She appears in the latter character in the first part of the Yast (§§ 1-14); she praises and loves Zarathujtra (§§ 15-21). She is worshipped by Hao^yangha(§ 26), Yima (§ 28), Thraetaona (§ 33), Haoma (§ 37), Husravah (§ 41), Zarathui'tra (§ 45), and Vij'taspa (§ 49)*. She rejects the offerings of all sterile people (old men, courtezans, and children, §§.53-61).
I.
1. We sacrifice to Ashi Vanguhi, who is shining, high, tall-formed, well worthy of sacrifice, with a loud-sounding chariot, strong, welfare-giving, healing, with fulness of intellect^, and powerful; 2. The daughter of Ahura Mazda, the sister of the Amesha-Spe;^tas, who endows all the Sao- ^ In Parsi Ardijvang or Ard (Ardii- from Artij-, the Persian form of Ashij); she presides over the 25th day of the month; cf. Sirozah 25.
^ Ashi is not the feminine adjective of Ash a, as the i was originally short (genitive ashoij, not ashyau); ashi is ar-ti, and means bhakti, piety (Neriosengh).
^ The so-called Ashi's remedies (ashoi^ baeshaza; cf. Yt.
* This enumeration is the same as in the Gos Ya^t (§§ 3, 8, 14, ° Perethu-vira; see Etudes Iraniennes, II, 183.
ASIII YAST. 271 shya;^/s ^ with the enlivenhig intelhgence; she also brings heavenly wisdom at her wish, and comes to help him who invokes her from near and him who invokes her from afar, and worships her with offerings of libations.
32. For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth being heard; I will offer up unto Ashi Vansfuhi a orood sacrifice with an offering of libations. We sacrifice unto Ashi Vanguhi with the libations; 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...II.
4. We sacrifice to Ashi Vanguhi, who is shining, high, tall- formed, well worthy of sacrifice, with a loud-sounding chariot, strong, welfare-giving, healing, with fulness of intellect, and powerful.
5. Homage unto Haoma, and unto the Mathra^ and unto the holy Zarathu^tra!
Homage unto Haoma, because all other drinks are attended with Aeshma ^ the fiend of the wound- ing spear: but the drinking of Haoma is attended with Asha and with Ashi Vanguhi herself ^ 6. Ashi is fair; Ashi is radiant with joy; she is far-piercing with her rays. Ashi gives good Glory ^ The allies of Saoshya?;/, who are to be active in the restoration of the world to eternal life (frasho-kereti). Cf. p. 165, note i. Ashi gives them the ' intelligence of life' (frasha khratu), through which they will be enabled to perform their task.
2 Cf Yt. V, 10. ' The Holy Word.
* The Daeva of anger.
^ As drinking Haoma is an act of religion (cf Yasna XI, 12 272 YA,STS AND SIROZAHS.
unto those men whom thou dost follow, O Ashi! Full of perfumes is the house in which the good, powerful Ashi Vanguhi puts her...^ feet, for long friendship.
7. Those men whom thou dost attend, O Ashi! are kings of kingdoms, that are rich In horses, with large tributes, with snorting horses, sounding chariots, flashing swords, rich in aliments and in stores of food 2; well-scented where the beds are spread and full of all the other riches that may be wished for. Happy the man whom thou dost attend! do thou attend me, thou rich in all sorts of desirable things and strong!
8. Those men whom thou dost attend, O Ashi Van- guhi! have houses that stand well laid up, rich in cattle, foremost in Asha, and long-supported. Happy the man whom thou dost attend! Do thou attend me, thou rich in all sorts of desirable things and strong!
9. The men whom thou dost attend, O Ashi Van- guhi! have beds that stand well-spread, well-adorned, well-made, provided with cushions and with feet inlaid with gold. Happy the man whom thou dost attend! Do thou attend me, thou rich in all sorts of desirable things and strong!
10. The men whom thou dost attend, O Ashi Vanguhi! have their ladies that sit on their beds, waiting for them: they He on the cushions, adorning themselves,...^, with square bored ear-rings and a necklace of gold: ' When will our lord come? when shall we enjoy in our bodies the joys of love?'
^? Awkupasmanau.
ASHI VAST. 273 Happy the man whom thou dost attend! Do thou attend me, thou rich in all sorts of desirable things and strong!
11. The men whom thou dost attend, O Ashi Vanguhi! have daughters that sit...^- thin is their waist, beautiful is their body, long are their fingers; they are as fair of shape as those who look on can wish. Happy the man whom thou dost attend! Do thou attend me, thou rich in all sorts of desirable things and strong!
