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EXTANT FRAGMENTS.
prophetic vision of the golden, silver, steel, and mingled-iron periods of his millennium, quoted at length in Byt. I, 1-5, with variations indicative of the date of the Bahman Yast being later than that of this Nask.
Dk. IX, Chap. X, 3, refers to the detailed account of the seven most heinous evil-doers, quoted in Dd. LXXII, 3-9.
Dk. IX, Chap. XV, refers to the supplication of the soul of Keresâsp for admittance into heaven, on account of his heroic deeds, quoted at length in the Dâdistân Pahlavi Rivâyat and the Persian Sad-darband-i Hash (see S.B.E., vol. xviii, pp. 373–381).
Dk. IX, Chap. XVIII, 2, refers to the passage thus quoted in Sls. X, 8:— For in the Stadgar it is said, concerning those who have unlawfully slaughtered animals, the punishment is such that each hair of those animals becomes like a sharp dagger (tê kh), and he who is unlawfully a slaughterer is slain.'
No allusion has been noticed in Dk. IX to another passage which is thus quoted in Sls. XII, 32 :- In the Stadgar it says thus: “What prepares sneezing ? that is, through what process (kâr) does it come?" And Adharmazd spoke thus: “Hungry living, O Zaratůst! moreover, the remedy for its existence is the Ahunavair, O Zaratůst! and the Ashem (aharâyih).”'
II. VARSTMÂNSAR NASK 1. No quotation from this Nask has yet been noticed
· The detailed account of this Nask, in Dk. IX, contains about
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