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APPENDIX TO THE BUNDAHIS.
tion: Which existed before, the glory! or the body?' And Adharmazd spoke thus: The glory was created by me before ; afterwards, for him who is created, the glory is given a body so that it may produce activity, and its body is created only for activity. 6. And, afterwards, they changed from the shape of a plant into the shape of man?, and the glory went spiritually into them.
Chapter XI. 1. As he (Aharman) came seventhly to fire, which was all together against him, the fire separated into five kinds s, which are called the Propitious, the Good diffuser, the Adrvâzist, the Vâzist, and the Supremely-benefiting. 2. And it produced the Propitious fire itself in heaven (garôdmân); its manifestation is in the fire which is burning on the earth, and its propitiousness is this, that all the kinds are of its nature. 3. The Good diffuser is that which is in men and animals “, and its business consists in the digestion of the food, the sleeping of the
1 The old word nismo, soul' (see Bund. XV, 3, 4), has become corrupted here (by the omission of the initial stroke) into gadman, 'glory. This corruption may be due either to Dâd-sparam not understanding the word (in which case the Bundahis must have been an old book in his time), or else to some later copyist confounding the old word for soul' with the better known glory of the Iranian sovereigns.
Bund. XV, 5. 8 Bund. XVII, 1. Three of the Avesta names are here translated, the first two being the Spênist and Vohu-fryãn, which are the fifth and second in the Bundahis, and the fifth being the Berezisavang, which is the first in the Bundahis.
See Bund. XVII, 2.
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