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Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1That food he shall live on, those clothes he shall wear, and thus shall they let him live, until he has grown to the age of a Hana, or of a Zaurura, or of a Pairista-khshudra *. 20, 21 (64-71). ‘And when he has grown to the age of a Hana, or of a Zaurura’, or of a Pairistakhshudra, then the worshippers of Mazda shall order a man strong, vigorous, and skilful ¢, to cut the head off his neck®, in his enclosure on the top of the mountain : and they shall deliver his corpse unto the greediest of the corpse-eating creatures made by the beneficent Spirit, unto the vultures, with these words: “ The man here has repented of all his evil thoughts, words, and deeds. If he has committed any other evil deed, it is remitted by his repentance®: if he has committed no other evil deed, he is absolved by his repentance, for ever and ever.”’ 2 The Armest-g4h, the place for the unclean; see Introd. V, 15. * Hana means, literally, ‘an old man;’ Zaurura, ‘a man broken down by age;’ Pairista-khshudra, ‘one whose seed is dried up.’ These words have acquired the technical meanings of ‘fifty, sixty, and seventy years old.’ , * When he is near his death. The carrier alone (@vak-bar), being margarzén (see p. 27, n. 2), ought to have been put to death at once. The rigour of theory was abated in practice and delayed to the moment when the guilty man was to have paid to nature the debt due to religion. ‘ © Trained to operations of that sort’ (Comm.) ; a headsman. * Perhaps : ‘to flay him alive and cut off his head.’ Cf. Farg. IX, 49, text and note. * By the performance of the Patet. FARGARD III. 29 22 (72). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Who is the third that rejoices the Earth with greatest joy? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘It is he who fills up most burrows of the creatures of Angra Mainyu.’ 23 (75). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Who is the fourth that rejoices the Earth with greatest joy ? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘It is he who sows most corn, grass, and fruit, O Spitama Zarathustra! who | waters ground that is dry, or drains ground that is too wet *, 24 (79). ‘Unhappy is the land that has long lain unsown with the seed of the sower and wants a good husbandman, like a well-shapen maiden who has long gone childless and wants a good husband. 25 (84). ‘He who would till the earth, O Spitama Zarathustra! with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, unto him will she bring forth plenty of fruit: even as it were a lover sleeping with his bride on her bed; the bride will bring forth children, the earth will bring forth plenty of fruit *. 26, 27 (87-90). ‘He who would till the earth, O Spitama Zarathustra! with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, unto him thus says the Earth: “O thou man! who dost till me with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, here shall I ever go on bearing, bring- 1 This joy answers the fourth grief of the earth (§ 10).
2with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, unto him thus says the Earth: “O thou man! who dost till me with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, here shall I ever go on bearing, bring- 1 This joy answers the fourth grief of the earth (§ 10). * This is identical with § 4, which is developed in the following clauses (§§ 24-34). 5 The text has: ‘she brings either a son or plenty of fruit,’ she being either the woman or the earth. 30 venptpAp. ing forth all manner of food, bringing corn first to thee?.” 28, 29 (91-95). ‘He who does not till the earth, O Spitama Zarathustra! with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, unto him thus says the Earth: “O thou man! who dost not till me with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, ever shalt thou stand at the door of the stranger, among those who beg for bread; the refuse and the crumbs of the bread are brought unto thee *, brought by those who have profusion of wealth.”’ 30 (96). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What is the food that fills the Religion of Mazda? ? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘It is sowing corn again and again, O Spitama Zarathustra ! 31 (99). ‘He who sows corn, sows righteousness : he makes the Religion of Mazda walk, he suckles the Religion of Mazda; as well as he could do with a hundred man’s feet, with a thousand woman's breasts ¢, with ten thousand sacrificial formulas °. 32 (105). ‘When barley was created, the Daévas ‘ «When something good grows up, it will grow up for thee first’ (Comm.) Perhaps: ‘bringing to thee profusion of corn’ (‘some say, she will bring to thee 15 for 10;’ Comm.) * «They take for themselves what is good and send to thee what is bad’ (Comm.) * Literally, ‘ What is the stomach of the law?’ ‘ «He makes the Religion of Mazda as fat as a child could be made by means of a hundred feet, that is to say, of fifty servants walking to rock him ; of a thousand breasts, that is, of five hundred nurses ’ (Comm.) ° With the recitation of 10,000 Yénghé hAtim, that is to say, as if one had performed for his weal as many sacrifices as contain 10,000 Yénghé hatam. FARGARD III. 31 started up’; when it grew’, then fainted the Daévas’ hearts ; when the knots came, the Daévas groaned; when the ear came, the Daévas flew away‘. In that house the Daévas stay, wherein wheat perishes 5, It is as though red hot iron were turned about in their throats, when there is plenty of corn’, 33 (111). ‘ Then let people learn by heart this holy saying: “ No one who does not eat, has strength to do heavy works of holiness’, strength to do works of husbandry, strength to beget children. By eating every material creature lives, by not eating it dies away.”’ 34 (116). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Who is‘ the fifth that rejoices the Earth with greatest joy ?
