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1VI. ERPATISTAN AND NiRANGISTAN. Farcarp I, First Part. ERpaTISTAN. I. The priest officiating out of his house. 1. Knmé (read keméd) nmanahé athaurunem paraydd ? Y6 ashai beregydstemé, Hvéisté va ydistd ; Yim va ainim hapé-gaétha (read hadhé-gaétha) ; HazaosyA paaungha (read paungha) éayan (read kay im). 2. Para paoiryé 4iti, para bityé 4iti, para thrityd aiti. Aéta parayaiti yatha gaéthabyé henati (read henti), Aés6 gaéthanam irishavtinim (H.—T. irishaatanam) raésé (read raésé £ikayad) 4. 3. Katérem Athravana athaurunem va pdrayad gaéthanim v4 asperend avad? *Kad datahé Zarathustrdis. Maghné mathré. Thrikhsaparem hathraknem. Gaéthanam va asperend avdid (see § 3). Y6i avapa aiwyAsti (see § 15). A paiti beretim ereéistem. Noid fraurusti. Mastem Athrnestem astatha. Paiti beretis (H.—T. beretim) arstistim. VI. ERPATISTAN AND N{RANGISTAN. FarcarpD IJ, First Part. ERPATISTAN. I. The priest officiating out of his house. 1. Who is he in the house who shall officiate as priest }? —He who longeth most after holiness °, Be he great, or small ; Or another, his partner $ ; By his own will or directed by the brethren. 2. The first goeth forth, the second goeth forth, the third goeth forth. {If] he goeth forth who is in charge of the estate‘, He shall pay for the damage done to the estate. 3. Shall the priest officiate as a priest or shall he see to the good management of the estate ? 1 Out. of the house. * The most zealous. * The sacerdotal community forms a religious and commercial association. The profits accruing from the divers ceremonies are divided between the members. These in Naus&ri, which is the metropolis of Zoroastrianism, and whose Parsi population is all of sacerdotal origin, are called Bhagarias, ‘the partners.’ * Somebody must stay at home to take care of the common estate; he must not go and officiate abroad. (4) x 306 FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS. Gaéthandm asperenéd avoid. 4. Kvad n& Athrava athaurunem haa gath4bis (read gaéthabis) paray4d ? Yad his thris yA hm (read hamé) aiwis iti. K-vad aiwistem parayad ? Thrikhsaparem hathrakem khsvas khsafnéd dha parafa °. Y6 badyé aétahméd paraiti Néid paséaita anaiwisttm Astryazti. 5. Kataré athaurunem paraydd nairika va nmanépaitis va ? Yéziéa va gaéthau vimé katdr(readkatar6) parayad4? Nminé6-paitis gaéthau nairika parayad, Néirikdi gaéthau vis nman6-paitis paraydd °. 6. Y6 anyahé nairika anahakht6 athaurunem paranghiiti (read paranghaAaiti), Kad hé va ashem verezyad ya nairika nman6-paiti verezyanti ? VerezyAd usaiti ndid anusaiti. Ahakhté paranghaéaiti, VerezyAd usaitiza anusaityti#a (read anusaitifa). Fréid vare parangha#aité 4kau (H —T. Adau) hazanguha andkausé tayus&
2VerezyAd usaiti ndid anusaiti. Ahakhté paranghaéaiti, VerezyAd usaitiza anusaityti#a (read anusaitifa). Fréid vare parangha#aité 4kau (H —T. Adau) hazanguha andkausé tayus& *Yézaka... aésaya daéné, Yézaka vehrk6é gaéthandm (cf. Vd. XIII, ro). Yézika aésa daéné. Yézika aésaya daéné. Yézika vehrk6é gaéthau (cf. Vd. XIII, 10). Paoirydm him varem Aderezaydid hé yahya hé hvanem ahak. > Athauruniméa. ¢ThrishOm 4snim khsafnamka (Yasna LXII, 5, gloss). 4Nairyé ratus kara. Néid avakinéd daitim vinad, Aévakina daitim vindanthad. Hakht6 u anahakht6é. Pan[éa]dayasaya sareide. VI. ERPATISTAN AND N{RANGISTAN, 307 Let him see to the good management of the estate}, 4. How often shall the priest officiate beyond the _ limits of the estate ? —He may go three times in the year. How far may he go to teach (the Word) ? —So far as a three nights’ journey *: six nights, there and back. . Farther than that If he refuse to go and teach, he is not guilty. 5. Which of the two shall officiate as priest, the mistress or the master of the house 3? And if either be fit to take charge of the estate, which shall go forth ? If the master of the house take charge of the estate, the woman shall go forth. If the woman take charge of the estate, the master of the house shall go forth. 6. If a man should take with him as priest * the wife of another, without (her husband’s) leave, May the woman fulfil the holy office ? —Yea, if she is willing ; nay, if she is not willing. Ifa man take her with him by (the husband’s) leave, 1 The managing priest renders more service to the community by preserving and increasing the common property than by performing his ritual functions. ‘Supervising the property is better than officiating as a priest.” (Comm.) 3 ‘The Avesta counts by nights instead of days: ‘three nights’ means ‘ three times twenty-four hours.’ Three nights’ distance is valued at thirty farsakhs or parasangs (ninety miles or thirty leagues). * Women, in case of need, were allowed, like men, to perform certain ritual ceremonies (cf. § 40) and to act as RAspf (assistant-priest), and even as Z6t (officiating priest) (Anquetil, Zend-Avesta II, 553). ‘ As assistant-priest. X 2 308 FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS. 7. Y6 anyéhé aperendydkahé anakhté (read anahakhté) athaurunem paranghaAai (read paranghaéaiti), Pasca hara (read ydra ?) tanim parayéiti. Yad aésa yi aperendyiké sraosi v4 anutaéaité, Aokhté va hé aokhté thw4d pairi anguha (read pairi-angha), Paséa hathra 4 fra-sruiti (read afrasruiti) sé paiti tanim parayéité 4. 8. Ahmi nmdné anghé visé ahmi za#tvé anghé danghvé vad bis ayau vitayau (read vikayau) anghen ? Yugayastis haga nmad atha danghéid visad hathrem zantaod 4 danghaod, Yatha daityA spasanya, Yatha para vayéé nmaneméa viseméa zaxteuska dangheuséa. g. Aad yad hé aokhté aésa yénhé aperendy0ké : Hadanguha mé hana (read ana ?) aperendyfka, Yatha vashi atha hakhshaété, Vana paséfaiti uzdanguhuéid patha hakhtéid,
3g. Aad yad hé aokhté aésa yénhé aperendy0ké : Hadanguha mé hana (read ana ?) aperendyfka, Yatha vashi atha hakhshaété, Vana paséfaiti uzdanguhuéid patha hakhtéid, XKvad anabdéistem ayanem paranghaaité? Ya frayarena va uzayéiriné v4 avin aiwyAstis anghad. *Vénhé aokhté aésé yénhé aperendyfikai. ? To have illicit intercourse with her, by force or otherwise. ® By force. * Without leave from the parent on whom the child depends. * As assistant-priest ; cf. § 40. 5 If the child goes willingly, not by force. * Or perhaps: ‘ if [the child] say.’ * A mile. * ‘Without singing’ the GAthas, that is to say, without performing the ceremony for which he has taken the child with him. Taking the child farther would amount to kidnapping. VI. ERPATISTAN AND N{RANGISTAN. 309 Willing or unwilling, she shall fulfil the holy office. If the man take her with him to enjoy her body }, if he do this openly’, he is a highwayman; if in secret, he is a thief. 7. He who, without leave*, taketh away the child of another to officiate as priest‘, he shall become Peshétanu for a whole year (?). If the child obey and go gladly 5, Or if [the man] say®: ‘I go with thee,’ And he goeth a hathra’ without singing *, he shall be Peshétanu. 8. In this house, in this borough, in this district, in this country, how far afield may they go®? —The length of a yugyésti from the house or the borough”; the length of a hathra from the district or the country ", within a sphere of protection, So that they remain in sight of the house, of the borough, of the district, of the country. 9. But if he who owneth the child shall say: ‘Go with him, my child, The child shall follow at thy will, He may follow along the roads out of the country,’ —How far away, at most, may one lead him ? So far as one can go in a morning or an afternoon. * How far can a man take with him a child without proper authorisation ? © The length of sixteen hathras (sixteen thousand steps; see above, p. 160) from the house or the borough, within the limits of the same district. 1 At the distance of one hAthra only, if on the border of the district; otherwise they would enter a strange place where the child is not known, and the danger of his being lost or kidnapped would be greater. 310 FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS. . Y6 aétahmad paranghafaiti, _ NabA&nazdistem hé para paséaiti raésa#a adhwadaityaska Astrainti. II. The student priest. 10a. Aad hvatim aba aéthrapaittm Yéwhé nisritem frara Ahi anastritim Yézi fad hé néid aighsrittm frara Néid ainisrittm Astryézti. Yathra apereyfké (read aperendyfk6) Néid hé anisris Atha aiwyanghem [yathra ratus thwayanghem] yathra aperendyfké. Ahé aithisritim staryéiti. Adha yad v4 yathra thwayanghem va thwayanghem va. 10 b. Daévayasnahé va tanu-perethahé v4 aperenayika paranghafaité Nisritad aétahé Astryéiti néid asriti 4. 11. Avad nA aithra-paititim (read aéthrapaittm) upadiséd yare dragé ? Thrizaremaém khratim ashavanem aiwyaunghad >,
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.
