' The warriors. ^ To teach. ' Doubtful.
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he may not make thee run up into the heavens,
above the sun ^ ; and that the Serpent ^ may not
injure thee with . . . .^ with ....■*, with . . . .^
and .... poisons*'."
91. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita answered: "O pure,
holy Spitama! this is the sacrifice wherewith thou
shalt worship me, this is the sacrifice wherewith
thou shalt worship and forward me, from the
time when the sun is rising to the time when the
sun is setting.
'" Of this libation of mine thou shalt drink, thou
who art an Athravan, who hast asked and learnt the
revealed law, who art wise, clever, and the Word
incarnate.
92. ' " Of this libation of mine let no foe drink,
no man fever-sick, no liar, no coward, no jealous one,
no woman, no faithful one who does not sing the
Gathas, no leper to be confined '^.
93. ' " I do not accept those libations that are
drunk in my honour by the blind, by the deaf, by
the wicked, by the destroyers, by the niggards, by
the . . . . ^ nor any of those stamped with those
characters which have no strength for the holy
Word 9.
^ When the beds of the rivers are dry, the cause is that Ardvi Sura sends up her waters to the higher heavens (to the sun region) instead of sending them down to the earth (cf. p. 73, note 2).
^ The serpent, Azi, is here Azi in his original naturalistic character, the storm-fiend (cf. Vend. Introd. IV, 38 and this Yast, § 29, note). The uncleanness and unhealthiness of the rivers are ascribed to his poison.
^ Arethna, an ana^ 'Xtyoufvov. * Vawzaka, idem.
^ Varenva, idem. "^ Varenva poisons.
' Cf. Vend. II, 29. ' « ? Ranghaw.
' Which incapacitate one for religious works.
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* " Let no one drink of these my libations who is
hump-backed or bulged forward ; no fiend with
decayed teethe"
94. 'Then Zarathui"tra asked Ardvi Sura Anahita:
" O Ardvi Sura Anahita ! What becomes of those
libations which the wicked worshippers of the
Daevas bring unto thee after the sun has set^?"
95. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita answered: "O pure,
holy Spitama Zarathui^tra ! howling, clapping, hop-
ping, and shouting ^ six hundred and a thousand
Daevas, who ought not to receive that sacrifice ^
receive those libations ^ that men bring unto me
after [the sun has set]^"
96. * I will worship the height Hukairya, of the
deep precipices ^, made of gold, wherefrom this mine
Ardvi Sura Anahita leaps, from a hundred times the
height of a man ^, while she is possessed of as much
Glory as the whole of the waters that run along the
earth, and she runs powerfully ^.
' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice ....
97. ' Oflfer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathmtra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita ....
98. ' Before whom the worshippers of Mazda
' a. Vend. II, 29.
2 Cf Vend. VII, 79 and note 2 ; cf. above, § 91.
^ For joy. The translations of those several words are not certain.
* Doubtful. ^ Perhaps, those cups (yamaw).
^ Filled up from § 94.
'' The text here has vispo-vahmem, ' worthy of all prayer ;' the reading vtspo-vaemem from Yt. XII, 24 seems to be better.
» Cf. §§ 102, 121. » Cf. §§4, 102, 121.
Aban Ya^T. *^']
Stand with baresma in their hands : the Hvovas did
worship her, the Naotaras did worship her ^ ; the
Hvovas asked for riches, the Naotaras asked for
swift horses. Quickly was Hvova blessed with
riches and full prosperity ; quickly became Vii-taspa,
the Naotaride, the lord of the swiftest horses in these
countries ^.
99. ['Ardvi Stira Anahita granted them that boon,
as they were offering up libations, giving gifts, sacri-
ficing, and entreating that she would grant them
that boon^]
' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice ....
100. 'Offer up a sacrifice,© Spitama Zarathuj-tra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita ....
loi. 'Who has a thousand cells and a thousand
channels : the extent of each of those cells, of each
of those channels, is as much as a man can ride in
forty days, riding on a good horse ^. In each
channel there stands a palace, well-founded, shining
with a hundred windows, with a thousand columns,
well-built, with ten thousand balconies, and mighty.
102. ' In each of those palaces there lies a well- laid, well-scented bed, covered with pillows, and
* The Hv6va or Hvogva family plays as great a part in the religious legend, as the Naotara family in the heroic one. Two of the Hvovas, Frashaojtra and Gamaspa, were among the first disciples of Zarathujtra and the prophet married Frashao^tra's daughter, Hvogvi (cf. Yt.XIII, 139). For the Naotaras, see above, §§ 53) 76. According to the Bundahij, ViJtaspa did not belong to the Naotara family (XXXI, 28): perhaps he was considered a Naotaride on account of his wife Hutaosa, who was one (Yt. XV, 35).
^ His very name means ' He who has many horses.'
^ Spurious. < Cf. § 4.
yS YAS-TS AND SIROZAHS.
Ardvi Sura Anahita, O Zarathui-tra ! runs down there
from a thousand times the height of a man, and she
is possessed of as much Glory as the whole of the
waters that run along the earth, and she runs
powerfully \
103. -'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtra I unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita ....
104. ' Unto her did the holy Zarathu5tra 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 2.
105. ' He begged of her a boon, saying: "Grant
me this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Ana-
hita ! that I may bring the son of Aurva/-aspa ^, the
valiant Kavi Vi^aspa, to think according to the law,
to speak according to the law, to do according to
the law^"
106. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that
boon, as he was offering up libations, giving gifts,
sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him
that boon.
. ' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice ....
1 Cf. § 96.
2 Cf. § 1 7. It is to be noticed that only Ahura and Zarathujtra (and perhaps Vafra Navaza ; see p. 68, note 2) offer the pure Zoroastrian sacrifice.
