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1Ahurahé Mazdau Mithrahé vispaésim ashaondm. Ahurahé Mazdau Mithrahé vispaésim gathaby6 ashaonam. VI. ERPATISTAN AND N{RANGISTAN. 323 moderation too, if he sing not the Gathas’, he is not guilty. If he eat too much and get drunk, for not singing the Gathas [he is guilty]. IV. The recitation of the GAthas’. 31. If the priest sing for two assemblies, he is accepted. If he sing for three assemblies, he is not accepted. Which is the smallest assembly for which singing is accepted? Three (of the faithful). 33. How will the Zaotar sing the Gathas? He will sing half a stanza® in a moderate voice with Zarathustra’s rhythm ; And if he omit * those words in the Gathas which are twice, thrice, or four times to be said 5, Those words that cut the demons to pieces, For those words he is not accepted. 34. Which are the words twice to be said ? Ahya y4sé ; Yatha taf; Humatanim ; HumAéim thw tzem ; Ashahya Aad ; Thwé6i staotaras4é ; 1 ‘Tf in spite of his moderation, the little he drank makes him tipsy so that he does not celebrate the Gahanbér, he is not ina state of sin’ (Comm.) ? «Concerning the quality (sam4n) of the voice in reciting the Avesta in a ceremonial, and the Avesta which is twice recited and thrice or four times recited’ (West, Dinkart, I. 1. § 4). ® The first half of the stanza. ‘ If he omit to recite them the due number of times. 5 The so-called Bis-4mrfitas, Thris-Amrftas, Kathrus-Amriitas ; cf. Vd. X. Y2 324 FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS, ahm4i—Spemt4 mainyd—Vohd khsathrem vairtm— Vahista istis. 35- Kaya thrisAmrata ? Ashem vohi—ye sevist6—hukhsathrétem4i—duzvarenais. 36. Kaya 4athrusdmriata ? Yatha ahd vairys—Mazd4 ad méi vahista—aé airyema. 37. Kanghim [H.—T. sangham] na gAéthanim srutanam aratufris ? Y4 yaézé (read maéz6) va fravashdimné (read fra , va shaimné) srayéiti (read sr4vayéiti), Aétaésim va#am aratufris. Adhaééa uiti yatha kathaéa dahmé staota y[é]snya haurva dadhaiti, Paurvad v4 naémad aparad va, Myé (read ayé) va taéa va histanemné (read histemné) va aungh4né v4 dathané va baremné va vazemné va aiwydsté ath4 ratufris®, V. The sacrifice performed by a Zét or a RAspt in a State of sin. 38. Dahmé zaota tanuperetha upasraotaré, Yézi dis tanuperethé vaédha, Aévaté ratufris yavad framaraiti. Yézi dad dis néid tanuperethé vaédha, Vispanim gathan&m ratufris. * Baré aspé vazé rathé (Fragment Vd. VI, 26). Fravarané—athré Ahurahé Mazdau puthra tava Atars puthra Ahurahé Mazdau khsnaothra—ashem vohf 3, fravarané—yatha ahd vairyé yé zaota, yathé ahd vairyé y6é 4travakhs6 atha ratus—yath4 ahd vairyé yé Atravakhsé yd zaota atha ratus—yé6 bity6é zaota. Ashem vohi—yath4 aha vairy6—-fravarané—frastuyé. VI. ERPATISTAN AND N{RANGISTAN. 325 Ust4 ahmdai; Vohd khsathrem vairim ; Spent4 mainya ; Vahista tstis }. 35. Which are the words thrice to be said ? Ashem voha ; Hukhsathrétemai ; Ye sevisté ; Duzvarenais?. 36. Which are the words four times to be said ? Yatha ahd vairyé ; A airyema ’. Mazda ad méi vahista ;
