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1: 2 This sentence occurs, without the names of the késhvars or regions, in the Pahl. Vend. XIX, 19. For the késhvars see Chap. XI. 5 Often corrupted into Khanfras in the MSS. CHAPTER V, 7—VII, I. 25 CuHapTer VI. 1.'On the conflict of the creations of the world with the antagonism of the evil spirit it is said in revelation, that the evil spirit, even as he rushed in and looked upon the pure bravery of the angels and his own violence, wished to rush backy 2. The spirit of the sky is himself like one of the warriors who has put on armour ; he arrayed the sky against the evil spirit, and led on in the contest, until Aftharmazd had completed a rampart around, stronger than the sky and in front of the sky. 3. And his guardian spirits (frav4har) of warriors and the righteous, on war horses and spear in hand, were around the sky; such-like as the hair on the head is the similitude (@nguntattak) of those who hold the watch of the rampart. 4. ‘And no passage was found by the evil spirit, who rushed back; and he beheld the annihilation of the demons and his own impotence, as Afharmazd ad his own final triumph, producing the renovation of the unzverse for ever and everlasting. | CuarpTer VII. 1. The second conflict was waged with the water, because, as the star Ttstar was in Cancer, the water which is in the subdivision they call Avrak* was 1 This is the doubtful word translated ‘attack’ in Chap. V, 6 (see the note there) ; it also occurs at the beginning of each of the following four chapters. * Reading zérfh; but it may be zfirfh, ‘ falsity.” * The ninth lunar mansion (see Chap. II, 3) corresponding with the middle of Cancer. Tistar (Sirius) being in Cancer probably 26 BUNDAHISs. pouring, on the same day when the destroyer rushed in, and came again into notice for mischief (Avarak) in the direction of the west. 2. For every single month is the owner of one constellation; the month Ttr is the fourth month! of the year, azd Cancer the fourth constellation from Aries, so it is the owner of Cancer, into which Tistar sprang, ad displayed the characteristics of a producer of rain; and he brought on the water aloft by the strength of the wind. 3. Co-operators with Tistar were VohQman and the angel Hém, with the assistance of the angel Bfrg and the righteous guardian spirits in orderly arrangement. . 4. Tistar was converted into three forms, the form of a man and the form of a horse and the form of a bull?; thirty days and nights he was distinguished in brilliance’, and in each form he produced rain ten days and nights; as the astrologers say that every constellation has three forms. 5. Every single drop of that rain became as big as a bowl, and the water stood the height of a man over the whole of this earth ; avd the noxious creatures on the earth being all killed by the rain, went into the holes of the earth ¢. means that it rises about the same time as the stars of Cancer, as is actually the case. 1 See Chap. XXV, 20.
2means that it rises about the same time as the stars of Cancer, as is actually the case. 1 See Chap. XXV, 20. 2 See Tistar Yt. 13, 16, 18, where it is stated that Tistar assumes the form of a man for the first ten nights, of a bull for the second ten nights, and of a horse for the third ten nights. Also in Vend. XIX, 126 Tistar is specially invoked in his form of a bull. 5 Or it may be translated, ‘ he hovered in the light,’ as Windischmann and Justi have it. ‘ In comparing the inundation produced by Tistar with the Noachian deluge, it must be recollected that the former is represented as occurring before mankind had propagated on the earth. CHAPTER VII, 2-10. 27 6. And, afterwards, the wind spirit, so that it may not be contaminated (gimtkht), stirs up the wind and atmosphere as the life stirs in the body; and the water was all swept away by it, and was brought out to the borders of the earth, and the wide-formed? ocean arose therefrom. 7. The noxious creatures remained dead within the earth, and their venom and stench were mingled with the earth, and in order to carry that poison away from the earth Tistar went down into the ocean in the form of a white horse with long hoofs”. 8. And Apdadésh 8, the demon, came meeting him in the likeness of a black horse with clumsy (kund) hoofs; a mile (parasang)* away from him fled Ttstar, through the fright which drove 42m away. 9. And Tistar begged for success from Adharmazd, and Afharmazd gave Aim strength and power, as it is said, that unto Ttstar was brought at once the strength of ten vigorous horses, ten vigorous camels, ten vigorous bulls, ten mountains, and ten rivers ® 10. A mile away from him fled Ap4adsh, the demon, through fright at 42s strength; on account of this they speak of an arrow-shot with Ttstar’s strength in the sense of a mile. 1 The term far&khf-kard, ‘wide-formed,’ is a free Pahlavi translation of Av. vouru-kasha, ‘ wide-shored,’ or ‘having wide abysses,’ applied to the boundless ocean (see Chap. XIII, 1). 2 For the Avesta account of this expedition of Tistar, see Tistar Yt. 20-29. ® Miswritten Apavs or Apavas in Pazand, by all MSS. in this chapter, but see Chap. XXVIII, 39. ‘ The word parasang is here used for Av. hathra, which was about an English mile (see Chap. XXVI, 1). 5 A quotation from Tistar Yt. 25. 28 BUNDAHIS.
