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147 (102). ‘That man makes me conceive progeny as other males make their females conceive progeny by their seed.’ 48 (103). The holy Sraosha, letting his club down upon her, asked the Drug: ‘O thou wretched, worthless Drug! What is the thing that can undo that ?’ » «Nec stando mingens ... facile visitur Persa’ (Amm. Marc. XXIII, 6); Ard& Viraf XXIV; Mainyé-i-khard II, 39; Saddar 56. Cf. Manu IV, 47 seq., and Polack, Persien I, 67: ‘Von einem in Paris weilenden Perser hinterbrachte man dem Kénig, um seine Emancipation und Abtrtinnigkeit vom Gesetz zu beweisen, dass er Schweinefleisch esse und stehend die Function verrichte.’ * See Farg. VIII, 19. * Yasna XXXV, 2: one of the Bis-Amrfta (Farg. X, 4). * Yasna XXXV, 5: one of the Thris-Amrfita (Farg. X, 8). * Making four Ahuna-Vairya in all; cf. Farg. X, 12. * See Yasna XXI. FARGARD XVIII. 203 49 (104). The Drug demon answered: ‘O holy, well-formed Sraosha! this is the thing that undoes it, namely, if the man, when he has risen from sleep, shall say three Ahuna-Vairya, two humatanam, three hukhshathrétem&m, and then chant the Ahuna-Vairya and offer up one Yéahé hatam'. 50 (107). ‘ He does thereby as thoroughly destroy the fruit of my womb as a four-footed wolf does who tears the child out of a mother’s womb.’ 51 (108). Then he shall speak unto Spesta Armaiti?, saying: ‘O Spesta Armaiti, this man do I deliver unto thee*; this man deliver thou back unto me, against the happy day of resurrection; deliver him back as one who knows the G4thas, who knows the Yasna‘, and the revealed Law5, a wise and clever man, who is Obedience incarnate. 52 (112). ‘Then thou shalt call his name “ Firecreature, Fire-seed, Fire-offspring, Fire-land,” or any name wherein is the word Fire®.’ 53 (113). The holy Sraosha, letting his club down upon her, asked the Drug: ‘ O thou wretched, worthless Drug! Who is the fourth of those males of thine ?’ 54 (114). The Drug demon answered: ‘O holy, ' See § 43 and notes. * The Genius of the Earth (cf. Farg. II, 10). * In the same way as she received the seed of the dying Gayomart, from which she let grow, in the shape of a plant, the first human couple, Mashya and Mashyana (Bund. XV, 1-2). * The Yasna Haptanhiiti. 5 Literally, ‘the answers made to the questions (of Zarathustra)’ * Atar, the Fire, is the ideal father of the son to be born, as Speata Armaiti, the Earth, is his ideal mother. The fire is considered male (Dinkard, apud West, Pahlavi Texts, II, 410) and (as Ap&m Napét) has made and shaped man (Yt. XIX, 52). 204 _ VEND{DAD. well-formed Sraosha! This one is my fourth male who, either man or woman, being more than fifteen years of age, walks without wearing the sacred girdle and the sacred shirt '. 55 (115). ‘At the fourth step ? we Daévas, at once, wither him even to the tongue and the marrow, and he goes thenceforth with power to destroy the world of Righteousness, and he destroys it like the Y4tus and the Zazdas 3’
255 (115). ‘At the fourth step ? we Daévas, at once, wither him even to the tongue and the marrow, and he goes thenceforth with power to destroy the world of Righteousness, and he destroys it like the Y4tus and the Zazdas 3’ 56 (117). The holy Sraosha, letting his club down upon her, asked the Drug: ‘O thou wretched, worthless Drug, what is the thing that can undo that ?’ 57 (118). The Drug demon answered: ‘O holy, well-formed Sraosha! There is no means of undoing it; 58 (120). ‘When a man or a woman, being more than fifteen years of age, walks without wearing the sacred girdle or the sacred shirt. 59 (120). ‘At the fourth step we Daévas, at once, wither him even to the tongue and the marrow, and he goes thenceforth with power to destroy the world of Righteousness, and he destroys it like the Yatus and the Zandas,’ IV. 60 (122). Demand of me, thou upright one! of me who am the Maker, the most beneficent of all 1 The Késtf and the Sadara; see above, p. 195, n. 3. It is the sin known as kush4d duv4risni (Mainy6-i-khard II, 35; Arda Viraf XXV, 6). * ‘Going three steps without K éstf is only a three Sraoshédarana sin; from the fourth step, it is a tanafahr sin’ (Comm.) * The Y4tu is a sorcerer; the Zarda is an apostle of Ahriman, FARGARD XVIII. 205 beings, the best knowing, the most pleased in answering what is asked of me; demand of me that thou mayst be the better, that thou mayst be the happier. 61 (123). Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda: ‘Who grieves thee with the sorest grief? Who pains thee with the sorest pain ?’ 