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1xliii), but this is subdivided into six chapters (one for each festival) which conclude the work. The same arrangement also occurs in the Gugarati translation of the longmetre Sad Dar. INTRODUCTION. xlv to permit the assumption that they are two different prose versions of fran-shah’s metrical Sad Dar. It seems more probable that Bahman merely collated the prose Sad Dar with the metrical version, and made many alterations in the former to bring it into closer correspondence with the latter. This manuscript, therefore, throws no fresh light upon the origin of the prose version in La, but, as it confirms the fact that the fran-shah whose name occurs in the introductory chapter was a son of Yazad-ydr, it raises a doubt whether this was the same person as the fran-sh4h, son of Maliksh4h (or Mard-shah), who composed the metrical version. In conclusion, it is desirable to notice that another Persian work exists, similar in form and character to the Sad Dar, but entirely distinct in its details, which is usually called the Sad Dar Bundahis. A complete copy of it is contained in Anquetil’s Old Rivayat in the National Library in Paris, and it is frequently quoted in the Bombay Rivayat (B29) mentioned in p. xli. In this latter manuscript its name is written Lis 1» > do twenty-five times, U%y2 14 9 do eighteen times, and (i2 12) 9d thrice. And the only plausible reading applicable to all these three forms is Sad Darband-i Hush (or Hash), ‘the hundred door-bolts of the understanding,’ a very possible name for a book. The Sad Dar Bundahis is, therefore, most probably a misnomer. E. W. WEST. April, 1885. Digitized by Google ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS VOLUME.
2The Sad Dar Bundahis is, therefore, most probably a misnomer. E. W. WEST. April, 1885. Digitized by Google ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS VOLUME. Acc. for accusative case; a.p. for Anno Domini; Af. for Afringan; AK for Asadin K4k4’s MS. of Sg.; Aog. for Aogemadaéfa, ed. Geiger ; app. for appendix; Ar. for Arabic; AV. for the Book of Ard4-Viraf, ed. Héshangji and Haug; Av. for Avesta ; a.¥. for Anno Yazdagardi; Bzg for Persian Rivayat MS. No. 29 of the Bombay University Library; Bd. and Byt. for Bundahis and Bahman Yast, as translated in vol. v of this series; BM. for No. 22,378 additional Oriental MS. in the British Museum; Chap. for chapter; Dan. for Daniel; Dd. for Dadistan-f Dinik, as translated in vol. xviii of this series; Deut. for Deuteronomy; ed. for edition or edited by; Ep. for Epistles of Manuséihar, as translated in vol. xviii of this series; Ex. for Exodus; Eze. for Ezekiel; fol. for folio: Gen. for Genesis; Gesch. Pers. Sas. for Geschichte der Perser und Araber zur Zeit der Sasaniden; Gét. gel. Anz. for Gdttingische gelehrte Anzeigen ; Haug’s Essays for Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsis, by M. Haug, 2nd ed.; Heb. for Hebrew; Hn. for Had6kht Nask, as published with AV.; Huz. for Huzvaris; introd. for introduction; Is. for Isaiah; J15 for Dastir JamAspji Minochiharji’s MS. No. 15 of Sd.; JE for Jamshédji Edalji’s MS. of Sg.; JJ for Jamshédji Jam4spji’s MS. of Sg.; Jos. for Joshua; J.R.A.S. for Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society; K22, K23, K28, K43 for Iranian MSS. Nos. 22, 23, 28, 43 in the University Library at Kopenhagen ; L15, Lig, L23, L26 for Avesta and Pahlavi MSS. Nos. 15, 19, 23, 26 in the India Office Library in London; La, Lp for Persian MSS. Nos. 3043 and 2506 in the same library; Mat. for Matthew; MHy, MH1o, MH1g for MSS. Nos. 7, 10, 19 of the Haug Collection in the State Library in Munich; Mkh. for Mainédg-t Khirad, as translated in this volume; MS. for manuscript; n. for foot-note; Na. for Nahum; Nér. for Néryésang; Num. for Numbers; Ost. Kul. for Ostiranische Kultur im Altertum, von W. Geiger ; p. for page; PAro for MS. No. 1o of the Anquetil Collection in the National Library in Paris; Pahl. for Pahlavi; Paz. for Pazand; PB3, PB6 for MSS. Nos. 3, 6 of the Burnouf Collection in the National Library at Paris; Pers. for Persian; Ps. for Psalms; R. for Mr. Romer’s polyglot MS. of Sg. (see p. 116); Rev. for Revela- xlviii © ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS VOLUME. tion; Rom. for Romans; Sam. for Samuel ; Sans. for Sanskrit ; Sd. for Sad Dar, as translated in this volume; Sg. for Sikandgimantk Vig4r, as translated in this volume; Sir. for Strézah; Sls. for Shayast-l4-shayast, as translated in vol. v of this series ; Syr. for Syriac; TD2 for Mobad Tehmuras Dinshawji’s MS. of Pahl. Mkh.; Vend. for Vendid&d; vol. for volume; Yas. for Yasna; Yt. for Yast; Zarat. for Zaratist; Zor. Stud. for Zoroastrische Studien, von Windischmann. DINA-I MAINOG-I KHIRAD, OPINIONS OF THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM.
