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1sor who grudges it to man. What was the original form of the myth in Mazdeism is not clear. In the Shah Namah he appears as the minister of Azi Dahaka. Cf Yt. XV, 27 seq., and Ormazd et Ahriman, pp. 99, note 5 ; 215, note i . 64 YA^-TS AND sIroZAHS. XL 40. ' Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 41. * To her did the Turanian murderer, Frangra- syan^, offer up a sacrifice in his cave under the earth ^, with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs. 42. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: "Grant me this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Ana- hita ! that I may seize hold of that Glory "\ that is waving in the middle of the sea Vouru-Kasha ^ and ^ Frangrasyan (Afrasyab) was king of Turan for two hundred years. The perpetual struggle between Iran and Turan, which lasts to this day, was represented in the legend by the deadly and endless wars between Afrasyab and the Iranian kings from Mino- ^ihr down to Kai Khosrav (Kavi Husravah). The chief cause of the feud was the murder of Syavakhsh (Syavarshana) by Afrasyab ; Syavakhsh, son of Kai Kaus (Kava Usa), having been exiled by his father, at the instigation of his mother-in-law, took refuge with Afrasyab, who received him with honour, and gave him his daughter in marriage : but the fortune of Syavakhsh raised the jealousy of Afrasyab's brother, Karsivaz (Keresavazda), who by means of calumnious accusations extorted from Afrasyab an order for putting him to death (see Yt. XIX, 77). Syavakhsh was revenged by his son, Kai Khosrav, the grandson of Afrasyab (Yt. IX, 22). ^ Ha;/kane: Firdausi speaks of a cave on the top of a moun- tain, near Barda (on the frontier of Adarbai^an), where Afrasyab, when defeated, took refuge, and was discovered by Kai Khosrav ; that cave was called 'the cave of Afrasyab' (hang i Afrasiab; Shah Namah, IV, 196). In an older form of the legend, that cave was a palace built under-ground, with walls of iron and a hundred columns : its height was a thousand times a man's size (Aoge- maid^, § 61 ; cf Bund. XII, 20: see Etudes Iraniennes, II, 225, Le Hang d' Afrasyab). " Yt. XIX, 56'seq. ABAN YAST. 65 that belongs to the Aryan people, to those born and to those not yet born, and to the holy Zarathiutra." • 43. 'Ardvi Sljra Anahita did not grant him that boon. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice . . , . XII. 44. ' Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 45.
2oly Zarathiutra." • 43. 'Ardvi Sljra Anahita did not grant him that boon. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice . . , . XII. 44. ' Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 45. 'To her did the great, most wise Kavi Usa^ offer up a sacrifice from Mount Erezifya^, with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs. 46. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: "Grant me, this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura And- hita ! that I may become the sovereign lord of all countries, of the Daevas and men, of the Yatus and Pairikas, of the oppressors, the blind and the deaf." 47. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him that boon. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice .... XIIL 48. ' Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 49. 'To her did the gallant Husravah^ he who ' Kavi Usa (Kai Kaus), the son of Kavi Kavata (Kai Kobad) and the father of Syavakhsh (see p. 64, note i), was the second king of the Kayanian dynasty. ^ Mount Erezifya has been supposed to be the same as the Sariphi Monte s in Ptolemaeus, which stretch between Margiana and Ariana (Burnouf, Commentaire sur le Yasna, p. 436). ' Kai Khosrav ; cf. p. 64, notes 1 and 2. [23] F 66 YA^-TS AND SIROZAHS. united the Aryan nations into one kingdom \ offer up a sacrifice behind the A^ae/^asta lake ^, the deep lake, of salt waters ^, with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs. 50. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: "Grant me this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Siira Anahita ! that I may become the sovereign lord of all coun- tries, of Daevas and men, of the Yatus and Pairikas, of the oppressors, the blind and the deaf; and that I may have the lead in front of all the teams * and that he may not pass through ^ the forest ^, he, the murderer'^, who now is fiercely^ striving against me ^ on horseback ^'^." 51. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him that boon. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice .... XIV. 52. ' Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathu^-tra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 53. 'To her did the valiant warrior Tusa^^ offer ^ Doubtful. ^ A lake in Adarbai^an, with salt water : fish cannot live in it (Bundahii- XXII, 2).
