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1‘And Adharmazd spoke thus: “Stand off, hou soul of Keres4sp! for thou shouldst be hideous in my eyes, because the fire, which is my son’, was extinguished by thee, and no care of z¢ was provided by thee.” ‘And the soul of Keres4sp spoke thus: “ Forgive me, O Afhaymazd! and grant me the best existence! grant me the supreme heaven! The serpent (azd) Srévbar? is slain outright, which was swallowing horses and swallowing men, and its teeth were as long as my arm, its ear was as large as fourteen blankets (namad%5), its eye was as large as a wheel, and its horn was as much as Dahak' in height. And I was running as much as half a day on z¢s back, till its head was smitten by me at the neck wth a club made for my hand, and 7¢ was slain outright by me‘. And if that serpent had not been slain by me, all thy creatures would have deen completely annihilated by it, and thou wouldst never have known a remedy for Aharman.” ‘ Athaymazd spoke thus: “ Stand off! for the fire, which is my son, was extinguished by thee.” ‘Keresdsp spoke thus : “Grant me, O Afharmazd! that best existence, the supreme heaven! for by me Gandarep® was slain outright, by whom twelve 1 Fire is often called ‘the son of Ahura-mazda’ in the Avesta, as in Yas. II, 18, Vend. V, 9, &c. 3 The Srvara of Yas. IX, 34, Zamy4d Yt. 40. The Persian version has merely azdah4, ‘a dragon.’ 5 Or it may be shak,‘a bough.’ The Persian version has ‘ eighty cubits.’ “ The Persian version adds ‘and as I looked into its mouth, men were still hanging about its teeth;’ which was evidently suggested by what is stated in the account of the next exploit. ® See p. 371, note 3. ° I, LEGENDS RELATING TO KERESASP. 375 districts were devoured at once. When I looked among the teeth of Gandarep, dead men! were sticking among his teeth; and my beard was seized by him, and I dragged him out of the sea?; nine days and nights the conflict was maintained by us in the sea, and then I became more powerful than Gandarep. The sole of Gandarep's foot was also | seized by me, and the skin was flayed off up to zs head, and with it the hands and feet of Gandarep were bound; he was also dragged by me out to the shore of the sea, and was delivered by me over /o Akhrorag*; and he slaughtered and ate my fifteen horses. I also fell down in a dense thicket (aisak5), and Gandarep carried off my friend Akhrorag, and she who was my wife was carried off by him‘, and my father gzd nurse (dAyak6) were carried off by him. And 1 took under my protection (dinh4rtginid6) and raised all the people of our pleasant place, and every single step I sprang forward a thousand steps, and fire fell into everything which was struck by my fogt @s it sprang forward’; I went out to the sea, and they were brought back by me, The Persian version says ‘ horses and asses.’ ® For this clause the Persian version substitutes ‘the sea was up to his knee, and his head up to the sun.’
