Bahman Yasht 07 - Ushedarmah Second Millennium
Zand-i Wahman Yasn (Bahman Yasht), Chapter 7 Translated by E.W. West (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 5, 1880)
CHAPTER VII.
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Zartosht asked Ohrmazd: “O spiritual and beneficent Ohrmazd! holy Creator of the material existence!
[119] O Creator! as they will be so immense in number, by what means ought they to be destroyed?“
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He, Ohrmazd, replied: “O Spitaman Zartosht! when the devs having dishevelled hair of the seed of Eshm will appear, first a black token will become manifest in the direction of the East, Ushedar the Zartoshtian will be born on the Lake Frazdan;” [know that there was some one who said that it was on the Sea Kyansih; know ,that there was some one who said that it was in Kawulistan.]
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“At thirty years of age, he will come to a conference with me Ohrmazd, O Spitaman Zartosht!” [know that there was some one who said that it was in the direction of Chinistan; know that there was some one who said that it was in India.]
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“Kaye will be born;” [Know that the father of the Kaye will be of the Kayan race, he will go to Ushedar to India for help. (5) At the hundredth year of age, he will have a desire for women; he will, thereupon, beget the Kaye, whom they call Vaharam-i Varzavand by name in the religious texts; know that there was some one who called him Shapur.]
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“On the night when the Kaye will be born, a token will come to the earth, a shower of stars will rain from the sky;” [when that Kaye will be born, the stars will denote the token; know that Dat-Ohrmazd said that it was in the month Awan and on the day Vat;] “the life of the father of that Kaye will come to an end; they will bring him up with the damsels of the king, and a woman will be the ruler.
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” When that Kaye will be thirty years of age,” [know that there was some one who mentioned the time,] “the armies with innumerable banners, the Indian and Chinese armies having up-raised banners” [for they will raise the banners aloft,] “having erect banners, having erect weapons, will assail onward with onset upto the Veh-rut,” [there was some one who said that it was the Bume village,] “upto the interior of the shere ‘Of the sea of Baharan, O Spitaman Zartosht!
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“When the planet Jupiter will came up to its exaltation and cast Venus down, there will come quite innumerable armed heroes having erect banners to the Kaye for sovereignty.”
[9. Know that there was some one who said that it was from Sigistan, Pars, and Khvarasan; know that there was some one wha said that it was from the circuit of Patash-khvar-gar; know that there was some one who said that it was from Herat and Kohistan; know that there was some one who said that it was from Tawristan.]
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“And from that direction, there will appear those in search of a babe,” [Know that it will be the erect banner and the innumerable soldiers of Patash-khvar-gar, the armed men, heroes and soldiers from Airan-shahr; there was some one who said that it is manifestly as regards those whom they call the Kurts and the Kermaniks.]
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“So that with mutual help and under the same banner they will come to these Iranian villages and will slay an immense number of thase Shetaspans of the seed of Eshm, the terrible army with the wide front ‘Of the two-legged wolves and the leathern-belted devs.
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“They will wage three battles on the bank of the Arvand, one on …, one on the Sapit-Razur, and one on the field, of Nihavandak.”
[13. Know that there was some one who said that it was on the Lake Se-tokhmak; there was some one who said that it was in the resplendent Marv; know that there was some one who said that it was in Pars.]
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“For the support of the Iranian districts, there will be the innumerable soldiers of Khvarasan having erect banners;” [that is, they will have the banner of leopard’s skin; their wind banner and muskets will be white.] (15) “And on will the innumerable soldiers advance upto the burrows of the devs; they will so slay that they will see a thousand women after one man and will weep.
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“When the cycle will end, O SpitAmAn Zartosht! these enemies will perish just like the trunk of a tree, which, on a night when the cold winter arrives, sheds its leaves within one night.
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“They will restore these Iranian villages which I, Ohrmazd, created. (18) With an on-rush Ganak-minoe will rush with the devs, thase of the wicked seed and Eshm having the infuriate spear, and he will come to the support and help of those div-worshippers of the seed of Eshm, O Spitaman Zartosht!
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“And I, the Creator Ohrmazd, will send Neriyosang Yazad and the holy Srosh to Kang-diz which the illustrious Siyavakhsh prepared, to Chitro-miyan son of Vishtasp, the true restorer of the Kayan Light of Religian, to say: ‘O illustrious
[122] Peshyotan! walk forth to these Iranian villages which I, Ohrmazd, created, and consecrate the Hadokht and the Duwazdah-Homast by means of the fire and the waters,’” [that is, consecrate with the fire and the waters that which is manifest by means of the fire and the waters.]