62 (124), Ahura Mazda answered : ‘ It is the Gahi}, O Spitama Zarathustra! who mixes in her the seed of the faithful and the unfaithful, of the worshippers of Mazda and the worshippers of the Daévas, of the wicked and the righteous ?. °63 (125). ‘Her look dries up one-third of the mighty floods that run from the mountains, O Zarathustra; her look withers one-third of the beautiful, golden-hued, growing plants, O Zara- ’ thustra ; 64 (127). ‘Her look withers one-third of the strength of Spenta Armaiti?; and her touch withers in the faithful one-third of his good thoughts, of his good words, of his good deeds, one-third of his strength, of his victorious power, and of his holiness *, 65 (129). ‘Verily I say unto thee, O Spitama Zarathustra! such creatures ought to be killed even 1 The courtezan, as an incarnation of the female demon Gahi. 3 «[Whether she gives up her body to the faithful or to the unfaithful], there is no difference; when she has been with three men, she is guilty of death’ (Comm.) 5 The earth, * ‘Ifa Gahi (courtezan) look at running waters, they fall; if at trees, they are stunted; if she converse with a pious man, his intelligence and his holiness are withered by it’ (Saddar 67). Cf. Manu IV, 40 seq. . 206 VEND{DAD. more than gliding snakes’, than howling wolves, than the wild she-wolf that falls upon the fold, or than the she-frog that falls upon the waters with her thousandfold brood.’ V.
3Cf. Manu IV, 40 seq. . 206 VEND{DAD. more than gliding snakes’, than howling wolves, than the wild she-wolf that falls upon the fold, or than the she-frog that falls upon the waters with her thousandfold brood.’ V. 66 (133). Demand of me, thou upright one! of me who am the Maker, the most beneficent of all beings, the best knowing, the most pleased in answering what is asked of me; demand of me that thou mayst be the better, that thou mayst be the happier. 67-68 (133). Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda: ‘If a man shall come unto a woman who has the whites or sees blood, and he does so wittingly and knowingly *, and she allows it wilfully, wittingly, and knowingly, what is the atonement for it, what is the penalty that he shall pay to atone for the deed they have done ?’ 69 (136). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘If a man shall come unto a woman who has the whites or sees blood, and he does so wittingly and knowingly, and she allows it wilfully, wittingly, and knowingly ; 70 (137). ‘He shall slay a thousand head of small cattle; he shall godly and piously offer up to the * It is written in the law (the Avesta): ‘O Zartust Isfitam4n! with regard to woman, I say to thee that any woman that has given up her body to two men in one day is sooner to be killed than a wolf, a lion, or a snake: any one who kills such a woman will gain as much merit by it as if he had provided with wood a thousand firetemples, or destroyed the dens of adders, scorpions, lions, wolves, or snakes’ (Old Rav. g9 b). * ‘Knowing her state and knowing that it is a sin’ (Comm.) FARGARD XVIII. 207 fire’ the entrails? thereof together with Zaothralibations *; he shall bring the shoulder bones to the Good Waters +. 71 (140). ‘He shall godly and piously bring unto the fire a thousand loads of soft wood, of Urvdsna, Voht-gaona, Vohd-kereti, Hadh4-naépata, or of any sweet-scented plant ® 72 (142). ‘He shall tie and consecrate a thousand bundles of Baresma ; he shall godly and piously offer up to the Good Waters a thousand Zaothra-libations, together with the Haoma and the milk, cleanly prepared and well strained,—cleanly prepared and well strained by a pious man, and mixed with the roots of the tree known as Hadh4-naépata °, 73 (144). ‘He shall kill a thousand snakes of those that go upon the belly, two thousand of the other kind; he shall kill a thousand land-frogs and two thousand water-frogs ; he shall kill a thousand corncarrying ants and two thousand of the other kind’. * To the Bahr4m fire. * The Smentum (afsman) or epipleon. Catullus, describing the sacrifice of the Magi, has (LXXXIX) : Accepto veneretur carmine divos Omentum in flamma pingue liquefaciens,’ Strabo XV, 13: rou énimAou ri paxpdy riBéaat, os Aéyouvol ries, ext rd wip. ‘Ascending six steps they showed me in a Room adjoining to the temple, their Fire which they fed with Wood, and sometimes Burn on it the Fat of the Sheep’s Tail.’ A Voyage Round the World, Dr. J. F. Gemelli, 1698.
