See chap. xv, 2-16, xxxIV

3. Reading amat, « when », instead of mûn, « which » (see the note on

chap. 1, 7).

4. Written Khürshédar-mâh, or Khürshèd-mah, in the Bundahis; see

chap. xxxu, 8, Bahman Yt. II, 52, 53.

ils ne mangeront que des légumes et du lait ; ensuite ils s’abstiendront de légumes et de lait pour se nourrir d’eau, et pendant dix ans avant l’arrivée de Sôsyans (Saosyant) ils vivront sans nourriture.

B. — La résurrection des morts, v. 4-7.

Quand Saosyant sera venu, la résurrection aura lieu. En effet elle sera pour le Seigneur plus facile à opérer que la création. Ce qui n’était pas ayant été produit, pourquoi ne

serait-ce pas possible de reproduire encore ce qui était? On

meat food, and eat vegetables and milk ; afterwards, they abstain from milk food and abstain from vegetable food, and are feeding on water; and for ten years before Sôshyans ‘ comes the remain without food, and do not die.

k. After Sôshyans comes they prepare the raising of the dead, as it says, that Zaratüst asked of Aüharmazd thus: « Whence does a body form again, which the wind has carried and the water conveyed(vazid) ? and how does the resurrection occur?» 5. À üharmazd answered thus:« Whenthrough me the sky arose from the substance of the ruby *, without columns, on the spiritual support of far-compassed light; when through me the earth arose, which * bore the material life, andthere is no maintainer of the worldly creation but it; when by me the sun and the moon and stars are conducted in the firmament (andarvâi) of luminous bodies; when by me corn was created so that, scattered about in the earth, it grew again and returned with increase; when by me colour * of