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1e.' 57. The first wailing of the great Ashi Vanguhi is her wailing about the courtezan who destroys her fruit : ' Stand thou not near her, sit thou not on her bed!'— 'What shall I do? Shall I go back to the heavens ? Shall I sink into the earth ?' 58. The second wailing of the great Ashi Vanguhi is her wailing about the courtezan who brings forth a child conceived of a stranger and presents it to her husband : ' What shall I do ? Shall I go back to the heavens .-* Shall I sink into the earth ?' 59. This is the third wailing of the great Ashi Vanguhi : ' This is the worst deed that men and tyrants do, namely, when they deprive maids, that have been barren for a long time, of marrying and bringing forth children. What shall I do ? Shall I go back to the heavens ? Shall I sink into the earth ?' 60. Ahura Mazda answered : ' O fair and wise Ashi, go not back to the heavens, sink not into the [§§ 48-52] and the last but one clause of the Ya^t refer). She tried to flee in the way practised by Ulysses in the Cyclops' cavern ; both parties were pursuing the animal that bore her, though they knew not what it bore, till children discovered her. 282 YA-STS AND stROZAHS. earth ! Stay here and walk inside the fine kingly palace.' 6t. I shall worship thee with such a sacrifice, I shall worship and forward thee with such a sacrifice as Vii-taspa offered unto thee, behind the river Daitya ^ The Zoatar lifted up a loud voice, with baresma before him. With that sort of sacrifice shall I worship thee ? With that sort of sacrifice shall I worship and forward thee, O fair and wise Ashi ? For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth being heard .... 62. Yatha ahu vairyo : The will of the Lord is the law of holiness .... I bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and vigour of Ashi Vanguhi ; of the good TTisti ; of the good Ereth^; of the good Rasasta/; of the Glory and Weal, made by Mazda I Ashem VohA: Holiness is the best of all good .... [Give] unto that man brightness and glory, give him health of body, .... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones. ' Cf. §§ 49 seq. ' Cf. Sirozah, § 25. AST Ad vast. 283 XVIII. A6TAD YA6T. Arsti/ is Truthfulness: she is invoked in company with the Genius of Truth, Rashnu Razi^ta (Sirozah, § i8), on the day Rashn.
2ight, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones. ' Cf. §§ 49 seq. ' Cf. Sirozah, § 25. AST Ad vast. 283 XVIII. A6TAD YA6T. Arsti/ is Truthfulness: she is invoked in company with the Genius of Truth, Rashnu Razi^ta (Sirozah, § i8), on the day Rashn. On the day especially dedicated to her, the 26th day of the month, she is invoked in company with Mount Ushi-darena, which accounts for the singular fact that her Ya^t is wholly devoted to the Hv^xtno, and thus is hardly distinguishable from the Zamyad Ya^t, as Mount Ushi-darena is the actual seat of the Hvdstnb (Yt. I, 31, text and note ; cf. Yt. XIX, 66). Whence comes this particular connection of Kxsiil with Mount Ushi-darena is uncertain, unless it alludes to the fact that the possession of the HvdiXenb can be secured only through truthfulness : as soon as Yima ' began to find delight in words of falsehood and untruth,' the Hvzxtnb flew away from him (Yt. XIX, 34). o. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced ! . . . . AshemVohu: Holiness is the best of all good .... I confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathu>ftra, one who hates the Daevas and obeys the laws of Ahura; For sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto [Havani], the holy and master of holiness .... Unto the Glory of the Aryans, made by Mazda, Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification. Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness .... I. Ahura Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathui-tra, saying : ' I made the Aryan Glory, rich in food, rich in flocks, rich in wealth^, rich in Glory ; provided with full store of intelligence, with full store of money, to withstand Need, and to withstand enemies. ^ As it gives food, flocks, and wealth to those who get possessed of it. 284 YA^-TS AND SIROZAHS 2. ' It destroys Angra Mainyu, who is all death ; it destroys Aeshma, the fiend of the wounding spear^ ; it destroys the yellow Bushyasta^; it destroys the contagion^of Aekha*; it destroys the fiend of death, Apaosha^ ; it destroys the non-Aryan nations. 3. ' And I made the great Ashi Vanguhi ; she comes in, amid the family ; she comes in, inside the fine royal palace*'. 4. ' Let Ashi, with fulness of welfare, follow the man who gladdens the faithful with his gifts ^! she comes in, inside his family; she comes in, inside his fine royal palace. ' With all sorts of flocks, with all victory, with all intelligence, with all Glory, the great Ashi Vanguhi puts one foot^ inside his family ; she comes in, inside his fine royal palace. 5.
