{"collection":"Zoroastrianism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/zor/sbe47/sbe4730.htm","path":"zor/sbe47/sbe4730.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/zor/sbe47/sbe4730.htm","text":"Pahlavi Texts, Part V: Marvels of Zoroastrianism (SBE47), E.W. West, tr. [1897]\n1. About the seven questionings (7-frasn\u014f\u00eeh), with reference to religion, of the seven archangels, which occurred in seven places 2.\n2. For the occurrence of the first questioning 3, that of A\u00fbharmazd, the person of Zarat\u00fbst, who was\nthe upholder of A\u00fbharmazd, came out to a conference on the bank of the water of D\u00e2\u00eet\u00eeh 1.\n3. For the occurrence of the second, which is Voh\u00fbman\u00f4's, five animals out of the five species 2 which are the worldly tokens of Voh\u00fbman\u00f4, have come with Zarat\u00fbst to a conference on H\u00fbgar and A\u00fbsind 3; and on that day also, before their coming out to the conference, their tongues are fully liberated and spoke with human words. 4. And among the rest 4 is a fish of one species, Arzuv\u00e2 5 by name; of those in burrows (khan\u014f\u00eeg\u00e2n\u014f) are the white ermine and white marten; of the flying creatures (v\u00e2yandag\u00e2n) is the Karsipt 6, a bird like a species of water-fowl; of the wide-travellers (far\u00e2khv\u014f-raft\u00e2r\u00e2n\u014f) is the hare which is showing wild beasts the way to the water; and of those suitable for grazing (karak\u014f-arg\u00e2n\u00eeg\u00e2n) is the white ass-goat; with human words they also accepted the religion from A\u00fbharmazd. 5. With the chieftainship of the five species they are intrusted, so that the like animals also, with their own voices, and as much as their knowledge is capable, shall recount the powerfulness of the religion.\n[paragraph continues] 6. And freedom from assault, exemption from persecution, and proper maintenance of the five species of animals, were prescribed by him 1 to Zarat\u00fbst with seemingly very awful admonition.\n7. For the occurrence of the third questioning, which is Ardavahist\u00f4's, the spirits of the fires have come out with Zarat\u00fbst to a conference at the T\u00f4g\u00e2n water 2; and, in that questioning, care for the proper maintenance of the Varahr\u00e2n fire 3, and the propitiation of all fires, is explained to him.\n8. For the occurrence of the fourth questioning, which is Shatv\u00ear's, the spirits of the metals have come with Zarat\u00fbst to a conference at Sar\u00e2\u00ee 4, a settlement on the M\u00eev\u00e2n 4; and he was fully admonished about various proper preservations of the metals, and as to not producing warlike accoutrements of gold.\n9. For the occurrence of the fifth questioning, which is Spendarmad's, the spirits of the regions, frontiers, stations (a\u00fbst\u00e2m\u00e2n), settlements (r\u00fbdast\u00e2k\u00e2n), and districts, as many as were desirable, have come out with Zarat\u00fbst to a conference where there is a spring (kh\u00e2n\u00eeg\u00f4-a\u00ea) which comes out from the Asnavad mountain 5, and goes into the D\u00e2\u00eet\u00eeh, like those of Satav\u00eas who is blowing the P\u00e2\u00eer\u00eegs 6. 10. And Zarat\u00fbst was also thus admonished\nby her, about the care and propitiation of the earth: that each district is to be intrusted to a faithful testifier (g\u00f4k\u00e2s-\u00ee v\u00e2var), each settlement to a judge acquainted with the law, each station to an officiating priest (mag\u00f4pat\u014f) of just intentions, and each frontier to a pure priestly authority (rad\u014f); over all is proclaimed the councillor of the spirits, the supreme priest (mag\u00f4pat\u00e2n\u014f mag\u00f4pat\u014f), and through him the sovereignty of A\u00fbharmazd is provided.