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.
147 (102). ‘That man makes me conceive progeny as other males make their females conceive progeny by their seed.’ 48 (103). The holy Sraosha, letting his club down upon her, asked the Drug: ‘O thou wretched, worthless Drug! What is the thing that can undo that ?’ » «Nec stando mingens ... facile visitur Persa’ (Amm. Marc. XXIII, 6); Ard& Viraf XXIV; Mainyé-i-khard II, 39; Saddar 56. Cf. Manu IV, 47 seq., and Polack, Persien I, 67: ‘Von einem in Paris weilenden Perser hinterbrachte man dem Kénig, um seine Emancipation und Abtrtinnigkeit vom Gesetz zu beweisen, dass er Schweinefleisch esse und stehend die Function verrichte.’ * See Farg. VIII, 19. * Yasna XXXV, 2: one of the Bis-Amrfta (Farg. X, 4). * Yasna XXXV, 5: one of the Thris-Amrfita (Farg. X, 8). * Making four Ahuna-Vairya in all; cf. Farg. X, 12. * See Yasna XXI. FARGARD XVIII. 203 49 (104). The Drug demon answered: ‘O holy, well-formed Sraosha! this is the thing that undoes it, namely, if the man, when he has risen from sleep, shall say three Ahuna-Vairya, two humatanam, three hukhshathrétem&m, and then chant the Ahuna-Vairya and offer up one Yéahé hatam'. 50 (107). ‘ He does thereby as thoroughly destroy the fruit of my womb as a four-footed wolf does who tears the child out of a mother’s womb.’ 51 (108). Then he shall speak unto Spesta Armaiti?, saying: ‘O Spesta Armaiti, this man do I deliver unto thee*; this man deliver thou back unto me, against the happy day of resurrection; deliver him back as one who knows the G4thas, who knows the Yasna‘, and the revealed Law5, a wise and clever man, who is Obedience incarnate. 52 (112). ‘Then thou shalt call his name “ Firecreature, Fire-seed, Fire-offspring, Fire-land,” or any name wherein is the word Fire®.’ 53 (113). The holy Sraosha, letting his club down upon her, asked the Drug: ‘ O thou wretched, worthless Drug! Who is the fourth of those males of thine ?’ 54 (114). The Drug demon answered: ‘O holy, ' See § 43 and notes. * The Genius of the Earth (cf. Farg. II, 10). * In the same way as she received the seed of the dying Gayomart, from which she let grow, in the shape of a plant, the first human couple, Mashya and Mashyana (Bund. XV, 1-2). * The Yasna Haptanhiiti. 5 Literally, ‘the answers made to the questions (of Zarathustra)’ * Atar, the Fire, is the ideal father of the son to be born, as Speata Armaiti, the Earth, is his ideal mother. The fire is considered male (Dinkard, apud West, Pahlavi Texts, II, 410) and (as Ap&m Napét) has made and shaped man (Yt. XIX, 52). 204 _ VEND{DAD. well-formed Sraosha! This one is my fourth male who, either man or woman, being more than fifteen years of age, walks without wearing the sacred girdle and the sacred shirt '. 55 (115). ‘At the fourth step ? we Daévas, at once, wither him even to the tongue and the marrow, and he goes thenceforth with power to destroy the world of Righteousness, and he destroys it like the Y4tus and the Zazdas 3’
255 (115). ‘At the fourth step ? we Daévas, at once, wither him even to the tongue and the marrow, and he goes thenceforth with power to destroy the world of Righteousness, and he destroys it like the Y4tus and the Zazdas 3’ 56 (117). The holy Sraosha, letting his club down upon her, asked the Drug: ‘O thou wretched, worthless Drug, what is the thing that can undo that ?’ 57 (118). The Drug demon answered: ‘O holy, well-formed Sraosha! There is no means of undoing it; 58 (120). ‘When a man or a woman, being more than fifteen years of age, walks without wearing the sacred girdle or the sacred shirt. 59 (120). ‘At the fourth step we Daévas, at once, wither him even to the tongue and the marrow, and he goes thenceforth with power to destroy the world of Righteousness, and he destroys it like the Yatus and the Zandas,’ IV. 60 (122). Demand of me, thou upright one! of me who am the Maker, the most beneficent of all 1 The Késtf and the Sadara; see above, p. 195, n. 3. It is the sin known as kush4d duv4risni (Mainy6-i-khard II, 35; Arda Viraf XXV, 6). * ‘Going three steps without K éstf is only a three Sraoshédarana sin; from the fourth step, it is a tanafahr sin’ (Comm.) * The Y4tu is a sorcerer; the Zarda is an apostle of Ahriman, FARGARD XVIII. 205 beings, the best knowing, the most pleased in answering what is asked of me; demand of me that thou mayst be the better, that thou mayst be the happier. 61 (123). Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda: ‘Who grieves thee with the sorest grief? Who pains thee with the sorest pain ?’ 