35^ NYAYI5.
1 1 . Ye gods of full Glory, ye gods of full
healing, let your greatness become manifest! let
your assistance become manifest as soon as you are
called for ! and ye, Waters, manifest your Glory,
and impart it to the man who offers you a sacrifice.
Ashem Vohu : 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.
IV. ABAN NYAYI^-.
I. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced! ....
Unto the good Waters, made by Mazda ; unto the
holy water-spring Ardvi Anahita; unto all waters,
made by Mazda ; unto all plants, made by Mazda,
Be propitiation ^ . . . .
2 ^. Ahura Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathujtra, saying : ' Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathu^tra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita ....
3. 'Who makes the seed of all males pure, who makes the womb of all females pure for bringing forth ....
4. 'The large river, known afar, that is as large as the whole of the waters that run along the earth ....
5. 'All the shores of the sea Vouru-Kasha are boiling over, all the middle of it is boiling over, when she runs down there ....
6. 'From this river of mine alone flow all the waters that spread all over the seven Karshvares ;
7. * I, Ahura Mazda, brought it down with mighty
vigour, for the increase of the house, of the borough,
of the town, of the country^.
8. ' He from whom she will hear the staota yesnya'^; he from whom she will hear the Ahuna
1 As Aban Ya^t, o. ^ §§ 2-6 = Aban Yajt, §§ 1-5.
^ Cf. Aban Y3.st, § 6. * See above, p. 152, note i.
vairya^ he from whom she will hear the Asha-
vahi^ta^; he by whom the good waters, will be
made pure ; with the words of the holy hymns \ he
will enter first the Gar6-nmana of Ahura Mazda :
she will give him the boons asked for*.
95. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her
a sacrifice worth being heard; I will offer her a
sacrifice well-performed. Thus mayest thou advise
us when thou art appealed to! Mayest thou be
most fully worshipped.
' We sacrifice unto the holy Ardvi Sflra Anahita with libations. We sacrifice unto Ardvi Siira Anahita, the holy and master of holi- ness, with the Haoma and meat, with the baresma, with the wisdom of the tongue, with the holy spells, with the words, with the deeds, with the libations, and with the rightly-spoken words.
'Ye«he hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda ....
10. ' 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
the holy water-spring Anahita.
' [Give] unto that man brightness and glory, .... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones.'
V. Ata^- nyAyi5.
I ^ Take me out \ O Ahura ! give me perfect piety and strength ....
4^ May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced! ....
^ The Yatha ahft vairyo prayer,
"^ The Ashem Vohij prayer.
3 Cf. Yt. XXII, 2, and Yt. XXIV, 39.
* Cf. Aban Ya^t, §§ 19, 23, 27, 35, 39, 47, &c.
Cf, Aban Ya^t, § 9. 6 §§ i-3=Yasna XXXIII, 12-14.
' Deliver me from Ahriman ' (Pahl. Comm.). ^ As in Ormazd Ya^t, o.
58 NYAYI5.
Hail unto thee, O Fire, son of Ahura Mazda,
thou beneficent and most great Yazata!
^ Ash em Vohu : Holiness is the best of all good ....
I confess myself a worshipper of Mazda ....
For sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification ....
Unto Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda; unto thee Atar, son of Ahura Mazda !
5I Unto Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda; unto the
Glory and the Weal, made by Mazda; unto the Glory
of the Aryas, made by Mazda ; unto the Glory of
the Kavis, made by Mazda.
Unto Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda ; unto king
Husravah ; unto the lake of Husravah ; unto Mount
Asnava;^/*, made by Mazda; unto Lake A'ae/C'asta,
made by Mazda; unto the Glory of the Kavis, made
by Mazda.
6. Unto Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda; unto
Mount Raeva;//, made by Mazda; unto the Glory
of the Kavis, made by Mazda.
Unto Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda.
Unto Atar, the beneficent, the warrior ; the God
who is a full source of Glory, the God who is a
full source of healing.
Unto Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda, with all
Atars ; unto the God Nairyo-sangha, who dwells in
the navel of kings ;
Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glori- fication.
Yatha ahft vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness ....
7 2. I bless the sacrifice and invocation, and the
' As in Ormazd Ya.st, o. ^ Cf. Sirozah, § 9.
^ §§7-i6=Yasna LXII, i-io (LXI). See the Sanskrit transla- tion in Etudes Iraniennes, II.
