抄録
During the late, and especially the post-Sasanian times, many hardships and difficulties encountered the Iranian people. One of their common concerns must have been to know the coming fate and destiny of their own. To this request seemed to comply various texts prophetic or apocalyptic which won popularities among many Zoroastrians. These texts usually deal with the last Innovation by Sosans (Sosyans), the expectation of which, as “Hope”, played an important rôle among the Mazdayasnians. The works or activities of the Innovator wered dwelt upon in the Spend Nask not extent, but the Nask's contents given in the Denkard are not sufficient for us to derive detailed informations. In order to attain a comprehensive idea of what events or vicissitudes are to take place in the eschatological work, we must collect and collate as many concerned descriptions as possible dispersed in various Pahlavi scriptures. As a travail d'approche, here is a tentative and provisional arrangement logically and chronologically ordered of he important data found in the Pahlavi Rivayat ed. by H. S. Nyberg: A Manual of Pahlavi I, Wiesbaden 1964, p. 99, 1. 9- p. 105, 1. 3 and the Bundahisn ed. by Ervad T. D. Anklesaria, Bombay 1908, p. 219, 1. 14- p. 228, 1. 5. The Arrangement, however, lies only for further rearrangement or addition in the light of another texts not treated here.
