Irân
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