2* This is merely a guess. The word can also be read kh4rvarag, ‘thorny, or a thorny brake ;’ but it seems to be the name of some person, being followed by the word dést6, ‘ friend,’ in the next sentence. Akhrfra, son of Haosravangh, is mentioned in Fravardin Yt. 137, next after Sma Keresaspa, as ‘ withstanding Hashi-dava (or daéva), the wicked and covetous one destroying the world.’ The Persian version omits from the dragging out of the sea in this sentence to the slaying in the next (p. 376, line 1). * BK has ‘by me,’ which must be a blunder. 5 J omits these last seven words, 376 APPENDIX. and Gandarep was taken and slain by me’. And if he had not been slain by me, Aharman would have | become predominant over thy creatures.” ‘Athaymazd spoke thus: “Stand off! for thou art hideous in my eyes, because the fire, which is my son, was extinguished by thee.” ‘Keresdsp spoke thus : “ Grant me, OAtharmazd! ! heaven ov the supreme heaven! for I have slain the highwaymen? who were so big in body that, when they were walking, people considered in this way, that ‘below them are the stars and moon, and below them moves the sun a¢ dawn, and the water of the sea reaches up to their knees.’ And I reached up to their legs, and they were smitten on the legs by me; they fell, and the hills on the earth were shattered by them*, And if those fallen* highwaymen had not been slain by me, Aharman would have become predominant over thy creatures.” ‘Adhaymazd spoke thus: “Stand off! for thou shouldst be hideous in my eyes, because the fire, which is my son, was extinguished by thee.” ‘Keresdsp spoke thus : “Grant me, O Athaymazd! heaven oy the supreme heaven! When the wind was weakened (rakht6) and paralysed by me, the ~ } The Persian version says, ‘I slew him, and as he fell down many villages and places became desolate.’ ® The ‘nine highwaymen’ of Zamyad Yt. 41. The Persian version says ‘seven.’ BK has ‘ walked,’ instead of ‘slain.’ Instead of this sentence the Persian version has ‘through fear of them people could not go on any journey, and every one whom they might see, on the road that he went, they would instantly eat up; and in three years they reckoned three hundred thousand men they had slain and destroyed. And I fought with them and slew all the seven.’ * J omits the word ‘fallen.’ I, LEGENDS RELATING TO KERESASP. 377
3And I fought with them and slew all the seven.’ * J omits the word ‘fallen.’ I, LEGENDS RELATING TO KERESASP. 377 demons deceived the wind, and they spoke unto the wind thus: ‘ He is more resisting thee than all the creatures and creation, and thou shouldst think of him thus, that “there is no one walks upon this earth more resistant of me ¢han Keresdsp;” he despises demons azd men, and thee, too, who shouldst be the wind, even thee he despises.’ And the wind, when those words were heard by it, came on so strongly that every tree and shrub which was in its path was uprooted, and the whole earth which was in its path was reduced to powder (payang4ndoiaitS kavdd), and darkness arose. And when it came to me, who am Keresasp, it was not possible for it to lift my foot from the ground; and I arose and sallied forth (bav4 yehabina) upon the earth, and I stood xfon it, with both feet on an equality (mirth), until a rampart (pfistd) of it was completed, so that 1 might go again below the earth; that which Afthaymazd ordered thus: ‘Should I appoint a keeper of the earth and sky, they would not forsake me’.’ And if that thing had not been done by me, Aharman would have become predominant over thy creatures.” ‘Adhaymazd spoke thus: “Stand off! for thou shouldst be hideous in my eyes, because the fire, which is my son, was smitten by thee.” ‘Keresdsp spoke thus: “Grant me, O Atharmazd! heaven or the supreme heaven! for z¢ is thus 1 The Persian version has ‘and as it arrived near me, it was not able to bear my foot from the spot; and I seized the spirit of the wind, and overthrew him with my own strength, until he made a promise thus: “I wz// go again below the earth.” And I did not keep back my hand /rom that work less than A@harmasd and the archangels ordered me.’ 378 APPENDIX. declared by revelation, that, when Dahak has escaped from confinement}, no one is able to seek any other remedy agazust him but me; on that account grant me heaven or the supreme heaven! And if it be not possible to grant me heaven or the supreme heaven, give me again the strength and success which were mine during life! for when thou shalt give me again so much strength and success as were mine when I was produced alive, I will slay Aharman with the demons, I wz// eradicate darkness from hell, I will complete the beautiful light, and within its sole existence (tand-aé)? you shadd sit and move’.” ‘Atharmazd spoke thus: “This I wz/7 not give thee, ‘hou soul of Keresasp! because men shall commit sin; and until men commit no more sin, it is not possible to make thee alive again, and thou wouldst also not be able to make other men alive again, for they produce the resurrection thus, when all men become quite innocent. When men shall die, and their souls are wicked, all comfort shall forsake them, and all the misery and discomfort occasioned by them sha// remain.”
