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1orward ^, ^ "Eva S' dcrrepa npo ndvTcov, olov (})v\aKa Koi Trpoonrrjp fyKarearrjae, top 2(ipiop (Plutarchus, de Iside et Osiride, § 47 ; cf. infra, § 48). ^ Sirozah I, 13. TIR VAST. 93 Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification. Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holi- ness .... I. 1. Ahiira Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathui-tra, saying : ' We worship the lordship and mastership [of Ti^trya], whereby he protects ^ the Moon, the dwelling, the food, when my glorious stars come along and impart their gifts ^ to men. I will sacri- fice unto the star Tijtrya, that gives the fields their share [of waters]. 2. ' We offer up libations unto Tij-trya, the bright and glorious star, that gives happy dwelling and good dwelling ; the white, shining, seen afar, and piercing ; the health-bringing, loud-snorting ^, and high, piercing from afar with its shining, undefiled rays ; and unto the waters of the wide sea, the Van- guhi of wide renown ^, and the species ^ of the Bull, made by Mazda, the awful kingly Glory, and the Fravashi of the holy Spitama Zarathui-tra. 3. ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard, namely, unto the star Ti.ytrya. ' Unto Ti^trya, the bright and glorious star, we offer up the libations, the Haoma and meat, the baresma, the wisdom of the tongue, the holy spells, the speech, the deeds, the libations, and the rightly- spoken words ". ^ Doubtful. 2 The rain. ^ In his disguise as a horse ; § 18, * See Vend., pp. 3, 5, note 2. ^ Numa; see Etudes Iraniennes, II, 124. ^ Cf. p. 47. K. 94 YA5'TS AND SIROZAHS 'Ye;2he hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda .... II. 4. ' We sacrifice unto Ti^trya, the bright and glorious star, who is the seed of the waters, powerful, tall, and strong, whose light goes afar ; powerful and highly^ working, through whom the brightness and the seed of the waters come from the high Apam Napa/^. ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard .... 'o III. 5. * We sacrifice unto Tirtrya, the bright and glo- rious star ; for whom long ^ flocks and herds and men. looking forward for him and deceived in their hope*: "When shall we see him rise up, the bright and glorious star Ti^trya ? When will the springs run with waves as thick as a horse's size and still thicker ? Or will they never come ?" ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard .... IV. 6.
2m rise up, the bright and glorious star Ti^trya ? When will the springs run with waves as thick as a horse's size and still thicker ? Or will they never come ?" ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard .... IV. 6. 'We sacrifice unto Tii-trya, the bright and glo- rious star ; who flies, towards the sea Vouru-Kasha ^, as swiftly as the arrow darted through the heavenly ^ Powerfully. ^ Or, 'through whom the beauty of the waters comes from Bereza, and their seed from Apfun Napa/.' Bereza, the high, the tall, an epithet of Apam Napa/, became one of his names (Ized Bor^ ; cf. § 34) ; for Apam Napa/, see above, p. 6, note i. ^ Paiti^marewti ; cf. Yt. V, 123. * Or better, ' in their looking.' ° See above, p. 54, note 6. A TIR YAST. 95 Space \ which Erekhsha ^, the swift archer, the Arya amongst the Aryas whose arrow was the swiftest, shot from Mount Khshaotha to Mount //zja.nv3.nl ^ 7. * For Ahura Mazda gave him assistance ; so did the waters and the plants ; and Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, opened a wide way unto him. ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard .... V. 8. *We sacrifice unto Ti^trya, the bright and glorious star, that afflicts the Pairikas, that vexes the Pairikas, who, in the shape of worm-stars^, fly * Mainivas^?/=mainyu-as«?^ (meaning pun minoi ^ivakih, svargasthanam, Yasna LVII, 27 [LVI, 11, 3]). ^ Erekhsha khshviwi-ishuj, in Pahlavi Avis Shivatir (see Etudes Iraniennes, II, 220), or ' Aris of the swift arrow,' was the best archer in the Iranian army. When Mino/^ihr and Afrasyab determined to make peace and to fix the boundary between Iran and Tiiran, ' it was stipulated that Arii- should ascend Mount Damavand, and from thence discharge an arrow towards the east ; and that the place in which the arrow fell should form the boundary between the two kingdoms. Axis thereupon ascended the mountain, and discharged towards the east an arrow, the flight of which continued from the dawn of day until noon, when it fell on the banks of the Gihun (the Oxus),' (Mirkhond, History of the Early Kings of Persia, trans, by David Shea, p. 175; cf. Noeldeke, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, i88i, p. 445.) ^ Mount Khshaotha seems to be the same as Mount Damavand (see preceding note) ; Mount ffvanvan/ may be the same as Mount B ami an, from which the Balkh river springs, as according to Tabari (trans, by Noeldeke, 1. 1.), Ans' arrow stopped at the Balkh river (an affluent of the Oxus).
