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16. Afterwards, he came to the ox, the solecreated‘, as it stood as high as Gayémard on the ? Bund. III, 12. * Bund. III, 13. 5 Bund. III, 14, 16. * The primeval ox, or first-created representative of animals, as G4yémard was of mankind; from which two representatives all mankind and animals are said to have been afterwards developed. There seems to have been some doubt as to the sex of this mythological ox ; here it is distinctly stated to have been a female, but from Bund. X, 1, 2, XIV, 3, it would appear to have been a male, and this ‘seems to be admitted by Dad-sparam himself, in Chap. IX, 7. [5] M 162 APPENDIX TO THE BUNDAHIS. bank of the water of Déitih! zz the middle of the earth; and its distance from Gdyémard being as much as its own height, it was also distant from the bank of the water of Dattih by the same measure ; and it was a female, white aad brilliant as the moon. 7. As the adversary came upon z¢ Adharmazd gave zt a narcotic, which is also called ‘bang,’ to eat, and to rub the ‘bang’ before the eye’, so that the annoyance from the assault of crimes may be less; it became lean and ill, azd fell upon its right breast? trembling. 8. Before the advance to Gayémard, who was then about one-third the height of Zaratst, and was brilliant as the sun, Atharmazd forms, from the sweat ‘ on the man, a figure of fifteen years, radiant and tall, and sends it on to Gayémard; and he also brings his sweat® on to him as leng as one Yathaah-vairy6*® is detmg recited. 9. When he issued from the sweat, and raised his eyes, he saw the world when it was dark as night’; on the whole earth were the snake, the scorpion, the lizard (vazak), and noxious creatures of many kinds; and so the other kinds of quadrupeds stood among the 1 The Daittk river (see Bund. XX, 13). * This is a misunderstanding of the corresponding phrase in Bund. III, 18. The narcotic here mentioned is usually prepared from the hemp plant, and is well known in India and the neighbouring countries, § See Bund. IV, 1. ‘ The word which, as it stands in the MS., looks like h6manfe, is here taken as a transposition of min khvd4e, in accordance with Bund. III, 19; but it may be a variant of anumf4e, ‘embryo,’ in which case the translation should be, ‘forms an embryo into the shape of a man of fifteen years.’ 5 Or it may be ‘sleep,’ both here and in § 9. ® See Bund. I, 21. 7 Bund. III, 20. SELECTIONS OF ZAD-SPARAM, II, 7-IV, I. 163 reptiles ; every approach of the whole earth was as though not as much as a needle’s point remained, in which there was no rush of noxious creatures. 10. There were the coming of a planetary s¢ar into planetary conjunction, and the moon and planets at sixes and sevens!; many dark forms with the face and curls of Az-i Dahak suffered punishment in company with certain non-Iranians; azd he was amazed at calling the wicked out from the righteous. 11. Lastly, he (Aharman) came up to the fire, and mingled darkness and smoke with it 2. Cuapter III.
211. Lastly, he (Aharman) came up to the fire, and mingled darkness and smoke with it 2. Cuapter III. 1. And Gésfrvan, as she was herself the soul of the primeval ox, when the ox passed away, came out from the ox, even as the soul from the body of the dead, and kept up the clamour of a cry to Adharmazd in such fashion as that of an army, a thousand strong, when they cry out together*. 2. And Adharmazd, in order to’ be much more able to keep watch over the mingled creatures than in front of GAayémard, went from the earth up to the sky. 3. And Gésfrvan continually went after him crying, and she kept up the cry thus: ‘With whom may the guardianship over the creatures be left by thee?’ » CuapTer IV, 1. This was the highest predominance of Aharman, for he came on, with all the strength which he 1 Literally, ‘in fours and fives.’ * Bund. III, 24. 5 Bund. IV, 2. M 2 164 APPENDIX TO THE BUNDAHIS. had, for the disfigurement of the creatures; and he took as much as one-third of the base of the sky', in a downward direction, into a confined and captive state, so that it was all dark azd apart from the light, for it was itself, at the coming of the adversary, his enemy among the struggles for creation. 2. And this is opposing the renovation of the universe, for the greatest of all the other means of the fiend, when he das come in, are of like origin and strength this day, in the sleep? of the renovation, as on that when the enemy, who is fettered on coming in, is kept back. 3. Amid all this struggling were mingled the instigations of Aharman, cryzmg thus: ‘My victory has come completely, for the sky is split and disfigured by me with gloom and darkness, and taken by me as a stronghold; water is disfigured by me, and the earth, injured by darkness, is pierced by me; vegetation is withered by me, the ox is put to death by me, Gayémard is made ill by me, and opposed to those revolving* are the glooms and planets arranged by me; no one 4as remained for me to take and pervert in combat except Adharmazd, and of the earth ¢here is only one man, who is alone, what is he able to do?’ 4. And he sends Asté-vid4d‘ upon him with the thousand decrepitudes (atizv4r4nd) and diseases * Compare Bund. III, 11. The involved style of Z4@sparam is particularly conspicuous in this chapter. * The word seems to be khvapisné. 8 Meaning probably the zodiacal signs, but the word is doubtful, being spelt vardisn4nd instead of vardisnand. A very small alteration would change it into vardéisn4nd, ‘ believers,’ but there were no earthly believers at the time alluded to. * See Bund. III, 21, and XXVIII, 35. SELECTIONS OF ZAD-SPARAM, IV, 2-8. 165