2325 Ust4 ahmdai; Vohd khsathrem vairim ; Spent4 mainya ; Vahista tstis }. 35. Which are the words thrice to be said ? Ashem voha ; Hukhsathrétemai ; Ye sevisté ; Duzvarenais?. 36. Which are the words four times to be said ? Yatha ahd vairyé ; A airyema ’. Mazda ad méi vahista ; 37. When is it that the Gathas which a priest sings are not accepted ? The words he sings while doing the necessities of nature, These words are not accepted. Otherwise, in whatever fashion the pious man may offer the Staota yésnya ‘, In the earlier part of the office or in the latter part of it (?), Whether walking or running ; standing, sitting, or lying; riding or driving; as long as he has his girdle on 5, he is accepted. V. The sacrifice performed by a Zét or a RAspi in a State of sin® 38. If the Zaotar be righteous and his assistants be in a state of sin, If he know that they are in a state of sin, What he recites himself is accepted. If he know not that they are in a state of sin, the whole of the Gathas is accepted. 1 Vd. X, 4. * Vd. X, 8. 8 Vd. X, 12. * See above, page 312, note 2. ® His Késtt; cf. Vd. XVIII, 1 (note 2), 54. * Dinkart, 1. 1. § 5. , 326 FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS. 39. Tanuperetha zaota dahma upasraotéré, Yézi dim tanuperethem vivare (read vidare), Aétavaté ratufris yavad framerenti. Yézi 4ad dim néid tanuperethem vivare, Vispanaim gathan4m ratufris. Dahmé zaota dahmé upasraotaré vispé ratufryé. Tanuperethé zaota tanuperethd upasraotaré vispé aratufryé. 40. Kay&éid na dahmanim zaothrédha ratufris, Nairikausfid aperendyQkahéfa, Yézi vaétha hathanim (read haitingm ?) thwareseska frataurunauséfa, Anmtare hditisu yasnem fraizis 4. NIRANGISTAN. Farcarp II. I. The celebration of the GAdhanbars. 41. Y6 gathau asravayé asta va tardmaiti va tandm pereyéiti. K6 4sté katar6é maiti (read ka tarémaiti) ? Y4 hafé daénayfd m4zdayasnéid apastiitis>. 42. Y6 gathau asravayé yd4re drag6 apa tandm pairyéiti. * Noid ta nairika kasu-khrathwa. Ashem vohf vahistem asti, usta asti ust4 ahmAi. Hyad ashai vahistai ashem. >Y6 haka daénayad mazdayasnéid apastdid, Thris vaghsibis hakarad vipaitikid. “1 «Concerning the functions of a Z6t performed by a woman or a child’ (Dinkart, I. 1. § 6). ® See above, §§ 5-9 and notes. VI. ERPATISTAN AND NIRANGISTAN. 327 39. If the Zaotar be in a state of sin and the assistants be righteous, If they know that he is in a state of sin, What they recite themselves is accepted. If they know not that he is in a state of sin, the whole of the Gathas is accepted. If the Zaotar be righteous and the assistants be righteous, the whole is accepted. If the Zaotar be in a state of sin and the assistants be also ina state of sin, neither the one nor the other is accepted. 401. Any one of the faithful is accepted as a Zaotar, Even a woman? or a child, If he know the ends and the heads of the chapters’, And know how to perform the acts of ritual between the chapters.