320-29. ® Miswritten Apavs or Apavas in Pazand, by all MSS. in this chapter, but see Chap. XXVIII, 39. ‘ The word parasang is here used for Av. hathra, which was about an English mile (see Chap. XXVI, 1). 5 A quotation from Tistar Yt. 25. 28 BUNDAHIS. 11. Afterwards, with a cloud for a jar (khQmb)— thus they call the measure which was a means of the work—he seized upon the water and made it rain most prodigiously, in drops “e bull’s heads and men’s heads, pouring in handfuls amd pouring in armfuls, both great and small. 12. On the production of that rain the demons Aspengargék! and Ap4ésh contended with it, and the fire VAzist * turned z¢s club over; and owing to the blow of the club Aspengarg4k made a very grievous noise, as even now, in a conflict with the producer of rain, a groaning and raging® are manifest. 13. And ten nights and days rain was produced by him in that manner, and the poison and venom of the noxious creatures which were in the earth were all mixed up in the water, and the water became quite salt, because there remained in the earth some of those germs which noxious creatures ever collect. 14. Afterwards, the wind, in the same manner as before, restrained the water, at the end of three days, on various sides of the earth; and the three great seas and twenty-three small seas‘ arose therefrom, and two fountains (kashmak) of the sea thereby became manifest, one the Aé#ast lake, and one the Sévbar 5, whose sources are connected with the 1 Mentioned in Vend. XIX, 135, thus: ‘thou shouldst propitiate the fire VAzista, the smiter of the demon Spengaghra.’ It is also written Spéngargék in Chap. XVII, 1, and Aspengardg4 in Chap. XXVIII, 39. * That is, the lightning (see Chap. XVII, 1). 5 Or, ‘a tumult and flashing.’ Justi has ‘ howling and shrieking;’ the two words being very ambiguous in the € original. * See Chap. XIII, 6. 5 See Chap. XXII, 1-3. CHAPTER VII, II-—VIII, 2. 29 fountain of the sea. 15. And at its north side? two rivers flowed out, avd went one to the east and one to the west; they are the Arag river and the Véh river; as it is said thus: ‘Through those fingerbreadth tricklings do thou pour avd draw forth two such waters, O Afharmazd!’ 16. Both those rivers wind about through all the extremities of the earth, and intermingle again with the water of the wideformed ocean. 17. As those two rivers flowed out, and from the same place of origin as theirs, eighteen? navigable rivers flowed out, and after the other waters have flowed out from those navigable streams they all flow back to the Arag® river and Véh river, whose fertilization (khv4apard4rth) of the world arises therefrom. Cuapter VIII. o. On the conflict which the evil spirit waged with the earth. 1. As the evil spirit rushed in, the earth shook 4, and the substance of mountains was created in the earth. 2. First, Mount Albdrz arose; afterwards,
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1: 2 This sentence occurs, without the names of the késhvars or regions, in the Pahl. Vend. XIX, 19. For the késhvars see Chap. XI. 5 Often corrupted into Khanfras in the MSS. CHAPTER V, 7—VII, I. 25 CuHapTer VI. 1.'On the conflict of the creations of the world with the antagonism of the evil spirit it is said in revelation, that the evil spirit, even as he rushed in and looked upon the pure bravery of the angels and his own violence, wished to rush backy 2. The spirit of the sky is himself like one of the warriors who has put on armour ; he arrayed the sky against the evil spirit, and led on in the contest, until Aftharmazd had completed a rampart around, stronger than the sky and in front of the sky. 3. And his guardian spirits (frav4har) of warriors and the righteous, on war horses and spear in hand, were around the sky; such-like as the hair on the head is the similitude (@nguntattak) of those who hold the watch of the rampart. 