... pt. 2:
mardōm xvadīh mādayān bōyumand ruvān.
—Dēnkird iii, M 379
The essence of man is its soul that possesses consciousness.
ruvān ast ox [xvadāy] ī abar tan, cōn kadagxvadāy kadag, ud asvār asp, rāyēnīdār ī tan; ud gyān ud bōy ud fravahr hāmis vaxš ī pediš, ud andar-šān abzārumand ruvān.
—Dēnkird iii. M 241
The soul (urvan) is the lord [master] over the body: like a household's master over the house, and like a cavalier over the horse; it is the governor of a person. The breath-soul (vyāna), consciousness (baoδah), and fravaṣi-nature are all the spirits in it, and within them the pundit is the soul (urvan).
*The term fravaṣi-nature (fravahr-cihr) points not to the Avestan fravaṣi/ ethereal pre-existent soul, but to a kind of physical wind inside the body, comparable to the Indian samāna. Cf. ibid:
gyān vād ī az fravahr-cihr uštānēnīdag ped uštānīh, uštānumand-dāštār ast ī tan.
breath-soul is the wind from fravahr-cihr that, animated by the animation, maintains the body animate.
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