1VI. ERPATISTAN AND NiRANGISTAN. Farcarp I, First Part. ERpaTISTAN. I. The priest officiating out of his house. 1. Knmé (read keméd) nmanahé athaurunem paraydd ? Y6 ashai beregydstemé, Hvéisté va ydistd ; Yim va ainim hapé-gaétha (read hadhé-gaétha) ; HazaosyA paaungha (read paungha) éayan (read kay im). 2. Para paoiryé 4iti, para bityé 4iti, para thrityd aiti. Aéta parayaiti yatha gaéthabyé henati (read henti), Aés6 gaéthanam irishavtinim (H.—T. irishaatanam) raésé (read raésé £ikayad) 4. 3. Katérem Athravana athaurunem va pdrayad gaéthanim v4 asperend avad? *Kad datahé Zarathustrdis. Maghné mathré. Thrikhsaparem hathraknem. Gaéthanam va asperend avdid (see § 3). Y6i avapa aiwyAsti (see § 15). A paiti beretim ereéistem. Noid fraurusti. Mastem Athrnestem astatha. Paiti beretis (H.—T. beretim) arstistim. VI. ERPATISTAN AND N{RANGISTAN. FarcarpD IJ, First Part. ERPATISTAN. I. The priest officiating out of his house. 1. Who is he in the house who shall officiate as priest }? —He who longeth most after holiness °, Be he great, or small ; Or another, his partner $ ; By his own will or directed by the brethren. 2. The first goeth forth, the second goeth forth, the third goeth forth. {If] he goeth forth who is in charge of the estate‘, He shall pay for the damage done to the estate. 3. Shall the priest officiate as a priest or shall he see to the good management of the estate ? 1 Out. of the house. * The most zealous. * The sacerdotal community forms a religious and commercial association. The profits accruing from the divers ceremonies are divided between the members. These in Naus&ri, which is the metropolis of Zoroastrianism, and whose Parsi population is all of sacerdotal origin, are called Bhagarias, ‘the partners.’ * Somebody must stay at home to take care of the common estate; he must not go and officiate abroad. (4) x 306 FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS. Gaéthandm asperenéd avoid. 4. Kvad n& Athrava athaurunem haa gath4bis (read gaéthabis) paray4d ? Yad his thris yA hm (read hamé) aiwis iti. K-vad aiwistem parayad ? Thrikhsaparem hathrakem khsvas khsafnéd dha parafa °. Y6 badyé aétahméd paraiti Néid paséaita anaiwisttm Astryazti. 5. Kataré athaurunem paraydd nairika va nmanépaitis va ? Yéziéa va gaéthau vimé katdr(readkatar6) parayad4? Nminé6-paitis gaéthau nairika parayad, Néirikdi gaéthau vis nman6-paitis paraydd °. 6. Y6 anyahé nairika anahakht6 athaurunem paranghiiti (read paranghaAaiti), Kad hé va ashem verezyad ya nairika nman6-paiti verezyanti ? VerezyAd usaiti ndid anusaiti. Ahakhté paranghaéaiti, VerezyAd usaitiza anusaityti#a (read anusaitifa). Fréid vare parangha#aité 4kau (H —T. Adau) hazanguha andkausé tayus&
2VerezyAd usaiti ndid anusaiti. Ahakhté paranghaéaiti, VerezyAd usaitiza anusaityti#a (read anusaitifa). Fréid vare parangha#aité 4kau (H —T. Adau) hazanguha andkausé tayus& *Yézaka... aésaya daéné, Yézaka vehrk6é gaéthandm (cf. Vd. XIII, ro). Yézika aésa daéné. Yézika aésaya daéné. Yézika vehrk6é gaéthau (cf. Vd. XIII, 10). Paoirydm him varem Aderezaydid hé yahya hé hvanem ahak. > Athauruniméa. ¢ThrishOm 4snim khsafnamka (Yasna LXII, 5, gloss). 4Nairyé ratus kara. Néid avakinéd daitim vinad, Aévakina daitim vindanthad. Hakht6 u anahakht6é. Pan[éa]dayasaya sareide. VI. ERPATISTAN AND N{RANGISTAN, 307 Let him see to the good management of the estate}, 4. How often shall the priest officiate beyond the _ limits of the estate ? —He may go three times in the year. How far may he go to teach (the Word) ? —So far as a three nights’ journey *: six nights, there and back. . Farther than that If he refuse to go and teach, he is not guilty. 5. Which of the two shall officiate as priest, the mistress or the master of the house 3? And if either be fit to take charge of the estate, which shall go forth ? If the master of the house take charge of the estate, the woman shall go forth. If the woman take charge of the estate, the master of the house shall go forth. 6. If a man should take with him as priest * the wife of another, without (her husband’s) leave, May the woman fulfil the holy office ? —Yea, if she is willing ; nay, if she is not willing. Ifa man take her with him by (the husband’s) leave, 1 The managing priest renders more service to the community by preserving and increasing the common property than by performing his ritual functions. ‘Supervising the property is better than officiating as a priest.” (Comm.) 3 ‘The Avesta counts by nights instead of days: ‘three nights’ means ‘ three times twenty-four hours.’ Three nights’ distance is valued at thirty farsakhs or parasangs (ninety miles or thirty leagues). * Women, in case of need, were allowed, like men, to perform certain ritual ceremonies (cf. § 40) and to act as RAspf (assistant-priest), and even as Z6t (officiating priest) (Anquetil, Zend-Avesta II, 553). ‘ As assistant-priest. X 2 308 FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS. 7. Y6 anyéhé aperendydkahé anakhté (read anahakhté) athaurunem paranghaAai (read paranghaéaiti), Pasca hara (read ydra ?) tanim parayéiti. Yad aésa yi aperendyiké sraosi v4 anutaéaité, Aokhté va hé aokhté thw4d pairi anguha (read pairi-angha), Paséa hathra 4 fra-sruiti (read afrasruiti) sé paiti tanim parayéité 4. 8. Ahmi nmdné anghé visé ahmi za#tvé anghé danghvé vad bis ayau vitayau (read vikayau) anghen ? Yugayastis haga nmad atha danghéid visad hathrem zantaod 4 danghaod, Yatha daityA spasanya, Yatha para vayéé nmaneméa viseméa zaxteuska dangheuséa. g. Aad yad hé aokhté aésa yénhé aperendy0ké : Hadanguha mé hana (read ana ?) aperendyfka, Yatha vashi atha hakhshaété, Vana paséfaiti uzdanguhuéid patha hakhtéid,
3g. Aad yad hé aokhté aésa yénhé aperendy0ké : Hadanguha mé hana (read ana ?) aperendyfka, Yatha vashi atha hakhshaété, Vana paséfaiti uzdanguhuéid patha hakhtéid, XKvad anabdéistem ayanem paranghaaité? Ya frayarena va uzayéiriné v4 avin aiwyAstis anghad. *Vénhé aokhté aésé yénhé aperendyfikai. ? To have illicit intercourse with her, by force or otherwise. ® By force. * Without leave from the parent on whom the child depends. * As assistant-priest ; cf. § 40. 5 If the child goes willingly, not by force. * Or perhaps: ‘ if [the child] say.’ * A mile. * ‘Without singing’ the GAthas, that is to say, without performing the ceremony for which he has taken the child with him. Taking the child farther would amount to kidnapping. VI. ERPATISTAN AND N{RANGISTAN. 309 Willing or unwilling, she shall fulfil the holy office. If the man take her with him to enjoy her body }, if he do this openly’, he is a highwayman; if in secret, he is a thief. 7. He who, without leave*, taketh away the child of another to officiate as priest‘, he shall become Peshétanu for a whole year (?). If the child obey and go gladly 5, Or if [the man] say®: ‘I go with thee,’ And he goeth a hathra’ without singing *, he shall be Peshétanu. 8. In this house, in this borough, in this district, in this country, how far afield may they go®? —The length of a yugyésti from the house or the borough”; the length of a hathra from the district or the country ", within a sphere of protection, So that they remain in sight of the house, of the borough, of the district, of the country. 9. But if he who owneth the child shall say: ‘Go with him, my child, The child shall follow at thy will, He may follow along the roads out of the country,’ —How far away, at most, may one lead him ? So far as one can go in a morning or an afternoon. * How far can a man take with him a child without proper authorisation ? © The length of sixteen hathras (sixteen thousand steps; see above, p. 160) from the house or the borough, within the limits of the same district. 1 At the distance of one hAthra only, if on the border of the district; otherwise they would enter a strange place where the child is not known, and the danger of his being lost or kidnapped would be greater. 310 FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS. . Y6 aétahmad paranghafaiti, _ NabA&nazdistem hé para paséaiti raésa#a adhwadaityaska Astrainti. II. The student priest. 10a. Aad hvatim aba aéthrapaittm Yéwhé nisritem frara Ahi anastritim Yézi fad hé néid aighsrittm frara Néid ainisrittm Astryézti. Yathra apereyfké (read aperendyfk6) Néid hé anisris Atha aiwyanghem [yathra ratus thwayanghem] yathra aperendyfké. Ahé aithisritim staryéiti. Adha yad v4 yathra thwayanghem va thwayanghem va. 10 b. Daévayasnahé va tanu-perethahé v4 aperenayika paranghafaité Nisritad aétahé Astryéiti néid asriti 4. 11. Avad nA aithra-paititim (read aéthrapaittm) upadiséd yare dragé ? Thrizaremaém khratim ashavanem aiwyaunghad >,
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