3v of this series ; Syr. for Syriac; TD2 for Mobad Tehmuras Dinshawji’s MS. of Pahl. Mkh.; Vend. for Vendid&d; vol. for volume; Yas. for Yasna; Yt. for Yast; Zarat. for Zaratist; Zor. Stud. for Zoroastrische Studien, von Windischmann. DINA-I MAINOG-I KHIRAD, OPINIONS OF THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM. [24] B OBSERVATIONS. 1. The division into chapters corresponds with the beginnings of the questions, and the sections are divided according to the alternating Pazand-Sanskrit text of Nérydsang. 2. Italics are used for any English words that are not expressed, or fully understood, in the original text, but are added to complete the sense of the translation. 3. Italics occurring in Oriental words, or names, represent certain peculiar Oriental letters (see the ‘ Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets’ at the end of this volume). The italic d, 2, », 7, v may be pronounced as in English; but g should be sounded like j, Av like wh, 4 like ch in ‘church,’ s like sh, and z like French j. 4. In Pahlavi words the only vowels expressed in the original text are those circumflexed, initial a, and the letter 6; italic d is written like t, 7 and / like n or the Avesta o, v and 2 like g, and ad like 4 in the Pahlavi character. 5. In the translation, words in parentheses are merely explanatory of those which precede them. 6. For the meanings of the abbreviations used in the notes, see the end of the Introduction. 4. The manuscripts mentioned are :— K43 (written a.p. 1569) Pahlavi, No. 43 in the University Library at Kopenhagen; upon the text of which, so far as it extends, this translation is based. Lig (written a.D. 1520) Paz.-Sans., No. 19 in the India Office Library at London. MH (written a. p. 1809) Parsi-Pers., No. 7 of the Haug Collection in the State Library at Munich. MHrto, a Persian Rivayat, No. 10 of the same Collection. PAro (written a.p. 1649) Paz.-Sans., No. 10 of the Anquetil Collection in the National Library at Paris. PB6, P4z.-Sans., No. 6 of the Burnouf Collection in the same library. TD2, Pahlavi, belonging to Mobad Tehmuras Dinshawji Anklesaria at Bombay; upon a copy of which this translation chiefly relies in the passages (XIV, 1-XXVII, 49 and XXXIX, 31-XL, 17) missing from K43. Liam, Oran we Tae DINA-I MAINOG-? KHIRAD. THROUGH the name and power and assistance of the creator Afthaymazd, the archangels who are good rulers and good performers, and all the angels of the spiritual and the angels of the worldly exzstences, by a happy dispensation (dahisn) and wellomened we write the Opinions of the Spirit of Wisdom through the will of the sacred beings}. CuapTer [2 [1. In the name and /or the propitiation of the allbenefiting creator Adhaymazd, (2) of all the angels of the spiritual and worldly creations, (3) and of the learning of learnings, the Mazda-worshipping
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.
