{"collection":"Zoroastrianism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/zor/sbe47/sbe4723.htm","path":"zor/sbe47/sbe4723.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/zor/sbe47/sbe4723.htm","text":"Pahlavi Texts, Part V: Marvels of Zoroastrianism (SBE47), E.W. West, tr. [1897]\n1. About the brothers who were a band of opponents of Zarat\u00fbst. 2. The Karaps and A\u00fbsikhshes 3 were brothers\u2019 sons, and have become the devastation (g\u00e2st\u00e2rag\u00eeh) of the Ir\u00e2nians; the devastators of the Ir\u00e2nians (\u00car\u00e2n\u00e2n) were from K\u00f4khar\u00ead 4, and K\u00f4khar\u00ead was born from A\u00eashm and M\u00e2n\u00fbsak, the sister of M\u00e2n\u00fbsk\u00eehar 5. 3. At the place where Zarat\u00fbst was born, five brothers have been, whose names were Br\u00e2d-r\u00fbkhsh, Br\u00e2d-r\u00f4yisn, Br\u00e2d-r\u00eash the T\u00fbr, Haz\u00e2n, and Vadast 6. 4. Their\nbrotherhood of five\u2014of which the middle one was Br\u00e2d-r\u00eash the T\u00fbr, who became more of an adversary of Zarat\u00fbst\u2014was a semblance of the brother-hood of five who were sons of P\u00f4r\u00fbshasp\u00f4, of whom the middle one was Zarat\u00fbst.\n5. Of the four brothers of Zarat\u00fbst, the names of the two before Zarat\u00fbst were Rat\u00fbstar and Rang\u00fbstar, and of the two after him Nodar\u00eeg\u00e2 and N\u00eev\u00eadis 1. 6. The middle position of Zarat\u00fbst is for the reason that he is so produced at that time, as an inter-medium of the early narrators and the later narrators, that three millenniums came before him and three after. 7. So that he has prescribed to the creatures in what manner he would teach the ancients as to what had occurred, and in what manner it is also to be done as regards what will occur; as is stated in the G\u00e2thas 2 thus: 'Both those I ask of thee, O A\u00fbharmazd! even whatever has happened till now, and whatever shall happen henceforth?'\n143:3 Av. 'Karap\u00e2 Usikhsh-k\u00e2' of Yas. XLIV, 20 c; the Kav\u00e2, a third class of pre-Zoroastrian priests, is also mentioned ibid. 20 d. Compare Dk. VII, ii, 9 n.\n143:4 Av. Kahvaredha, Yas. LX, 6, 7 (Sp.) where it is translated by k\u00e2st\u00e2r, 'diminisher, devastator,' of whom it is here said to be the father; see also Yt. III, 9, 12, 16.\n143:5 Compare the legend of the descent of the ape and bear from a demon and Yimak, sister of Yim, in Bd. XXIII, 1.\n143:6 As these names do not occur in the Avesta, their pronunciation p. 144 has to be guessed so as to give a probable meaning to the Pahlavi spelling. The writing of the last name is complicated; it is written and in the two MS. authorities, which forms can be most obviously read Vasam and Saman, but Saman can also be read as the Zv\u00e2ris yad\u00e2 = dast, 'a hand;' this leads to the conclusion that the original name underlies the form Vadast, and this is confirmed by the name of the Karap Va\u00eadv\u00f4ist written at full length in Dk. VII, iv, 21-24. See ibid. ii, 9 n.\n144:1 These brothers seem unmentioned elsewhere, and the existence of the elder two would imply another mother. The pronunciation of the names is guessed.\n144:2 Pahl. Yas. XXXI, 14 a.","title":"Pahlavi Texts, Part V: Marvels of Zoroastrianism: Selections of Z\u00e2d-Sparam: Chapter XV","type":"page"}