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1* He begged of her a boon, saying : " Grant me this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita ! that I may overcome Pesho-A'angha the corpse-burier ^, Humayaka^ the worshipper of the Daevas, and the wicked Are^a/-aspa ^ in the battles of this world. 1 14. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon", as he was offering up libations, giving gifts, sacri- ficing, and entreating that she would grant him that boon. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice .... XXVII. 115. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 116.' Unto her did Are^a^aspa and Va;zdaremaini'^ 1 Zarir in Firdausi, the brother of Vutaspa ; cf Yt. V, 117; XIII, loi. ^ The Araxes (Vendidad I, 3). 3 Doubtful (cf. Vend. Ill, 36 seq.). * This is perhaps an epithet to Pesho-^angha, 'the most malicious.' ^ See p. 79, note 4. " If we may trust the Shah Namah, she did not grant her favour to the last, as Zarir was killed by one of the generals of Ar§-asp, Bidirafi-h. ^ A brother of Ar^asp's : his name is slightly altered in Firdausi (Andariman miswritten for Vandariman, ,jU.3^jol for ^jUj^aJj ; see !Etudes Iraniennes, p. 228). ABAN YA^T. 8 I offer up a sacrifice by the sea Vouru-Kasha, with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs. 117.' They ^ begged of her a boon, saying : " Grant us this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that we may conquer the valiant Kavi Vii'taspa and Zairivairi who fights on horseback, and that we may smite of the Aryan people their fifties and their hun- dreds, their hundreds and their thousands, their thousands and their tens of thousands, their tens of thousands and their myriads of myriads." 1 18. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita did not grant them^ that favour, though they were offering up libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she should grant them that favour. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice .... XXVIII. 119. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtral unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 1 20. ' For whom Ahura Mazda has made four horses — the wind, the rain, the cloud, and the sleet — and thus ever ^ upon the earth it is raining, snowing, hailing, and sleeting ; and whose armies are so many and numbered by nine-hundreds and thousands. 12 1. 'I will worship the height Hukairya, of the ^ The text has the singular here and in the rest of the sentence : the names of the two brothers form a sort of singular dvandva ; of Franghrasyanem Keresavazdem (Yt. XIX, 77); Ashavazdangho Thritahe (Yt.
2s. 12 1. 'I will worship the height Hukairya, of the ^ The text has the singular here and in the rest of the sentence : the names of the two brothers form a sort of singular dvandva ; of Franghrasyanem Keresavazdem (Yt. XIX, 77); Ashavazdangho Thritahe (Yt. XIII, 113 ; and same Yast, 115), and in the present passage ViJ-taspo Zairivairij (see ]^tudes Iraniennes, II, 229). 2 Both were killed by Isfendyar (Shah Namah). ^ ]\Iijli translated hamejak, sada (Yt. VII, 4). [23] G 82 YA^TS AND SIROZAHS. deep precipices, made of gold, wherefrom this mine Ardvi Sura Anahita leaps, from a hundred times the height of a man, while she is possessed of as much Glory as the whole of the waters that run along the earth, and she runs powerfully \ ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice .... XXIX. 122. 'Offer up a sacrifice,© Spitama Zarathmtra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 123. 'She Stands, the good Ardvi Stira Anahita, wearing a golden mantle ^, waiting for a man who shall offer her libations and prayers, and thinking thus in her heart : 124. * " Who will praise me ? Who will offer me a sacrifice, with libations cleanly prepared and well- strained, together with the Haoma and meat ? To whom shall I cleave, who cleaves unto me, and thinks with me, and bestows gifts upon me, and is of good will unto me^?" ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice .... XXX. 125. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtra! unlo this spring of mine, Ardvi Siira Anahita ..... 126. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita, who stands carried forth in the shape of a maid, fair of body, most strong, tall-formed, high-girded, pure, nobly born of ' § I2I=§§ 96, 102. ^ Paitidana, a mande, a tunic (Vend. XIV, 9 [28]). ' See §§8, n. ABAN VAST. 83 a glorious race ^ wearing along her .... ^ a mantle fully embroidered with gold ; 127. * Ever holding the baresma in her hand, ac- cording to the rules, she wears square golden ear- rings on her ears bored '\ and a golden necklace around her beautiful neck, she, the nobly born Ardvi Sura Anahita ; and she girded her waist tightly, so that her breasts may be well-shaped, that they may be tightly pressed *. 128. * Upon her head Ardvi Sura Anahita bound a golden crown, with a hundred stars ^ with eight rays, a fine . . . . ^, a well-made crown, in the shape of a .... '^, with fillets streaming down. 129.