At as Nyayw. 359
good offering, the beneficent offering, the offering of
assistance offered unto thee, O Atar, son of Ahura
Mazda !
Thou art worthy of sacrifice and invocation ;
mayest thou receive the sacrifice and the invoca-
tion in the houses of men.
Well may it be unto the man who ever worships
thee with a sacrifice, holding the sacred wood in his
hand, the baresma in his hand, the meat in his hand,
the mortar ^ in his hand,
8. Mayest thou have the right ^ wood ! Mayest
thou have the right incense! Mayest thou have
the right food! Mayest thou have the right fuel ^ I
Mayest thou be full-grown for protecting (this house)! Mayest thou grow excellent for protecting!
9. Mayest thou burn in this house ! Mayest thou
ever burn in this house ! Mayest thou blaze in this
house ! Mayest thou increase in this house ! Even
for a long time, till the powerful restoration of the
world, till the time of the good, powerful restoration
of the world !
10. Give me, O Atar, son of Ahura Mazda ! lively
welfare, lively maintenance, lively living ; fulness of
welfare, fulness of maintenance, fulness of life ;
Knowledge, sagacity ; quickness of tongue ; (holi-
ness of) soul ; a good memory ; and then the under-
standing that goes on growing and the one that is
not acquired through learning*;
^ The mortar for pounding the Haoma.
"^ In quality and quantity.
^ Upasayeni : what is added to keep up the fire when lighted (Pers. transl.).
* The gaosh6-srfita khratu and the asna khratu (see p. 7, note i).
360 NYAYW.
And then the manly courage,
11. Firm-footed, unsleeping-, (sleeping only) for a
third part of the day and of the night, quick to rise
up from bed, ever awake ;
And a protecting, virtuous offspring, able to rule
countries and assemblies of men, well growing up,
good, freeing us from the pangs (of hell), endowed
with a good intellect, that may increase my house,
my borough, my town, my country, my empire.
12. Give me, O Atar, son of Ahura Mazda! how-
ever unworthy I am \ now and for ever, a seat in
the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy
Ones.
May I obtain the good reward, a good renown ^, and long cheerfulness for my soul^!
13. Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda, lifts up his
voice to all those for whom he cooks their evening
meal and their morning meal*. From all those he
wishes a good offering, a beneficent offering, an
offering of assistance, O Spitama !
14. Atar looks at the hands of all those who pass
by : ' What does the friend bring to his friend ?
What does he who comes and goes bring to him ^
who stays motionless ?'
We sacrifice unto Atar, the valiant warrior ^.
15. And if the passer-by brings him wood holily brought, or bundles of baresma holily tied up, or
1 Ya mk afras(2ungh£zu angha/: ya me abhut ayogyata (Sansk. transl.).
2 Here. ^ Above. * Khshafnim, suirim (Etudes Iraniennes, II, 161).
® Atar.
^ 'Bodily he is infirm (ar me j-t, motionless); spiritually he is a warrior' (Pahl. Comm.).
Ata5' Ny-Ay 15-. ^6 1
twigs of Hadhanaepata\ then Atar, the son of Ahura
Mazda, well pleased with him and not angry, and
fed as required, will thus bless him :
1 6, 'May herds of oxen grow for thee, and in-
crease of sons ; may thy mind be master of its
vow, may thy soul be master of its vow, and mayest
thou live on in the joy of the soul all the nights of
thy life.'
This is the blessing which Atar speaks unto him
who brings him dry wood, well-examined by the
light of the day, well-cleansed with godly intent ^.
17. Yatha ah(i vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness ....
I bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and vigour of Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda ^ . . . .
AshemVohu: Holiness is the best of all good ....
18^. We gladden by our virtue thy mighty Fire,
O Ahura ! thy most quick and powerful Fire, who
shows his assistance^ to him who has ever com-
forted him, but delights in taking vengeance with
his hands on the man who has harmed him.
^ See Vend. p. 94, note i. "" Cf. Vend. XVIII, 26-27. ^ From Yasna XXXIV, 4.
* 'In the var nirang' (Pahl. Comm.), that is to say, in the fire ordeal ; see above, p. 1 70, note 3.
INDEX TO THE VENDIDAD,
VOLUME IV;
And to the
INDEX TO VOLS. IV AND XXIII.
The references in small Roman numerals are to the Introduction to the Vendidad; those preceded by II are to this volume; the others are to the Vendidad.
