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be ruined. The warning is in the form of a prophecy, but any one who
reads the two Fargards carefully can see that the passage really
gives us a description of the Glacial epoch witnessed by the
ancestors of the Iranians. We give below the translation of the
passage both by Darmesteter and Spiegel.
VENDIDAD, FARGARD II.
Darmesteter Spiegel
22. And Ahura Mazda spake unto
Yima, saying, “O fair Yima, son of
Vîvanghat! Upon the material world
the fatal winters are going to fall,
that shall bring the fierce, foul frost;
upon the material world the fatal
winters are going to fall, that shall
make snowflakes fall thick, even an
aredvî deep on the highest tops of
mountains.
23. And all the three sorts of beasts
shall perish, those that live in the
wilderness, and those that live on
the tops of the mountains, and those
that live in the bosom of the dale,
under the shelter of stables.
24. Before that winter, those fields
would bear plenty of grass for cattle:
now with floods that stream, with
snows
46. Then spake Ahura Mazda to
Yima: “Yima the fair, the son of
Vivanhâo,
47. Upon the corporeal world will the
evil of winter come:
48. Wherefore a vehement,
destroying frost will arise.
49. Upon the corporeal world will the
evil of winter come:
50. Wherefore snow will fall in great
abundance,
51. On the summits of the
mountains, on the breadth of the
heights.
52. From three (places), O Yima, let
the cattle depart.
53. If they are in the most fearful
places,
54. If they are on the tops of the
mountains,
55. If they are in the depths of the
valleys,
56. To secure dwelling places.
57. Before this winter the fields
would bear plenty of country
produced pasture; grass for cattle
now with.
58. Before flow waters, behind
floods that stream, with snows is the
melting of the snow.