Compare Mkh. ix

4. AU MSS. hâve min, « oui of », but translators gênerai ly suppose it should be mùn, « 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 création, brought from the material life, than it ». Windischmann refers to Fravardln Yl. 9.

5. Former translators ail read rag, « vein, pore » ; but it probably stands or rang, « colour, dye », as in chap. xxvu, 5, 18.

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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 ressuscites, puis ceux de Mâsya et de M&syôi, 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 ; wben by me tire was crealed in plants and other things f without combustion ; when by me a son was created and fashioned v in the womb of a mother, and the structure (ptsak) 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 in one's eyesight, through the slrength of the wind, the lowermost upwards according to Us will, and one is not able to grasp it with the hand out-stretched ; each one of them, when created by me, was herein more difficult than causing the résurrection, for 3 it is an assistance to me in the résurrection 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 blood from the water, the hair from the plants, and the life from fire, since they were delivered to them in the original création. »

7. First the bones of Gâyômard are roused up, then those of Màshya and Mâshyôî, then those of the rest of mankind; in the fifty-seven years of Sôshyans * they prépare ail the desA 7 and ail men stand up ; whoever isrighteous and whoever is wicked, every human créature, they rouse up from the