3. XIV. 52. ' Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathu^-tra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 53. 'To her did the valiant warrior Tusa^^ offer ^ Doubtful. ^ A lake in Adarbai^an, with salt water : fish cannot live in it (Bundahii- XXII, 2). It is the same as Lake Urumiah. Its name is miswritten in Firdausi (Khan^ast for ^e^ast, o.»,^s^^ for ^ Doubtful; see Etudes Iraniennes, II, uruyapa, p. 1^9. * In pursuing his adversary. ^ Doubtful (cf Yt. XV, 32). * The White Forest (ibid.). '' Aurvasara (ibid.). * Doubtful. ^ Trying to flee and escape. ^° Possibly, ' vieing in horses ' (for the swiftness of the race) : cf. Yt. XIX, 77. " Tusa, in the Shah Namah Tus; one of the most celebrated Pahlavans of Kai Khosrav; he was the son of king Naotara (Nodar). ABAN YA^T. d'] worship on the back of his horse \ begging swift- ness for his teams, health for his own body, and that he might watch with full success ^ those who hated him, smite down his foes, and destroy at one stroke his adversaries, his enemies, and those who hated him ^ 54. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: "Grant me this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita ! that I may overcome the gallant sons of Vaesaka^, by the castle Khshathro-saoka, that stands high up on the lofty, holy Kangha^; that I may smite of the Turanian people their fifties and their hundreds, their hundreds and their thousands, their thousands and their tens of thousands, their tens of thousands and their myriads of myriads." 55. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon *', as he was offering libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him that boon. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice .... ^ He offers not a full sacrifice, being on horseback. ^ Not to be taken by surprise. » Cf. Yt. X, II, 94, 114. * Vaesaka was the head of the Vis ah family, whose foremost member was Pi ran Visah, the clever and upright minister of Afrasyab, the Turanian Nestor; but his counsels were despised for the common ruin, and himself perished with all his sons in the war against Iran. ^ Kangha was a town founded by Syavarshana, during his exile, in a part of the land of Khvarizm, which is described as an earthly paradise. This city was built on the top of a high mountain (Awtare-Kangha, Yt. XIX, 4).
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.
1sor who grudges it to man. What was the original form of the myth in Mazdeism is not clear. In the Shah Namah he appears as the minister of Azi Dahaka. Cf Yt. XV, 27 seq., and Ormazd et Ahriman, pp. 99, note 5 ; 215, note i . 64 YA^-TS AND sIroZAHS. XL 40. ' Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 41. * To her did the Turanian murderer, Frangra- syan^, offer up a sacrifice in his cave under the earth ^, with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs. 42. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: "Grant me this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Ana- hita ! that I may seize hold of that Glory "\ that is waving in the middle of the sea Vouru-Kasha ^ and ^ Frangrasyan (Afrasyab) was king of Turan for two hundred years. The perpetual struggle between Iran and Turan, which lasts to this day, was represented in the legend by the deadly and endless wars between Afrasyab and the Iranian kings from Mino- ^ihr down to Kai Khosrav (Kavi Husravah). The chief cause of the feud was the murder of Syavakhsh (Syavarshana) by Afrasyab ; Syavakhsh, son of Kai Kaus (Kava Usa), having been exiled by his father, at the instigation of his mother-in-law, took refuge with Afrasyab, who received him with honour, and gave him his daughter in marriage : but the fortune of Syavakhsh raised the jealousy of Afrasyab's brother, Karsivaz (Keresavazda), who by means of calumnious accusations extorted from Afrasyab an order for putting him to death (see Yt. XIX, 77). Syavakhsh was revenged by his son, Kai Khosrav, the grandson of Afrasyab (Yt. IX, 22). ^ Ha;/kane: Firdausi speaks of a cave on the top of a moun- tain, near Barda (on the frontier of Adarbai^an), where Afrasyab, when defeated, took refuge, and was discovered by Kai Khosrav ; that cave was called 'the cave of Afrasyab' (hang i Afrasiab; Shah Namah, IV, 196). In an older form of the legend, that cave was a palace built under-ground, with walls of iron and a hundred columns : its height was a thousand times a man's size (Aoge- maid^, § 61 ; cf Bund. XII, 20: see Etudes Iraniennes, II, 225, Le Hang d' Afrasyab). " Yt. XIX, 56'seq. ABAN YAST. 65 that belongs to the Aryan people, to those born and to those not yet born, and to the holy Zarathiutra." • 43. 'Ardvi Sljra Anahita did not grant him that boon. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice . . , . XII. 44. ' Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 45.
