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1Cuapter 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, 1 Probably meaning the north side of the ArédvivsOr fountain of the sea, which is said to be on the lofty Hagar, a portion of Albfirs, from the northern side of which these two semi-mythical rivers are said to flow (see Chaps. XII, 5, XX, 1). 7 See Chap. XX, 2. * Here written Aréng, but the usual Pahlavi reading is Arag; the nasal of the Av. Rangha being generally omitted in Pahlavi, as other nasals are sometimes; thus we often find sag for sang, ‘ stone.’ ‘ The word gudnid is a transposition of gundid, a graphical ' variant of gunbid, ‘ shook.’ 30 BUNDAHIS. the other ranges of mountains (kéfanth4) of the middle of the earth; for as Albdrz grew forth all the mountains remained in motion, for they have all grown forth from the root of Albfrz. 3. At that time they came up from the earth, like a tree which has grown up to the clouds and zts root! to the bottom; and their root passed on that way from one to the other, amd they are arranged in mutual connection. 4. Afterwards, about that wonderful shaking out from the earth, they say that a great mountain is the knot of lands; and the passage for the waters within the mountains is the root which is below the mountains; they forsake the upper parts so that they may flow into it, just as the roots of trees pass into the earth; a counterpart (4ngunt- ~attak) of the blood in the arteries of men, which gives strength to the whole body. 5. In numbers’, apart from Albdrz, all the mountains grew up out of the earth in eighteen years*, from which avzses the perfection * of men’s advantage. Cuapter IX. 1. The conflict waged with plants was that when® they became quite dry. 2. Amerddad the arch- ? M6 has rak&k, but this and many other strange words are probably due to the copyist of that MS. having an original before him which was nearly illegible in many places. * Or, ‘as it were innumerable ;’ the word amar meaning both ‘number’ and ‘innumerable.’ 8 See Chap. XII, 1. * The word must be farhakhtag4n, ‘proprieties,’ both here and in Chap. [XS 6, as farhakhtisn is an ungrammatical form. 5 Reading amat, ‘ when,’ instead of mfin, ‘ which’ (see the note to Chap. I, 7). CHAPTER VIII, 3—X, I. 31 angel, as the vegetation was his own, pounded the plants small, azd mixed ¢hem up with the water which Tistar seized, and Tistar made that water rain down upon the whole earth. 3. On the whole earth plants grew up like hair upon the heads of men. 4. Ten thousand! of them grew forth of one special description, for keeping away the ten thousand species of disease whzch the evil spirit produced for the creatures; and from those ten thousand, the 100,000 species? of plants have grown forth.
24. Ten thousand! of them grew forth of one special description, for keeping away the ten thousand species of disease whzch the evil spirit produced for the creatures; and from those ten thousand, the 100,000 species? of plants have grown forth. 5. From that same germ of plants the tree of all germs* was given forth, avd grew up in the wideformed ocean, from which the germs of all species of plants ever increased. 6. And near to that tree of all germs the Gékard tree‘ was produced, for keeping away deformed (ddspad) decrepitude; and the full perfection of the world arose therefrom. CyapTeR X. o. On the conflict waged with the primeval ox. 1. As it passed away’, owing to the vegetable principle (Atharak) proceeding from every limb of the ox, fifty and five species of grain® and twelve species of medicinal plants grew forth from the earth, and their splendour and strength were the 1 See Chap. XXVII, 2. * Here 120,000 are mentioned, but see Chap. XXVII, 2, and Selections of Z4d-sparam, VIII, 2. ® Or, ‘of all seeds’ (see Chap. XVIII, 9). * The white-Hém tree (see Chaps. XVIII, 1-6, XXVII, 4). ® See Chap. IV, 1. ® See Chaps. XIV, 1, XXVII, 2. 32 BUNDAHIS. seminal energy (t6khmth) of the ox. 2. Delivered to the moon station’, that seed was thoroughly-purified by the light of the moon, fully prepared in every way, and produced life in a body. 3. Thence arose two oxen, one male and one female; and, afterwards, two hundred and eighty-two species of each kind* became manifest upon the earth. 4. The dwelling (mantst) of the birds is in the air, and the fish are in the midst of the water. CuapTer XI. 1. On the nature of the earth it says in revelation, that ¢keve are thirty and three kinds® of land. 2. On the day when Ttstar produced the rain, when its seas arose therefrom, the whole place, half taken up by water, was converted into seven portions; this portion‘, as much as one-half, is the middle, and six portions are around; those six portions are fogether as much as Khvaniras. 3. The name 1 See Chap. XIV, 3. In the Mah Yt. 0, 7, blessings are invoked for ‘the moon of ox lineage’ (gao4ithra) in conjunction with the ‘sole-created ox and the ox of many species.’ In the Avesta the gender of these two primeval oxen appears doubtful, owing probably to the dual gen. masc. of their epithets being of the same form as a sing. gen. fem. 2 That is, of each sex. See Chap. XIV, 13, 27. In all three occurrences of this number K2o has 272, but all other MSS. have 282 (except M6 in this place only). 5 K2ob has ‘thirty-two kinds,’ “ That is, Khvaniras; or it may be ‘one portion,’ as han4, ‘this,’ is often used for aé, ‘one,’ because the Pazand form of both words is ¢, CHAPTER X, 2—XI, 5. 33
