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CHAPTER IV, 20-37.
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(baghân) who are distributing welfare, and that, also, of the five constellations pertaining to Adharmazd—which are the great one that is supreme and measurable?, Haptôiring 3, created by Mazda“, and the stars Vanand", Satavês®, and Tistar?-as regards the brigands (gadůgân): and distributers of evil. 30. And those are the five planets that rush below them in the shape of stars, and they keep them enveloped in light, which are Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury. 31. Since the supreme constellation, the great one of the north-opposing' (32) Haptôiring, is opposing Saturn, (33) Haptôiring, created by Mazda, is opposing Jupiter, (34) Vanand, the smiter of noxious creatures, is opposing Mars, (35) the star Sataves is opposing Venus, (36) and the star Tistar is opposing the planetary Mercury 10, (37) the welfare, which they say is from those brigands (gad ûgân), is from those five constellations per
1 Called the great one of the middle of the sky' in Bd. II, 8, V, 1, which has not yet been identified, but may be Regulus or Orion.
2 Sans. ' very visible. * See Mkh. XLIX, 15-21, where it is called Haptôk-ring.
• This epithet is often applied to Haptôiring, Vanand, and Satavês. o See Mkh. XLIX, 12–14. See Mkh. LXII, 13.
See Mkh. XLIX, 5, 6.
The planetary witches (see $ 10). • Or it may be planetary-opposing,' or 'north-accepting. The dislocation, and probable corruption, of these sections is due to Nêr., who evidently considered the epithet mazdadhâta, created by Mazda,' as the name of one of the constellations, and great' and
supreme' as mere epithets of Haptôiring. But he found it difficult to adapt the text to this opinion of his.
10 These oppositions agree with those mentioned in Bd. V, 1, except that Haptôiring is there opposed to Mars, and Vanand to Jupiter.
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