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.
1‘And Adharmazd spoke thus: “Stand off, hou soul of Keres4sp! for thou shouldst be hideous in my eyes, because the fire, which is my son’, was extinguished by thee, and no care of z¢ was provided by thee.” ‘And the soul of Keres4sp spoke thus: “ Forgive me, O Afhaymazd! and grant me the best existence! grant me the supreme heaven! The serpent (azd) Srévbar? is slain outright, which was swallowing horses and swallowing men, and its teeth were as long as my arm, its ear was as large as fourteen blankets (namad%5), its eye was as large as a wheel, and its horn was as much as Dahak' in height. And I was running as much as half a day on z¢s back, till its head was smitten by me at the neck wth a club made for my hand, and 7¢ was slain outright by me‘. And if that serpent had not been slain by me, all thy creatures would have deen completely annihilated by it, and thou wouldst never have known a remedy for Aharman.” ‘ Athaymazd spoke thus: “ Stand off! for the fire, which is my son, was extinguished by thee.” ‘Keresdsp spoke thus : “Grant me, O Afharmazd! that best existence, the supreme heaven! for by me Gandarep® was slain outright, by whom twelve 1 Fire is often called ‘the son of Ahura-mazda’ in the Avesta, as in Yas. II, 18, Vend. V, 9, &c. 3 The Srvara of Yas. IX, 34, Zamy4d Yt. 40. The Persian version has merely azdah4, ‘a dragon.’ 5 Or it may be shak,‘a bough.’ The Persian version has ‘ eighty cubits.’ “ The Persian version adds ‘and as I looked into its mouth, men were still hanging about its teeth;’ which was evidently suggested by what is stated in the account of the next exploit. ® See p. 371, note 3. ° I, LEGENDS RELATING TO KERESASP. 375 districts were devoured at once. When I looked among the teeth of Gandarep, dead men! were sticking among his teeth; and my beard was seized by him, and I dragged him out of the sea?; nine days and nights the conflict was maintained by us in the sea, and then I became more powerful than Gandarep. The sole of Gandarep's foot was also | seized by me, and the skin was flayed off up to zs head, and with it the hands and feet of Gandarep were bound; he was also dragged by me out to the shore of the sea, and was delivered by me over /o Akhrorag*; and he slaughtered and ate my fifteen horses. I also fell down in a dense thicket (aisak5), and Gandarep carried off my friend Akhrorag, and she who was my wife was carried off by him‘, and my father gzd nurse (dAyak6) were carried off by him. And 1 took under my protection (dinh4rtginid6) and raised all the people of our pleasant place, and every single step I sprang forward a thousand steps, and fire fell into everything which was struck by my fogt @s it sprang forward’; I went out to the sea, and they were brought back by me, The Persian version says ‘ horses and asses.’ ® For this clause the Persian version substitutes ‘the sea was up to his knee, and his head up to the sun.’
