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1The remaining century was spent in the Vara (‘for a hundred years, Gim was in the Var,’ says the Gr. Bund.) On Yima’s fall, see Yt. XIX, 34; cf. Yt. V, 25-31. FARGARD II. 15 flocks and herds and men, at their will and wish, as many as he wished. II. 21 (42). The Maker, Ahura Mazda, called together a meeting of the celestial Yazatas in the Airyana Vaég6 of high renown, by the Vanguhi Daitya *. The fair Yima, the good shepherd, called together a meeting of the best of the mortals *, in the Airyana Vaégé of high renown, by the Vanguhi Daitya. To that meeting came Ahura Mazda, in the Airyana Vaégé of high renown, by the Vanguhi Daitya ; he came together with the celestial Yazatas. To that meeting came the fair Yima, the good shepherd, in the Airyana Vaég6 of high renown, by the Vanguhi Déitya; he came together with the best of the mortals. 22 (46). And Ahura Mazda spake unto Yima, saying : ‘O fair Yima,son of Vivanghat! Upon the material world the evil winters are about to fall, that shall bring the fierce, deadly frost; upon the material world the evil winters * are about to fall, that shall 1 § 20 belongs to the Commentary. See Fracments to the Vendidad. 3 See Farg. I, notes to § 2. * The best types of mankind, chosen to live in the Var during the MalkésAn and repeople the earth when the Var opens. * The Commentary has here Malkésan, a word wrongly identified with the Hebrew Malqé6s, which designates the beneficent autumn rains. Malk6sGn are the winters let loose by a demon or wizard named Malkés, in Zend Mahrkfsha ‘the death-causing’ (see Westergaard’s Fragments, VIII). 16 VEND{DAD. make snow-flakes fall thick, even an aredvt deep on the highest tops of mountains’. 23 (52). ‘And the beasts that live in the wilderness*, and those that live on the tops of the mountains 8, and those that live in the bosom of the dale ‘ shall take shelter in underground abodes. 24 (57). ‘Before that winter, the country would bear plenty of grass for cattle, before the waters had flooded it. Now after the melting of the snow, O Yima, a place wherein the footprint of a sheep may be seen will be a wonder in the world. 25 (61). ‘Therefore make thee a Vara, long as a riding-ground on every side of the square, and thither bring the seeds of sheep and oxen, of men, of dogs, of birds, and of red blazing fires °. ‘Therefore make thee a Vara, long as a ridingground on every side of the square, to be an abode for men; a Vara, long as a riding-ground on every side of the square, for oxen and sheep. 26 (65) ‘There thou shalt make waters flow in a bed a hathra long; there thou shalt settle birds, on the green that never fades, with food that never fails, There thou shalt establish dwelling-places, consisting of a house with a balcony, a courtyard, and a gallery’. * «Even where it (the snow) is least, it will be one Vitasti two fingers deep’ (Comm.); that is, fourteen fingers deep. * The Comm. has, strangely enough, ‘for instance, Isp&h4n.’
