Mani's Šābuhragān

/ Ar [The two foundations of] / (Šābuhragān) *

[ ] with demons and [ ]
[ ] [ ] [ ]
[ ] [ ] (that) [ ]
[ ] and they say: "We are the agents of the gods.
5 [You should go] in this path of ours." [ ]
Mankind will mostly be deceived
and they will proceed according to their will to do evil. And the religious one who may not believe in his own
10 religion will also join himself to them. And at that time, when things will be thus in the
world, then on earth and in heaven and on the sun
and moon and in the constellations [and]
15 the stars, a great sign will appear.
Then Xradešahr, the god, he who
first [gave] that male creation, the original First Man,
wisdom and knowledge, and
20 who afterwards from time to time and from [age] to
age sent wisdom and knowledge to mankind—
in that last [age] also, close to the Renovation,
[that] lord Xradešahr [together with all]

Av / Br * Concerning the coming * / * of the Son of Men *
Av
(25) [the gods and] the religious together
[will] [ ]
[ * ] then in the [heavens] [up ?]
[they] will stand and a great call
[one ?] will be sounded and it will become known to the whole universe
(30) [And] these gods which in the
[heavens] and earths are lord of the house,
[lord] of the village, lord of the tribe, and
[lord] of the land, border-guard and demon-
[tormenter] are, that Xradešahr
(35) will praise, and mankind
[who] will be rulers in the world
will go running before him
[and] will pay homage and accept his commands,
(40) [and] lustful and wicked and tyrannous men
[will] repent, and then
[god] Xradešahr will send messengers to
the east and to the west,
(45) [and] they will go, and the religious
[mankind] together with the helpers, and those
[wicked] ones [together with their accomplices,
before] Xradešahr [will proceed].