3in, inside his family; she comes in, inside his fine royal palace. ' With all sorts of flocks, with all victory, with all intelligence, with all Glory, the great Ashi Vanguhi puts one foot^ inside his family ; she comes in, inside his fine royal palace. 5. ' Horses multiply a thousandfold, flocks multi- ply a thousandfold; and so does his virtuous off- spring, (as) the bright, glorious star Ti^trya moves on equally^ and so does the strong wind made by Mazda, and so does the Glory of the Aryas. 6. 'And they bring increase on the tops of all mountains, down the depths of all vales ; they bring increase to all the growing plants '^ the fair, the golden-hued. And they bring (away)^^ the contagion 1 See Vendidad, Introd. IV, 22. 2 Ibid. Introd. IV, 24. ^ Doubtful. * ? A daeva or a disease. ^ See Yt. VIII, 22. « See Yt. XVII. "^ Who gives alms to the poor Mazdayasnians. 8 Even one foot(?), when she stays not there 'for long friend- ship' (Yt. XVII, 6). 9 So that the rain falls in due time (Yt. VIII, 11). 10 Cf. Yt. VIII, 29. " Cf. § 2. A^TAD YAST. 285 of Aekha, they bring (away) the fiend of death, Apaosha. 7. ' Hail to the bright and glorious star Ti^trya ! Hail to the strong wind, made by Mazda ! Hail to the Glory of the Aryas ! ' Yatha ahft vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness .... 'Ashem Vohu : Holiness is the best of all good .... 8. ' We worship the Ahuna Vairya. ' We worship Asha-Vahi^ta, the fairest Amesha- Spe;^ta. * We worship the rightly-spoken Words\ fiend- smiting and healing. ' We worship the healing, well-spoken Words, the fiend-smitingr. ' We worship the Mathra Spe;^ta and the Law of Mazda, and (piety) that delights in Haoma^. ' We worship the Glory of the Aryas. ' Yewhe hatam : All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda .... 9. 'Yatha ahii vairyo : The will of the Lord is the law of holiness .... ' I bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and vigour of the Glory of the Aryas, made by Mazda. 'Ashem Vohii : Holiness is the best of all good .... '[Give] unto that man^ brightness and glory, .... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones.* ^ Arshukhdha va.k6, the words conformable to the rites. ^ Haoma/^inem; see Etudes Iraniennes, II, 148. ^ Who shall have sacrificed to the Aryan Glory. 286 YA^'TS AND siROZAHS. XIX. ZAMYAD YA^'T.
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1e.' 57. The first wailing of the great Ashi Vanguhi is her wailing about the courtezan who destroys her fruit : ' Stand thou not near her, sit thou not on her bed!'— 'What shall I do? Shall I go back to the heavens ? Shall I sink into the earth ?' 58. The second wailing of the great Ashi Vanguhi is her wailing about the courtezan who brings forth a child conceived of a stranger and presents it to her husband : ' What shall I do ? Shall I go back to the heavens .-* Shall I sink into the earth ?' 59. This is the third wailing of the great Ashi Vanguhi : ' This is the worst deed that men and tyrants do, namely, when they deprive maids, that have been barren for a long time, of marrying and bringing forth children. What shall I do ? Shall I go back to the heavens ? Shall I sink into the earth ?' 60. Ahura Mazda answered : ' O fair and wise Ashi, go not back to the heavens, sink not into the [§§ 48-52] and the last but one clause of the Ya^t refer). She tried to flee in the way practised by Ulysses in the Cyclops' cavern ; both parties were pursuing the animal that bore her, though they knew not what it bore, till children discovered her. 282 YA-STS AND stROZAHS. earth ! Stay here and walk inside the fine kingly palace.' 6t. I shall worship thee with such a sacrifice, I shall worship and forward thee with such a sacrifice as Vii-taspa offered unto thee, behind the river Daitya ^ The Zoatar lifted up a loud voice, with baresma before him. With that sort of sacrifice shall I worship thee ? With that sort of sacrifice shall I worship and forward thee, O fair and wise Ashi ? For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth being heard .... 62. Yatha ahu vairyo : The will of the Lord is the law of holiness .... I bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and vigour of Ashi Vanguhi ; of the good TTisti ; of the good Ereth^; of the good Rasasta/; of the Glory and Weal, made by Mazda I Ashem VohA: Holiness is the best of all good .... [Give] unto that man brightness and glory, give him health of body, .... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones. ' Cf. §§ 49 seq. ' Cf. Sirozah, § 25. AST Ad vast. 283 XVIII. A6TAD YA6T. Arsti/ is Truthfulness: she is invoked in company with the Genius of Truth, Rashnu Razi^ta (Sirozah, § i8), on the day Rashn.
