{"collection":"Zoroastrianism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/zor/sbe05/sbe0583.htm","path":"zor/sbe05/sbe0583.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/zor/sbe05/sbe0583.htm","text":"Pahlavi Texts, Part I (SBE05), E.W. West, tr. [1880]\n0. In the name of God and the good creation be health 3!\n1. A\u00fbharmazd is more creative, Voh\u00fbman is more\nembellished 1, Ardavahist is more brilliant 2, Shatva\u00eer\u00f4 is more exalted 3, Spendarmad is more fruitful 4, Horvadad is moister 5, Amer\u00f4dad is fatter 6. 2. D\u00een-pa-\u00c2tar\u00f4 is just like A\u00fbharmazd 7, \u00c2tar\u00f4 is hotter 8, \u00c2v\u00e2n is more golden 9, Kh\u00fbr is more observant 10, M\u00e2h is more protective 11, T\u00eer is more liberal, G\u00f4s is swifter 12. 3. D\u00een 13-pa-Mitr\u00f4 is just like A\u00fbharmazd, Mitr\u00f4 is more judicial, Sr\u00f4sh is more vigorous, Rashn is more just, Fravard\u00een is more powerful, V\u00e2hr\u00e2m is more victorious, R\u00e2m is more pleasing, V\u00e2d is more fragrant. 4. D\u00een-pa-D\u00een\u00f4 just like A\u00fbharmazd, D\u00een\u00f4 is more valuable, Ard 14 is more beautiful, \u00c2st\u00e2d is purer, \u00c2sm\u00e2n is more lofty, Zamy\u00e2d is more conclusive, M\u00e2raspend is more\nconveying the religion, An\u00eer\u00e2n is the extreme of exertion and listening 1.\n5. May it be completed in peace and pleasure!\n404:3 Two versions of this chapter, detailing the qualities of the p. 405 thirty angels and archangels, are extant; one in M6, which has lost \u00a7\u00a7 3-5, and the other in a very old MS. in the library of the high-priest of the Parsis at Bombay. This latter, being complete, is here taken as the text, while the variations of M6, which occur in nearly every epithet, are given in the notes. Which version is the oldest can hardly be ascertained with certainty from the state of the MSS. M6 omits this opening benediction.\n405:1 M6 has 'more nimble.'\n405:2 M6 has 'more discriminative.'\n405:3 M6 has 'more active.'\n405:4 M6 has 'more complete.'\n405:5 M6 has 'fatter.'\n405:6 M6 has 'more fruitful.'\n405:7 M6 has 'D\u00een\u00f4 is more desirous.'\n405:8 M6 has 'more heating.'\n405:9 Referring perhaps to the golden channels (Bund. XIII, 4, 5) through which the water of Ar\u00eadv\u00eevs\u00fbr (a title of the angel \u00c2v\u00e2n, waters') is supposed to flow. M6 has 'more glittering.'\n405:10 M6 has 'more embellished.'\n405:11 M6 has varp\u00e2ntar, the meaning of which is uncertain.\n405:12 M6 has 'more listening.'\n405:13 The version in M6 ends here; the next folio being lost.\n405:14 The same as Arshisang (see Bund. XXII, 4).\n406:1 The reading of both these nouns is uncertain. The days of the Parsi month, which bear the names of these thirty angels, are divided, it will be observed, into four nearly equal divisions, resembling weeks, which are here separated in \u00a7\u00a7 1-4. The first weekly period begins with a day dedicated to A\u00fbharmazd, and called by his own name; and each of the three other weekly periods also begins with a day dedicated to A\u00fbharmazd, but called by the name of D\u00een, 'religion,' with the name of the following day added as a cognomen. The first week, therefore, consists of the day A\u00fbharmazd followed by six days named after the six archangels respectively (see Bund. I, 23, 26). The second week consists of the day D\u00een-with-\u00c2tar\u00f4 followed by six days named after the angels of fire, waters, the sun, the moon, Mercury, and the primeval ox. The third week consists of the day D\u00een-with-Mitr\u00f4 followed by seven days named after the angels of solar light, obedience, and justice, the guardian spirits, and the angels of victory, pleasure, and wind. And the fourth week consists of the day D\u00een-with-D\u00een\u00f4 followed by seven days named after the angels of religion, righteousness, rectitude, the sky, the earth, the liturgy, and the fixed stars.","title":"Pahlavi Texts, Part I: Sh\u00e2yast l\u00e2-Sh\u00e2ya...","type":"page"}