{"collection":"Zoroastrianism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/zor/sbe37/sbe37014.htm","path":"zor/sbe37/sbe37014.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/zor/sbe37/sbe37014.htm","text":"Pahlavi Texts, Part IV (SBE37), E.W. West, tr. [1892]\n1. The Vist\u00e2sp-s\u00e2st\u00f4 3 is about particulars of\nevery kind relating to Ka\u00ee-Vist\u00e2sp 1; the temper, character, demeanour, knowledge, learning, and law for sovereignty; the government of the creatures, and the advancement of the will of the sacred beings requisite for it.\n2. The creator A\u00fbharmazd sends the archangels 2 on to Kai -Vist\u00e2sp as evidence about A\u00fbharmazd, and a reminder of Sp\u00eet\u00e2m\u00e2n Zarat\u00fbst, of the pure goodness of the Mazda-worshipping religion, and of the command for the ruler Vist\u00e2sp, as to its triumph, on accepting the religion from Zarat\u00fbst. 3. The visible coming of the archangels to the metropolis, and, secondly, their domestication (hand\u00eam\u00e2n\u00eeh) at the residence of Vist\u00e2sp and his companions; the envoys\u2019 explanation of A\u00fbharmazd's message to Vist\u00e2sp, and the accepting of the Mazda-worshipping religion by the obedient king Vist\u00e2sp.\n4. The outpouring (s\u00e2r\u00een\u00eedan\u014f) of Arg\u00e2sp the Khy\u00f4n 3, by the demon of wrath, for war with Vist\u00e2sp\nand disturbance of Zarat\u00fbst; the arrangements and movements of king Vist\u00e2sp for that war, and whatever is on the same subject.\n5. Excellence that is perfect is righteousness.\n23:3 Corresponding to the tenth word, dazd\u00e2, in the Ahunavair, according to B. P. Riv.; but it is the eleventh Nask in other Riv\u00e2yats. p. 24 Vist\u00e2sp-s\u00e2st\u00f4 means 'the instruction of Vist\u00e2sp,' and is corrupted into Vist\u00e2sp-sh\u00e2h, Vist\u00e2sp\u00e2d, or Vist\u00e2sp, in the Riv\u00e2yats, which also state that it contained originally sixty kardah, or \u0293\u00fbrat, of which only ten, or eight, were recovered after the time of Alexander. The last number refers, no doubt, to the eight fargards still extant under the corrupt name Vist\u00e2sp Yast, which probably consist of fragments of the Avesta text of this Nask; but in comparing that text with this description it must be remembered that the author is describing the contents of the Pahlavi version which would contain much commentary.\n24:1 The king of Iran in the time of Zarat\u00fbst, who accepted the Mazda-worshipping religion; the last king of the old history derived from the Avesta (see Chap. XIII, 15, 16).\n24:2 Compare Vist\u00e2sp Yt. 40.\n24:3 The 'deadly Hvyaona Aregad-aspa' of Yt. IX, 30, XVII, 50, whom Kavi V\u00eest\u00e2spa prayed to be delivered from. According to the Y\u00e2dk\u00e2r-\u00ee Zar\u00eer\u00e2n, Arg\u00e2sp, king of the Khy\u00f4ns, made war upon p. 25 Vist\u00e2sp on account of the latter's conversion to Mazda-worship and was defeated with great difficulty in a most desperate battle which is also described in the Sh\u00e2hn\u00e2mah. Whether the Khy\u00f4ns were the Chionitae of later times is uncertain.","title":"Pahlavi Texts, Part IV: D\u00eenkar&l...","type":"page"}