12. The men whom thou dost attend, O Ashi Vanguhi! have horses swift and loud-neighing; they drive the chariot lightly, they take it to the battle ^, they bear a gallant praiser (of the gods), who has many horses, a solid chariot, a sharp spear, a long spear, and swift arrows, who hits his aim, pursuing after his enemies, and smiting his foes. Happy the man whom thou dost attend! Do thou attend me, thou rich in all sorts of desirable things and strong!
13. The men whom thou dost attend, O Ashi Vanguhi! have large-humped, burden-bearing camels, flying from the ground or fighting with holy fieri- ness ^. Happy the man whom thou dost attend! Do thou attend me, thou rich in all sorts of desirable things and strong!
14. The men whom thou dost attend, O Ashi Vanguhi! have hoards of silver and gold brought together from far distant regions; and garments of splendid make. Happy the man whom thou dost attend! Do thou attend me, thou rich in all sorts of desirable thins^s and strong-!
/■ 15. Do not turn thy look from me! turn thy mercy towards me, O great Ashi! thou art well- made and of a noble seed^- thou art sovereign at thy wish; thou art Glory in a bodily form.
16. Thy father is Ahura Mazda, the greatest of all gods, the best of all gods; thy mother is Armaiti Spe;^ta; thy brothers are Sraosha ^ a god of Asha, and Rashnu ^ tall and strong, and Mithra *, the lord of wide pastures, who has ten thousand spies and a thousand ears; thy sister is the Law of the wor- shippers of Mazda.
1 7. Praised of the gods, unoffended by the right- eous ^, the great Ashi Vanguhi stood up on her chariot, thus speaking: ' Who art thou who dost invoke me, whose voice is to my ear the sweetest of all that invoked me most?'
18. And he'' said aloud: 'I am Spitama Zara- thui^tra, who, first of mortals, recited the praise of the excellent Asha'^ and offered up sacrifice unto Ahura Mazda and the Amesha-Spe;2tas; in whose birth and growth the waters and the plants rejoiced; in whose birth and growth the waters and the plants grew; in whose birth and growth all the creatures of the good creation cried out, Hail^!
19. 'In whose birth and growth Angra Mainyu rushed away from this wide, round earth, whose ends lie afar, and he, the evil-doing Angra Mainyu, who is all death, said: " All the gods together 1 Born from the gods; cf. Yt. XXII, 9.
2 See Yt. XI. ^ See Yt. XII. * See Yt. X.
^ Or, ' doing no harm to the righteous.'
" Zarathujtra. '' The Ahuna Vairya.
AS HI VAST. 275 have not been able to smite me down in spite of myself, and Zarathu^tra alone can reach me in spite of myself 20. '"He smites me with the Ahuna Vairya, as strong a weapon as a stone big as a house ^; he burns me with Asha-Vahii'ta, as if it were melting brass ^. He makes it better for me that I should leave this earth, he, Spitama Zarathujrtra, the only one who can daunt me." ' 21. And the grreat Ashi Vanofuhi exclaimed: ' Come nearer unto me, thou pure, holy Spitama! lean against my chariot!'
Spitama Zarathui"tra came nearer unto her, he leant against her chariot.
22. And she caressed him with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, thus speaking: ' Thou art beautiful, O Zarathui^tra! thou art well-shapen, O Spitama! strong are thy legs and long are thy arms: Glory is given to thy body and long cheerfulness ^ to thy soul, as sure as I proclaim it unto thee.'
HI.
23*. We sacrifice to Ashi Vanguhi, who is shining, high, tall- formed, well worthy of sacrifice, with a loud-sounding chariot, strong, welfare-giving, healing, with fulness of intellect and powerful.
24 '^. To her did Haoshyangha, the Paradhata, offer up a sacrifice, upon the enclosure of the Hara, the beautiful height, made by Mazda.
25. He begged of her a boon, saying: 'Grant ' Cf. Vend. XIX, 4 (13). ^ Cf. Yt. III.
^ Bliss after death. * As § i.
276 YA-STS AND SIROZAHS me this, O great Ashi Vanguhi! that I may over- come all the Daevas of Mazana; that I may never fear and bow through terror before the Daevas, but that all the Daevas may fear and bow in spite of themselves before me, that they may fear and flee down to darkness.'
26. The great Ashi Vanguhi ran and came to his side: Haoshyangha, the Paradhata, obtained that boon.
For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice...IV.
27. We sacrifice to Ashi Vanguhi, who is shining, high...and powerful.
28 \ To her did Yima Khshaeta, the good shepherd, offer up a sacrifice from the height Hukairya.