1xliii), but this is subdivided into six chapters (one for each festival) which conclude the work. The same arrangement also occurs in the Gugarati translation of the longmetre Sad Dar. INTRODUCTION. xlv to permit the assumption that they are two different prose versions of fran-shah’s metrical Sad Dar. It seems more probable that Bahman merely collated the prose Sad Dar with the metrical version, and made many alterations in the former to bring it into closer correspondence with the latter. This manuscript, therefore, throws no fresh light upon the origin of the prose version in La, but, as it confirms the fact that the fran-shah whose name occurs in the introductory chapter was a son of Yazad-ydr, it raises a doubt whether this was the same person as the fran-sh4h, son of Maliksh4h (or Mard-shah), who composed the metrical version. In conclusion, it is desirable to notice that another Persian work exists, similar in form and character to the Sad Dar, but entirely distinct in its details, which is usually called the Sad Dar Bundahis. A complete copy of it is contained in Anquetil’s Old Rivayat in the National Library in Paris, and it is frequently quoted in the Bombay Rivayat (B29) mentioned in p. xli. In this latter manuscript its name is written Lis 1» > do twenty-five times, U%y2 14 9 do eighteen times, and (i2 12) 9d thrice. And the only plausible reading applicable to all these three forms is Sad Darband-i Hush (or Hash), ‘the hundred door-bolts of the understanding,’ a very possible name for a book. The Sad Dar Bundahis is, therefore, most probably a misnomer. E. W. WEST. April, 1885. Digitized by Google ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS VOLUME.
2The Sad Dar Bundahis is, therefore, most probably a misnomer. E. W. WEST. April, 1885. Digitized by Google ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS VOLUME. Acc. for accusative case; a.p. for Anno Domini; Af. for Afringan; AK for Asadin K4k4’s MS. of Sg.; Aog. for Aogemadaéfa, ed. Geiger ; app. for appendix; Ar. for Arabic; AV. for the Book of Ard4-Viraf, ed. Héshangji and Haug; Av. for Avesta ; a.¥. for Anno Yazdagardi; Bzg for Persian Rivayat MS. No. 29 of the Bombay University Library; Bd. and Byt. for Bundahis and Bahman Yast, as translated in vol. v of this series; BM. for No. 22,378 additional Oriental MS. in the British Museum; Chap. for chapter; Dan. for Daniel; Dd. for Dadistan-f Dinik, as translated in vol. xviii of this series; Deut. for Deuteronomy; ed. for edition or edited by; Ep. for Epistles of Manuséihar, as translated in vol. xviii of this series; Ex. for Exodus; Eze. for Ezekiel; fol. for folio: Gen. for Genesis; Gesch. Pers. Sas. for Geschichte der Perser und Araber zur Zeit der Sasaniden; Gét. gel. Anz. for Gdttingische gelehrte Anzeigen ; Haug’s Essays for Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsis, by M. Haug, 2nd ed.; Heb. for Hebrew; Hn. for Had6kht Nask, as published with AV.; Huz. for Huzvaris; introd. for introduction; Is. for Isaiah; J15 for Dastir JamAspji Minochiharji’s MS. No. 15 of Sd.; JE for Jamshédji Edalji’s MS. of Sg.; JJ for Jamshédji Jam4spji’s MS. of Sg.; Jos. for Joshua; J.R.A.S. for Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society; K22, K23, K28, K43 for Iranian MSS. Nos. 22, 23, 28, 43 in the University Library at Kopenhagen ; L15, Lig, L23, L26 for Avesta and Pahlavi MSS. Nos. 15, 19, 23, 26 in the India Office Library in London; La, Lp for Persian MSS. Nos. 3043 and 2506 in the same library; Mat. for Matthew; MHy, MH1o, MH1g for MSS. Nos. 7, 10, 19 of the Haug Collection in the State Library in Munich; Mkh. for Mainédg-t Khirad, as translated in this volume; MS. for manuscript; n. for foot-note; Na. for Nahum; Nér. for Néryésang; Num. for Numbers; Ost. Kul. for Ostiranische Kultur im Altertum, von W. Geiger ; p. for page; PAro for MS. No. 1o of the Anquetil Collection in the National Library in Paris; Pahl. for Pahlavi; Paz. for Pazand; PB3, PB6 for MSS. Nos. 3, 6 of the Burnouf Collection in the National Library at Paris; Pers. for Persian; Ps. for Psalms; R. for Mr. Romer’s polyglot MS. of Sg. (see p. 116); Rev. for Revela- xlviii © ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS VOLUME. tion; Rom. for Romans; Sam. for Samuel ; Sans. for Sanskrit ; Sd. for Sad Dar, as translated in this volume; Sg. for Sikandgimantk Vig4r, as translated in this volume; Sir. for Strézah; Sls. for Shayast-l4-shayast, as translated in vol. v of this series ; Syr. for Syriac; TD2 for Mobad Tehmuras Dinshawji’s MS. of Pahl. Mkh.; Vend. for Vendid&d; vol. for volume; Yas. for Yasna; Yt. for Yast; Zarat. for Zaratist; Zor. Stud. for Zoroastrische Studien, von Windischmann. DINA-I MAINOG-I KHIRAD, OPINIONS OF THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM.
