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CHAPTER XXII, II-XXIII, 5.
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CHAPTER XXIII.
1. On the completion of revelation, that is, at the end of the ten years, Medyômâh, son of Arâstâi, became faithful to Zaratûst.
2. Afterwards, on having obtained his requests , he came back to the conference of Allharmazd, and he spoke thus: 'In ten years only one man has been attracted by me.' 3. And Allharmazd spoke thus : 'There will be days when so few are not attracted by you, who are themselves the occasion of the resurrection of the world; when, apart from Dahâk?, the beneficence of the formation of the renovation of the universe attracts every one besides, and the impenitence of Dahâk is destroyed.'
4. When he came out from the presence of Adharmazd, with the same paradox, he thereby indicated his religion as complete to Spendarmad through his intelligence.
5. In the two years after that , the Kavigs and
MSS., owing to the accidental interpolation of three loose folios of another text, between this chapter and the next, in some unknown copy written before 1530. In the MSS. the text is written continuously, without division into chapters. But the connection of this chapter with the next one, which is here restored to its proper position, is clearly shown by the reference to the 'ten years' of conference, with which this chapter ends, and the next one begins. The accidentally interpolated text is here classified as Chaps. XXIV and XXV, but its real connections have not yet been traced.
1 That is, the replies of the archangels to his enquiries.
? See Dk. VII, i, 26. He was chained by Frédûn in Mount Dimâvand, to escape in the latter days, to be slain by Keresâsp, and to be specially punished at the resurrection (Bd. XII, 31; XXX, 16; Byt. III, 55-61). s See Dk. VII, iv, 2.
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