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new-year's day, at a place become specially noted, where people went, from many quarters, out to the place of festival (gasno kar).
2. When Zaratust, for the sake of going off to the festival place, halted on the way in walking, he chanced upon a solitary (aêvatåk) plain, and he saw, in a vision, that mankind and a much-adorned worldly existence were kept away to the north, so that all the people in the earth have become fully manifest in the north. 3. And he at the head (pavan têkh) of them was Mêdyômâh, son of Arâstâi, even as Årâstât was brother of Pôrüshaspô 2; Medyômâh was the leader of all mankind who have gone out to the presence of Zaratust, and he became their guide, so that first Medyômâh and afterwards the whole material existence are attracted.
4. And about his coming out to the conference, on the lapse of those forty-five days, at the place of festival at dawn on the day Dadvô 3-pavan-Mitrô of the month Ardavahistô. 5. And Zaratust, for the purpose of squeezing the Hôm, went forth to the bank of the water of the Dâitih, because it is the river of the conference for the supremacy (patih) of Zaratūst, and is the water of Âvân • which has consisted of four channels (bêta). 6. Zaratůst also
1 See Yt. XIII, 95.
* So Médyômâh was first cousin of Zaratûst, and became his first convert; see also Chap. XXIII, 1.
3 The Pahlavi letters represent Av. dadhvau, 'creator'; compare the Khvârizmian name ass of the fifteenth day of the month in Sachau's Albiruni, p. 57, l. 35. The date here given is the fifteenth of the second month, as in $ 1.
• Assuming that rud stands for rûd.
* Probably Anâhita, the female spirit of pure water, mentioned by her title Arêdvisûr in Chap. XVI, 3.
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