Note 1127 — Chapter XIII · MANES AND THE MANICHAEANS

This is the conjecture of M. Cumont (Cosmog. Manich. pp. 24, 25). As he says in note 5 on the first-mentioned page, the passage as it stands is inconsistent. The Appellant and Respondent under the names of Kroshtag and Padwakhtag appear in the Khuastuanift and also in the Tun-huang treatise (pp. 521 sqq.) without the part they play in the world being immediately apparent. The former document, however (see p. 343 infra), speaks of them as being concerned in the purification of the Light. MM. Chavannes and Pelliot (op. cit. p. 521, n. 1) think it possible that they may represent the portions of the “armour” of the First Man which were not sullied by contact with matter, and compare them to the last two Amshaspands, Haurvetât and Ameretât. See also their Traité Manicheen, etc. 2me ptie, in the Journal Asiatique, XI série, t. I. (1913), p. 101. One might liken them to the Cautes and Cautopates appearing in the Mithraic monuments, as to which see Chapter XII, p. 246 supra.