3be the same as Mount Damavand (see preceding note) ; Mount ffvanvan/ may be the same as Mount B ami an, from which the Balkh river springs, as according to Tabari (trans, by Noeldeke, 1. 1.), Ans' arrow stopped at the Balkh river (an affluent of the Oxus). But it may be that the limits given refer to the course of Tijtrya; cf § 38, text and note. * Doubtful. Shooting stars are alluded to. IMr. Geiger remarks that there is a swarm of shooting stars falling every year just at the time when Tijtrya, in the European climate, is supposed to be most active, on the loth of August. 96 YA^TS AND SIROZAHS. between the earth and the heavens, in the sea Vouru-Kasha, the powerful sea, the large-sized, deep sea of salt^ waters. He goes to its lake in the shape of a horse, in a holy shape ; and down there he makes the waters boil over, and the winds flow above powerfully all around. 9. * Then Satavaesa ^ makes those waters flow down to the seven Karshvares of the earth ^, and when he has arrived down there, he stands, beau- tiful, spreading ease and joy on the fertile countries (thinking in himself): " How shall the countries of the Aryas grow fertile ? " * For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard .... VI. 10. ' We sacrifice unto Ti^trya, the bright and glo- rious star, who spake unto Ahura Mazda, saying : " Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! IT. ' " If men would worship me with a sacrifice in which I were invoked by my own name, as they worship the other Yazatas with sacrifices in which they are invoked by their own names, then I should have come to the faithful at the appointed time*; I should have come in the appointed time of my ^ See above, p. 66, note 3. ^ Satavaesa is said to be the leader of the western stars (to be read southern stars, Bund. II, 7), and has in its protection the seas of the southern quarter (ibid. XIII, 12); the Satavaesa sea is the Persian gulf. ^ This seems to be an allusion to the tide in the Arabian sea (the sea Vouru-Kasha) and in the gulf of Oman, which, being a southern sea, is under the control of Satavaesa (cf. preceding note and Vend. V, 18, note i). * At the right time of the year when rain is expected. t{r vast. 97 beautiful, immortal life\ should it be one night, or two nights, or fifty, or a hundred nights." 12. 'We sacrifice unto Tii'trya ; * We sacrifice unto the rains of Ti^trya ^. *We sacrifice unto the first star^; we sacrifice unto the rains of the first star.
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.
1orward ^, ^ "Eva S' dcrrepa npo ndvTcov, olov (})v\aKa Koi Trpoonrrjp fyKarearrjae, top 2(ipiop (Plutarchus, de Iside et Osiride, § 47 ; cf. infra, § 48). ^ Sirozah I, 13. TIR VAST. 93 Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification. Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holi- ness .... I. 1. Ahiira Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathui-tra, saying : ' We worship the lordship and mastership [of Ti^trya], whereby he protects ^ the Moon, the dwelling, the food, when my glorious stars come along and impart their gifts ^ to men. I will sacri- fice unto the star Tijtrya, that gives the fields their share [of waters]. 2. ' We offer up libations unto Tij-trya, the bright and glorious star, that gives happy dwelling and good dwelling ; the white, shining, seen afar, and piercing ; the health-bringing, loud-snorting ^, and high, piercing from afar with its shining, undefiled rays ; and unto the waters of the wide sea, the Van- guhi of wide renown ^, and the species ^ of the Bull, made by Mazda, the awful kingly Glory, and the Fravashi of the holy Spitama Zarathui-tra. 3. ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard, namely, unto the star Ti.ytrya. ' Unto Ti^trya, the bright and glorious star, we offer up the libations, the Haoma and meat, the baresma, the wisdom of the tongue, the holy spells, the speech, the deeds, the libations, and the rightly- spoken words ". ^ Doubtful. 2 The rain. ^ In his disguise as a horse ; § 18, * See Vend., pp. 3, 5, note 2. ^ Numa; see Etudes Iraniennes, II, 124. ^ Cf. p. 47. K. 94 YA5'TS AND SIROZAHS 'Ye;2he hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda .... II. 4. ' We sacrifice unto Ti^trya, the bright and glorious star, who is the seed of the waters, powerful, tall, and strong, whose light goes afar ; powerful and highly^ working, through whom the brightness and the seed of the waters come from the high Apam Napa/^. ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard .... 'o III. 5. * We sacrifice unto Tirtrya, the bright and glo- rious star ; for whom long ^ flocks and herds and men. looking forward for him and deceived in their hope*: "When shall we see him rise up, the bright and glorious star Ti^trya ? When will the springs run with waves as thick as a horse's size and still thicker ? Or will they never come ?" ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard .... IV. 6.