\n11. For the occurrence of the sixth questioning, which is Kh\u00fbrdad's, the spirits of seas and rivers have come with Zarat\u00fbst to a conference at the Asnavad mountain 1, and he was told about the care and propitiation of water.\n12. For the occurrence of the seventh questioning, which is Am\u00fbrdad's, the spirits of plants have come out with Zarat\u00fbst to a conference on the precipitous bank of the Darega 2, on the bank (b\u00e2r) of the water of D\u00e2\u00eet\u00eeh, and different places; and he was informed about the care and propitiation of plants.\n13. The seven questionings are explained within the length of these winters, which are of five months, and within ten years 3.\n159:2 Compare Dk. VIII, xiv, 5, 6, 9.\n159:3 This has been narrated in the preceding chapter.\n160:1 See Dk. VII, iii, 51, 54.\n160:2 These species, which are named in \u00a7 4, are those mentioned in the Avesta, Visp. I, I.\n160:3 Av. Hukairya of Yt. XII, 24, and Us-hindu of Yt. VIII, 32, described in Bd. XII, 5, 6, as two neighbouring mountains, for the pure water of Ar\u00eadvis\u00fbr falls from the summit of H\u00fbgar to A\u00fbsind which stands in the circumambient ocean.\n160:4 The remainder of K 35, the MS. brought by Westergaard from Kirm\u00e2n, is lost; but an old copy of it (BK, see the Introduction) exists in Bombay, which supplies the missing text, as an authority independent of T.\n160:5 See Bd. XIV, 26; apparently the same as the Ariz, or Kar, the chief of fish, ibid. XVIII, 3, 5; XXIV, 13.\n160:6 See Bd. XIV, 23; XIX, 16; XXIV, 11.\n161:1 By Voh\u00fbman\u00f4, as the protector of useful animals.\n161:2 Possibly the Tegend river, the Zend or Z\u00f4ndak of Bd. XX, 7, 15.\n161:3 The Bahr\u00e2m, or sacred fire at places of worship.\n161:4 Names not clearly identified, and readings uncertain.\n161:5 In \u00c2t\u00fbr-p\u00e2tak\u00e2n, and the G\u00fbsnasp, fire was established upon it (see Bd. XII, 2, 26; XVII, 7).\n161:6 Pahl. 'Satav\u00eas-t P\u00e2\u00eer\u00eeg dam\u00e2n\u014f \u00e2n\u014f k\u00eeg\u00fbn.' Referring probably to Yt. VIII, 8, 9. Satav\u00eas is the southern chieftain of the stars, as correctly stated in the Iranian B\u00fbndahis (compare Bd. II, 7; XIII, 12); and the P\u00e2\u00eer\u00eegs are meteors.\n162:1 See \u00a7 9.\n162:2 Pahl. 'pavan Dareg\u00een zb\u00e2r' = Av. 'Dregya paiti zbarahi' of Vd. XIX, 4; a mythical river in A\u00eer\u00e2n-v\u00eag, where P\u00f4r\u00fbshasp\u00f4 resided (Bd. XX, 32).\n162:3 The Pahlavi is rather vague, but it is clear that Zarat\u00fbst starts for his conference at thirty years of age (Chap. XXI, 1), returns from it ten years later (Chap. XXIII, I), and the conversion of Vist\u00e2sp occupies two years longer (Chap. XXIII, 5), occurring when Zarat\u00fbst was forty-two years old and thirty-five years before his passing away at the age of seventy-seven (Chap. XXIII, 9).\nAt this point another dislocation of text occurs in all existing p. 163 MSS., owing to the accidental interpolation of three loose folios of another text, between this chapter and the next, in some unknown copy written before 1530. In the MSS. the text is written continuously, without division into chapters. But the connection of this chapter with the next one, which is here restored to its proper position, is clearly shown by the reference to the 'ten years' of conference, with which this chapter ends, and the next one begins. The accidentally interpolated text is here classified as Chaps. XXIV and XXV, but its real connections have not yet been traced.","title":"Pahlavi Texts, Part V: Marvels of Zoroastrianism: Selections of Z\u00e2d-Sparam: Chapter XXII","type":"page"}