3401. Any one of the faithful is accepted as a Zaotar, Even a woman? or a child, If he know the ends and the heads of the chapters’, And know how to perform the acts of ritual between the chapters. N{RAnGISTAN, FarGarp II. I. The celebration of the GahAnbars. 41. He who does not sing the Gathas, either out of unbelief, or out of impiety, becomes a Peshétanu. What is unbelief*? What is impiety °? It is renouncing the Religion of Mazda. 42° He who stays the year through without _ singing the Gathas becomes a Peshétanu. 5 As there are certain repetitions of stanzas and certain ceremonial acts at the end of most of the HAs. * Asta: ‘negation; when he says, there is no such thing as Religion’ (Comm.) 5 tarémaiti : ‘ when he says, it exists, but it is no good.’ ® «Qn the sin of him who does not celebrate the GahAnbars, and how they are to be celebrated ’ (Dinkart, 1.1. § 8). 328 FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS. Yézi aunghaim éyim pévaéim framaraiti, Pairi sé hd pareté-tanunam staunghaiti (H.—T. stadnghaiti), Yahmad haga tem ava raodhenti 9, Y6 gathanim édyem vaéim apayditi aévim va vakastastim, Thri v4 azaiti ayare drag6é va vastry4d; Atha bityau atha thrityau, Atha vispem 4 ahmad yad hé hamgasamta yatha Aathrusem yau gathau asravayé hyad aradusa hé syaothanem. ThrishOm taré 4varaya naémem tard bazugataya vispem taré y4re dragé hé him yatem Astryéiti. Yadkid pasfaiti aévam ratufritim ava raodhayéiti tanim pairyéiti. 43. Y6 gathan§m aévam ratufritim ava raodhayéiti thri va Azaiti ayare dragé va vastry4d; Atha vispem 4 ahmad yad hé hangasaiti yatha thrishOm yau gaéthau asravayé od tandm pairyéiti. 44. Y6 gathau asravayé naémem yare dragé, Tad paiti aénem dahmem gathanam sraothrau pairistayéiti, Yadhéid naém yau gaéthau (read géthau)asravay6 hyad atha u Astryéiti ; ® Sérahé. Panka tisr6é dasa u rathwdm. Hazangrem maésanam (Afringan GahAnbér, 7). Hazangrem gavadm (ibid. 8). Rathwadm. * According to the commentator Séshyans: ‘If he recite the whole in bag and only one word aloud.’ * If he has passed the fourth part of the year without celebrating the Gahanb4r, any verbal fault he may afterwards commit shall be punished as an Aredus, that is to say, with fifteen strokes of the Sraoshé-Aarana (Vd. IV, 26). VI. ERPATISTAN AND N{RANGISTAN. 329 If he recite, were it only a word of them’, He escapes being in the number of the Peshdétanus,— He who shall omit a word of the Gathas or a stanza, Shall pay with three strokes (of the Sraoshé- Aarana) or a day's work; The same on the second omission, the same on the third, And so on until he let a fourth part of the year go without singing the Gathas, when it becomes an aredus sin *, If he let a third part of the year go, his guilt is a Avara®; if he let a half go, his guilt is a bazu‘; if he let a whole year go, his guilt is a yata °. If afterwards he miss a ratufriti*, he becomes a Peshétanu.
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.
1Ahurahé Mazdau Mithrahé vispaésim ashaondm. Ahurahé Mazdau Mithrahé vispaésim gathaby6 ashaonam. VI. ERPATISTAN AND N{RANGISTAN. 323 moderation too, if he sing not the Gathas’, he is not guilty. If he eat too much and get drunk, for not singing the Gathas [he is guilty]. IV. The recitation of the GAthas’. 31. If the priest sing for two assemblies, he is accepted. If he sing for three assemblies, he is not accepted. Which is the smallest assembly for which singing is accepted? Three (of the faithful). 33. How will the Zaotar sing the Gathas? He will sing half a stanza® in a moderate voice with Zarathustra’s rhythm ; And if he omit * those words in the Gathas which are twice, thrice, or four times to be said 5, Those words that cut the demons to pieces, For those words he is not accepted. 34. Which are the words twice to be said ? Ahya y4sé ; Yatha taf; Humatanim ; HumAéim thw tzem ; Ashahya Aad ; Thwé6i staotaras4é ; 1 ‘Tf in spite of his moderation, the little he drank makes him tipsy so that he does not celebrate the Gahanbér, he is not ina state of sin’ (Comm.) ? «Concerning the quality (sam4n) of the voice in reciting the Avesta in a ceremonial, and the Avesta which is twice recited and thrice or four times recited’ (West, Dinkart, I. 1. § 4). ® The first half of the stanza. ‘ If he omit to recite them the due number of times. 5 The so-called Bis-4mrfitas, Thris-Amrftas, Kathrus-Amriitas ; cf. Vd. X. Y2 324 FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS, ahm4i—Spemt4 mainyd—Vohd khsathrem vairtm— Vahista istis. 