3have 282 (except M6 in this place only). 5 K2ob has ‘thirty-two kinds,’ “ That is, Khvaniras; or it may be ‘one portion,’ as han4, ‘this,’ is often used for aé, ‘one,’ because the Pazand form of both words is ¢, CHAPTER X, 2—XI, 5. 33 késhvar (‘zone or region’) is also applied to them, and ¢hey existed side by side (kash kash)?; as on the east side of this portion (Khvantras) is the Savah region, om the west is the Arzah region; the two portions on the south side are the Fradadafsh and Vidadafsh regions, the two portions on the north side are the Vérdbarst and Vordgarst regions, and that in the middle is Khvantras. 4. And Khvantras has the sea, for one part of the wide-formed ocean wound about around it; and from Véribarst and Vordgarst a lofty mountain grew up; so that it is not possible for any one to go from region to region *, 5. And of these seven regions every benefit was created most in Khvantras, and the evil spirit also produced most for Khvantras, on account of the superiority (sarih)? which he saw in it. 6. For the Kay4nians and heroes were created in Khvanirds ; and the good religion of the Mazdayasnians was created in Khvantras, and afterwards conveyed to the other regions ; Séshyans‘ is born in Khvantras, who makes the evil spirit impotent, and causes the resurrection and future existence. 1 Possibly an attempt to connect the term késhvar with kash; but the sentence may also be translated thus: ‘and ¢hey formed various districts like this portion; on the east side is the Savah region,’ &c. * In the Pahlavi Vend. I, 4a, and in the Mainy6-i-khard, IX, 6, it is added, ‘except with the permission of the angels’ or the demons. , 8 So in M6; but K2o has zad4rth, which would imply, ‘ for the destruction of what he saw of it.’ « Always spelt so in the Bundahis MSS. Kzo and M6, and corrupted into Séshyés in Pazand; but it is more usually written Sésh4ns in other Pahlavi works, and its Avesta form is Saoshyas (see Chap. XXXII, 8). (s] D 34 BUNDAHIS. CuaPtTer XII.
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Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1Cuapter 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, 1 Probably meaning the north side of the ArédvivsOr fountain of the sea, which is said to be on the lofty Hagar, a portion of Albfirs, from the northern side of which these two semi-mythical rivers are said to flow (see Chaps. XII, 5, XX, 1). 7 See Chap. XX, 2. * Here written Aréng, but the usual Pahlavi reading is Arag; the nasal of the Av. Rangha being generally omitted in Pahlavi, as other nasals are sometimes; thus we often find sag for sang, ‘ stone.’ ‘ The word gudnid is a transposition of gundid, a graphical ' variant of gunbid, ‘ shook.’ 30 BUNDAHIS. the other ranges of mountains (kéfanth4) of the middle of the earth; for as Albdrz grew forth all the mountains remained in motion, for they have all grown forth from the root of Albfrz. 3. At that time they came up from the earth, like a tree which has grown up to the clouds and zts root! to the bottom; and their root passed on that way from one to the other, amd they are arranged in mutual connection. 4. Afterwards, about that wonderful shaking out from the earth, they say that a great mountain is the knot of lands; and the passage for the waters within the mountains is the root which is below the mountains; they forsake the upper parts so that they may flow into it, just as the roots of trees pass into the earth; a counterpart (4ngunt- ~attak) of the blood in the arteries of men, which gives strength to the whole body. 5. In numbers’, apart from Albdrz, all the mountains grew up out of the earth in eighteen years*, from which avzses the perfection * of men’s advantage. Cuapter IX. 1. The conflict waged with plants was that when® they became quite dry. 2. Amerddad the arch- ? M6 has rak&k, but this and many other strange words are probably due to the copyist of that MS. having an original before him which was nearly illegible in many places. * Or, ‘as it were innumerable ;’ the word amar meaning both ‘number’ and ‘innumerable.’ 8 See Chap. XII, 1. * The word must be farhakhtag4n, ‘proprieties,’ both here and in Chap. [XS 6, as farhakhtisn is an ungrammatical form. 5 Reading amat, ‘ when,’ instead of mfin, ‘ which’ (see the note to Chap. I, 7). CHAPTER VIII, 3—X, I. 31 angel, as the vegetation was his own, pounded the plants small, azd mixed ¢hem up with the water which Tistar seized, and Tistar made that water rain down upon the whole earth. 3. On the whole earth plants grew up like hair upon the heads of men. 4. Ten thousand! of them grew forth of one special description, for keeping away the ten thousand species of disease whzch the evil spirit produced for the creatures; and from those ten thousand, the 100,000 species? of plants have grown forth.
