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at the feet of the horses; and the leader of the horses stood still in the vicinity of Zaratûst, and 150 horses, which walked behind it, were kept away from him thereby; and PôrůshaspÔ took him, and carried him back to the house,
7. Also the third day, firewood is gathered together by the Karap, and Zaratast is deposited on it by him, the fire is stirred up by him, yet with the same result (ham-bûn-ik), the child is not burnt by it, and those marks, which existed and were made upon him, were a preservation from it ?
8. And the fourth day, he is thrown by the Karap into the lair (åshyânako) of a wolf; the wolf was not in the lair, and when it wished to go back to the den (sûràko), it stopped when it came in front of some radiance, in the manner of a mother, at the place where its cub was. 9. In the night, Vohûmanô and Srôsh the righteous brought a woolly (kurusako) sheep with udder full of milk into the den, and it gave milk to Zaratûst, in digestible draughts (guvârako guvârako), until daylight 3.
10. In the dawn, the mother of Zaratast went to that place, in the expectation that it would be necessary to bring a skeleton out of the den, and the woolly sheep came out and ran away; his mother supposed that it was the wolf, and she spoke thus: • Thou hast devoured to repletion; mayst thou endure for ever without it!' 11. She went farther, and when she saw Zaratûst quite safe, she then took him up and spoke thus: 'I will not give thee to any one during life, not though both the provinces of Râgh and Nôdar should arrive here together.' Compare Dk. VII, iii, 13, 14.
* Ibid. 9, 10, • Ibid. 15-17; V, ii, 4.
• Ibid. 18, 19.
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