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1of them, while they kill a hundred of his people. * For this clause and the following two, cf. Vend. XIX, 17 seq., text and notes. ^„ A . 334 YA5TS AND SIROZAHS. tie them up according to the rites, being bound and unbound according to the rites. ' The smallest twig of Haoma, pounded according to the rules, the smallest twig prepared for sacrifice, gives royalty to the man (who does it).' Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good .... IV. 24 ^ Zarathu^tra said : ' O young king Vi-Jtispa ! ' Invoke Ahura Mazda, who is full of Glory, Ahura Mazda, and the sovereign Heaven, the boundless Time, and Vayu who works highly. 25. ' Invoke the powerful Wind, made by Mazda, and Fate. ' Repeat thou those words, that the god invoked may give thee the boon wished for ; that thou, strong, and belonging to the creation of the good Spirit, mayest smite and take away the Dru^ and watch with full success those who hate thee ; smite down thy foes, and destroy at one stroke thy adver- saries, thy enemies, and those who hate thee ^. 26. ' Proclaim thou those prayers : they will cleanse thy body from deeds of lust^ O young king Virtaspa ! ' I will worship thee, O Fire, son of Ahura Mazda, who art a valiant warrior. He falls upon the fiend Ku/^da ^ who is drunken without drinking, upon the men of the Dru^, the slothful ones ^ the wicked Daeva-worshippers, who live in sin. 1 Cf. Vend. XIX, 13. ' Cf. Yt. V, 53. ' Paourvo vasta jaota: read jkyaothna (cf. § 40), as in Vend. XVI, 14 (paourv6-vasna j-kynothna). * Cf. Vend. XI, 9 and Bundahi^r XXVIII, 42. •^ Cf. Vend. XIX, 41 ; better : 'on the Dru^askan' (the sons of the Dru^^? see Bund. XXXI, 6). VI^TASP YAST. 335 27. 'He^ trembles at the way^ made by Time and open both to the wicked and to the righteous. ' They ^ tremble at the perfume of his soul ^ as a sheep does on which a wolf is falling. 28. ' Reciting the whole collection of the Staota Yesnya^ prayers brings one up all the way to the blessed Garo-nmana, the palace beautifully made. That indeed is the way. 29, ' That man does not follow the way of the Law, O Zarathui^tra ^ ! who commits the Baodh6-(vari"ta) crime "^ with a damsel and an old woman ^,' said Zarathu^tra to the young king Vi^taspa. * Let him^ praise the Law, O Spitama Zarathu^tra ! and long for it and embrace the whole of the Law, as an excellent horse turns back from the wrong way and goes along the right one, smiting the many Drupes ^'\ 30.
2d Zarathu^tra to the young king Vi^taspa. * Let him^ praise the Law, O Spitama Zarathu^tra ! and long for it and embrace the whole of the Law, as an excellent horse turns back from the wrong way and goes along the right one, smiting the many Drupes ^'\ 30. ' Go forward with praises, go forward the way of the good Mazdean law and of all those who walk in her ways, men and women. ^ The dead man. 2 The A"inva/-bridge (Vend. XIX, 29). * The fiends (Vend. XIX, 33). * The soul of the righteous. ^ See page 152, note i. ® The Pahlavi has, 'the way of Zarathujtra' (la Zartuh^tig ras yakhsunit). ■^ Wilful murder (Vend. p. 84, note i). * To procure miscarriage (see Vend. XV, 12-14). ° The sinner. ^" 'As a horseman on the back of a good horse, when he has gone the wrong way, perceiving that he has lost his way, turns back his horse from that direction and makes him go the right way ; so thou, turn back thy horse to the right way ; that is to say, turn him to the way of the Law of Mazda ; that is to say, receive the Law' (Pahl. Comm.). 336 YA^TS AND siROZAHS. 'He who wishes to seize the heavenly reward ^ will seize it by giving gifts to him who holds up (the Law) to us^ in this world here below ^ .... 31. 'Let him* give (the Law) to him who is unfriendly to her, that he may become friendly. 'Wash thy hands with water, not with gomez^, and let thy son, who will be born of thy wife ^, do the same. ' Thus thy thought will be powerful to smite him ^ who is not so ^ ; thy speech will be powerful to smite him, who is not so ; thy deed will be powerful to smite him. 32. ' " Hear me ! Forgive me ^ ! " — We, the Ame- sha-Spe;2tas, will come and show thee, O Zara- thu^tra ! the way to that world ^^, to long glory in the spiritual world, to long happiness of the soul in Paradise ; 33. ' To bliss and Paradise, to the Garo-nmana of Ahura Mazda, beautifully made and fully adorned, ^ Bliss, eternal life. ^ Y6 no ... . nidar6 anghe: lanman dm bara dashtar (Pahl). ' Naedh/^a vanghe paiti ujta vangho buya/; saoshyas dis verethraga. I cannot make anything of these words, nor reconcile them with the Pahlavi translation : ' It is not fair when he wishes weal for his own person ; that is to say, when, being satisfied himself, he does not satisfy other people and wishes comfort for himself. (Make the Law of Mazda current, till the time when) the victorious Soshyosh will make it current.' The last three Zend words appear to be abridged from a longer passage. * The faithful man.
