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1d destroy at one stroke our adversaries, our enemies, and those who hate us ^ ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard .... XXIX. 115. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake. * O Mithra, lord of wide pastures ! thou master of the house, of the borough, of the town, of the country, thou ZarathuJtrotema*! 1 16. 'Mithra is twentyfold^ between two friends or two relations; ' Mithra is thirtyfold between two men of the same groups; * Mithra is fortyfold between two partners '^; ^ When it clashes with another. ^ Kahvan. « SeeYt. V, 53; X, 11, 94. * The chief of the sacerdotal order, the so-called Maubedan- maused. ^ Or 'the contract is twentyfold ....,' that is, twenty times more strictly binding than between any two strangers. This pas- sage is one of the most important of the Avesta, as a short account of the social constitution and morals of Zoroastrian Iran. * Of the same gild (svapahkti, ap. Neriosengh). '' Hadha-gaetha, co-proprietors of a ga6tha (a rural estate). 150 YA,STS AND SIROZAHS. ' Mithra is fiftyfold between wife and husband i; 'Mithra is sixtyfold between two pupils (of the same master) ; 'Mithra is seventyfold between the pupil and his master ; ' Mithra is eightyfold between the son-in-law and his father-in-law ; ' Mithra is ninetyfold between two brothers ; 117.' Mithra is a hundredfold between the father and the son ; 'Mithra is a thousandfold between two nations 2; 'Mithra is ten thousandfold when connected with the Law of Mazda ^ and then he will be every day * of victorious strength ^. 118. 'May I come unto thee with a prayer that goes lowly or goes highly! As this sun rises up above the Hara Berezaiti and then fulfils its career, so may I, O Spitama! with a prayer that goes lowly or goes highly, rise up above the will of the fiend Angra MainyuM ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard .... XXX. 119, 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake. ' Offer up a sacrifice unto Mithra, O Spitama ! and order thy pupils to do the same. 1 Doubtful. ^ A fair recognition of the jus gentium. 3 The contract between the faithful and the Law, the cove- nant (?). ^ Reading [hjamahe ayan. ^ The last clause is doubtful ; the text is corrupt. ^ Prayer follows Mithra in his career, rising and setting with him. MIHIR YAST.
2gnition of the jus gentium. 3 The contract between the faithful and the Law, the cove- nant (?). ^ Reading [hjamahe ayan. ^ The last clause is doubtful ; the text is corrupt. ^ Prayer follows Mithra in his career, rising and setting with him. MIHIR YAST. 151 'Let the worshipper of Mazda sacrifice unto thee ^ with small cattle, with black cattle, with flying birds, gliding forward on wings. 120. 'To Mithra all the faithful worshippers of Mazda must give strength and energy with offered and proffered Haomas, which the Zaotar proffers unto him and gives in sacrifice 2. Let the faithful man drink of the libations cleanly prepared, which if he does, If he offers them unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, Mithra will be pleased with him and without anger.' 121. Zarathu^ra asked him: 'O Ahura Mazda! how shall the faithful man drink the libations cleanly prepared, which if he does and he offers them unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, Mithra will be pleased with him and without anger?' 122. Ahura Mazda answered: 'Let them wash their bodies three days and three nights ; let them undergo thirty strokes ^ for the sacrifice and prayer unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures. Let them wash their bodies two days and two nights ; let them undergo twenty strokes for the sacrifice and prayer unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures. Let no ^ Mithra. "^ The translation of this sentence is conjectural. ^ Thirty strokes with the Sraosh6-/^arana (upazana; see Vend. Introd. V, 19); it is an expiation (akayaya^zta) which purges them from their sins and makes them fit for offering a sacrifice to Mithra. One may find in this passage the origin of the painful trials through which the adepts of the Mithriac mysteries had to go before being admitted to initiation {ovk &v ovv els alrov bwri- aaiTO Tts reXead^vm, «i ixf] 8id rivav ^ad^xav napeKdcov twv KoXdafcov Sfl^u e'auroi/ oaiov Ka\ anaO?], Suidas s. V., ap. Windischmann, iiber Mithra, 68 seq.). 'l_ A. 152 YA5TS AND SIROZAIIS man drink of these libations who does not know the staota yesnya^ : Vispe ratavo 2. ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard . . , , XXXI. 123. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake ; ' To whom Ahura Mazda offered up a sacrifice in the shining Garo-nmana ^ 124. 'With his arms Hfted up towards Immor- tality*, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, drives forward from the shining Garo-nmana, in a beautiful chariot that drives on, ever-swift, adorned with all sorts of ornaments, and made of gold.
