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year Kabed-as-spâê 1, who is called also Akht the wizard, is killed.
11. Of the six great upholders of the religion there are the two daughters of Zaratûst, whose names are Frênò and Srito?, with Aharûbõ-stôtô, son of Mêdyômâh”, and another three, who are renowned for their religion for a hundred years, who are Vohûnêm * that is born in the fortieth year of the religion, Sênô o is afterwards born and passes away in the two-hundredth year, and as to his hundred-discipledom ®, it exists day and night till the three-hundredth year. 12. Afterwards the religion is disturbed and the monarchy is contested (gangiaito).
13. About the three customs (dâ do) which Zaratūst prescribed as the best : The first of them is this: 'Do not go without others, except with magisterial authority (a patkâr radiha);' the second is: Though they shall proceed unlawfully as to you, consider your actions lawfully beforehand ;' and the third is : 'Next-of-kin marriage, for the
1 As kabed is Zvâris for many,' we may assume that kabed-lls =Av. nom. pourus which usually becomes pouru in compounds; so that the compound name, or title, in the text, probably represents Av. Pouruspâdha (Yt. X, 109, 111), having many troops,' a suitable title for Akht the wizard (Av. Akhtya of Yt. V, 82) who is said, in Gf. I, 2, to have invaded a district with an army of seven myriads. He was killed, in Zoroastrian fashion, by the recital of a religious formula.
* There was a third daughter, Pôrukist (see Bd. XXXII, 5), but she may not have survived her father.
Av. gen. 'Ashastvô Maidhyôi-maung, hôis' of Yt. XIII, 106. 4 See $ 8. • He was born in the 100th year; see Dk. VII, vii, 6.
6 This seems to be the sixth upholder of the religion, the third of those lasting about a century.
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