3v of this series ; Syr. for Syriac; TD2 for Mobad Tehmuras Dinshawji’s MS. of Pahl. Mkh.; Vend. for Vendid&d; vol. for volume; Yas. for Yasna; Yt. for Yast; Zarat. for Zaratist; Zor. Stud. for Zoroastrische Studien, von Windischmann. DINA-I MAINOG-I KHIRAD, OPINIONS OF THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM. [24] B OBSERVATIONS. 1. The division into chapters corresponds with the beginnings of the questions, and the sections are divided according to the alternating Pazand-Sanskrit text of Nérydsang. 2. Italics are used for any English words that are not expressed, or fully understood, in the original text, but are added to complete the sense of the translation. 3. Italics occurring in Oriental words, or names, represent certain peculiar Oriental letters (see the ‘ Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets’ at the end of this volume). The italic d, 2, », 7, v may be pronounced as in English; but g should be sounded like j, Av like wh, 4 like ch in ‘church,’ s like sh, and z like French j. 4. In Pahlavi words the only vowels expressed in the original text are those circumflexed, initial a, and the letter 6; italic d is written like t, 7 and / like n or the Avesta o, v and 2 like g, and ad like 4 in the Pahlavi character. 5. In the translation, words in parentheses are merely explanatory of those which precede them. 6. For the meanings of the abbreviations used in the notes, see the end of the Introduction. 4. The manuscripts mentioned are :— K43 (written a.p. 1569) Pahlavi, No. 43 in the University Library at Kopenhagen; upon the text of which, so far as it extends, this translation is based. Lig (written a.D. 1520) Paz.-Sans., No. 19 in the India Office Library at London. MH (written a. p. 1809) Parsi-Pers., No. 7 of the Haug Collection in the State Library at Munich. MHrto, a Persian Rivayat, No. 10 of the same Collection. PAro (written a.p. 1649) Paz.-Sans., No. 10 of the Anquetil Collection in the National Library at Paris. PB6, P4z.-Sans., No. 6 of the Burnouf Collection in the same library. TD2, Pahlavi, belonging to Mobad Tehmuras Dinshawji Anklesaria at Bombay; upon a copy of which this translation chiefly relies in the passages (XIV, 1-XXVII, 49 and XXXIX, 31-XL, 17) missing from K43. Liam, Oran we Tae DINA-I MAINOG-? KHIRAD. THROUGH the name and power and assistance of the creator Afthaymazd, the archangels who are good rulers and good performers, and all the angels of the spiritual and the angels of the worldly exzstences, by a happy dispensation (dahisn) and wellomened we write the Opinions of the Spirit of Wisdom through the will of the sacred beings}. CuapTer [2 [1. In the name and /or the propitiation of the allbenefiting creator Adhaymazd, (2) of all the angels of the spiritual and worldly creations, (3) and of the learning of learnings, the Mazda-worshipping
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