While searching in the land of Bābiru
for Arnavāz and Shahrnāz, the most
beautiful daughters of King Jamshēd,
who had been stolen by Aži Dahâka,
the evil dragon with three heads,
Dionysos discovered an ancient
palace that once belonged to the
venerable sage Maḥaway, but had
long since fallen into ruins and
become the habitation of evil spirits.
With a fennel-stalk Dionysos
slew ninety-nine Dēvs
and ninety-nine female Dēvs;
so may ninety-nine illnesses
and ninety-nine pains depart
from NN, and not return as long
as Aži Dahâka is imprisoned
on Mount Damāvand.
Life triumphs over the
works of the unmaker!