35- Kaya thrisAmrata ? Ashem vohi—ye sevist6—hukhsathrétem4i—duzvarenais. 36. Kaya 4athrusdmriata ? Yatha ahd vairys—Mazd4 ad méi vahista—aé airyema. 37. Kanghim [H.—T. sangham] na gAéthanim srutanam aratufris ? Y4 yaézé (read maéz6) va fravashdimné (read fra , va shaimné) srayéiti (read sr4vayéiti), Aétaésim va#am aratufris. Adhaééa uiti yatha kathaéa dahmé staota y[é]snya haurva dadhaiti, Paurvad v4 naémad aparad va, Myé (read ayé) va taéa va histanemné (read histemné) va aungh4né v4 dathané va baremné va vazemné va aiwydsté ath4 ratufris®, V. The sacrifice performed by a Zét or a RAspt in a State of sin. 38. Dahmé zaota tanuperetha upasraotaré, Yézi dis tanuperethé vaédha, Aévaté ratufris yavad framaraiti. Yézi dad dis néid tanuperethé vaédha, Vispanim gathan&m ratufris. * Baré aspé vazé rathé (Fragment Vd. VI, 26). Fravarané—athré Ahurahé Mazdau puthra tava Atars puthra Ahurahé Mazdau khsnaothra—ashem vohf 3, fravarané—yatha ahd vairyé yé zaota, yathé ahd vairyé y6é 4travakhs6 atha ratus—yath4 ahd vairyé yé Atravakhsé yd zaota atha ratus—yé6 bity6é zaota. Ashem vohi—yath4 aha vairy6—-fravarané—frastuyé. VI. ERPATISTAN AND N{RANGISTAN. 325 Ust4 ahmdai; Vohd khsathrem vairim ; Spent4 mainya ; Vahista tstis }. 35. Which are the words thrice to be said ? Ashem voha ; Hukhsathrétemai ; Ye sevisté ; Duzvarenais?. 36. Which are the words four times to be said ? Yatha ahd vairyé ; A airyema ’. Mazda ad méi vahista ;
2325 Ust4 ahmdai; Vohd khsathrem vairim ; Spent4 mainya ; Vahista tstis }. 35. Which are the words thrice to be said ? Ashem voha ; Hukhsathrétemai ; Ye sevisté ; Duzvarenais?. 36. Which are the words four times to be said ? Yatha ahd vairyé ; A airyema ’. Mazda ad méi vahista ; 37. When is it that the Gathas which a priest sings are not accepted ? The words he sings while doing the necessities of nature, These words are not accepted. Otherwise, in whatever fashion the pious man may offer the Staota yésnya ‘, In the earlier part of the office or in the latter part of it (?), Whether walking or running ; standing, sitting, or lying; riding or driving; as long as he has his girdle on 5, he is accepted. V. The sacrifice performed by a Zét or a RAspi in a State of sin® 38. If the Zaotar be righteous and his assistants be in a state of sin, If he know that they are in a state of sin, What he recites himself is accepted. If he know not that they are in a state of sin, the whole of the Gathas is accepted. 1 Vd. X, 4. * Vd. X, 8. 8 Vd. X, 12. * See above, page 312, note 2. ® His Késtt; cf. Vd. XVIII, 1 (note 2), 54. * Dinkart, 1. 1. § 5. , 326 FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS. 39. Tanuperetha zaota dahma upasraotéré, Yézi dim tanuperethem vivare (read vidare), Aétavaté ratufris yavad framerenti. Yézi 4ad dim néid tanuperethem vivare, Vispanaim gathan4m ratufris. Dahmé zaota dahmé upasraotaré vispé ratufryé. Tanuperethé zaota tanuperethd upasraotaré vispé aratufryé. 40. Kay&éid na dahmanim zaothrédha ratufris, Nairikausfid aperendyQkahéfa, Yézi vaétha hathanim (read haitingm ?) thwareseska frataurunauséfa, Anmtare hditisu yasnem fraizis 4. NIRANGISTAN. Farcarp II. I. The celebration of the GAdhanbars. 41. Y6 gathau asravayé asta va tardmaiti va tandm pereyéiti. K6 4sté katar6é maiti (read ka tarémaiti) ? Y4 hafé daénayfd m4zdayasnéid apastiitis>. 42. Y6 gathau asravayé yd4re drag6 apa tandm pairyéiti. * Noid ta nairika kasu-khrathwa. Ashem vohf vahistem asti, usta asti ust4 ahmAi. Hyad ashai vahistai ashem. >Y6 haka daénayad mazdayasnéid apastdid, Thris vaghsibis hakarad vipaitikid. “1 «Concerning the functions of a Z6t performed by a woman or a child’ (Dinkart, I. 1. § 6). ® See above, §§ 5-9 and notes. VI. ERPATISTAN AND NIRANGISTAN. 327 39. If the Zaotar be in a state of sin and the assistants be righteous, If they know that he is in a state of sin, What they recite themselves is accepted. If they know not that he is in a state of sin, the whole of the Gathas is accepted. If the Zaotar be righteous and the assistants be righteous, the whole is accepted. If the Zaotar be in a state of sin and the assistants be also ina state of sin, neither the one nor the other is accepted. 401. Any one of the faithful is accepted as a Zaotar, Even a woman? or a child, If he know the ends and the heads of the chapters’, And know how to perform the acts of ritual between the chapters.
