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existence!, owing to the words of this soul of mankind. 4. When I looked downwards, I saw that, owing to the action of this one, the demon and fiend, the wizard and witch become buried below the earth, and fall paralyzed back to hell. 5. And when I looked on all sides, I saw that the words of this one will extend through the whole earth; and when they have become as the law of the seven regions, each person is kept clothed with a robe (ka pâh) of seven skins, in which the glory of the seven archangels has arisen.
6. And Brâd-rakhsh the Târ went forth; when he went to the right side (arako), Zaratast hastened away to the left, and when he went to the left side, Zaratūst hastened to the right, and he is thereby concealed from Brâd-rûkhsh the Tür, who has not met with him.
CHAPTER XVIII. 1. About his diverse want of participation (gvid akh vêsih) with his parents this also is declared, that the demons, at an assembly of wizards, produced an outcry for a conference (ham-vâkô lâyisno) thus : 'That son of Pôrůshaspô is senseless and foolish and secretly corrupted; no one, man or woman, will consider or accept him as . exalted.'
2. The tidings came to Pôrůshaspô, and Pôrûshaspô spoke unto Zaratûst thus : ‘I thought that I had begotten a son who would become a priest, a warrior, and a husbandman, and now thou
1 The ordinary heaven, see Dd. XX, 3.
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