Compare Mkh. 1x

4. AI MSS. have min, « out of », but translators generally suppose it should be mün, « which », as the meaning of « brought out of material ife » is by no means clear. Perhaps the two phrases, might be construed together, thus : « there is no other maintainer of the worldly creation, brought from the material life, {han it ». Windischmann refers to Fravardin Yi. 9.

5. Former transiators all read rag, « vein, pore »; but it probably stands or rang, « colour, dye », as in chap. xxvir, 5, 18.

LES ESCHATOLOGIES rl

demandera les os à l'esprit de la terre, Le sang à l’eau, les cheveux aux plantes et la vie au feu.

D'abord les os de Gâyômart seront ressuscités, puis ceux de Mäsya et de Mäsyôi, ensuite ceux du reste de l'humanité. En cinquante-sept années, tous les morts, justes et impies, se redresseront à l’endroit où la vie les a quittés.

various kinds was created in plants ; when by me fire was created in plants and other things ‘ without combustion ; when by me a son was created and fashioned * in the womb of a mother, ad the structure (pisak) severally of the skin, nails, blood, feet, eyes, ears and other things was produced ; when by me legs were created for the water, so that it flows away, and the cloud was created which carries the water of the world and rains there where it has a purpose ; when by me the air was created which conveys 27 one’s eyesight, through the strength of the wind, the lowermost upwards according to 2ts will, and one is not able to grasp 2 with the hand out-stretched; each one of them, when created by me, was herein more difficult than causing the resurrection, for * it is an assistance to me in the resurrection that they exist, but when they were formed it was not forming the future out of the past. 6. Observe that when that which was not was then produced, why is it not possible to produce again that which was? for at that time one will demand the bone from the spirit of earth, the blocd from the water, the hair from the plants, and the life from fire, since {hey were delivered to them in the original creation. »

1. First the bones of Gâyômard are roused up, then those of Mâshya and Mäshyôi, then those of the rest of mankind; in the fifty-seven years of Sôshyans * they prepare all the dead, and all men stand up; whoeverisrighteous and whoever is wicked, every human creature, they rouse up from the