4. ‘And no passage was found by the evil spirit, who rushed back; and he beheld the annihilation of the demons and his own impotence, as Afharmazd ad his own final triumph, producing the renovation of the unzverse for ever and everlasting. | CuarpTer VII. 1. The second conflict was waged with the water, because, as the star Ttstar was in Cancer, the water which is in the subdivision they call Avrak* was 1 This is the doubtful word translated ‘attack’ in Chap. V, 6 (see the note there) ; it also occurs at the beginning of each of the following four chapters. * Reading zérfh; but it may be zfirfh, ‘ falsity.” * The ninth lunar mansion (see Chap. II, 3) corresponding with the middle of Cancer. Tistar (Sirius) being in Cancer probably 26 BUNDAHISs. pouring, on the same day when the destroyer rushed in, and came again into notice for mischief (Avarak) in the direction of the west. 2. For every single month is the owner of one constellation; the month Ttr is the fourth month! of the year, azd Cancer the fourth constellation from Aries, so it is the owner of Cancer, into which Tistar sprang, ad displayed the characteristics of a producer of rain; and he brought on the water aloft by the strength of the wind. 3. Co-operators with Tistar were VohQman and the angel Hém, with the assistance of the angel Bfrg and the righteous guardian spirits in orderly arrangement. . 4. Tistar was converted into three forms, the form of a man and the form of a horse and the form of a bull?; thirty days and nights he was distinguished in brilliance’, and in each form he produced rain ten days and nights; as the astrologers say that every constellation has three forms. 5. Every single drop of that rain became as big as a bowl, and the water stood the height of a man over the whole of this earth ; avd the noxious creatures on the earth being all killed by the rain, went into the holes of the earth ¢. means that it rises about the same time as the stars of Cancer, as is actually the case. 1 See Chap. XXV, 20.
2means that it rises about the same time as the stars of Cancer, as is actually the case. 1 See Chap. XXV, 20. 2 See Tistar Yt. 13, 16, 18, where it is stated that Tistar assumes the form of a man for the first ten nights, of a bull for the second ten nights, and of a horse for the third ten nights. Also in Vend. XIX, 126 Tistar is specially invoked in his form of a bull. 5 Or it may be translated, ‘ he hovered in the light,’ as Windischmann and Justi have it. ‘ In comparing the inundation produced by Tistar with the Noachian deluge, it must be recollected that the former is represented as occurring before mankind had propagated on the earth. CHAPTER VII, 2-10. 27 6. And, afterwards, the wind spirit, so that it may not be contaminated (gimtkht), stirs up the wind and atmosphere as the life stirs in the body; and the water was all swept away by it, and was brought out to the borders of the earth, and the wide-formed? ocean arose therefrom. 7. The noxious creatures remained dead within the earth, and their venom and stench were mingled with the earth, and in order to carry that poison away from the earth Tistar went down into the ocean in the form of a white horse with long hoofs”. 8. And Apdadésh 8, the demon, came meeting him in the likeness of a black horse with clumsy (kund) hoofs; a mile (parasang)* away from him fled Ttstar, through the fright which drove 42m away. 9. And Tistar begged for success from Adharmazd, and Afharmazd gave Aim strength and power, as it is said, that unto Ttstar was brought at once the strength of ten vigorous horses, ten vigorous camels, ten vigorous bulls, ten mountains, and ten rivers ® 10. A mile away from him fled Ap4adsh, the demon, through fright at 42s strength; on account of this they speak of an arrow-shot with Ttstar’s strength in the sense of a mile. 1 The term far&khf-kard, ‘wide-formed,’ is a free Pahlavi translation of Av. vouru-kasha, ‘ wide-shored,’ or ‘having wide abysses,’ applied to the boundless ocean (see Chap. XIII, 1). 2 For the Avesta account of this expedition of Tistar, see Tistar Yt. 20-29. ® Miswritten Apavs or Apavas in Pazand, by all MSS. in this chapter, but see Chap. XXVIII, 39. ‘ The word parasang is here used for Av. hathra, which was about an English mile (see Chap. XXVI, 1). 5 A quotation from Tistar Yt. 25. 28 BUNDAHIS.
