When he had reached the age of thirty, he directed his face towards Iran, in company with several men and women and some of his own relations; in the course of this journey, they came to a large expanse of water, on which there was not a boat to be found:[394] as it is not meet for women to expose their persons, particularly before strangers, he became anxious about the means of taking them over in the presence of their fellow travellers; he therefore poured out his distress before the God of justice, entreating from him a passage over that wide expanse of water; after which, by the order of the Almighty, he crossed over, with his companions and relations, in such guise that the soles of their feet only were moistened by the water; finally, in the end of _Isfandarmaz_,[395] on the day of _Anírán_, which is the last day of every solar month, he reached the confines of Iran. At that period the people of Iran held a great festival at which were assembled both high and low, and therefore Zartusht took his course to that quarter. At night, whilst alone in some halting place, through his enlightened spirit he beheld, in a vision, a mighty army[396] advancing from Bactria, or the West, which from hostile motives blocked up his road on every side; in the same place he beheld another army coming from _Nimroz_, or “mid day,” and when both armies came to close quarters with the sword, the Bactrian or Western troops were put to the rout. The examiner of the vision thus interpreted it: “When Zardusht, having been taken into the presence of God, should discover all the mysteries of creation, that afterwards, on his return from heaven, to promulgate the _Dínbahí_, or ‘true faith,’ the Dîvs and Magicians, having found out his intentions, would with all expedition make war against him. _Mizumah_,[397] the angel who attends the servants of God, on learning this will promote the better faith, and in consequence the _Asta va zand_ will be read with a loud voice, and through this the demons and magicians shall be dispersed and flee away.” On the interpretation of the dream, he hastened to the festival, inspired with great delight. When he had returned from the banqueting-place, he set out about the middle of _Ardíbihist_,[398] on the _Dímihr_, the fifteenth day of every solar month, and came to a deep, broad, and extensive water, named _Dábatí_,[399] in the _Astawasta_; there recommending himself to the Lord, he stepped into the water, which at first rose up to the calf of his legs, then to his knees, waist, and finally to his neck; which event was thus interpreted; “the division of the water into these four portions signifies, that in nine thousand years the _Dínbahí_, ‘the true faith,’ shall be four times renewed; the first time by the agency of Zardusht, who was sent to promulgate the _Bahdín_; the second by _Hushídar_; the third by _Hushídarmáh_; and the fourth by _Sarsásh_; all four descendants from Zardusht.”