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as Artakhshatar", Åtarpâd ?, Khûsrði 3, Pêshyôtan“, Allshedar, Aushedar-mâh, Sôshâns, and others.
4. The formation of custom, and the indications which have come to manifestation and will arrive at various periods; and the proclamation of these, too, by Gâmâspo, from the teaching of Zaratûst, is what he wrote, together with the Avesta and Zand, upon oxhides, and it was written with gold, and kept in the royal treasury? 5. And it was from it the highpriests of the rulers made many copies; and afterwards, too, it is from it that it happened, both to the less intelligent and the corrupters, that they were introducing different opinions and different views.
Chapter IV. 1. About the selectness and perfection of the race of Irân, that is, how the destroyer and the mingling of defects came into the creation, first into the distribution of the race [of mankind) 8 from the children of Siyâmak”, and good intellect, good disposition,
1 Ardashîr Papakân (A.D. 226-241), the founder of the Sâsânian dynasty.
· Son of Mâraspend, and prime minister of Shahpûhar II (A.D. 309-379).
3 Anoshêrvấn (A.D. 531-578):
• A son of Vistâsp and immortal ruler of Kangdes, see Dk. VII, iv, 81. • See Chap. II, 15.
. See Chap. II, 12. ? This was the original Avesta prepared by order of Vistâsp, as stated in the last chapter of Dk. III, § 3 (see S. B. E., vol. xxxvii, p. xxxi).
& B omits the words in brackets. • Son of Masyê, called Sâmak in Dk. VII, i, 15.
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