Bahman Yasht 06 - Ushedar First Millennium
Zand-i Wahman Yasn (Bahman Yasht), Chapter 6 Translated by E.W. West (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 5, 1880)
CHAPTER VI.
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Zartosht asked Ohrmazd: “O spiritual and beneficent Ohrmazd! holy Creator of the material existence! from whence will they restore this good Religion of Mazda-worship?
[116] and by what means will they smite tbese devs having dishevelled hair of the seed of ‘Eshm’? (2) O Creator I give me death, and give my grandsons death,” [that is, let them not live in that preverse period;] “give them holy life,” [that is, they may not prepare wickedness and the way to the wicked existence.]
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He Ohrmazd replied; “O Spitaman Zartosht! After the black token, the rule will come, from those of the seed of ‘Eshm,’ to the Shitaspan Karasyakian ‘drujs’ of the Salman districts;” [know that Mahvindat said that they would be the Arumans; and Roshan said that they would have red helmets, red weapons, and red banner; know that these will be their signs.]
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“O Spltaman Zartosht! when they will come, the Sun will show a melancholy sign, the Moon will change her colour, and there will be melancholy, darkness, and gloom on earth; various signs will become manifest in the sky: there will be many earthquakes; the wind will blow very furiously; much indigence, want, and unhappiness will appear on earth; and Mercury and Jupiter will determine the sovereignty to the wicked.
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“The Shitaspan Karasyakian ‘drujs’ will be in hundreds and thousands and myriads; they will have the red banner; their progress will be immense; they will pour into these Iranian villages which I, Ohrmazd, created, upto the bank of the Arvand,” [know that there was some one who said that it was the Frat river,] “upto Duvan the capital of Assyria,” [know that it is Duvan of strict justice; its being the Assyrian capital means this that the Assyrian people
[117] reside therein and it is their native country; know that there was some one who called it the burrow of the devs.]
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“In this way they will slay those of the seed of Eshm in hundreds and the mands and myriads; and the banner, the ensign, and the innumerable soldiers of these devs having dishevelled hair will retire; the army having the wide front of the Turk and the Kalmir enemy will come to these Iranian villages which I Ohrmazd created;” [know that they will have a high banner, for they will hold the banner aloft; know that they will remain in immense number like the hair in the horse’s mane in the Iranian villages which I Ohrmazd created;] “the leathern-belted Turk and the Shitaspan Karasyakian Aruman will arrive together.
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“And great battles shall have happened three times, in three places, in internecine dispute, O Spitaman Zartosht!
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“One was in the reign of Kae-us, when it was with the Beneficent Immortals with the help of the devs.
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“And the second will be when thou, O Spitaman Zartosht, wilt have accepted the Religion and wilt have thy conference, when king Vishtasp and Arjasp ill-born-of-Eshm will be engaged in the war of Religion, in internecine dispute, on the Sapit-razur;” [know that there was some one who said that it was in Pars.]
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“And the third will take place when thy millenium will end, O Spitaman Zartosht! when all the three, the Turk, the Tazik, and the Aruman will arrive at one place;” [know that there was some one who said that it was the field
[118] of Nihavandak;] “all men of the Iranian villages which I, Ohrmazd, created, will come to Patash-khvar-gar, from their own place”; [know that there was some one who said that it was Atar-gushnasp on the deep lake Chechast of warm water which is opposed to the devs; know that even thither Religion became manifest; know that there was some one who said that it was in the month of Pisces; Atrok said that it was in the month of Cancer;] “they will be so assailing those from amongst those of the seed of Eshm, over these Iranian villages which I, Ohrmazd, created, O Spitaman Zartosht! that out of these men towards Patash-Khvar-gar and Pars, and those animals residing in burrows, residing on the mountain and residing in the sea, only the whale will then remain.
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“For, when the husband will be able to save himself, he will not remember his wife, children, and wealth.”
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Thereupon Zartosht said: “O Creator! give me and give my grandsons death,” [that is, let them not live in that perverse period.]
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He, Ohrmazd, replied: “Do not be afraid, O Spitaman Zartosht! for the day when the tenth century of thy millenium, the Zartoshtian, will end, no wicked person will pass from this millenium into that millenium.”