2* «Even where it (the snow) is least, it will be one Vitasti two fingers deep’ (Comm.); that is, fourteen fingers deep. * The Comm. has, strangely enough, ‘for instance, Isp&h4n.’ * ‘For instance, Aparsén (the Upairisaéna or Hindd-Kfsh).’ * ‘For instance, Khorastan (the plain of Khorasan).’ 5 «Two hathras long on every side’ (Comm.) A hf&thra is about an English mile. * That is to say, specimens of each species. " The last three words are draf Aeyéueva of doubtful meaning. FARGARD It. 17 27 (70). ‘ Thither thou shalt bring the seeds of men and women, of the greatest, best, and finest on this earth’; thither thou shalt bring the seeds of every kind of cattle, of the greatest, best, and finest on this earth. 28 (74). ‘Thither thou shalt bring the seeds of every kind of tree, of the highest of size and sweetest of odour on this earth *; thither thou shalt bring the seeds of every kind of fruit, the best of savour and sweetest of odour®. All those seeds shalt thou bring, two of every kind, to be kept inexhaustible there, so long as those men shall stay in the Vara. 29 (80). ‘There shall be no humpbacked, none bulged forward there ; no impotent, no lunatic; no one malicious, no liar; no one spiteful, none jealous ; no one with decayed tooth, no leprous to be pent up‘, nor any of the brands wherewith Angra Mainyu stamps the bodies of mortals ©. 30 (87). ‘In the largest part of the place thou shalt make nine streets, six in the middle part, three in the smallest. To the streets of the largest part thou shalt bring a thousand seeds of men and women ; to the streets of the middle part, six hun- 1 The best specimens of mankind, to be the origin of the more perfect races of the latter days. 2 «The highest of size, like the cypress and the plane-tree; the sweetest of odour, like the rose and the jessamine’ (Comm.) * ‘The best of savour, like the date; the sweetest of odour, like the citron’ (Comm.) * ©A man, afflicted with leprosy, is not allowed to enter a town and mix with the other Persians’ (Herod. I, 138; he was supposed to have sinned against the sun). Ctesias has a tale of how Megabyzes escaped his enemies by simulating leprosy. * In order that the new mankind may be exempt from all moral and physical deformities. [4] Cc 18 VEND{DAD. dred; to the streets of the smallest part, three hundred}, That Vara thou shalt seal up with thy golden seal, and thou shalt make a door, and a window self-shining within.’ 31 (93). Then Yima said within himself: ‘ How shall I manage to make that Vara which Ahura Mazda has commanded me to make?’ And Ahura Mazda said unto Yima: ‘O fair Yima, son of Vivanghat! Crush the earth with a stamp of thy heel, and then knead it with thy hands, as the potter does when kneading the potter's clay *’ [32. And Yima did as Ahura Mazda wished ; he crushed the earth with a stamp of his heel, he kneaded it with his hands, as the potter does when kneading the potter's clay*.]
3And Yima did as Ahura Mazda wished ; he crushed the earth with a stamp of his heel, he kneaded it with his hands, as the potter does when kneading the potter's clay*.] 33 (97). And Yima made a Vara, long as a ridingground on every side of the square. There he brought the weds of sheep and oxen, of men, of dogs, of birds, and of red blazing fires. . He made a Vara, long as a riding-ground on every side of the square, to be an abode for men; a Vara, long as a riding-ground on every side of the square, for oxen and sheep. 34 (101). There he made waters flow in a bed a hathra long; there he settled birds, on the green that never fades, with food that never fails. There ? This division of the Var into three quarters very likely answers the distinction of the three classes. * In the Shah Namah Gamshid teaches the Divs to make and knead clay ‘by mixing the earth with water;’ and they build palaces at his bidding. It was his renown, both as a wise king and a great builder, that caused the Musulmans to identify him with Solomon. * From the Vendidad Sada. FARGARD II. 19 he established dwelling-places, consisting of a house with a balcony, a courtyard, and a gallery. 35 (106). There he brought the seeds of men and women, of the greatest, best, and finest on this earth; there he brought the seeds of every kind of cattle, of the greatest, best, and finest on this earth. 