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1passed over to his rival (Shah Namah, Ardashir; Kar Namaki Artachshir, tr. Noeldeke, p. 45}. 2^8 YASTS AND SIROZAHS. •vD' 25. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, came to him the ninth time, running in the shape of a beautiful, fighting buck, with sharp horns. Thus did Verethraghna come, bearing the good Glory made by Mazda, the Glory made by Mazda .... X. 26. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura. Zarathujftra asked Ahura Mazda: 'Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One ! ' Who is the best-armed of the heavenly gods?' Ahura Mazda answered : 'It is Verethraghna, made by Ahura, O Spitama Zarathu^tra !' 27. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, came to him the tenth time, running in the shape of a man, bright and beautiful, made by Mazda: he held a sword with a golden blade, inlaid with all sorts of ornaments. Thus did Verethraghna come, bearing the good Glory made by Mazda, the Glory made by Mazda .... XI. 28. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura, who makes virility, who makes death, who makes resurrection, who possesses peace, who has a free way. Unto him did the holy Zarathu^-tra offer up a sacrifice, [asking] for victorious thinking, victorious speaking, victorious doing, victorious addressing, and victorious answering. 29. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, gave him the BAH RAM YAS-T. 239 fountains of manliness ^ the strength of the arms, the health of the whole body, the sturdiness of the whole body, and the eye-sight of the Kara fish ^ that lives beneath the waters and can measure =^ a rippling of the water, not thicker than a hair, in the Rangha whose ends lie afar, whose depth is a thou- sand times the height of a man ^. For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard .... XII. 30. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura, who makes virility, who makes death, who makes resurrection, who possesses peace, who has a free way. Unto him did the holy Zarathu^tra offer up a sacrifice, [asking] for victorious thinking, victorious speaking, victorious doing, victorious addressing, and victorious answering. 31. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, gave him the fountains of manliness, the strength of the arms, the health of the whole body, the sturdiness of the whole body, and the eye-sight of the male horse, that, in the dark of the night, in its first half ^ and through the rain, can perceive a horse's hair lying on the ground and knows whether it is from the head or from the tail *'. 1 Erezi, Pahl. gond (Old Zand-Pahlavi Dictionary, p. 11). 2 See Vendidad XIX, 42.
2the dark of the night, in its first half ^ and through the rain, can perceive a horse's hair lying on the ground and knows whether it is from the head or from the tail *'. 1 Erezi, Pahl. gond (Old Zand-Pahlavi Dictionary, p. 11). 2 See Vendidad XIX, 42. ' Possibly, perceive. * Cf. Yt. XVI, 7, and Bundahij XVIII, 6 : 'those fish . . . . know the scratch of a needle's point (or better hole) by which the water shall increase, or by which it is diminishing ' (tr. West). "^ Avakhshaityau, the night before hu-vakhsha (before the time when the light begins to grow ; midnight). « Cf Yt. XVI, 10, and Bundahi^ XIX, 32 : ' Regarding the Arab 240 YA^TS AND SIROZAHS. For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard .... 'O XIII. 32. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahiira, who makes virility, who makes death, who makes resurrection, who possesses peace, who has a free way. Unto him did the holy Zarathu5tra sacrifice, [asking] for victorious thinking, victorious speaking, victorious doing, victorious addressing, and vic- torious answermg. 33. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, gave him the fountains of virility, the strength of the arms, the health of the whole body, the sturdiness of the whole body, and the eye-sight of the vulture with a golden collar ^ that, from as far as nine districts, can perceive a piece of flesh not thicker than the fist, giving just as much light as a needle gives, as the point of a needle gives 2. For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard .... XIV. 34. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura. Zarathu^tra asked Ahura Mazda : * Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One ! horse, they say that if, in a dark night, a single hair occurs on the ground, he sees it ' (tr. West). 1 Possibly the Gypaetus, the vautour dore, 2 ' Even from his highest flight, he (the vulture) sees when flesh the size of a fist is on the ground' (Bund. XIX, 31 ; tr.West). Cf. Horapollo (I, ii). BAH RAM VAST. 24 1 * If I have a curse thrown upon me, a spell told upon me by the many men who hate me, what is the remedy for it ? ' 35. Ahura Mazda answered : ' Take thou a feather of that bird with . . . .^ feathers, the Vare;^fana, O Spitama Zarathu^-tra ! With that feather thou shalt rub thy own body^ with that feather thou shalt curse back thy enemies. 36. ' If a man holds a bone of that strong bird, or a feather of that strong bird, no one can smite or turn to flight that fortunate man.