2oly Zarathiutra." • 43. 'Ardvi Sljra Anahita did not grant him that boon. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice . . , . XII. 44. ' Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 45. 'To her did the great, most wise Kavi Usa^ offer up a sacrifice from Mount Erezifya^, with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs. 46. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: "Grant me, this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura And- hita ! that I may become the sovereign lord of all countries, of the Daevas and men, of the Yatus and Pairikas, of the oppressors, the blind and the deaf." 47. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him that boon. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice .... XIIL 48. ' Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 49. 'To her did the gallant Husravah^ he who ' Kavi Usa (Kai Kaus), the son of Kavi Kavata (Kai Kobad) and the father of Syavakhsh (see p. 64, note i), was the second king of the Kayanian dynasty. ^ Mount Erezifya has been supposed to be the same as the Sariphi Monte s in Ptolemaeus, which stretch between Margiana and Ariana (Burnouf, Commentaire sur le Yasna, p. 436). ' Kai Khosrav ; cf. p. 64, notes 1 and 2. [23] F 66 YA^-TS AND SIROZAHS. united the Aryan nations into one kingdom \ offer up a sacrifice behind the A^ae/^asta lake ^, the deep lake, of salt waters ^, with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs. 50. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: "Grant me this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Siira Anahita ! that I may become the sovereign lord of all coun- tries, of Daevas and men, of the Yatus and Pairikas, of the oppressors, the blind and the deaf; and that I may have the lead in front of all the teams * and that he may not pass through ^ the forest ^, he, the murderer'^, who now is fiercely^ striving against me ^ on horseback ^'^." 51. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him that boon. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice .... XIV. 52. ' Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathu^-tra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 53. 'To her did the valiant warrior Tusa^^ offer ^ Doubtful. ^ A lake in Adarbai^an, with salt water : fish cannot live in it (Bundahii- XXII, 2).
3. XIV. 52. ' Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathu^-tra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 53. 'To her did the valiant warrior Tusa^^ offer ^ Doubtful. ^ A lake in Adarbai^an, with salt water : fish cannot live in it (Bundahii- XXII, 2). It is the same as Lake Urumiah. Its name is miswritten in Firdausi (Khan^ast for ^e^ast, o.»,^s^^ for ^ Doubtful; see Etudes Iraniennes, II, uruyapa, p. 1^9. * In pursuing his adversary. ^ Doubtful (cf Yt. XV, 32). * The White Forest (ibid.). '' Aurvasara (ibid.). * Doubtful. ^ Trying to flee and escape. ^° Possibly, ' vieing in horses ' (for the swiftness of the race) : cf. Yt. XIX, 77. " Tusa, in the Shah Namah Tus; one of the most celebrated Pahlavans of Kai Khosrav; he was the son of king Naotara (Nodar). ABAN YA^T. d'] worship on the back of his horse \ begging swift- ness for his teams, health for his own body, and that he might watch with full success ^ those who hated him, smite down his foes, and destroy at one stroke his adversaries, his enemies, and those who hated him ^ 54. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: "Grant me this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita ! that I may overcome the gallant sons of Vaesaka^, by the castle Khshathro-saoka, that stands high up on the lofty, holy Kangha^; that I may smite of the Turanian people their fifties and their hundreds, their hundreds and their thousands, their thousands and their tens of thousands, their tens of thousands and their myriads of myriads." 55. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon *', as he was offering libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him that boon. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice .... ^ He offers not a full sacrifice, being on horseback. ^ Not to be taken by surprise. » Cf. Yt. X, II, 94, 114. * Vaesaka was the head of the Vis ah family, whose foremost member was Pi ran Visah, the clever and upright minister of Afrasyab, the Turanian Nestor; but his counsels were despised for the common ruin, and himself perished with all his sons in the war against Iran. ^ Kangha was a town founded by Syavarshana, during his exile, in a part of the land of Khvarizm, which is described as an earthly paradise. This city was built on the top of a high mountain (Awtare-Kangha, Yt. XIX, 4).
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