36 (110), There he brought the seeds of every kind of tree, of the highest of size and sweetest of odour on this earth; there he brought the seeds of every kind of fruit, the best of savour and sweetest of odour. All those seeds he brought, two of every kind, to be kept inexhaustible there, so long as those men shall stay in the Vara. 37 (116). And there were no humpbacked, none bulged forward there; no impotent, no lunatic; no one malicious, no liar; no one spiteful, none jealous ; no one with decayed tooth, no leprous to be pent up, nor any of the brands wherewith Angra Mainyu stamps the bodies of mortals. 38 (123). In the largest part of the place he made nine streets, six in the middle part, three in the smallest. To the streets of the largest part he brought a thousand seeds of men and women; to the streets of the middle part, six hundred; to the streets of the smallest part, three hundred. That Vara he sealed up with the golden ring, and he made a door, and a window self-shining within. 39 (129). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What are the lights that give light in the Vara which Yima made ? 40 (131). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘There are uncreated lights and created lights. The one | 1 The endless light, which is eternal, and artificial lights. The Commentary has here the following Zend quotation: ‘The un- “C2 20 VEND{DAD. thing missed there is the sight of the stars, the moon, and the sun’, and a year seems only asa day *.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1The remaining century was spent in the Vara (‘for a hundred years, Gim was in the Var,’ says the Gr. Bund.) On Yima’s fall, see Yt. XIX, 34; cf. Yt. V, 25-31. FARGARD II. 15 flocks and herds and men, at their will and wish, as many as he wished. II. 21 (42). The Maker, Ahura Mazda, called together a meeting of the celestial Yazatas in the Airyana Vaég6 of high renown, by the Vanguhi Daitya *. The fair Yima, the good shepherd, called together a meeting of the best of the mortals *, in the Airyana Vaégé of high renown, by the Vanguhi Daitya. To that meeting came Ahura Mazda, in the Airyana Vaégé of high renown, by the Vanguhi Daitya ; he came together with the celestial Yazatas. To that meeting came the fair Yima, the good shepherd, in the Airyana Vaég6 of high renown, by the Vanguhi Déitya; he came together with the best of the mortals. 22 (46). And Ahura Mazda spake unto Yima, saying : ‘O fair Yima,son of Vivanghat! Upon the material world the evil winters are about to fall, that shall bring the fierce, deadly frost; upon the material world the evil winters * are about to fall, that shall 1 § 20 belongs to the Commentary. See Fracments to the Vendidad. 3 See Farg. I, notes to § 2. * The best types of mankind, chosen to live in the Var during the MalkésAn and repeople the earth when the Var opens. * The Commentary has here Malkésan, a word wrongly identified with the Hebrew Malqé6s, which designates the beneficent autumn rains. Malk6sGn are the winters let loose by a demon or wizard named Malkés, in Zend Mahrkfsha ‘the death-causing’ (see Westergaard’s Fragments, VIII). 16 VEND{DAD. make snow-flakes fall thick, even an aredvt deep on the highest tops of mountains’. 23 (52). ‘And the beasts that live in the wilderness*, and those that live on the tops of the mountains 8, and those that live in the bosom of the dale ‘ shall take shelter in underground abodes. 24 (57). ‘Before that winter, the country would bear plenty of grass for cattle, before the waters had flooded it. Now after the melting of the snow, O Yima, a place wherein the footprint of a sheep may be seen will be a wonder in the world. 25 (61). ‘Therefore make thee a Vara, long as a riding-ground on every side of the square, and thither bring the seeds of sheep and oxen, of men, of dogs, of birds, and of red blazing fires °. ‘Therefore make thee a Vara, long as a ridingground on every side of the square, to be an abode for men; a Vara, long as a riding-ground on every side of the square, for oxen and sheep. 26 (65) ‘There thou shalt make waters flow in a bed a hathra long; there thou shalt settle birds, on the green that never fades, with food that never fails, There thou shalt establish dwelling-places, consisting of a house with a balcony, a courtyard, and a gallery’. * «Even where it (the snow) is least, it will be one Vitasti two fingers deep’ (Comm.); that is, fourteen fingers deep. * The Comm. has, strangely enough, ‘for instance, Isp&h4n.’