3the shining Garo-nmana ^ 124. 'With his arms Hfted up towards Immor- tality*, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, drives forward from the shining Garo-nmana, in a beautiful chariot that drives on, ever-swift, adorned with all sorts of ornaments, and made of gold. 125. • Four stallions draw that chariot, all of the same white colour, living on heavenly food^ and undying. The hoofs of their fore-feet are shod with gold, the hoofs of their hind-feet are shod with silver; all are yoked to the same pole, and wear the yoke ^ and the cross-beams of the yoke ^, fastened with hooks" of Khshathra vairya'^ to a beautiful . . . . ^ 126. 'At his right hand drives Rashnu-Razi^ta^ the most beneficent and most well-shapen. ^ The sutud ye^t; the last chapters of the Yasna, from LVIII [LVII] to end, according to Anquetil (Zend-Avesta I, 2, 232). 2 The first words of the Visperad. ^ Paradise. * Towards the abode of the Immortals. ^ Fed with ambrosia {afx^poaiov elbap) like Poseidon's steeds (II. XIII, 35; cf Ovid, Metam. IV, 214). " Doubtful (simam/^a simoithram/i'a). ■^ Metal. See Vend. Introd. IV, 33. « Upairispata. ' See Yt. XII. MIHIR VAST. 15; * At his left hand drives the most upright A'ista \ the holy one, bearing libations in her hands, clothed with white clothes, and white herself; and the cursing thought 2 of the Law of Mazda. 127. 'Close by him drives the strong cursing thought 2 of the wise man, opposing foes in the shape of a boar, a sharp-toothed he-boar, a sharp- jawed boar, that kills at one stroke, pursuing, wrathful, with a dripping face ^ strong and swift to run, and rushing all around *. * Behind him drives Atar ^ all in a blaze, and the awful kingly Glory. 128. 'On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, stand a thousand bows well-made, with a string of cowgut ; they go through the heavenly space ^ they fall through the heavenly space upon the skulls of the Daevas. 129. ' On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, stand a thousand vulture-feathered arrows, with a golden mouth \ with a horn shaft, with a brass tail, and well-made. They go through the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space upon the skulls of the Daevas. 1 30. ' On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, stand a thousand spears well-made and sharp-piercing. They go through the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space upon the skulls of the Daevas. *On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of 1 See Yt. XVI. ^ See above, p. 12, note 13. ' Cf. Yt. X, 70.
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Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1d destroy at one stroke our adversaries, our enemies, and those who hate us ^ ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard .... XXIX. 115. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake. * O Mithra, lord of wide pastures ! thou master of the house, of the borough, of the town, of the country, thou ZarathuJtrotema*! 1 16. 'Mithra is twentyfold^ between two friends or two relations; ' Mithra is thirtyfold between two men of the same groups; * Mithra is fortyfold between two partners '^; ^ When it clashes with another. ^ Kahvan. « SeeYt. V, 53; X, 11, 94. * The chief of the sacerdotal order, the so-called Maubedan- maused. ^ Or 'the contract is twentyfold ....,' that is, twenty times more strictly binding than between any two strangers. This pas- sage is one of the most important of the Avesta, as a short account of the social constitution and morals of Zoroastrian Iran. * Of the same gild (svapahkti, ap. Neriosengh). '' Hadha-gaetha, co-proprietors of a ga6tha (a rural estate). 150 YA,STS AND SIROZAHS. ' Mithra is fiftyfold between wife and husband i; 'Mithra is sixtyfold between two pupils (of the same master) ; 'Mithra is seventyfold between the pupil and his master ; ' Mithra is eightyfold between the son-in-law and his father-in-law ; ' Mithra is ninetyfold between two brothers ; 117.' Mithra is a hundredfold between the father and the son ; 'Mithra is a thousandfold between two nations 2; 'Mithra is ten thousandfold when connected with the Law of Mazda ^ and then he will be every day * of victorious strength ^. 118. 'May I come unto thee with a prayer that goes lowly or goes highly! As this sun rises up above the Hara Berezaiti and then fulfils its career, so may I, O Spitama! with a prayer that goes lowly or goes highly, rise up above the will of the fiend Angra MainyuM ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard .... XXX. 119, 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake. ' Offer up a sacrifice unto Mithra, O Spitama ! and order thy pupils to do the same. 1 Doubtful. ^ A fair recognition of the jus gentium. 3 The contract between the faithful and the Law, the cove- nant (?). ^ Reading [hjamahe ayan. ^ The last clause is doubtful ; the text is corrupt. ^ Prayer follows Mithra in his career, rising and setting with him. MIHIR YAST.