29. He begged of her a boon, saying: 'Grant me this, O great Ashi Vanguhi! that I may bring fatness and flocks down to the world created by Mazda; that I may bring immortality down to the world created by Mazda; 30. ' That I may take away both hunger and thirst, from the world created by Mazda; that I may take away both old age and death, from the world created by Mazda; that I may take away both hot wind and cold wind, from the world created by Mazda, for a thousand years.'
31. The great Ashi Vanguhi ran and came to his side: Yima Khshaeta, the good shepherd, obtained that boon.
For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice...ASHI VAST. 277 V.
32. We sacrifice to Ashi Vanguhi, who is shining, high...and powerful.
33 ^ To her did Thraetaona, the heir of the vahant Athwya clan, offer up a sacrifice in the four- cornered Varena.
34. He begged of her a boon, saying: 'Grant me this, O great Ashi Vanguhi! that I may overcome A^i Dahaka, the three-mouthed, the three-headed, the six-eyed, who has 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 principle; and that I may deliver his two wives, Savanghava/l' and Erenava/^, who are the fairest of body amongst women, and the most won- derful creatures in the world.'
35. The great Ashi Vanguhi ran and came^ to his side. Thraetaona, the heir of the valiant Athwya clan, obtained that boon.
For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice...VI.
36. We sacrifice to Ashi Vanguhi, who is shining, high...and powerful.
37 2. To her did Haoma offer up a sacrifice, Haoma, the enlivening, the healing, the beautiful, the lordly, with golden eyes, upon the highest heioht of the Haraiti Bareza.
38. He begged of her a boon, saying: 'Grant me this, O great Ashi Vanguhi! that I may bind the Turanian murderer, Franghrasyan, that I may drag him bound, that I may bring him bound unto king Husravah, that king Husravah may kill him, behind the A'ae/^asta lake, the deep lake of salt waters, to avenge the murder of his father Syavarshana, a man, and of Aghraeratha, a semi-man.'
39. The great Ashi Vanguhi ran and came to his side. Haoma, the enlivening, the healing, the beautiful, the lordly, with golden eyes, obtained that boon.
For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice...VII.
40. We sacrifice to Ashi Vanguhi, who is shining, high...and powerful.
41^. To her did the gallant Husravah, he who united the Aryan nations into one kingdom, offer up a sacrifice, behind the AT'aeiasta lake, the deep lake of salt waters.
42. He begged of her a boon, saying: 'Grant me this, O great Ashi Vanguhi! that I may kill the Turanian murderer, Franghrasyan, behind the isfae- /^asta lake, the deep lake of salt waters, to avenge the murder of my father Syavarshana, a man, and of Aofhraeratha, a semi-man.'
43. The great Ashi Vanguhi ran and came to his side. The gallant Husravah, he who united the Aryan nations into one kingdom, obtained that boon.
For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth being heard...ASHI VAST. 279 VIII.
44. We sacrifice to Ashi Vanguhi, who is shining, high...and powerful.
45 \ To her did the holy Zarathu^ra offer up a sacrifice in the Airyana Vae^ah, by the good river Daitya, with the Haoma and meat, with the baresma, with the wisdom of the tongue, with the holy spells, with the speech, with the deeds, with the libations, and with the rightly-spoken words.
46. He begged of her a boon, saying: 'Grant me this, O great Ashi Vanguhi! that I may bring the good and noble Hutaosa to think according to the law, to speak according to the law, to do according to the law, that she may spread my law and make it known, that she may bestow beautiful praises upon my deeds.'
47. The great Ashi Vanguhi ran and came to his side: the holy Zarathu^tra obtained that boon.
For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth being heard...IX.
48. We sacrifice to Ashi Vanguhi, who is shining, high...and powerful.
49. To her did the tall Kavi Vi^taspa offer up a sacrifice behind the waters of the river Diitya.
50. He begged of her a boon, saying: ' Grant me this, O great Ashi Vanguhi! that I may put to flight A^ta-aurva;zA the son of Vispo-thaurvo-asti, the all-afflicting, of the brazen helmet, of the brazen armour, of the thick neck, behind whom seven 280 YA5TS AND siROZAHS.
hundred camels...; that I may put to flight the ^z^yaona murderer, Are^a/-aspa; that I may put to flight Dar^inika, the worshipper of the Daevas; 51. 'And that I may smite Tathrava;^/^ of the bad law; that I may smite Spin^auru^ka, the worshipper of the Daevas; and that I may bring unto the good law the nations of the Varedhakas and of the iVz^yaonas; and that 1 may smite of the //z/yaona nations their fifties and their hundreds, their hun- dreds and their thousands, their thousands and their tens of thousands, their tens of thousands and their myriads of myriads.'