3401. Any one of the faithful is accepted as a Zaotar, Even a woman? or a child, If he know the ends and the heads of the chapters’, And know how to perform the acts of ritual between the chapters. N{RAnGISTAN, FarGarp II. I. The celebration of the GahAnbars. 41. He who does not sing the Gathas, either out of unbelief, or out of impiety, becomes a Peshétanu. What is unbelief*? What is impiety °? It is renouncing the Religion of Mazda. 42° He who stays the year through without _ singing the Gathas becomes a Peshétanu. 5 As there are certain repetitions of stanzas and certain ceremonial acts at the end of most of the HAs. * Asta: ‘negation; when he says, there is no such thing as Religion’ (Comm.) 5 tarémaiti : ‘ when he says, it exists, but it is no good.’ ® «Qn the sin of him who does not celebrate the GahAnbars, and how they are to be celebrated ’ (Dinkart, 1.1. § 8). 328 FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS. Yézi aunghaim éyim pévaéim framaraiti, Pairi sé hd pareté-tanunam staunghaiti (H.—T. stadnghaiti), Yahmad haga tem ava raodhenti 9, Y6 gathanim édyem vaéim apayditi aévim va vakastastim, Thri v4 azaiti ayare drag6é va vastry4d; Atha bityau atha thrityau, Atha vispem 4 ahmad yad hé hamgasamta yatha Aathrusem yau gathau asravayé hyad aradusa hé syaothanem. ThrishOm taré 4varaya naémem tard bazugataya vispem taré y4re dragé hé him yatem Astryéiti. Yadkid pasfaiti aévam ratufritim ava raodhayéiti tanim pairyéiti. 43. Y6 gathan§m aévam ratufritim ava raodhayéiti thri va Azaiti ayare dragé va vastry4d; Atha vispem 4 ahmad yad hé hangasaiti yatha thrishOm yau gaéthau asravayé od tandm pairyéiti. 44. Y6 gathau asravayé naémem yare dragé, Tad paiti aénem dahmem gathanam sraothrau pairistayéiti, Yadhéid naém yau gaéthau (read géthau)asravay6 hyad atha u Astryéiti ; ® Sérahé. Panka tisr6é dasa u rathwdm. Hazangrem maésanam (Afringan GahAnbér, 7). Hazangrem gavadm (ibid. 8). Rathwadm. * According to the commentator Séshyans: ‘If he recite the whole in bag and only one word aloud.’ * If he has passed the fourth part of the year without celebrating the Gahanb4r, any verbal fault he may afterwards commit shall be punished as an Aredus, that is to say, with fifteen strokes of the Sraoshé-Aarana (Vd. IV, 26). VI. ERPATISTAN AND N{RANGISTAN. 329 If he recite, were it only a word of them’, He escapes being in the number of the Peshdétanus,— He who shall omit a word of the Gathas or a stanza, Shall pay with three strokes (of the Sraoshé- Aarana) or a day's work; The same on the second omission, the same on the third, And so on until he let a fourth part of the year go without singing the Gathas, when it becomes an aredus sin *, If he let a third part of the year go, his guilt is a Avara®; if he let a half go, his guilt is a bazu‘; if he let a whole year go, his guilt is a yata °. If afterwards he miss a ratufriti*, he becomes a Peshétanu.
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