The idea of virgin birth has been asserted to occur in Zoroastrianism, both with reference to Zoroaster himself and to the last three great prophets of whom mention has been made. This is an error. The Avesta and all later Zoroastrian books speak of Zoroaster’s birth as quite natural, his father being Pōurushaspa. Nor is virgin birth referred to in the case of Saoshyañṭ and the rest. (Mater cuiusque ex iis, sese in lacu quodam lavans, Zoroaslris semine illic reposito gravida facta