3By eating every material creature lives, by not eating it dies away.”’ 34 (116). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Who is‘ the fifth that rejoices the Earth with greatest joy ? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘[It is he who kindly and piously gives® to one of the faithful who tills the earth,] O Spitama Zarathustra ! 35 (118). ‘He who would not kindly and piously give to one of the faithful who tills the earth, O Spitama Zarathustra! Spenta Armaiti® will throw him down into darkness, down into the world of woe, the world of hell, down into the deep abyss !°.’ 1 John Barleycorn got up again, And sore surpris’d them all. * Doubtful. 5 Doubtful. ‘ The general meaning of the sentence is how the Dévs are broken down ‘by the growing, the increasing, and the ripening of the corn’ (Dinkard, 1. 1. § 10). * Doubtful. * Doubtful. 7 ‘Like the performance of the dvazda hémA4st’ (the longest and most cumbersome of all Zoroastrian ceremonies). * The Ashé-d4d or alms. The bracketed clause is from the Vendid4d Sada. ® The Genius of the Earth offended. 3° Conjectural translation, - 32 VENDIDAD. IV. 36 (122). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Ifa man shall bury in the earth either the corpse of a dog or the corpse of a man, and if he shall not disinter it within half a year, what is the penalty that he shall pay ? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Five hundred stripes with the Aspahé-astra?, five hundred stripes with the Sraoshé-Zarana}.’ 37 (126). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Ifa man shall bury in the earth either the corpse of a dog or the corpse of a man, and if he shall not disinter it within a year, what is the penalty that he shall pay? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘A thousand stripes with the Aspahé-astra, a thousand stripes with the Sraosh6-Aarana.’ 38 (130). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Ifa man shall bury in the earth either the corpse of a dog or the corpse of a man, and if he shall not disinter it within the second year, what is the penalty for it? What is the atonement for it? What is the cleansing from it ? 39 (135). Ahura Mazda’ answered: ‘For that deed there is nothing that can pay, nothing that can atone, nothing that can cleanse from it; it is a trespass for which there is no atonement, for ever and ever.’ 40 (137). When is it so? ‘It is so, if the sinner be a professor of the 1 See Introduction. FARGARD III. 33 Religion of Mazda, or one who has been taught in it! ‘But if he be not a professor of the Religion of Mazda, nor one who has been taught in it?, then his sin is taken from him, if he makes confession of the Religion ‘of Mazda and resolves never to commit again such forbidden deeds *.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1That food he shall live on, those clothes he shall wear, and thus shall they let him live, until he has grown to the age of a Hana, or of a Zaurura, or of a Pairista-khshudra *. 20, 21 (64-71). ‘And when he has grown to the age of a Hana, or of a Zaurura’, or of a Pairistakhshudra, then the worshippers of Mazda shall order a man strong, vigorous, and skilful ¢, to cut the head off his neck®, in his enclosure on the top of the mountain : and they shall deliver his corpse unto the greediest of the corpse-eating creatures made by the beneficent Spirit, unto the vultures, with these words: “ The man here has repented of all his evil thoughts, words, and deeds. If he has committed any other evil deed, it is remitted by his repentance®: if he has committed no other evil deed, he is absolved by his repentance, for ever and ever.”’ 2 The Armest-g4h, the place for the unclean; see Introd. V, 15. * Hana means, literally, ‘an old man;’ Zaurura, ‘a man broken down by age;’ Pairista-khshudra, ‘one whose seed is dried up.’ These words have acquired the technical meanings of ‘fifty, sixty, and seventy years old.’ , * When he is near his death. The carrier alone (@vak-bar), being margarzén (see p. 27, n. 2), ought to have been put to death at once. The rigour of theory was abated in practice and delayed to the moment when the guilty man was to have paid to nature the debt due to religion. ‘ © Trained to operations of that sort’ (Comm.) ; a headsman. * Perhaps : ‘to flay him alive and cut off his head.’ Cf. Farg. IX, 49, text and note. * By the performance of the Patet. FARGARD III. 29 22 (72). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Who is the third that rejoices the Earth with greatest joy? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘It is he who fills up most burrows of the creatures of Angra Mainyu.’ 23 (75). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Who is the fourth that rejoices the Earth with greatest joy ? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘It is he who sows most corn, grass, and fruit, O Spitama Zarathustra! who | waters ground that is dry, or drains ground that is too wet *, 24 (79). ‘Unhappy is the land that has long lain unsown with the seed of the sower and wants a good husbandman, like a well-shapen maiden who has long gone childless and wants a good husband. 25 (84). ‘He who would till the earth, O Spitama Zarathustra! with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, unto him will she bring forth plenty of fruit: even as it were a lover sleeping with his bride on her bed; the bride will bring forth children, the earth will bring forth plenty of fruit *. 26, 27 (87-90). ‘He who would till the earth, O Spitama Zarathustra! with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, unto him thus says the Earth: “O thou man! who dost till me with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, here shall I ever go on bearing, bring- 1 This joy answers the fourth grief of the earth (§ 10).