320-29. ® Miswritten Apavs or Apavas in Pazand, by all MSS. in this chapter, but see Chap. XXVIII, 39. ‘ The word parasang is here used for Av. hathra, which was about an English mile (see Chap. XXVI, 1). 5 A quotation from Tistar Yt. 25. 28 BUNDAHIS. 11. Afterwards, with a cloud for a jar (khQmb)— thus they call the measure which was a means of the work—he seized upon the water and made it rain most prodigiously, in drops “e bull’s heads and men’s heads, pouring in handfuls amd pouring in armfuls, both great and small. 12. On the production of that rain the demons Aspengargék! and Ap4ésh contended with it, and the fire VAzist * turned z¢s club over; and owing to the blow of the club Aspengarg4k made a very grievous noise, as even now, in a conflict with the producer of rain, a groaning and raging® are manifest. 13. And ten nights and days rain was produced by him in that manner, and the poison and venom of the noxious creatures which were in the earth were all mixed up in the water, and the water became quite salt, because there remained in the earth some of those germs which noxious creatures ever collect. 14. Afterwards, the wind, in the same manner as before, restrained the water, at the end of three days, on various sides of the earth; and the three great seas and twenty-three small seas‘ arose therefrom, and two fountains (kashmak) of the sea thereby became manifest, one the Aé#ast lake, and one the Sévbar 5, whose sources are connected with the 1 Mentioned in Vend. XIX, 135, thus: ‘thou shouldst propitiate the fire VAzista, the smiter of the demon Spengaghra.’ It is also written Spéngargék in Chap. XVII, 1, and Aspengardg4 in Chap. XXVIII, 39. * That is, the lightning (see Chap. XVII, 1). 5 Or, ‘a tumult and flashing.’ Justi has ‘ howling and shrieking;’ the two words being very ambiguous in the € original. * See Chap. XIII, 6. 5 See Chap. XXII, 1-3. CHAPTER VII, II-—VIII, 2. 29 fountain of the sea. 15. And at its north side? two rivers flowed out, avd went one to the east and one to the west; they are the Arag river and the Véh river; as it is said thus: ‘Through those fingerbreadth tricklings do thou pour avd draw forth two such waters, O Afharmazd!’ 16. Both those rivers wind about through all the extremities of the earth, and intermingle again with the water of the wideformed ocean. 17. As those two rivers flowed out, and from the same place of origin as theirs, eighteen? navigable rivers flowed out, and after the other waters have flowed out from those navigable streams they all flow back to the Arag® river and Véh river, whose fertilization (khv4apard4rth) of the world arises therefrom. Cuapter VIII. o. On the conflict which the evil spirit waged with the earth. 1. As the evil spirit rushed in, the earth shook 4, and the substance of mountains was created in the earth. 2. First, Mount Albdrz arose; afterwards,
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