2* «Even where it (the snow) is least, it will be one Vitasti two fingers deep’ (Comm.); that is, fourteen fingers deep. * The Comm. has, strangely enough, ‘for instance, Isp&h4n.’ * ‘For instance, Aparsén (the Upairisaéna or Hindd-Kfsh).’ * ‘For instance, Khorastan (the plain of Khorasan).’ 5 «Two hathras long on every side’ (Comm.) A hf&thra is about an English mile. * That is to say, specimens of each species. " The last three words are draf Aeyéueva of doubtful meaning. FARGARD It. 17 27 (70). ‘ Thither thou shalt bring the seeds of men and women, of the greatest, best, and finest on this earth’; thither thou shalt bring the seeds of every kind of cattle, of the greatest, best, and finest on this earth. 28 (74). ‘Thither thou shalt bring the seeds of every kind of tree, of the highest of size and sweetest of odour on this earth *; thither thou shalt bring the seeds of every kind of fruit, the best of savour and sweetest of odour®. All those seeds shalt thou bring, two of every kind, to be kept inexhaustible there, so long as those men shall stay in the Vara. 29 (80). ‘There shall be no humpbacked, none bulged forward there ; no impotent, no lunatic; no one malicious, no liar; no one spiteful, none jealous ; no one with decayed tooth, no leprous to be pent up‘, nor any of the brands wherewith Angra Mainyu stamps the bodies of mortals ©. 30 (87). ‘In the largest part of the place thou shalt make nine streets, six in the middle part, three in the smallest. To the streets of the largest part thou shalt bring a thousand seeds of men and women ; to the streets of the middle part, six hun- 1 The best specimens of mankind, to be the origin of the more perfect races of the latter days. 2 «The highest of size, like the cypress and the plane-tree; the sweetest of odour, like the rose and the jessamine’ (Comm.) * ‘The best of savour, like the date; the sweetest of odour, like the citron’ (Comm.) * ©A man, afflicted with leprosy, is not allowed to enter a town and mix with the other Persians’ (Herod. I, 138; he was supposed to have sinned against the sun). Ctesias has a tale of how Megabyzes escaped his enemies by simulating leprosy. * In order that the new mankind may be exempt from all moral and physical deformities. [4] Cc 18 VEND{DAD. dred; to the streets of the smallest part, three hundred}, That Vara thou shalt seal up with thy golden seal, and thou shalt make a door, and a window self-shining within.’ 31 (93). Then Yima said within himself: ‘ How shall I manage to make that Vara which Ahura Mazda has commanded me to make?’ And Ahura Mazda said unto Yima: ‘O fair Yima, son of Vivanghat! Crush the earth with a stamp of thy heel, and then knead it with thy hands, as the potter does when kneading the potter's clay *’ [32. And Yima did as Ahura Mazda wished ; he crushed the earth with a stamp of his heel, he kneaded it with his hands, as the potter does when kneading the potter's clay*.]
3And Yima did as Ahura Mazda wished ; he crushed the earth with a stamp of his heel, he kneaded it with his hands, as the potter does when kneading the potter's clay*.] 33 (97). And Yima made a Vara, long as a ridingground on every side of the square. There he brought the weds of sheep and oxen, of men, of dogs, of birds, and of red blazing fires. . He made a Vara, long as a riding-ground on every side of the square, to be an abode for men; a Vara, long as a riding-ground on every side of the square, for oxen and sheep. 34 (101). There he made waters flow in a bed a hathra long; there he settled birds, on the green that never fades, with food that never fails. There ? This division of the Var into three quarters very likely answers the distinction of the three classes. * In the Shah Namah Gamshid teaches the Divs to make and knead clay ‘by mixing the earth with water;’ and they build palaces at his bidding. It was his renown, both as a wise king and a great builder, that caused the Musulmans to identify him with Solomon. * From the Vendidad Sada. FARGARD II. 19 he established dwelling-places, consisting of a house with a balcony, a courtyard, and a gallery. 35 (106). There he brought the seeds of men and women, of the greatest, best, and finest on this earth; there he brought the seeds of every kind of cattle, of the greatest, best, and finest on this earth. 36 (110), There he brought the seeds of every kind of tree, of the highest of size and sweetest of odour on this earth; there he brought the seeds of every kind of fruit, the best of savour and sweetest of odour. All those seeds he brought, two of every kind, to be kept inexhaustible there, so long as those men shall stay in the Vara. 37 (116). And there were no humpbacked, none bulged forward there; no impotent, no lunatic; no one malicious, no liar; no one spiteful, none jealous ; no one with decayed tooth, no leprous to be pent up, nor any of the brands wherewith Angra Mainyu stamps the bodies of mortals. 38 (123). In the largest part of the place he made nine streets, six in the middle part, three in the smallest. To the streets of the largest part he brought a thousand seeds of men and women; to the streets of the middle part, six hundred; to the streets of the smallest part, three hundred. That Vara he sealed up with the golden ring, and he made a door, and a window self-shining within. 39 (129). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What are the lights that give light in the Vara which Yima made ? 40 (131). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘There are uncreated lights and created lights. The one | 1 The endless light, which is eternal, and artificial lights. The Commentary has here the following Zend quotation: ‘The un- “C2 20 VEND{DAD. thing missed there is the sight of the stars, the moon, and the sun’, and a year seems only asa day *.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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