62 (124), Ahura Mazda answered : ‘ It is the Gahi}, O Spitama Zarathustra! who mixes in her the seed of the faithful and the unfaithful, of the worshippers of Mazda and the worshippers of the Daévas, of the wicked and the righteous ?. °63 (125). ‘Her look dries up one-third of the mighty floods that run from the mountains, O Zarathustra; her look withers one-third of the beautiful, golden-hued, growing plants, O Zara- ’ thustra ; 64 (127). ‘Her look withers one-third of the strength of Spenta Armaiti?; and her touch withers in the faithful one-third of his good thoughts, of his good words, of his good deeds, one-third of his strength, of his victorious power, and of his holiness *, 65 (129). ‘Verily I say unto thee, O Spitama Zarathustra! such creatures ought to be killed even 1 The courtezan, as an incarnation of the female demon Gahi. 3 «[Whether she gives up her body to the faithful or to the unfaithful], there is no difference; when she has been with three men, she is guilty of death’ (Comm.) 5 The earth, * ‘Ifa Gahi (courtezan) look at running waters, they fall; if at trees, they are stunted; if she converse with a pious man, his intelligence and his holiness are withered by it’ (Saddar 67). Cf. Manu IV, 40 seq. . 206 VEND{DAD. more than gliding snakes’, than howling wolves, than the wild she-wolf that falls upon the fold, or than the she-frog that falls upon the waters with her thousandfold brood.’ V.
3Cf. Manu IV, 40 seq. . 206 VEND{DAD. more than gliding snakes’, than howling wolves, than the wild she-wolf that falls upon the fold, or than the she-frog that falls upon the waters with her thousandfold brood.’ V. 66 (133). Demand of me, thou upright one! of me who am the Maker, the most beneficent of all beings, the best knowing, the most pleased in answering what is asked of me; demand of me that thou mayst be the better, that thou mayst be the happier. 67-68 (133). Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda: ‘If a man shall come unto a woman who has the whites or sees blood, and he does so wittingly and knowingly *, and she allows it wilfully, wittingly, and knowingly, what is the atonement for it, what is the penalty that he shall pay to atone for the deed they have done ?’ 69 (136). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘If a man shall come unto a woman who has the whites or sees blood, and he does so wittingly and knowingly, and she allows it wilfully, wittingly, and knowingly ; 70 (137). ‘He shall slay a thousand head of small cattle; he shall godly and piously offer up to the * It is written in the law (the Avesta): ‘O Zartust Isfitam4n! with regard to woman, I say to thee that any woman that has given up her body to two men in one day is sooner to be killed than a wolf, a lion, or a snake: any one who kills such a woman will gain as much merit by it as if he had provided with wood a thousand firetemples, or destroyed the dens of adders, scorpions, lions, wolves, or snakes’ (Old Rav. g9 b). * ‘Knowing her state and knowing that it is a sin’ (Comm.) FARGARD XVIII. 207 fire’ the entrails? thereof together with Zaothralibations *; he shall bring the shoulder bones to the Good Waters +. 71 (140). ‘He shall godly and piously bring unto the fire a thousand loads of soft wood, of Urvdsna, Voht-gaona, Vohd-kereti, Hadh4-naépata, or of any sweet-scented plant ® 72 (142). ‘He shall tie and consecrate a thousand bundles of Baresma ; he shall godly and piously offer up to the Good Waters a thousand Zaothra-libations, together with the Haoma and the milk, cleanly prepared and well strained,—cleanly prepared and well strained by a pious man, and mixed with the roots of the tree known as Hadh4-naépata °, 73 (144). ‘He shall kill a thousand snakes of those that go upon the belly, two thousand of the other kind; he shall kill a thousand land-frogs and two thousand water-frogs ; he shall kill a thousand corncarrying ants and two thousand of the other kind’. * To the Bahr4m fire. * The Smentum (afsman) or epipleon. Catullus, describing the sacrifice of the Magi, has (LXXXIX) : Accepto veneretur carmine divos Omentum in flamma pingue liquefaciens,’ Strabo XV, 13: rou énimAou ri paxpdy riBéaat, os Aéyouvol ries, ext rd wip. ‘Ascending six steps they showed me in a Room adjoining to the temple, their Fire which they fed with Wood, and sometimes Burn on it the Fat of the Sheep’s Tail.’ A Voyage Round the World, Dr. J. F. Gemelli, 1698.
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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