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CHAPTER XVI, 7-XVII, 3.
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12. Because these princes were among the spiritual from two provinces which are in Atûr-pâdakân, such as are at sixty leagues (parasang) from Kist; Zaratūst arose from Râgh, and Vistâsp from Nôdar. 13. And of these two provinces, Râgh was according to the name of Eriko, son of Dûrêsrôbô, son of Mânûskihar”, from whom arose the race of Zaratūst ; and Nôdar was according to the name of Nôdar, son of Mânûskihar, from whom arose the race of Vistasp.
CHAPTER XVII. 1. These were his tokens at birth :-One day, one of those five brothers of the Karaps saw Zaratast, and he looked a long while upwards, downwards, and on all sides around 2.
2. Pôrůshaspô enquired thus : What was there when thou lookedst upwards, what when thou lookedst downwards, and what when thou lookedst on all sides ??
3. And he replied thus, namely: 'When I looked upwards, it was for this reason, when I saw that our souls 3 that go up to the sky, will go up to the best
Compare Chap. XIII, 6 ; Dk. VII, ii, 70. 3 Compare Dk. VII, iii, 27-30.
. Assuming that the MS. gadd, glory, or destiny,' has lost an initial n, with which it was originally nismd=Chald. spring the soul;' as the copyists have not been aware of the existence of this Zvâris equivalent for rûbân, the soul,' for some centuries, it has been altered into gadd, by the omission of its first letter, in nearly all but the very oldest existing MSS., such as K20 and M6 in Bd, XV, 3-5, and even there the medial m is really missing, though apparently existing in the final d; the irregularity of using s for sh is common in Pahlavi.
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