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“And Neriyosang Yazad and the holy Srosh will advance from the good Summit of the Daitik to Kang-diz which the illustrious Siyavakhs prepared; they vociferate to him: ‘walk forth, O illustrious Peshyotan Chitro-miyan son of Vishtasp, true restorer of the Kayan Light of Religion! walk forth to these Iranian villages which I, Auhrmazd, created, restore the throne of Religion and the State.‘
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“They will walk up invisibly; they will consecrate the Duwazdah-Homast with the votive offering. (22) And forth will the illustrious Peshyotan advance, with a hundred and fifty holy men, who are disciples of Peshyotan, who will be well-clad in spiritual sable robes; on will they advance with good thoughts, gond words, and good deeds; they will consecrate the Hadokht and the Bagan-Yasn with the fire and the waters; and they will praise me, Ohrmazd, with the Beneficent Immortals. 23 After that one-third of the opposition will break.
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“Forth will the illustrious Pesyotan advance, with a hundred and fifty men who will be clad in sables, to the Fire Khvareh-aumand which they call Roshan-karp, established on its throne, which is the life of the victorious Fire Frena-bag; with his joint invocation they will prepare for the Yazishn ceremony, spread forth the sacred barsom twigs,
[123] and celebrate the Khordad and Amurdad Yasns with religious incantations and the Nirangistan code of rituals. (25) And one-third of the opposition will break.
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“Forth will the illustrious Peshyotan son of Vishtasp advance; with the joint help of the Fire Frena-bag, the Fire Goshosp, and the Fire Burzin-Mihr, to the site of the idol temples, which is the great seat of the wicked Ganak-minoe, of Eshm having the infuriate spear, of all the devs and ‘drujs’ of evil seed and of the sorcerers; they will come to the deepest of the wicked existence; they will raze the site of the idol-temples with the joint endeavours of the illustrious Peshyotan.
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“And I, the Creator Ohrmazd, will come to the Mount Hu-kiryat with the Beneficent Immortals, and I will address the Beneficent Immortals that they may speak to all the invisible Worshipful Ones: ‘Advance and come to the help of the illustrious Pesyotan.‘
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“Mihr having a wide domain, the valiant Srosh, the true Rashn, the powerful Warharan, the victorions Ashtad, the Light (khwarrah) of the Religion of Mazda-worship, that is, the arranger of the ritual of the government of the world, will come at the command of me, who am the Creator.
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“I, the Creator, will come for support, to the help of the illustrious Peshyotan.
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“They will smite the devs having the seed of darkness.
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“The wicked Ganak-minoe will exclaim to Mihr having a wide domain: ‘Rise up for truth, thou Mihr having a wide domain’!
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“Then Mihr having a wide domain will exclaim: ‘According to this nine thousand years’ compact which was made, till now Dahak of evil religion, the Turanian Frasyaw, the Aruman Alexander, and those leathern-belted devs having dishevelled hair, ruled for a period of one thousand years more than the compact.‘
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“The wicked Ganak-minoe will be confounded when he has heard this.
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“Mihr having a wide domain will smite Eshm having the infuriate spear, who will flee with stupefaction. (35) The wicked Ganak-minoe will rush back, with his ill-born evil progeny, to the gloom and the darkness of the wicked existence.
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“And Mihr having a wide domain will exclaim to the illustrious Peshyotan: ‘Extirpate and destroy the site of the idol temples, the seat of the devs; proceed to these Iranian villages which I, Ohrmazd, created, restore the throne of Religion and the State; for the wicked will totter when they see thee.‘
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“And the illustrious Peshyotan, the Fire Frena-bag, the Fire Goshosp, and the triumphant Fire Burzin-Mihr will arrive, they will smite that deceiver of immense strength, extirpate the site of the idol-temples, that is, the seat of the devs, and they will forthwith prepare for the yazishn ceremony, spread forth the sacred barsom twigs, celebrate the Duwazah-Homast, and praise me, Ohrmazd, with the Beneficent Immortals. (38) This is what I foretell.
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“Forth will the illustrious Peshyotan arrive to Iranian villages which I, Ohrmazd, created, to the
[125] Arvand and the Veh rivers; when the wicked, those of the seed of darkness, the unworthy ones, see him, they will totter.”