2with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, unto him thus says the Earth: “O thou man! who dost till me with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, here shall I ever go on bearing, bring- 1 This joy answers the fourth grief of the earth (§ 10). * This is identical with § 4, which is developed in the following clauses (§§ 24-34). 5 The text has: ‘she brings either a son or plenty of fruit,’ she being either the woman or the earth. 30 venptpAp. ing forth all manner of food, bringing corn first to thee?.” 28, 29 (91-95). ‘He who does not till the earth, O Spitama Zarathustra! with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, unto him thus says the Earth: “O thou man! who dost not till me with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, ever shalt thou stand at the door of the stranger, among those who beg for bread; the refuse and the crumbs of the bread are brought unto thee *, brought by those who have profusion of wealth.”’ 30 (96). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What is the food that fills the Religion of Mazda? ? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘It is sowing corn again and again, O Spitama Zarathustra ! 31 (99). ‘He who sows corn, sows righteousness : he makes the Religion of Mazda walk, he suckles the Religion of Mazda; as well as he could do with a hundred man’s feet, with a thousand woman's breasts ¢, with ten thousand sacrificial formulas °. 32 (105). ‘When barley was created, the Daévas ‘ «When something good grows up, it will grow up for thee first’ (Comm.) Perhaps: ‘bringing to thee profusion of corn’ (‘some say, she will bring to thee 15 for 10;’ Comm.) * «They take for themselves what is good and send to thee what is bad’ (Comm.) * Literally, ‘ What is the stomach of the law?’ ‘ «He makes the Religion of Mazda as fat as a child could be made by means of a hundred feet, that is to say, of fifty servants walking to rock him ; of a thousand breasts, that is, of five hundred nurses ’ (Comm.) ° With the recitation of 10,000 Yénghé hAtim, that is to say, as if one had performed for his weal as many sacrifices as contain 10,000 Yénghé hatam. FARGARD III. 31 started up’; when it grew’, then fainted the Daévas’ hearts ; when the knots came, the Daévas groaned; when the ear came, the Daévas flew away‘. In that house the Daévas stay, wherein wheat perishes 5, It is as though red hot iron were turned about in their throats, when there is plenty of corn’, 33 (111). ‘ Then let people learn by heart this holy saying: “ No one who does not eat, has strength to do heavy works of holiness’, strength to do works of husbandry, strength to beget children. By eating every material creature lives, by not eating it dies away.”’ 34 (116). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Who is‘ the fifth that rejoices the Earth with greatest joy ?
3By eating every material creature lives, by not eating it dies away.”’ 34 (116). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Who is‘ the fifth that rejoices the Earth with greatest joy ? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘[It is he who kindly and piously gives® to one of the faithful who tills the earth,] O Spitama Zarathustra ! 35 (118). ‘He who would not kindly and piously give to one of the faithful who tills the earth, O Spitama Zarathustra! Spenta Armaiti® will throw him down into darkness, down into the world of woe, the world of hell, down into the deep abyss !°.’ 1 John Barleycorn got up again, And sore surpris’d them all. * Doubtful. 5 Doubtful. ‘ The general meaning of the sentence is how the Dévs are broken down ‘by the growing, the increasing, and the ripening of the corn’ (Dinkard, 1. 1. § 10). * Doubtful. * Doubtful. 7 ‘Like the performance of the dvazda hémA4st’ (the longest and most cumbersome of all Zoroastrian ceremonies). * The Ashé-d4d or alms. The bracketed clause is from the Vendid4d Sada. ® The Genius of the Earth offended. 3° Conjectural translation, - 32 VENDIDAD. IV. 36 (122). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Ifa man shall bury in the earth either the corpse of a dog or the corpse of a man, and if he shall not disinter it within half a year, what is the penalty that he shall pay ? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Five hundred stripes with the Aspahé-astra?, five hundred stripes with the Sraoshé-Zarana}.’ 37 (126). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Ifa man shall bury in the earth either the corpse of a dog or the corpse of a man, and if he shall not disinter it within a year, what is the penalty that he shall pay? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘A thousand stripes with the Aspahé-astra, a thousand stripes with the Sraosh6-Aarana.’ 38 (130). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Ifa man shall bury in the earth either the corpse of a dog or the corpse of a man, and if he shall not disinter it within the second year, what is the penalty for it? What is the atonement for it? What is the cleansing from it ? 39 (135). Ahura Mazda’ answered: ‘For that deed there is nothing that can pay, nothing that can atone, nothing that can cleanse from it; it is a trespass for which there is no atonement, for ever and ever.’ 40 (137). When is it so? ‘It is so, if the sinner be a professor of the 1 See Introduction. FARGARD III. 33 Religion of Mazda, or one who has been taught in it! ‘But if he be not a professor of the Religion of Mazda, nor one who has been taught in it?, then his sin is taken from him, if he makes confession of the Religion ‘of Mazda and resolves never to commit again such forbidden deeds *.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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