3lf, he does not satisfy other people and wishes comfort for himself. (Make the Law of Mazda current, till the time when) the victorious Soshyosh will make it current.' The last three Zend words appear to be abridged from a longer passage. * The faithful man. ^ This is an allusion to the Bareshnum purification (Vend. VIII, 39). The unclean man washes himself with gom^z first and with water last. * Doubtful. "^ The sinner. * Friendly to the Law. ® He recites the prayer Sraota me, mere^data me (Yasna XXXIII, 11). '" The world above. vii^TASP YAST. 337 when his soul goes out of his body through the will of fate, when I, Ahura Mazda, when I, Ahura Mazda, gently show him his way as he asks for it. 'Ashem Vohu : Holiness is the best of all good .... V. 34. ' They ^ will impart to thee full brightness and Glory. 'They will give him^ quick ^ and swift horses, and good sons. * He wishes to go to the Law, the young king Vi^taspa.' Zarathujtra said : ' Let him who is unfriendly to her become a follower of the Law of Mazda, such as we proclaim it. 35. ' Proclaim thou ever (unto the poor) : " Ever mayest thou wait here for the refuse that is brought unto thee, brought by those who have profusion of wealth M" Thus the Dru^ will not fall upon thee and throw thee away ; thou wilt wield kingly power there ^. 36. ' The Law of Mazda will not deliver thee unto pain^ Thou art entreated (for charity) by the whole of the living world, and she "^ is ever standing at thy door in the person of thy brethren in the faith : beggars are ever standing at the door of the stranger, amongst those who beg for bread. ' The Amesha-Spewtas (see § 46). 2 To Vutaspa. » Hathwadh/^a : Pahl. ttz/Ji. * Cf. Vend. Ill, 29. ^ If he practises charity he will be a king even in Garothman. * Aspahe, from a-spa (no comfort, anasanih tangih, Pahl. Comm.). ''The Law. 338 YA5TS AND SIROZAHS. ' Ever will that bread be burning coal upon thy head \ ' The good, holy Rata 2, made by Mazda, goes and nurses thy bright offspring ^.' 37. Zarathu5tra addressed Virtaspa, saying: 'O young king Vij-taspa ! The Law of Mazda, O my son ! will give thy offspring the victorious strength that destroys the fiends. ' Let no thought of Angra Mainyu ever infect thee, so that thou shouldst indulge in evil lusts, make derision and idolatry, and shut (to the poor) the door of thy house *.
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Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1of them, while they kill a hundred of his people. * For this clause and the following two, cf. Vend. XIX, 17 seq., text and notes. ^„ A . 334 YA5TS AND SIROZAHS. tie them up according to the rites, being bound and unbound according to the rites. ' The smallest twig of Haoma, pounded according to the rules, the smallest twig prepared for sacrifice, gives royalty to the man (who does it).' Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good .... IV. 24 ^ Zarathu^tra said : ' O young king Vi-Jtispa ! ' Invoke Ahura Mazda, who is full of Glory, Ahura Mazda, and the sovereign Heaven, the boundless Time, and Vayu who works highly. 25. ' Invoke the powerful Wind, made by Mazda, and Fate. ' Repeat thou those words, that the god invoked may give thee the boon wished for ; that thou, strong, and belonging to the creation of the good Spirit, mayest smite and take away the Dru^ and watch with full success those who hate thee ; smite down thy foes, and destroy at one stroke thy adver- saries, thy enemies, and those who hate thee ^. 26. ' Proclaim thou those prayers : they will cleanse thy body from deeds of lust^ O young king Virtaspa ! ' I will worship thee, O Fire, son of Ahura Mazda, who art a valiant warrior. He falls upon the fiend Ku/^da ^ who is drunken without drinking, upon the men of the Dru^, the slothful ones ^ the wicked Daeva-worshippers, who live in sin. 1 Cf. Vend. XIX, 13. ' Cf. Yt. V, 53. ' Paourvo vasta jaota: read jkyaothna (cf. § 40), as in Vend. XVI, 14 (paourv6-vasna j-kynothna). * Cf. Vend. XI, 9 and Bundahi^r XXVIII, 42. •^ Cf. Vend. XIX, 41 ; better : 'on the Dru^askan' (the sons of the Dru^^? see Bund. XXXI, 6). VI^TASP YAST. 335 27. 'He^ trembles at the way^ made by Time and open both to the wicked and to the righteous. ' They ^ tremble at the perfume of his soul ^ as a sheep does on which a wolf is falling. 28. ' Reciting the whole collection of the Staota Yesnya^ prayers brings one up all the way to the blessed Garo-nmana, the palace beautifully made. That indeed is the way. 29, ' That man does not follow the way of the Law, O Zarathui^tra ^ ! who commits the Baodh6-(vari"ta) crime "^ with a damsel and an old woman ^,' said Zarathu^tra to the young king Vi^taspa. * Let him^ praise the Law, O Spitama Zarathu^tra ! and long for it and embrace the whole of the Law, as an excellent horse turns back from the wrong way and goes along the right one, smiting the many Drupes ^'\ 30.