2m rise up, the bright and glorious star Ti^trya ? When will the springs run with waves as thick as a horse's size and still thicker ? Or will they never come ?" ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard .... IV. 6. 'We sacrifice unto Tii-trya, the bright and glo- rious star ; who flies, towards the sea Vouru-Kasha ^, as swiftly as the arrow darted through the heavenly ^ Powerfully. ^ Or, 'through whom the beauty of the waters comes from Bereza, and their seed from Apfun Napa/.' Bereza, the high, the tall, an epithet of Apam Napa/, became one of his names (Ized Bor^ ; cf. § 34) ; for Apam Napa/, see above, p. 6, note i. ^ Paiti^marewti ; cf. Yt. V, 123. * Or better, ' in their looking.' ° See above, p. 54, note 6. A TIR YAST. 95 Space \ which Erekhsha ^, the swift archer, the Arya amongst the Aryas whose arrow was the swiftest, shot from Mount Khshaotha to Mount //zja.nv3.nl ^ 7. * For Ahura Mazda gave him assistance ; so did the waters and the plants ; and Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, opened a wide way unto him. ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard .... V. 8. *We sacrifice unto Ti^trya, the bright and glorious star, that afflicts the Pairikas, that vexes the Pairikas, who, in the shape of worm-stars^, fly * Mainivas^?/=mainyu-as«?^ (meaning pun minoi ^ivakih, svargasthanam, Yasna LVII, 27 [LVI, 11, 3]). ^ Erekhsha khshviwi-ishuj, in Pahlavi Avis Shivatir (see Etudes Iraniennes, II, 220), or ' Aris of the swift arrow,' was the best archer in the Iranian army. When Mino/^ihr and Afrasyab determined to make peace and to fix the boundary between Iran and Tiiran, ' it was stipulated that Arii- should ascend Mount Damavand, and from thence discharge an arrow towards the east ; and that the place in which the arrow fell should form the boundary between the two kingdoms. Axis thereupon ascended the mountain, and discharged towards the east an arrow, the flight of which continued from the dawn of day until noon, when it fell on the banks of the Gihun (the Oxus),' (Mirkhond, History of the Early Kings of Persia, trans, by David Shea, p. 175; cf. Noeldeke, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, i88i, p. 445.) ^ Mount Khshaotha seems to be the same as Mount Damavand (see preceding note) ; Mount ffvanvan/ may be the same as Mount B ami an, from which the Balkh river springs, as according to Tabari (trans, by Noeldeke, 1. 1.), Ans' arrow stopped at the Balkh river (an affluent of the Oxus).
3be the same as Mount Damavand (see preceding note) ; Mount ffvanvan/ may be the same as Mount B ami an, from which the Balkh river springs, as according to Tabari (trans, by Noeldeke, 1. 1.), Ans' arrow stopped at the Balkh river (an affluent of the Oxus). But it may be that the limits given refer to the course of Tijtrya; cf § 38, text and note. * Doubtful. Shooting stars are alluded to. IMr. Geiger remarks that there is a swarm of shooting stars falling every year just at the time when Tijtrya, in the European climate, is supposed to be most active, on the loth of August. 96 YA^TS AND SIROZAHS. between the earth and the heavens, in the sea Vouru-Kasha, the powerful sea, the large-sized, deep sea of salt^ waters. He goes to its lake in the shape of a horse, in a holy shape ; and down there he makes the waters boil over, and the winds flow above powerfully all around. 9. * Then Satavaesa ^ makes those waters flow down to the seven Karshvares of the earth ^, and when he has arrived down there, he stands, beau- tiful, spreading ease and joy on the fertile countries (thinking in himself): " How shall the countries of the Aryas grow fertile ? " * For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard .... VI. 10. ' We sacrifice unto Ti^trya, the bright and glo- rious star, who spake unto Ahura Mazda, saying : " Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! IT. ' " If men would worship me with a sacrifice in which I were invoked by my own name, as they worship the other Yazatas with sacrifices in which they are invoked by their own names, then I should have come to the faithful at the appointed time*; I should have come in the appointed time of my ^ See above, p. 66, note 3. ^ Satavaesa is said to be the leader of the western stars (to be read southern stars, Bund. II, 7), and has in its protection the seas of the southern quarter (ibid. XIII, 12); the Satavaesa sea is the Persian gulf. ^ This seems to be an allusion to the tide in the Arabian sea (the sea Vouru-Kasha) and in the gulf of Oman, which, being a southern sea, is under the control of Satavaesa (cf. preceding note and Vend. V, 18, note i). * At the right time of the year when rain is expected. t{r vast. 97 beautiful, immortal life\ should it be one night, or two nights, or fifty, or a hundred nights." 12. 'We sacrifice unto Tii'trya ; * We sacrifice unto the rains of Ti^trya ^. *We sacrifice unto the first star^; we sacrifice unto the rains of the first star.
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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