2gnition of the jus gentium. 3 The contract between the faithful and the Law, the cove- nant (?). ^ Reading [hjamahe ayan. ^ The last clause is doubtful ; the text is corrupt. ^ Prayer follows Mithra in his career, rising and setting with him. MIHIR YAST. 151 'Let the worshipper of Mazda sacrifice unto thee ^ with small cattle, with black cattle, with flying birds, gliding forward on wings. 120. 'To Mithra all the faithful worshippers of Mazda must give strength and energy with offered and proffered Haomas, which the Zaotar proffers unto him and gives in sacrifice 2. Let the faithful man drink of the libations cleanly prepared, which if he does, If he offers them unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, Mithra will be pleased with him and without anger.' 121. Zarathu^ra asked him: 'O Ahura Mazda! how shall the faithful man drink the libations cleanly prepared, which if he does and he offers them unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, Mithra will be pleased with him and without anger?' 122. Ahura Mazda answered: 'Let them wash their bodies three days and three nights ; let them undergo thirty strokes ^ for the sacrifice and prayer unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures. Let them wash their bodies two days and two nights ; let them undergo twenty strokes for the sacrifice and prayer unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures. Let no ^ Mithra. "^ The translation of this sentence is conjectural. ^ Thirty strokes with the Sraosh6-/^arana (upazana; see Vend. Introd. V, 19); it is an expiation (akayaya^zta) which purges them from their sins and makes them fit for offering a sacrifice to Mithra. One may find in this passage the origin of the painful trials through which the adepts of the Mithriac mysteries had to go before being admitted to initiation {ovk &v ovv els alrov bwri- aaiTO Tts reXead^vm, «i ixf] 8id rivav ^ad^xav napeKdcov twv KoXdafcov Sfl^u e'auroi/ oaiov Ka\ anaO?], Suidas s. V., ap. Windischmann, iiber Mithra, 68 seq.). 'l_ A. 152 YA5TS AND SIROZAIIS man drink of these libations who does not know the staota yesnya^ : Vispe ratavo 2. ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard . . , , XXXI. 123. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake ; ' To whom Ahura Mazda offered up a sacrifice in the shining Garo-nmana ^ 124. 'With his arms Hfted up towards Immor- tality*, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, drives forward from the shining Garo-nmana, in a beautiful chariot that drives on, ever-swift, adorned with all sorts of ornaments, and made of gold.
3the shining Garo-nmana ^ 124. 'With his arms Hfted up towards Immor- tality*, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, drives forward from the shining Garo-nmana, in a beautiful chariot that drives on, ever-swift, adorned with all sorts of ornaments, and made of gold. 125. • Four stallions draw that chariot, all of the same white colour, living on heavenly food^ and undying. The hoofs of their fore-feet are shod with gold, the hoofs of their hind-feet are shod with silver; all are yoked to the same pole, and wear the yoke ^ and the cross-beams of the yoke ^, fastened with hooks" of Khshathra vairya'^ to a beautiful . . . . ^ 126. 'At his right hand drives Rashnu-Razi^ta^ the most beneficent and most well-shapen. ^ The sutud ye^t; the last chapters of the Yasna, from LVIII [LVII] to end, according to Anquetil (Zend-Avesta I, 2, 232). 2 The first words of the Visperad. ^ Paradise. * Towards the abode of the Immortals. ^ Fed with ambrosia {afx^poaiov elbap) like Poseidon's steeds (II. XIII, 35; cf Ovid, Metam. IV, 214). " Doubtful (simam/^a simoithram/i'a). ■^ Metal. See Vend. Introd. IV, 33. « Upairispata. ' See Yt. XII. MIHIR VAST. 15; * At his left hand drives the most upright A'ista \ the holy one, bearing libations in her hands, clothed with white clothes, and white herself; and the cursing thought 2 of the Law of Mazda. 127. 'Close by him drives the strong cursing thought 2 of the wise man, opposing foes in the shape of a boar, a sharp-toothed he-boar, a sharp- jawed boar, that kills at one stroke, pursuing, wrathful, with a dripping face ^ strong and swift to run, and rushing all around *. * Behind him drives Atar ^ all in a blaze, and the awful kingly Glory. 128. 'On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, stand a thousand bows well-made, with a string of cowgut ; they go through the heavenly space ^ they fall through the heavenly space upon the skulls of the Daevas. 129. ' On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, stand a thousand vulture-feathered arrows, with a golden mouth \ with a horn shaft, with a brass tail, and well-made. They go through the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space upon the skulls of the Daevas. 1 30. ' On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, stand a thousand spears well-made and sharp-piercing. They go through the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space upon the skulls of the Daevas. *On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of 1 See Yt. XVI. ^ See above, p. 12, note 13. ' Cf. Yt. X, 70.
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