3a Zarathu^-tra ! With that feather thou shalt rub thy own body^ with that feather thou shalt curse back thy enemies. 36. ' If a man holds a bone of that strong bird, or a feather of that strong bird, no one can smite or turn to flight that fortunate man. The feather of that bird of birds brings him help ; it brings unto him the homage of men, it maintains in him his glory. 7,y. 'Then the sovereign, the lord of countries, will no longer kill his^ hundreds, though he is a killer of men ; the ...."* will not kill at one stroke ; he alone smites and goes forwards. 38. ' All tremble before him who holds the feather, they tremble therefore before me ; all my enemies tremble before me and fear my strength and victorious force and the fierceness established in my body. 39. 'He^ carries the chariot of the lords; he carries the chariots of the lordly ones, the chariots of the sovereigns. He carried the chariot of Kavi ^ Pesho-parena. The Varew^ana is the same bird as the Vara- ghna, the raven. 2 The feather of the Varew^ana plays here the same part as the Simurgh's feather in the Shah Namah. When Riadabah's flank was opened to bring forth Rustem, her wound was healed by rubbing it with a Simurgh's feather ; Rustem, wounded to death by Isfendyar, was cured in the same manner. ^ Of him who holds that feather. * ? Vaesaepa. ' That bird. [23] R 242 YAS-TS AND SIROZAHS Usa^ ; upon his wings runs the male horse ^ runs the burden-bearing camel, runs the water of the river. 40. ' Him rode the gallant Thraetaona, who smote Az'i Dahaka, the three-mouthed, the three-headed, the six-eyed, who had a thousand senses ; that most powerful, fiendish Dru^, that demon, baleful to the world, the strongest Dru^ that Angra Mainyu created against the material world, to destroy the world of the good principled ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard .... XV. 41. 'We sacrifice to Verethraghna, made by Ahura. ' Verethraghna confounds the glory of this house with its wealth in cattle. He is like that great bird, the Saena * ; he is like the big clouds, full of water, that beat the mountains. ' For his brightness and glory, I will oflfer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard .... XVI. 42.
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Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1passed over to his rival (Shah Namah, Ardashir; Kar Namaki Artachshir, tr. Noeldeke, p. 45}. 2^8 YASTS AND SIROZAHS. •vD' 25. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, came to him the ninth time, running in the shape of a beautiful, fighting buck, with sharp horns. Thus did Verethraghna come, bearing the good Glory made by Mazda, the Glory made by Mazda .... X. 26. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura. Zarathujftra asked Ahura Mazda: 'Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One ! ' Who is the best-armed of the heavenly gods?' Ahura Mazda answered : 'It is Verethraghna, made by Ahura, O Spitama Zarathu^tra !' 27. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, came to him the tenth time, running in the shape of a man, bright and beautiful, made by Mazda: he held a sword with a golden blade, inlaid with all sorts of ornaments. Thus did Verethraghna come, bearing the good Glory made by Mazda, the Glory made by Mazda .... XI. 28. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura, who makes virility, who makes death, who makes resurrection, who possesses peace, who has a free way. Unto him did the holy Zarathu^-tra offer up a sacrifice, [asking] for victorious thinking, victorious speaking, victorious doing, victorious addressing, and victorious answering. 29. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, gave him the BAH RAM YAS-T. 239 fountains of manliness ^ the strength of the arms, the health of the whole body, the sturdiness of the whole body, and the eye-sight of the Kara fish ^ that lives beneath the waters and can measure =^ a rippling of the water, not thicker than a hair, in the Rangha whose ends lie afar, whose depth is a thou- sand times the height of a man ^. For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard .... XII. 30. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura, who makes virility, who makes death, who makes resurrection, who possesses peace, who has a free way. Unto him did the holy Zarathu^tra offer up a sacrifice, [asking] for victorious thinking, victorious speaking, victorious doing, victorious addressing, and victorious answering. 31. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, gave him the fountains of manliness, the strength of the arms, the health of the whole body, the sturdiness of the whole body, and the eye-sight of the male horse, that, in the dark of the night, in its first half ^ and through the rain, can perceive a horse's hair lying on the ground and knows whether it is from the head or from the tail *'. 1 Erezi, Pahl. gond (Old Zand-Pahlavi Dictionary, p. 11). 2 See Vendidad XIX, 42.
