Note the reference to the difficult nature of the Pehlevi syllabary.

The Bundehesh is in the Pehlevi or Zend language, and was written, it is

The sixth paragraph of the same passage is explained by the Pehlevi translator as follows:

The authorities accordingly had a translation of it made in the speech of the time, Pehlevi.

High-piping Pehlevi, with Wine!

Persian historians tell of a famous standard carried from the mythical time of Zohâk to that of the last of the Pehlevi kings.

Professor Spiegel, in 1859, translated the same passage, of which the Pehlevi is a running commentary rather than a literal rendering, as follows:

As such it was said to be richly ornamented with jewels, to which every king, from Faridûn to the last of the Pehlevi monarchs, added.

Pehlevi was losing a chess game to Joost and was going to have Farouq kill him, as an adventurer and a spy.