52. The great Ashi Vanguhi ran and came to his side: the tall Kavi Vi^taspa obtained that boon.
For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth being heard...X.
53. We sacrifice to Ashi Vanguhi, who is shining, high...and powerful.
54. And the great Ashi Vanguhi said: ' None of those libations will be accepted by me, which are sent to me either by a man whose seed is dried out\ or by the courtezan who produces untimely issues 2, or by young boys, or by girls who have known no man^ * When the Turanians and the swift-horsed Nao- taras *, clapping their hands, ran after me, ^ By procuring abortion.
' She refuses the offerings of all barren beings.
* Cf. Yt. V, 98. The following clauses allude to some myth of Ashi Vanguhi connected with the conflict between the Turanians and the Naotaras (either Tusa and Vistauru; cf. p. 71, note 7, or more likely Vijtaspa himself, to whom the preceding chapter ASHI YASr. 281 55. * I hid myself under the foot of a bull walking under his burden; then young boys, and girls who had known no man, discovered me, even while the Turanians and the swift-horsed Naotaras, clapping their hands, were running after me.
56. 'Even I hid myself under the throat of a ram of hundredfold energy: then again young boys, and girls who had known no man, discovered me, even while the Turanians and the swift-horsed Naotaras, clapping their hands, were running after me.'
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.
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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.
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 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. ' 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).
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.
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XIX. ZAMYAD YA^'T.
This Yast, inscribed to the Genius of the Earth, is devoted to a description of the mountains and the kingly Glory (kavaem IlvzTend), which are invoked, together with the Earth, in the corresponding formula of the Sirdzah (§ 28): there is no Ya^t devoted to the Earth itself The mountains are simply enumerated (§§ 1-8). The rest of the Yajt is devoted to the praise of the ffvaveno, or, more pre- cisely, to that of those who possessed it, whose powers or feats are described. The list begins with Ahura Mazda (§ 10), and closes with Saoshya«/ (§ 89); that is to say, it begins with the beginning of the world, and closes with its end. It includes the Amesha- Spewtas (§ 15), Haoshyangha {§ 26), Takhma Urupa (§ 28), Yima (§ 31), Mithra (§ 35), Thraetaona (§ 36), Keresaspa (§ 38), the kings of the Kaianyan dynasty (§§ 66-72), Kavi Husravah (§ 74), Zarathujtra (§ 79), Vi^taspa (§ 84). The unsuccessful efforts of Franghrasyan to take possession of it are described at length This Yaj-t would serve as a short history of the Iranian monarchy, an abridged Shah Namah.
o. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced!...Ashem Vohu: Hohness is the best of all good...I confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zara- thujtra, 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 Mount Ushi-darena, made by Mazda, the seat of holy happiness; unto the kingly Glory, made by Mazda; unto that Glory that cannot be forcibly seized, made by Mazda \ ^ Sirozah I, 28.
zamyAd vast. 287 Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.
Yatha ah(a vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness...I.
1. The first mountain that rose up out of the earth, O Spitama Zarathu^-tra! was the Haraiti Barez^ That mountain stretches all along the shores of the land washed by waters^ towards the east.
The second mountain was Mount Zeredho, out- side^ Mount Manusha^: this mountain too stretches all along the shores of the land washed by waters towards the east.
2. From there grew up Mount Ushi-dh^u Ushi-darena^, Mount Erezifya®, and Mount Fraorepa.
The sixth was Mount Erezura'^. The seventh was Mount Bumya^. The eighth was Mount Raoidhita^.
^ The same as the Hara Berezaiti, the later Alborz; see ^ The Caspian sea.
' Doubtful: pare«tarem aredho; possibly beyond.
* According- to the Bundahij, Manusha is another name of Mount Zeredho (XII, 2). It is the mountain on which Manm/iihar was born (ibid. 10).
® * The mountain that gives understanding, that preserves under- standing,' the later Mount O^da^tar; see p. 33, note i.
' Mount Arziir 'is a summit at the gate of hell' (Bundahij XII, 8; cf.Vend. Ill, 7 (23); XIX, 140).
* The Arzur Bdm of Bundahijr XII, 2, which ' is in the direction of Arum ' (Asia Minor, Bundahij XII, 16).
^ The Royijn-omand mountain of Bundahij XII, 27; its name 288 VASTS AND SIROZAHS.
