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VENDIDAD.
Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death, and he counter-created the sin of unbelief.
9 (29). The sixth of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was the housedeserting Harðyu ?.
Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death, and he counter-created tears and wailing 3.
10 (33). The seventh of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was Vaêkereta 4, of the evil shadows.
Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death, and he counter-created the Pairika Knãthaiti, who clave unto Keresåspa.
There are people there who doubt the existence of God' (Comm.)
• Harðyu, Old P. Haraiva (transcribed in Greek and Latin 'Apela Aria instead of 'Apeia Haria, by a confusion with the name of the Aryans); P. Harê (in Firdausi and in Hare-rad; Harát is an Arabicised form.—'The house-deserting Hare: because there, when a man dies in a house, the people of the house leave it and go. We keep the ordinances for nine days or a month : they leave the house and absent themselves from it for nine days or a month' (Gr. Bd.) Ci. Vd. V, 42.
" The tears and wailing for the dead,' the voceros. The tears shed over a dead man grow to a river that prevents his crossing the Kinvat bridge (Saddar 96; Arda Viraf XVI, 7, 10).
· Vaêkereta, an older name of Kabul (Kåpal: Comm. and Gr. Bd.); perhaps the Ptolemeian Bayápda in Paropanisus (Ptol. VI, 18).
• The Pairika, in Zoroastrian mythology, symbolises idolatry (uzdês-parastih). The land of Kabul, till the Musulman invasion, belonged to the Indian civilisation and was mostly of Brahmanical and Buddhistic religion. The Pairika Khnàthaiti will be destroyed at the end of the world by Saoshyafit, the unborn son of Zarathustra (when all false religions vanish before the true one; Vd. XIX, 5).—Sama Keresåspa, the Garshåsp of later tradition, is the type of impious heroism : he let himself be seduced to the Daêva-worship, and Zoroaster saw him punished in hell for his contempt of Zoroastrian observances.
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