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1Google This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world’s books discoverable online. It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that’s often difficult to discover. Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book’s long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you. Usage guidelines Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. Public domain books belong to the public and we are merely their custodians. Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying. We also ask that you: + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes. + Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google’s system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us. We encourage the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help. + Maintain attribution The Google “watermark” you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search. Please do not remove it. + Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal. Do not assume that just because we believe a book is in the public domain for users in the United States, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other countries. Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can’t offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed. Please do not assume that a book’s appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. About Google Book Search Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http: //books.google.com/ Trndl 30,9 sn
2Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http: //books.google.com/ Trndl 30,9 sn HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Digitized by Google Digitized by Google Digitized by Google THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST {5] a London MACMILLAN AND CO, PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF @xford Digitized by s00gle THE ‘SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, TRANSLATED BY VARIOUS ORIENTAL SCHOLARS AND EDITED BY F. MAX MULLER VOL. V_ @rford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1880 (All rights reserved } ~- aw PEGS / + i HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY PAHLAVI TEXTS TRANSLATED BY E. W. WEST PART I THE BUNDAHIS, -BAHMAN YAST, AND SHAYAST LA-SHAYAST @rford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1880 (AU rights reserved} Digitized by Google CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. 1. The Parsi Scriptures . . 2. The Pahlavi Language and Literature 3. The Bundahis . . 4. The Selections of ZAd-sparam . 5. The Bahman Yast 6. The Shayast 14-shayast 7. Concluding Remarks TRANSLATIONS. BunpaHIs SELECTIONS OF ZAD-SPARAM Bauman Yast SuAyasT LA-sHAYAST Index Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East PAGE ix xi xxii xlvi- lix Ixvii 153 189 237 407 434 435 Digitized by Google INTRODUCTION TO PAHLAVI TEXTS. 1. THE PARSI SCRIPTURES,
31. THE PARSI SCRIPTURES, THOUGH we must look to the Avesta for information regarding the main outlines of the Parsi religion, it is to Pahlavi writings we must refer for most of the details relating to the traditions, ceremonies, and customs of this ancient faith, which styles itself emphatically ‘the good religion of the Mazdayasnians, and calls its laity bahdin4an, or ‘those of the good religion.’ In the fragments of the Avesta which still exist, we may trace the solid foundations of the religion, laid by philosophic bards and lawgivers of old, with many a mouldering column and massive fragment of the superstructure erected upon them by the ancient priesthood. These are the last remnants of the faith held by Cyrus, the anointed of the Lord (Isaiah xlv. 1), the righteous one (Is. xli. 2), or eagle (Is. xlvi. 11), whom He called from the east, and the shepherd who performed His pleasure (Is. xliv. 28); scattered fragments of the creed professed by Darius in his inscriptions, when he attributes his successes to ‘the will of Adramazd4;’ and mouldering ruins of the comparatively pure religion of oriental ‘barbarism,’ which Alexander and his civilising Greek successors were unable wholly to destroy, and replace by their own idolatrous superstitions. While in the Pahlavi texts we find much of the medizval edifice built by later Persian priestcraft upon the old foundations, with a strange mixture of old and new materials, and exhibiting the usual symptom of declining powers, a strong insistence upon complex forms and minute details, with little of the freedom of treatment and simplicity of outline characteristic of the ancient bards. x , PAHLAVI TEXTS.
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Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1Google This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world’s books discoverable online. It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that’s often difficult to discover. Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book’s long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you. Usage guidelines Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. Public domain books belong to the public and we are merely their custodians. Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying. We also ask that you: + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes. + Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google’s system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us. We encourage the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help. + Maintain attribution The Google “watermark” you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search. Please do not remove it. + Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal. Do not assume that just because we believe a book is in the public domain for users in the United States, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other countries. Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can’t offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed. Please do not assume that a book’s appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. About Google Book Search Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http: //books.google.com/ Trndl 30,9 sn
2Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http: //books.google.com/ Trndl 30,9 sn HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Digitized by Google Digitized by Google Digitized by Google THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST {5] a London MACMILLAN AND CO, PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF @xford Digitized by s00gle THE ‘SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, TRANSLATED BY VARIOUS ORIENTAL SCHOLARS AND EDITED BY F. MAX MULLER VOL. V_ @rford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1880 (All rights reserved } ~- aw PEGS / + i HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY PAHLAVI TEXTS TRANSLATED BY E. W. WEST PART I THE BUNDAHIS, -BAHMAN YAST, AND SHAYAST LA-SHAYAST @rford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1880 (AU rights reserved} Digitized by Google CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. 1. The Parsi Scriptures . . 2. The Pahlavi Language and Literature 3. The Bundahis . . 4. The Selections of ZAd-sparam . 5. The Bahman Yast 6. The Shayast 14-shayast 7. Concluding Remarks TRANSLATIONS. BunpaHIs SELECTIONS OF ZAD-SPARAM Bauman Yast SuAyasT LA-sHAYAST Index Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East PAGE ix xi xxii xlvi- lix Ixvii 153 189 237 407 434 435 Digitized by Google INTRODUCTION TO PAHLAVI TEXTS. 1. THE PARSI SCRIPTURES,
31. THE PARSI SCRIPTURES, THOUGH we must look to the Avesta for information regarding the main outlines of the Parsi religion, it is to Pahlavi writings we must refer for most of the details relating to the traditions, ceremonies, and customs of this ancient faith, which styles itself emphatically ‘the good religion of the Mazdayasnians, and calls its laity bahdin4an, or ‘those of the good religion.’ In the fragments of the Avesta which still exist, we may trace the solid foundations of the religion, laid by philosophic bards and lawgivers of old, with many a mouldering column and massive fragment of the superstructure erected upon them by the ancient priesthood. These are the last remnants of the faith held by Cyrus, the anointed of the Lord (Isaiah xlv. 1), the righteous one (Is. xli. 2), or eagle (Is. xlvi. 11), whom He called from the east, and the shepherd who performed His pleasure (Is. xliv. 28); scattered fragments of the creed professed by Darius in his inscriptions, when he attributes his successes to ‘the will of Adramazd4;’ and mouldering ruins of the comparatively pure religion of oriental ‘barbarism,’ which Alexander and his civilising Greek successors were unable wholly to destroy, and replace by their own idolatrous superstitions. While in the Pahlavi texts we find much of the medizval edifice built by later Persian priestcraft upon the old foundations, with a strange mixture of old and new materials, and exhibiting the usual symptom of declining powers, a strong insistence upon complex forms and minute details, with little of the freedom of treatment and simplicity of outline characteristic of the ancient bards. x , PAHLAVI TEXTS.
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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