flocks and herds and men, at their will and wish, as many as he wished.
II.
21 (42)[1]. The Maker, Ahura Mazda, called together a meeting of the celestial Yazatas in the Airyrana Vaêgô of high renown, by the Vanguhi Dâitya[2].
The fair Yima, the good shepherd, called together a meeting of the best of the mortals[3], in the Airyrana Vaêgô of high renown, by the Vanguhi Dâitya.
To that meeting came Ahura Mazda, in the Airyrana Vaêgô of high renown, by the Vanguhi Dâitya; he came together with the celestial Yazatas.
To that meeting came the fair Yima, the good shepherd, in the Airyrana Vaêgô of high renown, by the Vanguhi Dâitya; he came together with the best of the mortals.
22 (46). And Ahura Mazda spake unto Yima, saying:
'O fair Yima, son of Vîvanghat! Upon the material world the evil winters are about to fall, that shall bring the fierce, deadly frost ; upon the material world the evil winters[4] are about to fall, that shall
- ↑ § 20 belongs to the Commentary. See Fragments to the Vendîdâd.
- ↑ See Farg. I, notes to § 2.
- ↑ The best types of mankind, chosen to live in the Var during the Malkôsân and repeople the earth when the Var opens.
- ↑ The Commentary has here Malkôsân, a word wrongly identified with the Hebrew Malqôs, which designates the beneficent autumn rains. Malkôsân are the winters let loose by a demon or wizard named Malkôs, in Zend Mahrkûsha 'the death-causing' (see Westergaard's Fragments, VIII).
