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5. Says Darius the king by the grace of Auramazda I am king: Am- 
amazda gave me the kingdom. 
6. Says Darius the king these are the countries which came to me: by 
the grace of Auramazda I became king of them, Persia, Susiana, Babylon, 
Assyria, Arabia, Egypt, which are by the sea, Sparda, Ionia, Media, 
Armenia, Cappadocia, Parthia, Drangiana, Area, Chorasmia, Bactriana, 
Sogdiana, Gandara, Saka, Thatagus, Haravatis, Maka, in all (there are) 
XXIII countries. 
7. Says Darius the king these (are) the countries which came to me: 
by the grace of Auramazda they became subject to me: they bore tribute 
to me: what was commanded to them by me this was done night and 
(lit. or) day. 
8. Says Darius the king within these countries what man was a friend* 
Mm will supported I supported: who was an enemy him well punished 
I punished; by the grace of Auramazda these countries followed my law: 
as it was commanded by me to them, so it was done. 
9. Says Darius the king Auramazda gave me the kingdom; Auramazda 
bore me aid until this kingdom was established: by the grace of Aura¬ 
mazda I hold this kingdom. 
10. Says Darius the king this (is) what (was) done by me after that I 
became king; Cambyses by name, the son of Cyrus (was) of our family: he 
before was king here: of this Cambyses there was a brother Bardiya (i. e. 
Smerdis) by name possessing a common mother and the same father with 
Cambyses; afterwards Cambyses slew that Bardiya: when Cambyses slew 
Bardiya, there was not knowledge j (on the part) of the state that Bar¬ 
diya was slain: afterwards Cambyses went to Egypt: when Cambyses 
went to Egypt, after that the state became hostile, after that there was 
deceit to a great extent in the provinces, both Persia and Media and 
other provinces. 
11. Says Darius the king afterwards there was one man, a Magian, 
Gaumata by name; he rose up from Paishiyauvada; there (is) a moun¬ 
tain Arakadris by name; from there on the 14th dayj of the month 
Viyakhna then it was when he rose up: he then deceived the state; I am 
Bardiya the son of Cyrus brother of Cambyses: afterwards the whole 
state became estranged from Cambyses (and) went over to him, both 
Persia and Media and the other provinces: he siezed the kingdom; on 
the 9th day of the month Garmapada then it was he thus seized the 
kingdom; afterward Cambyses died by a self-imposed death. || 
* The Persion word is of doubtful interpretation. It looks like the nomen agentis of gam 
to go, a goer hither or a comer. The translation friend is a conventional one. 
t azda, a doubtful word. I connect it with the root da to know which occurs in the com¬ 
pound AURAMAZDA. 
t Lit. with fourteen days; a use of the instrumental which denotes the association of time 
with an event. This idiom is employed in all like temporal expressions. 
11 The word uvamarshiyush I divide into uva self (Cf. Skt. sva. Lat. se) and marshiyush 
