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SELECTIONS OF ZÂD-SPARAM.
Karaps of Vistâsp, in the manner of opponents (hamêstarânih), propounded thirty-three enquiries (khvâstako)1 to him, so that by command of Vistâsp he became the explainer of those thirtythree enquiries. 6. Of the thirty-three habits ? of iniquity, come for opposition to the religion of the sacred beings; of the declaration, by revelation, of those thirty-three indications of fetters 3; and of the restraint of the thirty-three iniquitous practices by the thirty-three best good works, there are statements in revelation. 7. Including the acceptance of the religion by Vistâsp from Zaratūst, after the redemonstration of its judicially multiform prophecy and spiritual character, which are looked into through the evidence of three speakers about them, the archangels who, with worldly manifestation, have become apparent unto Vistâsp and his councillors and mighty ones; they are Vohậmanô, Ardavahistô, and the Barzin-Mitrô fire 4.
8. About the reward which existed before the beneficence of Zaratûst, and its being seen how, through guidance by Allharmazd, it is demonstrated by him to those of the world, so that Mêdyômâh is attracted in the tenth year in the forest of reedy hollows (kanyâstâno o vêsako) which is the haunt of swine of the wild-boar species (kha zûrâ-i varázo gâs); in the twentieth year the Kavig who is son
* See Dk. VII, iv, 67. * Reading sôn = Pers. sân; but the MSS. have dên ô, religions. The thirty sins and thirty-three good works, detailed in Mkh. XXXVI, XXXVII, are certainly referred to at the end of this section.
3 Compare Chap. XII, 5, and Dk. VII, iv, 67. • See Dk. VII, iv, 74. 6 Hybrid Zvâris of Pers. nayistân.
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