Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death, and he counter-created the evil work of witchcraft.
15 (53). And this is the sign by which it is known, this is that by which it is seen at once: wheresoever they may go and raise a cry of sorcery, there[1] the worst works of witchcraft go forth. From there they come to kill and strike at heart, and they bring locusts as many as they want[2].
16 (59). The twelfth of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was Ragha[3] of the three races[4].
Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death, and he counter-created the sin of utter unbelief[5].
17 (63). The thirteenth of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was the strong, holy Kakhra[6].
Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death,
- ↑ In Haêtumant.—'The plague created against Saistân is abundance of witchcraft: and that character appears from this, that all people from that place practise astrology: those wizards produce... snow, hail, spiders, and locusts' (Gr. Bd.) Saistân, like Kâbul, was half Indian (Magoudi, II, 79-82), and Brahmans and Buddhists have the credit of being proficient in the darker sciences.
- ↑ This clause seems to be a quotation in the Pahlavi Commentary.
- ↑ Ragha, transcribed Râk and identified by the Commentary with Adarbaigân and 'according to some' with Rai (the Greek ᾽Ραγαί in Media). There were apparently two Raghas, one in Atropatene; another in Media.
- ↑ 'That means that the three classes, priests, warriors, and husbandmen, were well organised there' (Comm. and Gr. Bd.)
- ↑ 'They doubt themselves and cause other people to doubt' (Comm.)
- ↑ There were two towns of that name (Karkh), one in Khorasan, and the other in Ghaznin.
