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DÎNKARD, BOOK VII.
splendour. 8. Just as revelation states thus :
When that millennium has fully elapsed, which is the third of the religion of the Mazda-worshippers, that Mazda-worshipper whose name is so Triumphant1 then marches forward from the water Kanyisâ with a thousand companions and also maidens of restrained disposition and blindlystriving behaviour 3; and he smites the wicked people who are tyrannical, and annihilates them.'
9. Then those Mazda-worshippers smite, and none are smiting them. 10. Then those Mazdaworshippers produce a longing for a renovation among the existences, one ever-living, ever-beneficial, and ever desiring a Lord. II. 'Then I, who am Allharmazd, produce the renovation according to the longing among the existences, one ever-living, ever-beneficial, and ever desiring a Lord.'
i See Chap. X, 17.
2 Reading the name as Pazand; if it were Pahlavi it would have to be read Kânmâsâî, because Irânian Pâz. yi is very like Pahl. mâ. It is Kyânsih in Bd. XIII, 16; XX, 34; XXI, 6, 7, and represents Av. Kãsava, the brackish lake or sea of Sagastân.
Reading 'va-bigar-ik-i vand khîm va-kûr-kakhở râs,' and assuming that bigar is Ar. bikr, as an Arabic word is occasionally used in the Dînkard (see Chap. II, 2 n though very rarely. Bd. XXX, 17, mentions ' fifteen men and fifteen damsels' as assisting Sôshậns at the time of the renovation of the universe.
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