2the dark of the night, in its first half ^ and through the rain, can perceive a horse's hair lying on the ground and knows whether it is from the head or from the tail *'. 1 Erezi, Pahl. gond (Old Zand-Pahlavi Dictionary, p. 11). 2 See Vendidad XIX, 42. ' Possibly, perceive. * Cf. Yt. XVI, 7, and Bundahij XVIII, 6 : 'those fish . . . . know the scratch of a needle's point (or better hole) by which the water shall increase, or by which it is diminishing ' (tr. West). "^ Avakhshaityau, the night before hu-vakhsha (before the time when the light begins to grow ; midnight). « Cf Yt. XVI, 10, and Bundahi^ XIX, 32 : ' Regarding the Arab 240 YA^TS AND SIROZAHS. For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard .... 'O XIII. 32. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahiira, who makes virility, who makes death, who makes resurrection, who possesses peace, who has a free way. Unto him did the holy Zarathu5tra sacrifice, [asking] for victorious thinking, victorious speaking, victorious doing, victorious addressing, and vic- torious answermg. 33. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, gave him the fountains of virility, the strength of the arms, the health of the whole body, the sturdiness of the whole body, and the eye-sight of the vulture with a golden collar ^ that, from as far as nine districts, can perceive a piece of flesh not thicker than the fist, giving just as much light as a needle gives, as the point of a needle gives 2. For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard .... XIV. 34. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura. Zarathu^tra asked Ahura Mazda : * Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One ! horse, they say that if, in a dark night, a single hair occurs on the ground, he sees it ' (tr. West). 1 Possibly the Gypaetus, the vautour dore, 2 ' Even from his highest flight, he (the vulture) sees when flesh the size of a fist is on the ground' (Bund. XIX, 31 ; tr.West). Cf. Horapollo (I, ii). BAH RAM VAST. 24 1 * If I have a curse thrown upon me, a spell told upon me by the many men who hate me, what is the remedy for it ? ' 35. Ahura Mazda answered : ' Take thou a feather of that bird with . . . .^ feathers, the Vare;^fana, O Spitama Zarathu^-tra ! With that feather thou shalt rub thy own body^ with that feather thou shalt curse back thy enemies. 36. ' If a man holds a bone of that strong bird, or a feather of that strong bird, no one can smite or turn to flight that fortunate man.
3a Zarathu^-tra ! With that feather thou shalt rub thy own body^ with that feather thou shalt curse back thy enemies. 36. ' If a man holds a bone of that strong bird, or a feather of that strong bird, no one can smite or turn to flight that fortunate man. The feather of that bird of birds brings him help ; it brings unto him the homage of men, it maintains in him his glory. 7,y. 'Then the sovereign, the lord of countries, will no longer kill his^ hundreds, though he is a killer of men ; the ...."* will not kill at one stroke ; he alone smites and goes forwards. 38. ' All tremble before him who holds the feather, they tremble therefore before me ; all my enemies tremble before me and fear my strength and victorious force and the fierceness established in my body. 39. 'He^ carries the chariot of the lords; he carries the chariots of the lordly ones, the chariots of the sovereigns. He carried the chariot of Kavi ^ Pesho-parena. The Varew^ana is the same bird as the Vara- ghna, the raven. 2 The feather of the Varew^ana plays here the same part as the Simurgh's feather in the Shah Namah. When Riadabah's flank was opened to bring forth Rustem, her wound was healed by rubbing it with a Simurgh's feather ; Rustem, wounded to death by Isfendyar, was cured in the same manner. ^ Of him who holds that feather. * ? Vaesaepa. ' That bird. [23] R 242 YAS-TS AND SIROZAHS Usa^ ; upon his wings runs the male horse ^ runs the burden-bearing camel, runs the water of the river. 40. ' Him rode the gallant Thraetaona, who smote Az'i Dahaka, the three-mouthed, the three-headed, the six-eyed, who had a thousand senses ; that most powerful, fiendish Dru^, that demon, baleful to the world, the strongest Dru^ that Angra Mainyu created against the material world, to destroy the world of the good principled ' For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard .... XV. 41. 'We sacrifice to Verethraghna, made by Ahura. ' Verethraghna confounds the glory of this house with its wealth in cattle. He is like that great bird, the Saena * ; he is like the big clouds, full of water, that beat the mountains. ' For his brightness and glory, I will oflfer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard .... XVI. 42.
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