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Darmesteter Spiegel Haug and BUI)Sen
of the Daevas. the Daevas have
created.
4. There are ten g. Ten w i n t e r 4. Ten months of win-
winter months there, months are there, ter are there, two
two summer months ;• two summer months. months of summer.
and those are cold for 10. And these are [Seven months of
the waters, cold for cold as to the water, summer are there; five
the earth, cold for cold as to the earth, months of winter there
the trees. VV!nter cold as to the trees. were; the latter are cold
falls there, with the I I. After this to as to water, cold as to
worst of its plagues. the middle of the earth, cold as to trees,
earth then to the there (is )-midwinter,
• N. B. - Darmes- heart of the earth. the heart of winter;
tetet states in a note 12. Comes the win- there all around falls
that after summer ter; then comes the deep snow; there is the
months the Vendi- most evil. direst of plagues.] t
dad SAdah adds, " It
IS kno'll'"n that [in the t N. B.-According
ordinary course of ro Haug the whole of
nature J there are the passage within
seven months of brackets is a later addi-
summer and five of tion.
winter."
It will be seen from the above translations that they all
agree in the main points, viz., ( 1) that the Airyana Vaejo was the
first good land created by Ahura Mazda, ( 2 ) that severe winter
and snow were first introduced into it by Angra Mainyu, and
( 3 ) that after the invasion of Angra Mainyu there were ten winter
months and two summer months in that land. The only difference
between the three versions is that while Darmesteter and Spiegel
regard the last sentence "And these are cold for the waters, etc."
as a part of the original text Haug regards it as a subsequent
addition. All the translators again agree in holding that the
statement " Seven months of summer are there and five months
of winter " is a later insertion. But we shall take up this question
afterwards. For the present we are concerned with the statement
that "Ten months of winter are there, two months of summer,"
and it will be seen that there is no difference on this point in the
three renderings given above. Another important fact mentioned
n the passage is that the prolonged duration of winter was the