2* This is merely a guess. The word can also be read kh4rvarag, ‘thorny, or a thorny brake ;’ but it seems to be the name of some person, being followed by the word dést6, ‘ friend,’ in the next sentence. Akhrfra, son of Haosravangh, is mentioned in Fravardin Yt. 137, next after Sma Keresaspa, as ‘ withstanding Hashi-dava (or daéva), the wicked and covetous one destroying the world.’ The Persian version omits from the dragging out of the sea in this sentence to the slaying in the next (p. 376, line 1). * BK has ‘by me,’ which must be a blunder. 5 J omits these last seven words, 376 APPENDIX. and Gandarep was taken and slain by me’. And if he had not been slain by me, Aharman would have | become predominant over thy creatures.” ‘Athaymazd spoke thus: “Stand off! for thou art hideous in my eyes, because the fire, which is my son, was extinguished by thee.” ‘Keresdsp spoke thus : “ Grant me, OAtharmazd! ! heaven ov the supreme heaven! for I have slain the highwaymen? who were so big in body that, when they were walking, people considered in this way, that ‘below them are the stars and moon, and below them moves the sun a¢ dawn, and the water of the sea reaches up to their knees.’ And I reached up to their legs, and they were smitten on the legs by me; they fell, and the hills on the earth were shattered by them*, And if those fallen* highwaymen had not been slain by me, Aharman would have become predominant over thy creatures.” ‘Adhaymazd spoke thus: “Stand off! for thou shouldst be hideous in my eyes, because the fire, which is my son, was extinguished by thee.” ‘Keresdsp spoke thus : “Grant me, O Athaymazd! heaven oy the supreme heaven! When the wind was weakened (rakht6) and paralysed by me, the ~ } The Persian version says, ‘I slew him, and as he fell down many villages and places became desolate.’ ® The ‘nine highwaymen’ of Zamyad Yt. 41. The Persian version says ‘seven.’ BK has ‘ walked,’ instead of ‘slain.’ Instead of this sentence the Persian version has ‘through fear of them people could not go on any journey, and every one whom they might see, on the road that he went, they would instantly eat up; and in three years they reckoned three hundred thousand men they had slain and destroyed. And I fought with them and slew all the seven.’ * J omits the word ‘fallen.’ I, LEGENDS RELATING TO KERESASP. 377
3And I fought with them and slew all the seven.’ * J omits the word ‘fallen.’ I, LEGENDS RELATING TO KERESASP. 377 demons deceived the wind, and they spoke unto the wind thus: ‘ He is more resisting thee than all the creatures and creation, and thou shouldst think of him thus, that “there is no one walks upon this earth more resistant of me ¢han Keresdsp;” he despises demons azd men, and thee, too, who shouldst be the wind, even thee he despises.’ And the wind, when those words were heard by it, came on so strongly that every tree and shrub which was in its path was uprooted, and the whole earth which was in its path was reduced to powder (payang4ndoiaitS kavdd), and darkness arose. And when it came to me, who am Keresasp, it was not possible for it to lift my foot from the ground; and I arose and sallied forth (bav4 yehabina) upon the earth, and I stood xfon it, with both feet on an equality (mirth), until a rampart (pfistd) of it was completed, so that 1 might go again below the earth; that which Afthaymazd ordered thus: ‘Should I appoint a keeper of the earth and sky, they would not forsake me’.’ And if that thing had not been done by me, Aharman would have become predominant over thy creatures.” ‘Adhaymazd spoke thus: “Stand off! for thou shouldst be hideous in my eyes, because the fire, which is my son, was smitten by thee.” ‘Keresdsp spoke thus: “Grant me, O Atharmazd! heaven or the supreme heaven! for z¢ is thus 1 The Persian version has ‘and as it arrived near me, it was not able to bear my foot from the spot; and I seized the spirit of the wind, and overthrew him with my own strength, until he made a promise thus: “I wz// go again below the earth.” And I did not keep back my hand /rom that work less than A@harmasd and the archangels ordered me.’ 378 APPENDIX. declared by revelation, that, when Dahak has escaped from confinement}, no one is able to seek any other remedy agazust him but me; on that account grant me heaven or the supreme heaven! And if it be not possible to grant me heaven or the supreme heaven, give me again the strength and success which were mine during life! for when thou shalt give me again so much strength and success as were mine when I was produced alive, I will slay Aharman with the demons, I wz// eradicate darkness from hell, I will complete the beautiful light, and within its sole existence (tand-aé)? you shadd sit and move’.” ‘Atharmazd spoke thus: “This I wz/7 not give thee, ‘hou soul of Keresasp! because men shall commit sin; and until men commit no more sin, it is not possible to make thee alive again, and thou wouldst also not be able to make other men alive again, for they produce the resurrection thus, when all men become quite innocent. When men shall die, and their souls are wicked, all comfort shall forsake them, and all the misery and discomfort occasioned by them sha// remain.”
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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