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ARYAN IMMIGRATION TO IRAN
Migration of the Aryans from the Ancient
homeland - The Arctic to Iran
As translated from the Vi-Daevo-Dat, ancient Avestan scripture
of the Aryans of Iran
According to Lokmanya Tilak, one of the great fathers of Indian
Independance and a Vedic scholar who had also made a detailed
study of other Aryan cultures, the Vi-Daevo-Dat contained the
most ancient history of mankind, since it properly explained the
origins and the migrations of the Aryans. In a translation from
"The Saga of the Aryans", the history of the migration is
explained in the form of a talk between the ancient Aryan
prophet Zarathushtra, and Ahura Mazda (Avestan name of God
in the Vi-Daevo-Dat.) :
Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda:
"O Ahura Mazda, righteous Creator of the corporeal world, who
was the first person to whom You taught these teachings?
Then spoke Ahura Mazda:
"YIMA the splendid who watched over his subjects, O righteous
Zarathushtra. I first did teach the Aryan religion to him, prior
to you.
"Yima spoke to me, and said he would like to spread the religion
among mankind by teaching others. It was then that I replied:
"O Yima you are not created for this task by Me. You are not
learned enough to increase the religion among mankind - you are
not the Messenger of the religion.
"Yima the righteous told me then: "O Ahura, if I am not created
for the task of increasing the good religion, then I would like
to advance the world, to increase it and be a righteous king and
protector. I ask You this, that in my kingdom there be neither
cold wind nor hot wind (neither extreme winter or summer), there
be no sickness nor death. That my subjects be undying and
unwanting, and gloriously happy under my reign.
"I Who am Ahura Mazda, was pleased with this. I brought Yima
a weapon - a Golden plough which was dagger shaped with golden
forks, to signify that his authority was divine, sanctioned by
Me. He became the mightiest King (KSHAETA) the Aryans had ever
known, the most righteous and most splendid Aryan man.
"When Yima's rule extended to 300 years, then the Aryan land
had prospered so much that the land became full of cattle, men,
dogs, birds and red flaming fire
(the fires kept burning in the house of every Aryan). Place
could no longer be found for cattle or men.
"I made this known to Yima, and he proceeded towards the south,
towards the path of the high sun (west), increasing the land
with his golden plough (conquering
and cultivating the lands). The boundaries of the Aryan kingdom
were thus extended in breadth, one third greater than before.
The king stood as an Aryan
on the mother earth, praising the country with words fit for
prayer.
"When Yima's rule extended to 600 years, the state of
abundance reoccurred. This led to Yima proceeding again towards
the south and the west, extending the
boundaries of the Aryan kingdom two thirds greater than before.
Thus happened the second great migration of the Aryans.
"When Yima's rule extended to 900 years, abundance again led
to Yima increasing the land with his golden plough, towards the
south and west. This third great
migration made the Aryan kingdom three times larger than before.
"In the first 1000 years of his rule, Yima the
splendid enjoined righteous order on his Aryan subjects. He
controlled invisible time itself, making it so much
large in size so as to praise and spread the righteous law.
"That glorious age of the Aryans did not last
for ever, O Zarathushtra! It was time for the evil one's attack.
I Who am Ahura Mazda spoke then to Yima Kshaeta:
"O splendid Yima, towards the sacred Aryan land will rush evil
as a severe fatal winter; evil will rush as thick snow flakes
falling in increased depth. From the
three directions will wild and ferocious animals attack,
arriving from the most dreadful sites.
"Before this winter, any snow that fell would
melt and convey the water away. Now the snow will not melt (but
will form the Polar ice cap). In this place, O
Yima the corporeal world will be DAMAGED. Before in this
seedland the grass was so soft the footprint of even a small
animal could be observed. Now, there will be no footprints
discernible at all on the packed sheets of hard ice that will
form.
"So, Yima; make a mighty VARA, an enclosure as
long as a riding ground, with equal four sides. Here bring the
families of Aryan men and women, cattle, dogs,
birds and the red flaming fire.
"Inside the Vara, make water flow in a canal,
one Hathra long. Keep earth inside the Vara, to grow green
vegetables as food. Make cattle pens, to house the
cattle of the Aryan people.
"Let love blossom unfailing in the enclosure,
among the young couples therein - make for them a residence,
with rooms, pillars, long extended walls and an
enclosing wall."
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