Zend Avesta Part 02

Author(s): James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford

Page 2021

CHAPTER VII, 1-8.
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5. Such as Vohûmanô, son of Spend-dâd", of the rulers, about whom it says even this in the Avesta, that he is Vohûmanô, the just, who is the most efficient of the assembly of Mazda-worshippers. 6. And Sênóv ? of the high-priests, as about him it says even this: •The religion becomes a hundred years old when Sênôv is born, and two hundred years when he passes away; he was also the first Mazda-worshipper with a life of a hundred years, and who walks forth upon this earth with a hundred disciples.'
7. Also Alexander of the devastators, as it says even this of him in revelation 3, that in those three winters, which are of like purpose (ham-ayâzakó), that Aeshme would set up a deadly king in the impenitent world, who is the evil-destined Alexander.
8. And of the high-priests are Arezvâk, the interpretation of whose name is 'the pure word;' Srûtvôk-spâdâk ©, the interpretation of whose name is 'the propitious recitation ;' Zrayang,hau ®, the interpretation of whose name is 'the ocean existence ;' and Spentô-khratvau ®, the interpretation of
1 Av. Spentô-data of Yt. XIII, 103, a son of Vistâsp, with whom Avesta dynastic history ends. He was the Persian Isfendiyâr, and his son Vohûmanô is unknown to the Avesta. The Kitradád Nask (Dk. VIII, xiii, 18) mentions a 'Namûn, son of Spend-shed,' which probably stands for Vohûmano, son of Spend-dâd,' but this appears to have been in a Pahlavi supplement compiled in Sasanian times. He is also mentioned in Bd. XXXIV, 8, a chapter about the computation of years by the Arabs,' according to the Irânian Bundahis.
? Av. Saệna of Yt. XIII, 97, where the last clause of the passage here translated from the Avesta occurs. Compare Zs. XXIII, 11.
8 Not in the extant Avesta. . The demon of Wrath. 6 Av. gen. Erezvau and Srûtô-spâdau in Yt. XIII, 115.
These two names are written in their Av. gen. forms, as they occur in Yt. XIII, 115.
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