24. Ten thousand! of them grew forth of one special description, for keeping away the ten thousand species of disease whzch the evil spirit produced for the creatures; and from those ten thousand, the 100,000 species? of plants have grown forth. 5. From that same germ of plants the tree of all germs* was given forth, avd grew up in the wideformed ocean, from which the germs of all species of plants ever increased. 6. And near to that tree of all germs the Gékard tree‘ was produced, for keeping away deformed (ddspad) decrepitude; and the full perfection of the world arose therefrom. CyapTeR X. o. On the conflict waged with the primeval ox. 1. As it passed away’, owing to the vegetable principle (Atharak) proceeding from every limb of the ox, fifty and five species of grain® and twelve species of medicinal plants grew forth from the earth, and their splendour and strength were the 1 See Chap. XXVII, 2. * Here 120,000 are mentioned, but see Chap. XXVII, 2, and Selections of Z4d-sparam, VIII, 2. ® Or, ‘of all seeds’ (see Chap. XVIII, 9). * The white-Hém tree (see Chaps. XVIII, 1-6, XXVII, 4). ® See Chap. IV, 1. ® See Chaps. XIV, 1, XXVII, 2. 32 BUNDAHIS. seminal energy (t6khmth) of the ox. 2. Delivered to the moon station’, that seed was thoroughly-purified by the light of the moon, fully prepared in every way, and produced life in a body. 3. Thence arose two oxen, one male and one female; and, afterwards, two hundred and eighty-two species of each kind* became manifest upon the earth. 4. The dwelling (mantst) of the birds is in the air, and the fish are in the midst of the water. CuapTer XI. 1. On the nature of the earth it says in revelation, that ¢keve are thirty and three kinds® of land. 2. On the day when Ttstar produced the rain, when its seas arose therefrom, the whole place, half taken up by water, was converted into seven portions; this portion‘, as much as one-half, is the middle, and six portions are around; those six portions are fogether as much as Khvaniras. 3. The name 1 See Chap. XIV, 3. In the Mah Yt. 0, 7, blessings are invoked for ‘the moon of ox lineage’ (gao4ithra) in conjunction with the ‘sole-created ox and the ox of many species.’ In the Avesta the gender of these two primeval oxen appears doubtful, owing probably to the dual gen. masc. of their epithets being of the same form as a sing. gen. fem. 2 That is, of each sex. See Chap. XIV, 13, 27. In all three occurrences of this number K2o has 272, but all other MSS. have 282 (except M6 in this place only). 5 K2ob has ‘thirty-two kinds,’ “ That is, Khvaniras; or it may be ‘one portion,’ as han4, ‘this,’ is often used for aé, ‘one,’ because the Pazand form of both words is ¢, CHAPTER X, 2—XI, 5. 33
3have 282 (except M6 in this place only). 5 K2ob has ‘thirty-two kinds,’ “ That is, Khvaniras; or it may be ‘one portion,’ as han4, ‘this,’ is often used for aé, ‘one,’ because the Pazand form of both words is ¢, CHAPTER X, 2—XI, 5. 33 késhvar (‘zone or region’) is also applied to them, and ¢hey existed side by side (kash kash)?; as on the east side of this portion (Khvantras) is the Savah region, om the west is the Arzah region; the two portions on the south side are the Fradadafsh and Vidadafsh regions, the two portions on the north side are the Vérdbarst and Vordgarst regions, and that in the middle is Khvantras. 4. And Khvantras has the sea, for one part of the wide-formed ocean wound about around it; and from Véribarst and Vordgarst a lofty mountain grew up; so that it is not possible for any one to go from region to region *, 5. And of these seven regions every benefit was created most in Khvantras, and the evil spirit also produced most for Khvantras, on account of the superiority (sarih)? which he saw in it. 6. For the Kay4nians and heroes were created in Khvanirds ; and the good religion of the Mazdayasnians was created in Khvantras, and afterwards conveyed to the other regions ; Séshyans‘ is born in Khvantras, who makes the evil spirit impotent, and causes the resurrection and future existence. 1 Possibly an attempt to connect the term késhvar with kash; but the sentence may also be translated thus: ‘and ¢hey formed various districts like this portion; on the east side is the Savah region,’ &c. * In the Pahlavi Vend. I, 4a, and in the Mainy6-i-khard, IX, 6, it is added, ‘except with the permission of the angels’ or the demons. , 8 So in M6; but K2o has zad4rth, which would imply, ‘ for the destruction of what he saw of it.’ « Always spelt so in the Bundahis MSS. Kzo and M6, and corrupted into Séshyés in Pazand; but it is more usually written Sésh4ns in other Pahlavi works, and its Avesta form is Saoshyas (see Chap. XXXII, 8). (s] D 34 BUNDAHIS. CuaPtTer XII.
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