3A very small alteration would change it into vardéisn4nd, ‘ believers,’ but there were no earthly believers at the time alluded to. * See Bund. III, 21, and XXVIII, 35. SELECTIONS OF ZAD-SPARAM, IV, 2-8. 165 which are his own, sicknesses of various kinds, so that they may make him ill avd cause death. 5. GAyémard was not secured by them, and the reason was because it was a decree of appointing Time (z6rv4n6d) in the beginning of the coming in of Aharman, that: ‘Up to thirty winters I appoint Gayémard unto brilliance and preservation of life.’ 6. And his manifestation in the celestial sphere was through the forgiveness of criminals axd instigators of confusion by 42s good works, and for that reason no opportunity was obtained by them during the extent of thirty years. 7. For in the beginning it was so > appointed that the star Jupiter (A tharmazd) was life towards the creatures, not through its own nature, but on account of z¢s being within the control (band) of the luminaries; and Saturn (Kév4n) was death towards the creatures. 8. Both were in their supremacy (b4list)? at the beginning of the crea- 1 These luminaries are the fixed stars, especially the signs of the zodiac, to whose protection the good creation is committed (see Bund. II, o-4); whereas Jupiter and all other planets are supposed to be, by nature, disturbers of the creation, being employed by Aharman for that purpose (see Mkh. VIII, 17-21, XII, 7-10, XXIV, 8, XXXVIII, 5). % The most obvious meaning of bAlfst is ‘ greatest altitude,’ and this is quite applicable to Jupiter when it attains its highest northern declination on entering Cancer, but it is not applicable to Saturn in Libra, when it has only its mean altitude. At the vernal equinox, however, which was the time of the beginning mentioned in the text, when Aharman invaded the creation (see Chap. II, 1), Libra is in opposition to the sun, and Saturn in Libra would be at its nearest approach to the earth, and would, therefore, attain its maximum brightness; while Jupiter in Cancer would be at its greatest altitude and shining with four-fifths of its maximum brightness. Both planets, therefore, were near their most conspicuous position (which would seem to be the meaning of balist a 166 APPENDIX TO THE BUNDAHIS.
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16. Afterwards, he came to the ox, the solecreated‘, as it stood as high as Gayémard on the ? Bund. III, 12. * Bund. III, 13. 5 Bund. III, 14, 16. * The primeval ox, or first-created representative of animals, as G4yémard was of mankind; from which two representatives all mankind and animals are said to have been afterwards developed. There seems to have been some doubt as to the sex of this mythological ox ; here it is distinctly stated to have been a female, but from Bund. X, 1, 2, XIV, 3, it would appear to have been a male, and this ‘seems to be admitted by Dad-sparam himself, in Chap. IX, 7. [5] M 162 APPENDIX TO THE BUNDAHIS. bank of the water of Déitih! zz the middle of the earth; and its distance from Gdyémard being as much as its own height, it was also distant from the bank of the water of Dattih by the same measure ; and it was a female, white aad brilliant as the moon. 7. As the adversary came upon z¢ Adharmazd gave zt a narcotic, which is also called ‘bang,’ to eat, and to rub the ‘bang’ before the eye’, so that the annoyance from the assault of crimes may be less; it became lean and ill, azd fell upon its right breast? trembling. 8. Before the advance to Gayémard, who was then about one-third the height of Zaratst, and was brilliant as the sun, Atharmazd forms, from the sweat ‘ on the man, a figure of fifteen years, radiant and tall, and sends it on to Gayémard; and he also brings his sweat® on to him as leng as one Yathaah-vairy6*® is detmg recited. 9. When he issued from the sweat, and raised his eyes, he saw the world when it was dark as night’; on the whole earth were the snake, the scorpion, the lizard (vazak), and noxious creatures of many kinds; and so the other kinds of quadrupeds stood among the 1 The Daittk river (see Bund. XX, 13). * This is a misunderstanding of the corresponding phrase in Bund. III, 18. The narcotic here mentioned is usually prepared from the hemp plant, and is well known in India and the neighbouring countries, § See Bund. IV, 1. ‘ The word which, as it stands in the MS., looks like h6manfe, is here taken as a transposition of min khvd4e, in accordance with Bund. III, 19; but it may be a variant of anumf4e, ‘embryo,’ in which case the translation should be, ‘forms an embryo into the shape of a man of fifteen years.’ 5 Or it may be ‘sleep,’ both here and in § 9. ® See Bund. I, 21. 7 Bund. III, 20. SELECTIONS OF ZAD-SPARAM, II, 7-IV, I. 163 reptiles ; every approach of the whole earth was as though not as much as a needle’s point remained, in which there was no rush of noxious creatures. 10. There were the coming of a planetary s¢ar into planetary conjunction, and the moon and planets at sixes and sevens!; many dark forms with the face and curls of Az-i Dahak suffered punishment in company with certain non-Iranians; azd he was amazed at calling the wicked out from the righteous. 11. Lastly, he (Aharman) came up to the fire, and mingled darkness and smoke with it 2. Cuapter III.