3y be well-shaped, that they may be tightly pressed *. 128. * Upon her head Ardvi Sura Anahita bound a golden crown, with a hundred stars ^ with eight rays, a fine . . . . ^, a well-made crown, in the shape of a .... '^, with fillets streaming down. 129. 'She is clothed with garments of beaver^, Ardvi Siira Anahita; with the skin of thirty beavers of those that bear four young ones, that are the finest kind of beavers ; for the skin of the beaver that lives in water is the finest-coloured of all skins, and when worked at the right time it shines to the eye with full sheen of silver and gold. 130. 'Here, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Siira Anahita! I beg of thee this favour: that I, fully blessed, may conquer large kingdoms, rich in horses^, with high tributes, with snorting horses, sounding chariots, flashing swords, rich in aliments, with stores of food, with well-scented beds^"; that I may have ^ Cf. §§ 64, 78. 2 Zaoja; cf. § 7, note 2. ' Doubtful (sispemna, from sif, ^j:J^). * Doubtful. ^ Gems. ^ ? Anupoithwaitim. ' ? Ratha; the usual meaning of ratha is 'a chariot;' perhaps the round shape of the chest of a chariot is meant. ' Possibly otter, Vend. XIV. » Doubtful. '' Cf. Yt. XVII, 7. G 2 8'4 YA^TS AND SIROZAHS. at my wish the fulness of the good things of life and whatever makes a kingdom thrive \ 131. ' Here, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Stara Anahita ! I beg of thee two gallant companions, one two-legged and one four-legged ^ : one two-legged, who is swift, quickly rushing, and clever in turning a chariot round in battle ; and one four-legged, who can quickly turn towards either wing of the host with a wide front, towards the right wing or the left, towards the left wing or the right. 132. 'Through the strength of this sacrifice, of this invocation, O Ardvi Sura Anahita ! come down from those stars ^, towards the earth made by Ahura, towards the sacrificing priest, towards the full boiling [milk '^J ; come to help him who is offering up libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that thou wouldst grant him thy favours ; that all those gallant warriors may be strong, like king Vii-taspa. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice .... 133. ' Yatha ahfl vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness .... ' I bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and vigour of the holy water-spring Anahita. 'AshemVohu: Holiness is the best of all good .... ' [Give] unto that man brightness and glory, ....
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* He begged of her a boon, saying : " Grant me this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita ! that I may overcome Pesho-A'angha the corpse-burier ^, Humayaka^ the worshipper of the Daevas, and the wicked Are^a/-aspa ^ in the battles of this world. 1 14. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon", as he was offering up libations, giving gifts, sacri- ficing, and entreating that she would grant him that boon. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice .... XXVII. 115. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 116.' Unto her did Are^a^aspa and Va;zdaremaini'^ 1 Zarir in Firdausi, the brother of Vutaspa ; cf Yt. V, 117; XIII, loi. ^ The Araxes (Vendidad I, 3). 3 Doubtful (cf. Vend. Ill, 36 seq.). * This is perhaps an epithet to Pesho-^angha, 'the most malicious.' ^ See p. 79, note 4. " If we may trust the Shah Namah, she did not grant her favour to the last, as Zarir was killed by one of the generals of Ar§-asp, Bidirafi-h. ^ A brother of Ar^asp's : his name is slightly altered in Firdausi (Andariman miswritten for Vandariman, ,jU.3^jol for ^jUj^aJj ; see !Etudes Iraniennes, p. 228). ABAN YA^T. 8 I offer up a sacrifice by the sea Vouru-Kasha, with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs. 117.' They ^ begged of her a boon, saying : " Grant us this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that we may conquer the valiant Kavi Vii'taspa and Zairivairi who fights on horseback, and that we may smite of the Aryan people their fifties and their hun- dreds, their hundreds and their thousands, their thousands and their tens of thousands, their tens of thousands and their myriads of myriads." 1 18. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita did not grant them^ that favour, though they were offering up libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she should grant them that favour. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice .... XXVIII. 119. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtral unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 1 20. ' For whom Ahura Mazda has made four horses — the wind, the rain, the cloud, and the sleet — and thus ever ^ upon the earth it is raining, snowing, hailing, and sleeting ; and whose armies are so many and numbered by nine-hundreds and thousands. 12 1. 'I will worship the height Hukairya, of the ^ The text has the singular here and in the rest of the sentence : the names of the two brothers form a sort of singular dvandva ; of Franghrasyanem Keresavazdem (Yt. XIX, 77); Ashavazdangho Thritahe (Yt.
