{"collection":"Zoroastrianism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/zor/sbe47/sbe4718.htm","path":"zor/sbe47/sbe4718.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/zor/sbe47/sbe4718.htm","text":"Pahlavi Texts, Part V: Marvels of Zoroastrianism (SBE47), E.W. West, tr. [1897]\n1. About that which is manifested as regards the propitiousness, forward intellect, and complete virtue of Zarat\u00fbst, it is openly declared that, according to his explaining statements, there occurred such events as the victory of Ka\u00ee-Vist\u00e2sp and the Ir\u00e2nians over Arg\u00e2sp 1 and an army of Khy\u00f4ns and other foreigners of innumerable kinds, and details on that subject; also other assistance of Vist\u00e2sp and those of the realm in other necessities.\n2. The killing of Zarat\u00fbst himself by Br\u00e2dr\u00f4-r\u00eash 2 the T\u00fbr; the provision of a chariot by Sr\u00eet\u00f4 3 of the V\u00eesraps; and whatever is on those subjects.\n3. Also, specially, matters in the times to come, each consecutively, when therein arrive devastators such as Alexander 4, and the killer of Akr\u00ea-khirad\u014f 5, Mahrk\u00fbs 6, Dah\u00e2k 7, and other devastators; extenders of belief (v\u00eerav\u00eesn-v\u00e2l\u00e2n) such as the Messiah (Mashikh), M\u00e2nih 8, and others; periods such as the steel age 9, that mingled with iron, and others; and organizers, restorers, and introducers of religion, such\nas Artakhshatar 1, \u00c2t\u00fbrp\u00e2d 2, Kh\u00fbsr\u00f4\u00ee 3, P\u00eashy\u00f4tan 4, A\u00fbsh\u00eadar, A\u00fbsh\u00eadar-m\u00e2h, S\u00f4sh\u00e2ns 5, and others.\n4. 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 G\u00e2m\u00e2sp 6, from the teaching of Zarat\u00fbst, is what he wrote, together with the Avesta and Zand, upon oxhides, and it was written with gold, and kept in the royal treasury 7. 5. And it was from it the high-priests 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.\n126:1 Dk. VII, iv, 77, 83, 84, 87-90; v, 7; this victory occurred in the thirtieth year of the religion, see Zs. XXIII, 8.\n126:2 Dk. VII, v, 12 n.\n126:3 Dk. VII, vi, 2-11.\n126:4 Dk. VII, vii, 7.\n126:5 Or Aghr\u00earad (Av. Aghra\u00earatha), killed by his brother Fr\u00e2s\u00eey\u00e2v or Frangr\u00e2s\u00eey\u00e2k of T\u00fbr, see Bd. XXIX, 5; XXXI, 15, 20-22.\n126:6 Dk. VII, i, 24; 3.\n126:7 Ibid. i, 26.\n126:8 A heretic who flourished AD. 216-242; see Dk. IX, xxxix, 13 n.\n126:9 According to Byt. II, 21, 22, the steel age was the time of Kh\u00fbsr\u00f4 An\u00f4sh\u00earv\u00e2n, and that mingled with iron at the end of Zarat\u00fbst's millennium.","title":"Pahlavi Texts, Part V: Marvels of Zoroastrianism: D\u00eenkard.\u2014Book V: Chapter III","type":"page"}