The Bundahishn (Knowledge from the Zand)ZoroastrianismAccepted by Some TraditionsPahlavi (Middle Persian)ShareBundahishn 34E. W. West (1880) - EnglishMoreVersion - 1 availableE. W. West (1880)LanguageEnglishEspañol‹Bundahishn 1Bundahishn 2Bundahishn 3Bundahishn 4Bundahishn 5Bundahishn 6Bundahishn 7Bundahishn 8Bundahishn 9Bundahishn 10Bundahishn 11Bundahishn 12Bundahishn 13Bundahishn 14Bundahishn 15Bundahishn 16Bundahishn 17Bundahishn 18Bundahishn 19Bundahishn 20Bundahishn 21Bundahishn 22Bundahishn 23Bundahishn 24Bundahishn 25Bundahishn 26Bundahishn 27Bundahishn 28Bundahishn 29Bundahishn 30Bundahishn 31Bundahishn 32Bundahishn 33Bundahishn 34›Chapter 34: The reckoning of the yearsBundahishn 34ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter00. On the reckoning of the years. 1. Time was for twelve thousand years; and it says in revelation, that three thousand years was the duration of the spiritual state, where the creatures were unthinking, unmoving, and intangible; and three thousand years was the duration of Gayomard, with the ox, in the world. 2. As this was six thousand years the series of millennium reigns of Cancer, Leo, and Virgo had elapsed, because it was six thousand years when the millennium reign came to Libra, the adversary rushed in, and Gayomard lived thirty years in tribulation. 3. After the thirty years Mashye and Mashyane grew up; it was fifty years while they were not wife and husband, and they were ninety-three years together as wife and husband till the time when Hooshang came. 44. Hooshang was forty years, Tahmurasp thirty years, Yim [Jamshed] till his glory departed six hundred and sixteen years and six months, and after that he was a hundred years in concealment. 5. Then the millennium reign came to Scorpio, and Dahak [Zohak] ruled a thousand years. 6. After the millennium reign came to Sagittarius, Faridoon reigned five hundred years; in the same five hundred years of Faridoon were the twelve years of Airik, Manuschihar was a hundred and twenty years, and in the same reign of Manuschihar, when he was in the mountain fastness (dushkhvar-gar), were the twelve years of Frasiyav; Zob the Tuhmaspian was five years. 77. Kay Kobad was fifteen years; Kay Kaus, till he went to the sky, seventy-five years, and seventy-five years after that, altogether a hundred and fifty years; Kay Khosraw sixty years; Kay Lohrasp a hundred and twenty years; Kay Vishtasp, till the coming of the religion, thirty years, altogether a hundred and twenty years. 8. Vohuman son of Spend-dad a hundred and twelve years; Humai, who was daughter of Vohuman, thirty years; Darai son of Chihar-azhad, that is, of the daughter of Vohuman, twelve years; Darai son of Darai fourteen years; Alexander the Ruman fourteen years. 99. The Ashkanians bore the title in an uninterrupted (a-arubak) sovereignty two hundred and eighty-four years, Ardashir son of Papak and the number of the Sasanians four hundred and sixty years, and then it went to the Arabs. ‹Previous chapterBundahishn 33Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public domain