3 Called Lohrasp in Parsi tradition.
* Cf. § 18. The conversion of Vijtaspa by Zarathuj'tra is the turning-point in the earthly history of Mazdeism, as the conversion of Zarathu^tra by Ahura himself is in its heavenly history. Cf. Yt. XXIV and IX, 26.
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107. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathuj'tra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita ....
108. * Unto her did the talP Kavi Virtaspa^ offer
up a sacrifice behind Lake Frazdanava ^, with a
hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand
lambs.
109. *He begged of her a boon, saying: "Grant
me this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Ana-
hita ! that I may overcome Tathrava?^/, of the bad
law, and Peshana, the worshipper of the Daevas,
and the wicked Are^a/-aspa ^ in the battles of this
world !"
no. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that
boon, as he was offering up libations, giving gifts,
sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him
that boon.
' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice ....
^ Berezaidhi, translated buland (Yasna LVII, 11 [LVI, 5, 2]). 2 See Yt. XIII, 99 ; V, 98, 105.
* A lake in Seistan (Bundahii- XXII, 5) ; from that lake will rise Hoshedar Bami (UkhshyaZ-ereta), the first of the three sons of Zarathujtra, not yet born (Bahman Ya^t III, 13 ; cf Yt. XIII, 98).
* Of these three, Are^a/-aspa alone is known to Firdausi ; he is the celebrated Ar^asp, who waged a deadly war against Gui-tasp to suppress the new religion : he stormed Balkh, slaughtered Lohrasp and Zartujt (Zarathujtra), and was at last defeated and killed by Gui-tasp's son, Isfendyar. He is the Afrasyab of the Zoroastrian period. In the Avesta he is not called a Turanian (Tura), but a //^'yaona ; see Yt. IX, 30.
8o YA^TS AND SIROZAHS.
III. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtra! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi SCira Anahita ....
112. 'Unto her did Zalri-vairi ^, who fought on
horseback, offer up a sacrifice behind the river
Daltya^, with a hundred male horses, a thousand
oxen, ten thousand lambs.
113. * He begged of her a boon, saying : " Grant me
this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita ! that
I may overcome Pesho-A'angha the corpse-burier ^,
Humayaka^ the worshipper of the Daevas, and the
wicked Are^a/-aspa ^ in the battles of this world.
1 14. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon",
as he was offering up libations, giving gifts, sacri-
ficing, and entreating that she would grant him that
boon.
' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice ....
115. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita ....
116.' Unto her did Are^a^aspa and Va;zdaremaini'^
1 Zarir in Firdausi, the brother of Vutaspa ; cf Yt. V, 117; XIII, loi.
^ The Araxes (Vendidad I, 3).
3 Doubtful (cf. Vend. Ill, 36 seq.).
* This is perhaps an epithet to Pesho-^angha, 'the most malicious.'
^ See p. 79, note 4.
" If we may trust the Shah Namah, she did not grant her
favour to the last, as Zarir was killed by one of the generals of
Ar§-asp, Bidirafi-h.
^ A brother of Ar^asp's : his name is slightly altered in Firdausi (Andariman miswritten for Vandariman, ,jU.3^jol for ^jUj^aJj ; see !Etudes Iraniennes, p. 228).
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offer up a sacrifice by the sea Vouru-Kasha, with a
hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand
lambs.
117.' They ^ begged of her a boon, saying : " Grant
us this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita!
that we may conquer the valiant Kavi Vii'taspa and
Zairivairi who fights on horseback, and that we may
smite of the Aryan people their fifties and their hun-
dreds, their hundreds and their thousands, their
thousands and their tens of thousands, their tens of
thousands and their myriads of myriads."
1 18. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita did not grant them^ that
favour, though they were offering up libations, giving
gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she should grant
them that favour.
' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice ....
119. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtral unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita ....
1 20. ' For whom Ahura Mazda has made four
horses — the wind, the rain, the cloud, and the sleet —
and thus ever ^ upon the earth it is raining, snowing,
hailing, and sleeting ; and whose armies are so many
and numbered by nine-hundreds and thousands.
12 1. 'I will worship the height Hukairya, of the
^ The text has the singular here and in the rest of the sentence : the names of the two brothers form a sort of singular dvandva ; of Franghrasyanem Keresavazdem (Yt. XIX, 77); Ashavazdangho Thritahe (Yt. XIII, 113 ; and same Yast, 115), and in the present passage ViJ-taspo Zairivairij (see ]^tudes Iraniennes, II, 229).
2 Both were killed by Isfendyar (Shah Namah).
^ ]\Iijli translated hamejak, sada (Yt. VII, 4).
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deep precipices, made of gold, wherefrom this mine
Ardvi Sura Anahita leaps, from a hundred times the
height of a man, while she is possessed of as much
Glory as the whole of the waters that run along the
earth, and she runs powerfully \
' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice ....
122. 'Offer up a sacrifice,© Spitama Zarathmtra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita ....
123. 'She Stands, the good Ardvi Stira Anahita,
wearing a golden mantle ^, waiting for a man who
shall offer her libations and prayers, and thinking
thus in her heart :
124. * " Who will praise me ? Who will offer me a
sacrifice, with libations cleanly prepared and well-
strained, together with the Haoma and meat ? To
whom shall I cleave, who cleaves unto me, and
thinks with me, and bestows gifts upon me, and is
of good will unto me^?"
' For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice ....
125. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathujtra! unlo this spring of mine, Ardvi Siira Anahita .....
126. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita, who stands carried
forth in the shape of a maid, fair of body, most
strong, tall-formed, high-girded, pure, nobly born of