Book Title: Zend Avesta Part 02
Author(s): James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford

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________________ 136 SELECTIONS OF ZÂD-SPARAM. the seventh was called Srîtôi the Seventh, the largest in body and chief in strength, belonging to those instructed in many subjects for Kai-Us, and he was among his princes. 11. Kai-Us summoned him into his presence and ordered him thus : 'Go and kill that ox in the jungle !' 12. Srito went, and the ox whom he wished to kill expostulated with him, in human words, thus : 'Do not kill me! for though thou canst kill me, he whose guardian spirit is in the Hôm, the deathdispeller, will also become manifest on the earth, he whose name is Zaratast of the Spitâmas ?, and will proclaim thy bad action in the world. 13. And the distress in thy soul becomes such as is declared in revelation thus: “As it occurs to him, so it does to Vadak 3, when they mention his iniquity," and thy death becomes the like and, owing to death, it is mixed up with hers (that is, owing even to hers is the death of Srito).' 14. When those words were heard by him, Srîtô turned back, and went again to Kai-Us; also by his manner, and even apart from this, he stated * what the ox had spoken with awfulness, and also thus : Srîlô, the seventh son compare Dk. VII, ii, 64), is not easy to identify. He could not have been Thrita the father of Keresâspa, because this Thrita the Sâmân is said to have been a third son in Pahl. Yas. IX, 30 (Sp.). He may have been Srîtô of the Vîsraps, whose soul visited Vistasp in the latter part of his reign, about 350 years later, regarding which a legend is related in Dk. VII, vi, 2-11, and again mentioned in Dk. V, iii, 2; but there is a want of corresponding details for identification. 2 This is the citation of his name mentioned in 8 7. 8 The mother of Dahâk, whose iniquity is considered as equal to that of the evil spirit, see Dd. LXXII, 5; Dk. IX, X, 3. T has also by his manner he intimated and separately stated.' Digitized by Google

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