Book Title: Sacred Laws of Aryas
Author(s): Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford

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________________ 370 APPENDIX. Of his exploits we are told that he'slew the serpent Srvara, which devoured horses and men, which was poisonous and yellow, over which yellow poison flowed a hand's-breadth high. On which Keresåspa cooked a beverage in a caldron at the midday hour, and the serpent being scorched, hissed, sprang forth, away from the caldron, and upset the boiling water; Keresâsp, the manly-minded, fled aside frightened?' We are further told that he slew the golden-heeled Gandarewa?; that he smote Hitâspa in revenge for the murder of his brother, Urvåkhshaya3; that he smote the Hunus who are the nine highwaymen, and those descended from Nivika and Dastayânit; also Vareshava the Danayan, Pitaona with the many witches, ArezÔ-shamana, and Snâvidhakaó; and that he withstood many smiters or murderers The details of these exploits, still extant in the Avesta, are very scanty; but some of them appear to have been more fully described in a legend about the soul of Keresåspa which formerly constituted the fourteenth fargard of the Sadkar Nask, the contents of which are thus summarized in the ninth book of the Dinkard : 'The fourteenth fargard, Ad-fravakhshi", is about See Yas. IX, 34-39, Zamyâd Yt. 40 (translated in Haug's Essays, pp. 178, 179). * See Abân Yt. 38, Zamyâd Yt. 41. A monster in the wide shored ocean, who is also mentioned in Râm Yt. 28. * See Râm Yt, 28, Zamyad Yt. 4. • See Zamyâd Yt. 41. For Hunus' some read 'sons.' See Zamyad Yt. 41-44. See Fravardin Yt. 136. ? The name of Yas. XLIV, being the first two words, ad fravakhshya, of that chapter of the Gathas. In the detailed account of the contents of each fargard of the first three Nasks, given in the ninth book of the Dînkard, each fargard is distinguished Digitized by Google

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