Aal, fairy, page xciii. n 4.
Aban Nyayij, II, 356-357,
Aban Yajt, II, 52-84.
Abajta, xxx. n r.
Abere^, priest, 63, 64. n i, 78, 79 ; II,
332. Abortion, 175.
Adar, god, II, 7, 15. See Atar.
Adarana, II, 288.
Adarapra, fire, II, 7. n 2. See Adar
Froba. Adarbad Mahraspandan, man, xxxiii,
xxxvii. Adarbi^an, land, 1. n2;II, 123. n3. Adar Burzin ]\Iihr, fire, II, 8. n 2, . 294. n 2.
Adar Farnbag, fire, II, 7. n 2. Adar Froba, fire, II, 294. n 2, 298.
n I. See Adarapra. Adar Gushasp, fire, II, 294. n 2. See
Gushasp. Adhutav«u, mount, II, 289. Adityas, Ix.
Adukani, month, II, loi. n i. Aekha, demon, II, 284, 285. Aeshma, demon, Ixvii, 136, 141, n 3, 142, 143, 218; II, 33, 143, 154, 164, 224, 271, 284, 297, 308. Aeta, man, II, 217. Aethrapaiti, 45.
Aevo-saredha-fyaejta, man, II, 218. Aezakha, mount, II, 288. Afrasyab, man, II, 64. n 2, 67. n 4, 95. n 2, 114. n 2, 300. n 5, 304. n 2. See Frangrasyan. Afrigan, xxx.
Afrin Paighambar, II, 324-328. Agastya, man, II, 224. n 2. Agcrcpta, 39, 40, 41.
Aghraeratha, man, Ixxvi; II, 114, 115, 222, 278, 304, 307. n 6.
Agriculture, 28.
Ahriman, demon, xliv, Ixx, Ixxi,
Ixxvi, xcii, 59. n 4, 99. ni; II, 26.
n 2, 135. n 2, 176. n 2, 252. n i,
260. n 5. See Angra Mainyu.
Ahum-stij^, man, II, 203.
Ahuna, man, II, 288.
Ahuna Vairya, prayer, Ixix, Ixxviii,
98, no, 139, 206. n 5; II, 3;
serves as a weapon, II, 275.
Ahura Mazda, god, Iviii, Ixi ; 4 (his
creations), 207 ; 208 (his Fra-
vashi); II, 3, 6, 9, 10, 13, 15;
21-34 (Ormazd Yajt) ; 57 (sacri-
fices to Ardvi Sura Anahita) ; 86,
116,119,138,142, 151,152,154,
155, 156, 157,162, 164, 169, 180,
199, 201, 227, 228, 230, 231, 232
seq. ; 250 (sacrifices to Vayu),
274, 317, 351, &c. Ahuranis, 140. n 2. Ainyava, II, 217, 218. Aipivanghu, II, 222,303. See Apiveh. Aipivohu, II, 303. Airix-rasp Ausposinan, II, 216. n 6. Airyaman, 140, 222, 228, 229, 230-
43-45, 48. Airyanem vae^ah, 2, 5, 13, 15, 20. n2,
30, 57, 78, 116, 279. Sea Iran
Ve^. Airyu, II, 62. n 2, 222, 226. n 6. Aiwi^farenah, man, II, 214. Akatasha, demon, 136, 218. Akayadha, man, II, 219. Akem Mano, demon, Ixxii; II, 297,
Akhnangha, man, 11, 217,
Akhrura, man, II, 223.
Akhiti, genius, II, 4, 13, 35, 37, 39, &c. See Peace.
Akht, sorcerer, II, 72. n 5.
Akhtya, sorcerer, II, 73,
Alborz, mount, 225 ; II, 97. n 6, 122.
n 3, 287. n I, 289. n 6. See
Hara Berezaiti.
Alexander, man, xxxii.
Alexander eschata, land, II, 123. n4.
Ambrosia, II, 152. n 5.
Amesha-Spewtas, gods, lix, Ixxi, 207,
209; II, 3, 6, 9, 10, 13, 15, 34j
35-40 (Haftan Ya^t), 43, 49, 86,
90, 103, 132, 142, 143. n I, 156,
163, 164, 166,193, 194, 199,202,
230,290,291,336,339,340,350.
Amru, bird, II, 210.
Amuyamna, genius, II, 164. n 2.