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Overview
West’s Bundahishn calls Eshm an impetuous assailant and assigns him seven powers for destroying creatures. The text connects those powers with the deaths of Kayanian heroes, while saying that one will remain.
The adjoining account describes a sequence in which falsehood welcomes malice, and malice allows Eshm to establish himself. His activity then brings destruction among Ohrmazd’s creatures. This profile retains the selected Pahlavi name and the source’s moral cosmology.
Origins & earliest records
Iranian Zoroastrian religious narrative and cosmology
Records & interpretation
Named and numbered primary-text passage directly read.
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Bundahishn (Indian recension)
28.14–17; hosted historical edition date, not text-composition date.
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Primary records and illustrations
Bundahishn (Indian recension)
Bundahishn (Indian recension). 28.14–17
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- Historical religious primary-text translationBundahishn (Indian recension) 28.14–17 — primary translationResearch access: 2026-10-05
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