211. Lastly, he (Aharman) came up to the fire, and mingled darkness and smoke with it 2. Cuapter III. 1. And Gésfrvan, as she was herself the soul of the primeval ox, when the ox passed away, came out from the ox, even as the soul from the body of the dead, and kept up the clamour of a cry to Adharmazd in such fashion as that of an army, a thousand strong, when they cry out together*. 2. And Adharmazd, in order to’ be much more able to keep watch over the mingled creatures than in front of GAayémard, went from the earth up to the sky. 3. And Gésfrvan continually went after him crying, and she kept up the cry thus: ‘With whom may the guardianship over the creatures be left by thee?’ » CuapTer IV, 1. This was the highest predominance of Aharman, for he came on, with all the strength which he 1 Literally, ‘in fours and fives.’ * Bund. III, 24. 5 Bund. IV, 2. M 2 164 APPENDIX TO THE BUNDAHIS. had, for the disfigurement of the creatures; and he took as much as one-third of the base of the sky', in a downward direction, into a confined and captive state, so that it was all dark azd apart from the light, for it was itself, at the coming of the adversary, his enemy among the struggles for creation. 2. And this is opposing the renovation of the universe, for the greatest of all the other means of the fiend, when he das come in, are of like origin and strength this day, in the sleep? of the renovation, as on that when the enemy, who is fettered on coming in, is kept back. 3. Amid all this struggling were mingled the instigations of Aharman, cryzmg thus: ‘My victory has come completely, for the sky is split and disfigured by me with gloom and darkness, and taken by me as a stronghold; water is disfigured by me, and the earth, injured by darkness, is pierced by me; vegetation is withered by me, the ox is put to death by me, Gayémard is made ill by me, and opposed to those revolving* are the glooms and planets arranged by me; no one 4as remained for me to take and pervert in combat except Adharmazd, and of the earth ¢here is only one man, who is alone, what is he able to do?’ 4. And he sends Asté-vid4d‘ upon him with the thousand decrepitudes (atizv4r4nd) and diseases * Compare Bund. III, 11. The involved style of Z4@sparam is particularly conspicuous in this chapter. * The word seems to be khvapisné. 8 Meaning probably the zodiacal signs, but the word is doubtful, being spelt vardisn4nd instead of vardisnand. A very small alteration would change it into vardéisn4nd, ‘ believers,’ but there were no earthly believers at the time alluded to. * See Bund. III, 21, and XXVIII, 35. SELECTIONS OF ZAD-SPARAM, IV, 2-8. 165
3A very small alteration would change it into vardéisn4nd, ‘ believers,’ but there were no earthly believers at the time alluded to. * See Bund. III, 21, and XXVIII, 35. SELECTIONS OF ZAD-SPARAM, IV, 2-8. 165 which are his own, sicknesses of various kinds, so that they may make him ill avd cause death. 5. GAyémard was not secured by them, and the reason was because it was a decree of appointing Time (z6rv4n6d) in the beginning of the coming in of Aharman, that: ‘Up to thirty winters I appoint Gayémard unto brilliance and preservation of life.’ 6. And his manifestation in the celestial sphere was through the forgiveness of criminals axd instigators of confusion by 42s good works, and for that reason no opportunity was obtained by them during the extent of thirty years. 7. For in the beginning it was so > appointed that the star Jupiter (A tharmazd) was life towards the creatures, not through its own nature, but on account of z¢s being within the control (band) of the luminaries; and Saturn (Kév4n) was death towards the creatures. 8. Both were in their supremacy (b4list)? at the beginning of the crea- 1 These luminaries are the fixed stars, especially the signs of the zodiac, to whose protection the good creation is committed (see Bund. II, o-4); whereas Jupiter and all other planets are supposed to be, by nature, disturbers of the creation, being employed by Aharman for that purpose (see Mkh. VIII, 17-21, XII, 7-10, XXIV, 8, XXXVIII, 5). % The most obvious meaning of bAlfst is ‘ greatest altitude,’ and this is quite applicable to Jupiter when it attains its highest northern declination on entering Cancer, but it is not applicable to Saturn in Libra, when it has only its mean altitude. At the vernal equinox, however, which was the time of the beginning mentioned in the text, when Aharman invaded the creation (see Chap. II, 1), Libra is in opposition to the sun, and Saturn in Libra would be at its nearest approach to the earth, and would, therefore, attain its maximum brightness; while Jupiter in Cancer would be at its greatest altitude and shining with four-fifths of its maximum brightness. Both planets, therefore, were near their most conspicuous position (which would seem to be the meaning of balist a 166 APPENDIX TO THE BUNDAHIS.
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