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VENDÎDÂD.
Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death, and he counter-created the sin of unbelief.[1]
9 (29). The sixth of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was the house- deserting Harôyu[2]
Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death, and he counter-created tears and wailing[3].
10 (33). The seventh of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was Vaêkereta[4], of the evil shadows.
Thereupon came Angra Mainyru, who is all death, and he counter-created the Pairika Knãthaiti, who clave unto Keresâspa[5].
- ↑ There are people there 'who doubt the existence of God' (Comm.)
- ↑ Harôyu, Old P. Haraiva (transcribed in Greek and Latin ᾽Αρεία Haria instead of ᾽Αρεία Haria, by a confusion with the name of the Aryans); P. Harê (in Firdausi and in Harê-rûd; Harât is an Arabicised form.—'The house-deserting Harê: because there, when a man dies in a house, the people of the house leave it and go. We keep the ordinances for nine days or a month: they leave the house and absent themselves from it for nine days or a month' (Gr. Bd.) Cf. Vd. V, 42.
- ↑ 'The tears and wailing for the dead,' the voceros. The tears shed over a dead man grow to a river that prevents his crossing the Kinvat bridge (Saddar 96; Ardâ Vîrâf XVI, 7, 10).
- ↑ Vaêkereta, an older name of Kâbul (Kâpûl: Comm. and Gr. Bd.) ; perhaps the Ptolemeian Βαγάρδα in Paropanisus (Ptol. VI, 18).
- ↑ The Pairika, in Zoroastrian mythology, symbolises idolatry (uzdês-parastîh). The land of Kâbul, till the Musulman invasion, belonged to the Indian civilisation and was mostly of Brahmanical and Buddhistic religion. The Pairika Knãthaiti will be destroyed at the end of the world by Saoshyañt, the unborn son of Zarathustra (when all false religions vanish before the true one; Vd. XIX, 5). — Sâma Keresâspa, the Garshâsp of later tradition, is the type of impious heroism: he let himself be seduced to the Daêva-worship, and Zoroaster saw him punished in hell for his contempt of Zoroastrian observances.