2s. 12 1. 'I will worship the height Hukairya, of the ^ The text has the singular here and in the rest of the sentence : the names of the two brothers form a sort of singular dvandva ; of Franghrasyanem Keresavazdem (Yt. XIX, 77); Ashavazdangho Thritahe (Yt. XIII, 113 ; and same Yast, 115), and in the present passage ViJ-taspo Zairivairij (see ]^tudes Iraniennes, II, 229). 2 Both were killed by Isfendyar (Shah Namah). ^ ]\Iijli translated hamejak, sada (Yt. VII, 4). [23] G 82 YA^TS AND SIROZAHS. deep precipices, made of gold, wherefrom this mine Ardvi Sura Anahita leaps, from a hundred times the height of a man, while she is possessed of as much Glory as the whole of the waters that run along the earth, and she runs powerfully \ ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice .... XXIX. 122. 'Offer up a sacrifice,© Spitama Zarathmtra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita .... 123. 'She Stands, the good Ardvi Stira Anahita, wearing a golden mantle ^, waiting for a man who shall offer her libations and prayers, and thinking thus in her heart : 124. * " Who will praise me ? Who will offer me a sacrifice, with libations cleanly prepared and well- strained, together with the Haoma and meat ? To whom shall I cleave, who cleaves unto me, and thinks with me, and bestows gifts upon me, and is of good will unto me^?" ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice .... XXX. 125. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtra! unlo this spring of mine, Ardvi Siira Anahita ..... 126. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita, who stands carried forth in the shape of a maid, fair of body, most strong, tall-formed, high-girded, pure, nobly born of ' § I2I=§§ 96, 102. ^ Paitidana, a mande, a tunic (Vend. XIV, 9 [28]). ' See §§8, n. ABAN VAST. 83 a glorious race ^ wearing along her .... ^ a mantle fully embroidered with gold ; 127. * Ever holding the baresma in her hand, ac- cording to the rules, she wears square golden ear- rings on her ears bored '\ and a golden necklace around her beautiful neck, she, the nobly born Ardvi Sura Anahita ; and she girded her waist tightly, so that her breasts may be well-shaped, that they may be tightly pressed *. 128. * Upon her head Ardvi Sura Anahita bound a golden crown, with a hundred stars ^ with eight rays, a fine . . . . ^, a well-made crown, in the shape of a .... '^, with fillets streaming down. 129.
3y be well-shaped, that they may be tightly pressed *. 128. * Upon her head Ardvi Sura Anahita bound a golden crown, with a hundred stars ^ with eight rays, a fine . . . . ^, a well-made crown, in the shape of a .... '^, with fillets streaming down. 129. 'She is clothed with garments of beaver^, Ardvi Siira Anahita; with the skin of thirty beavers of those that bear four young ones, that are the finest kind of beavers ; for the skin of the beaver that lives in water is the finest-coloured of all skins, and when worked at the right time it shines to the eye with full sheen of silver and gold. 130. 'Here, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Siira Anahita! I beg of thee this favour: that I, fully blessed, may conquer large kingdoms, rich in horses^, with high tributes, with snorting horses, sounding chariots, flashing swords, rich in aliments, with stores of food, with well-scented beds^"; that I may have ^ Cf. §§ 64, 78. 2 Zaoja; cf. § 7, note 2. ' Doubtful (sispemna, from sif, ^j:J^). * Doubtful. ^ Gems. ^ ? Anupoithwaitim. ' ? Ratha; the usual meaning of ratha is 'a chariot;' perhaps the round shape of the chest of a chariot is meant. ' Possibly otter, Vend. XIV. » Doubtful. '' Cf. Yt. XVII, 7. G 2 8'4 YA^TS AND SIROZAHS. at my wish the fulness of the good things of life and whatever makes a kingdom thrive \ 131. ' Here, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Stara Anahita ! I beg of thee two gallant companions, one two-legged and one four-legged ^ : one two-legged, who is swift, quickly rushing, and clever in turning a chariot round in battle ; and one four-legged, who can quickly turn towards either wing of the host with a wide front, towards the right wing or the left, towards the left wing or the right. 132. 'Through the strength of this sacrifice, of this invocation, O Ardvi Sura Anahita ! come down from those stars ^, towards the earth made by Ahura, towards the sacrificing priest, towards the full boiling [milk '^J ; come to help him who is offering up libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that thou wouldst grant him thy favours ; that all those gallant warriors may be strong, like king Vii-taspa. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice .... 133. ' Yatha ahfl vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness .... ' I bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and vigour of the holy water-spring Anahita. 'AshemVohu: Holiness is the best of all good .... ' [Give] unto that man brightness and glory, ....
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