The ninth was Mount Mazl^i^v^u. The tenth was Mount A^^tare-danghu. The eleventh was Mount Erezisha. The twelfth was Mount Vaiti-gaesa^ 3. And Mount Adarana, Mount Bayana, Mount I^kata Upairi-saena^, with the...^ snows; the two Hama;2kuna mountains, the eight Vasna mountains, the eight powerful Frava^^ku, the four Vidhvana summits; 4. Mount Aezakha, Mount Maenakha, Mount Vakhedrakae, Mount Asaya, Mount Tudhaskae, Mount li'avae, Mount Draoshii-v^u, Mount Sii- riv^u, Mount Nanghui'm^u, Mount Kakahyu, Mount A;2tare-Kangha*; 5. Mount Si/^idava^ Mount Ahuna, Mount Raemana, Mount Asha-stembana, Mount Uru- A nyo-vaidhkae, Mount Asnava/2/°, Mount Usha- oma, Mount Usta.-/iva.ren2ih, Mount Syamaka"^, Mount Vafray^u, Mount Vourusha; means 'the mountain on which vegetation has grown' (ibid. tr. West).
^ The Badghes mountain near Herat, jjMwJ:.>b.
^ Or * Mount Ijkata (" rugged "), belonging to the Upairi-saena ridge.' The Upairi-saena ridge or Aparsen ridge is ' the moun- tain of Persia, and its beginning is in Seistan and its end in Susiana' (Bund. XII, 9).
^? Kaso-tafedhra; possibly the name of a mountain: Mount Kaso-tafedhra Vafra.
^ ' Si/^idav, a mountain among those which are in Kangdez' (Bund. XII, 2, tr.West).
■^ The Mount Siyak-omand ('the black mountain') and Mount Vafar-omand ('the snowy mountain') of Bundahij XII, 22, which are said to have grown out of the Aparsen ridge and to extend towards China.
ZAMYAD YAST. 289 6. Amongst which stand Mount 6^atara, Mount Adhutav^u, Mount Spitavarena, Mount Spento- data^, Mount Kadrva-aspa^, Mount Kaoirisa^, Mount Taera*, Mount Baro-srayana, Mount Ba- rana, Mount Frapay^Ju, Mount Udrya, and Mount 'Ra.evB.n^^, and all those heights to which men have given the name of mount, 7. To the number of two thousand mountains, and two hundred and forty and four^, O Spitama Zarathu^tra!
8. For its brightness and glory, I will offer it a sacrifice worth being heard, namely, unto the awful kingly Glory. Unto the awful kingly Glory we offer up the libations, the Haoma and meat, the baresma, the wisdom of the tongue, the holy spells, the speech, the deeds, the libations, and the rightly- spoken words ''.
Ye;2he hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura II.
9. We sacrifice unto the awful kingly Glory, made by Mazda; most conquering, highly working, that possesses health, wisdom, and happiness, and is more powerful to destroy than all other creatures; ^ The Spendyad mountain, near Mount Revand (Bundahix 2 The K6ndrasp mountain, by the town of Tiis (in Khorasan, Bund. XII, 24).
^ The Koiras mountain in Iran-Ve^ (Bund. XII, 25).
* Cf. Yt. XV, 7, and p. 58, note 2.
^ ' The other mountains have grown out of AlbCir^, in number 2244 mountains' (Bund. XII, 2).
' See notes to Yt. Ill, 17 (p. 47).
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10. That belongs to Ahura Mazda, as (through it) Ahura Mazda made the creatures, many and good, many and fair, many and wonderful, many and pros- perous, many and bright; 11^. So that they may restore the world, which will (thenceforth) never grow old and never die, never decaying and never rotting, ever living and ever increasing, and master of its wish, when the dead will rise, when life and immortality will come, and the world will be restored at its wish; 12. When the creation will grow deathless, — the prosperous creation of the Good Spirit, — and the Dru^ shall perish, though she may rush on every side to kill the holy beings; she and her hundred- fold brood shall perish, as it is the will of the Lord ^.
13. For its brightness and glory, I will offer it a sacrifice...III.
14. We sacrifice unto the awful kingly Glory, made by 15*. That belongs to the Amesha-Spe;2tas, the bright ones, whose looks perform their wish, tall, quickly coming to do, strong, lordly, who are un- decaying and holy; 16. Who are all seven of one thought, who are all seven of one speech, who are all seven of one deed; whose thought is the same, whose speech is the same, whose deed is the same, whose father and commander is the same, namely, the Maker, Ahura Mazda.
ZAMYAD YAST. 29 1 1 7. Who see one another's soul thuiking of good thoughts, thinking of good words, thinking of good deeds, thinking of Garo-nmana, and whose ways are shining as they go down to the libations; 18, Who are the makers and governors, the shapers and overseers, the keepers and preservers of these creations of Ahura Mazda.