2ight, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones. ' Cf. §§ 49 seq. ' Cf. Sirozah, § 25. AST Ad vast. 283 XVIII. A6TAD YA6T. Arsti/ is Truthfulness: she is invoked in company with the Genius of Truth, Rashnu Razi^ta (Sirozah, § i8), on the day Rashn. On the day especially dedicated to her, the 26th day of the month, she is invoked in company with Mount Ushi-darena, which accounts for the singular fact that her Ya^t is wholly devoted to the Hv^xtno, and thus is hardly distinguishable from the Zamyad Ya^t, as Mount Ushi-darena is the actual seat of the Hvdstnb (Yt. I, 31, text and note ; cf. Yt. XIX, 66). Whence comes this particular connection of Kxsiil with Mount Ushi-darena is uncertain, unless it alludes to the fact that the possession of the HvdiXenb can be secured only through truthfulness : as soon as Yima ' began to find delight in words of falsehood and untruth,' the Hvzxtnb flew away from him (Yt. XIX, 34). o. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced ! . . . . AshemVohu: Holiness is the best of all good .... I confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathu>ftra, one who hates the Daevas and obeys the laws of Ahura; For sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto [Havani], the holy and master of holiness .... Unto the Glory of the Aryans, made by Mazda, Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification. Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness .... I. Ahura Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathui-tra, saying : ' I made the Aryan Glory, rich in food, rich in flocks, rich in wealth^, rich in Glory ; provided with full store of intelligence, with full store of money, to withstand Need, and to withstand enemies. ^ As it gives food, flocks, and wealth to those who get possessed of it. 284 YA^-TS AND SIROZAHS 2. ' It destroys Angra Mainyu, who is all death ; it destroys Aeshma, the fiend of the wounding spear^ ; it destroys the yellow Bushyasta^; it destroys the contagion^of Aekha*; it destroys the fiend of death, Apaosha^ ; it destroys the non-Aryan nations. 3. ' And I made the great Ashi Vanguhi ; she comes in, amid the family ; she comes in, inside the fine royal palace*'. 4. ' Let Ashi, with fulness of welfare, follow the man who gladdens the faithful with his gifts ^! she comes in, inside his family; she comes in, inside his fine royal palace. ' With all sorts of flocks, with all victory, with all intelligence, with all Glory, the great Ashi Vanguhi puts one foot^ inside his family ; she comes in, inside his fine royal palace. 5.
3in, inside his family; she comes in, inside his fine royal palace. ' With all sorts of flocks, with all victory, with all intelligence, with all Glory, the great Ashi Vanguhi puts one foot^ inside his family ; she comes in, inside his fine royal palace. 5. ' Horses multiply a thousandfold, flocks multi- ply a thousandfold; and so does his virtuous off- spring, (as) the bright, glorious star Ti^trya moves on equally^ and so does the strong wind made by Mazda, and so does the Glory of the Aryas. 6. 'And they bring increase on the tops of all mountains, down the depths of all vales ; they bring increase to all the growing plants '^ the fair, the golden-hued. And they bring (away)^^ the contagion 1 See Vendidad, Introd. IV, 22. 2 Ibid. Introd. IV, 24. ^ Doubtful. * ? A daeva or a disease. ^ See Yt. VIII, 22. « See Yt. XVII. "^ Who gives alms to the poor Mazdayasnians. 8 Even one foot(?), when she stays not there 'for long friend- ship' (Yt. XVII, 6). 9 So that the rain falls in due time (Yt. VIII, 11). 10 Cf. Yt. VIII, 29. " Cf. § 2. A^TAD YAST. 285 of Aekha, they bring (away) the fiend of death, Apaosha. 7. ' Hail to the bright and glorious star Ti^trya ! Hail to the strong wind, made by Mazda ! Hail to the Glory of the Aryas ! ' Yatha ahft vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness .... 'Ashem Vohu : Holiness is the best of all good .... 8. ' We worship the Ahuna Vairya. ' We worship Asha-Vahi^ta, the fairest Amesha- Spe;^ta. * We worship the rightly-spoken Words\ fiend- smiting and healing. ' We worship the healing, well-spoken Words, the fiend-smitingr. ' We worship the Mathra Spe;^ta and the Law of Mazda, and (piety) that delights in Haoma^. ' We worship the Glory of the Aryas. ' Yewhe hatam : All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda .... 9. 'Yatha ahii vairyo : The will of the Lord is the law of holiness .... ' I bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and vigour of the Glory of the Aryas, made by Mazda. 'Ashem Vohii : Holiness is the best of all good .... '[Give] unto that man^ brightness and glory, .... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones.* ^ Arshukhdha va.k6, the words conformable to the rites. ^ Haoma/^inem; see Etudes Iraniennes, II, 148. ^ Who shall have sacrificed to the Aryan Glory. 286 YA^'TS AND siROZAHS. XIX. ZAMYAD YA^'T.
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