2d Zarathu^tra to the young king Vi^taspa. * Let him^ praise the Law, O Spitama Zarathu^tra ! and long for it and embrace the whole of the Law, as an excellent horse turns back from the wrong way and goes along the right one, smiting the many Drupes ^'\ 30. ' Go forward with praises, go forward the way of the good Mazdean law and of all those who walk in her ways, men and women. ^ The dead man. 2 The A"inva/-bridge (Vend. XIX, 29). * The fiends (Vend. XIX, 33). * The soul of the righteous. ^ See page 152, note i. ® The Pahlavi has, 'the way of Zarathujtra' (la Zartuh^tig ras yakhsunit). ■^ Wilful murder (Vend. p. 84, note i). * To procure miscarriage (see Vend. XV, 12-14). ° The sinner. ^" 'As a horseman on the back of a good horse, when he has gone the wrong way, perceiving that he has lost his way, turns back his horse from that direction and makes him go the right way ; so thou, turn back thy horse to the right way ; that is to say, turn him to the way of the Law of Mazda ; that is to say, receive the Law' (Pahl. Comm.). 336 YA^TS AND siROZAHS. 'He who wishes to seize the heavenly reward ^ will seize it by giving gifts to him who holds up (the Law) to us^ in this world here below ^ .... 31. 'Let him* give (the Law) to him who is unfriendly to her, that he may become friendly. 'Wash thy hands with water, not with gomez^, and let thy son, who will be born of thy wife ^, do the same. ' Thus thy thought will be powerful to smite him ^ who is not so ^ ; thy speech will be powerful to smite him, who is not so ; thy deed will be powerful to smite him. 32. ' " Hear me ! Forgive me ^ ! " — We, the Ame- sha-Spe;2tas, will come and show thee, O Zara- thu^tra ! the way to that world ^^, to long glory in the spiritual world, to long happiness of the soul in Paradise ; 33. ' To bliss and Paradise, to the Garo-nmana of Ahura Mazda, beautifully made and fully adorned, ^ Bliss, eternal life. ^ Y6 no ... . nidar6 anghe: lanman dm bara dashtar (Pahl). ' Naedh/^a vanghe paiti ujta vangho buya/; saoshyas dis verethraga. I cannot make anything of these words, nor reconcile them with the Pahlavi translation : ' It is not fair when he wishes weal for his own person ; that is to say, when, being satisfied himself, he does not satisfy other people and wishes comfort for himself. (Make the Law of Mazda current, till the time when) the victorious Soshyosh will make it current.' The last three Zend words appear to be abridged from a longer passage. * The faithful man.
3lf, he does not satisfy other people and wishes comfort for himself. (Make the Law of Mazda current, till the time when) the victorious Soshyosh will make it current.' The last three Zend words appear to be abridged from a longer passage. * The faithful man. ^ This is an allusion to the Bareshnum purification (Vend. VIII, 39). The unclean man washes himself with gom^z first and with water last. * Doubtful. "^ The sinner. * Friendly to the Law. ® He recites the prayer Sraota me, mere^data me (Yasna XXXIII, 11). '" The world above. vii^TASP YAST. 337 when his soul goes out of his body through the will of fate, when I, Ahura Mazda, when I, Ahura Mazda, gently show him his way as he asks for it. 'Ashem Vohu : Holiness is the best of all good .... V. 34. ' They ^ will impart to thee full brightness and Glory. 'They will give him^ quick ^ and swift horses, and good sons. * He wishes to go to the Law, the young king Vi^taspa.' Zarathujtra said : ' Let him who is unfriendly to her become a follower of the Law of Mazda, such as we proclaim it. 35. ' Proclaim thou ever (unto the poor) : " Ever mayest thou wait here for the refuse that is brought unto thee, brought by those who have profusion of wealth M" Thus the Dru^ will not fall upon thee and throw thee away ; thou wilt wield kingly power there ^. 36. ' The Law of Mazda will not deliver thee unto pain^ Thou art entreated (for charity) by the whole of the living world, and she "^ is ever standing at thy door in the person of thy brethren in the faith : beggars are ever standing at the door of the stranger, amongst those who beg for bread. ' The Amesha-Spewtas (see § 46). 2 To Vutaspa. » Hathwadh/^a : Pahl. ttz/Ji. * Cf. Vend. Ill, 29. ^ If he practises charity he will be a king even in Garothman. * Aspahe, from a-spa (no comfort, anasanih tangih, Pahl. Comm.). ''The Law. 338 YA5TS AND SIROZAHS. ' Ever will that bread be burning coal upon thy head \ ' The good, holy Rata 2, made by Mazda, goes and nurses thy bright offspring ^.' 37. Zarathu5tra addressed Virtaspa, saying: 'O young king Vij-taspa ! The Law of Mazda, O my son ! will give thy offspring the victorious strength that destroys the fiends. ' Let no thought of Angra Mainyu ever infect thee, so that thou shouldst indulge in evil lusts, make derision and idolatry, and shut (to the poor) the door of thy house *.
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