Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 31 — The Zend-Avesta, Part III / Yasna & Gathas (Mills, page scans)

‘dist’.

Free tr. To you I speak, O Haéchad-aspae kinsmen,

Since things unlawful ye discern and lawful,

By these Your deeds ye help* the Holy State

With the primeval laws which Mazda gave. *30 D.; DJ. gobishntfim. *M. lako min. °D. om. va. * DJ., D. nih. 7DJ. om. * DJ, D. ins. i. * DJ. kabed.

Pahl. transl. O Haéchad Aspanéd! yours is the speaking (or ‘ye are to be addressed’) of the Spitamae* (b) since offering (?), and also what is not offering* (?) are thoroughly discriminated by you, [that is, the thing which is correctly-pious is (to be (?)) thoroughly distinguished by you from that which is improper-and-impious]; (c) Sanctity is to be attributed* to you [as securing a reward] for those deeds of yours, (d) according* to which* Afttharmazd first* gave (that which 7s the reward].

Ner.’s sansk. text. He Haechadaspiyaéh*!! vak yushmakath, he Cpitamiyah*, (b) yat* danam vivinaktum*!+2, yachcha’ adanazh, [kila, yushmakath kimchit* yat sadvyaparitararm avyapdritarat* yujyate vivekturh]; (c)** yushmakarh karmabhih punyara yushmabhyath dasyate [prasddah*] (d) yéni dadau*® prathamam Hormijdah. *'C. *J.* faint anusvara. ** corrected. **J.%, J.* ins. te; *J.%, J.* dah; P, “dam. *J.3, J.* om. dvau which C., P. have.

Ner. transl. O ye Haechadaspidae and, ye CQpitamidae, yours is the word; (b) what is offering is to be distinguished and what is not offering, [that is, it is necessary to scrutinize everything belonging to you, and to distinguish those which are the better works* from those which are thep. 268 worse]. (c) On account of your actions Your Sanctity will take [the reward (-darh (P.))], (or better ‘will be given* to (or ‘for’) you as’) [the reward(-dah)]), (d) which actions Hormijda maintained as rewarded at first™?. *11f dyau or dve is read, then ‘which two (dve) the deeds and their reward: -’. Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Héchad [Asp = Asp (?)] n. tr. p. Aspanéd) gobishn ta (?

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Verbatim transl. Frashaoshtra huc [veni, vel ‘illuc* [i*] tu uné-cum-(his-] -adjutoribus-liberalibus [sociis] (veni [vel ‘i’]), (b)O Hvégva, und-cum-iis quos expetimus [et desideramus-nos-ambo* in-salute-exoptata ([pro-|patriae*[-tria, i. e. ad patriam ex periculo praesenti eripiendam; (c) immo huc veni [vel ‘illuc i’] ubi Sanctitate[-tem] comitatur Pietas (prompta mens) (d) ubi [sint} Bonae Mentis desiderata*? Regna*2, (e) [et] ubi Mazda in-potestate-beatifica** habitat Ahura. *! Sunt qui usta stdi = ‘in-felicitate esse’ vertant (stdi inf. ah = esse). “* vel lege ista Kh-threm: ‘ubi Regimen in-possessione (? et intra potestatem) Bonae Mentis [sit]. * sunt qui var(e)demam ‘in-castello-Suo’ reddant. Doctor certus reddit ‘in magnificentia [Sua]’ (?).

atifica** habitat Ahura. *! Sunt qui usta stdi = ‘in-felicitate esse’ vertant (stdi inf. ah = esse). “* vel lege ista Kh-threm: ‘ubi Regimen in-possessione (? et intra potestatem) Bonae Mentis [sit]. * sunt qui var(e)demam ‘in-castello-Suo’ reddant. Doctor certus reddit ‘in magnificentia [Sua]’ (?). ** Fieri potest ut piorum sedes caelestes in hac stropha indicentur, sed tamen vide athra = ‘huc -- intra nostram civitatem, secundum precem meam, veni ubi Devotio nostra cum sacra Tua lege se conjungat, etc.’; sed oblivisei vel ignorare non debemus quin ambae duae vitae hac et illac quasi ut similes, 1, €. ut partes unius et ejusdem vitae spiritalis, a Z. mente conceptae-sint.

Pahl. text translit. Frasbéstar tamman Lak! avo radih satinishno, [aighat radih? dén Garédmané kinishnd‘], (b) min min Hvdband homanih’, ‘min pavan valmanshén khirsandih, [atghash® zak mozd avayad6], ash pavan nadikih hastishn®, [aighash? tamman nadikih yehevinéd]|, (c) tamman aight Ashavahisht6 levatman bindak minishnih, (d) tamman aight Vohtiman khvasté® yekaviminéd khidayih; (e) tamman aigh Atharmazd pavan® kamak® dén demand ketriinéd. ‘See P. ?DJ., D. th; Spgl. °ishnd. * D. homananih (or ‘héménih’) “D. has va; DJ. om. ®D. om. ash. ®DJ. hastih or astih. 7D. om, ash (?). *so DJ.; D. bavihfinast. °DJ. om. 1 all demano (?), but see Pers. :

Pahl. transl. O Frashéstar, for (or ‘on account of’) an offering thou art*! coming*! (or ‘is thy* coming’) beyond, [that is, offering is to be: madep. 969 sic = tan), shuma kih Spitaman (wndecipherable) [hast] % (b) Oshan (?) [= Aftan* dahishn bih {][ bih- (?) guzyandah = chénishn) [] kih ham na-+bih (? sic videtur) + dahishn, {ka, tan chiz 7 nék az an 7 bad bih [] [chinad = chinishn]** (c) Pah oshan kunishn ¢ shum& Savéb an shuma [khvahad = — (?)| [] [dad = ddbuind (?)—] [muzd| (a) kih [] dad avval Ormuzd* [4n i muzd] *

Free tr. Come Frashaostra, Thou with offerers, Hvdgva!
With those we seek, to bring* ‘This land’s salvation ;
Come where Devotion blends with Holy Justice;

Where lie the Realms desired of Good Mind,

Where God in His own might* abides!

by thee in Garédman], (b) thow who art of the Hvob, for whom is satisfied happiness, [i.e., his 2s that desired reward, his ¢s an existence in happiness, [that is, there in the other world is his happiness], (c) there beyond where Ashavahisht* dwells with the Perfect Mind, (d) there where the desired sovereignty of Vohiiman is, (e) there where Attharmazd dwells according to His desire in His abode! * Forms in ishn are often undoubtedly used in this sense.

Ner.’s sansk. text.

orld is his happiness], (c) there beyond where Ashavahisht* dwells with the Perfect Mind, (d) there where the desired sovereignty of Vohiiman is, (e) there where Attharmazd dwells according to His desire in His abode! * Forms in ishn are often undoubtedly used in this sense.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Pheracaustara paratre* (sic, lege -tra) tubhyam dakshinapravrittayah, [kila, tubhyath dakshinah' antar Garothmane! karyah], (b) he Huogudjah*, tabhir yah sarhtushtah tasya cubhe sthitih, [kila, tam prasadam yasya rochate, tasya paratre|-tra] cubhar bhavati], (c) paratre[-tra] Dharmah samiaclishtah Sampirnamanasa, (d) paratre(-tra] Uttamamana ipsina*$ (or ‘-no’) ’sti rajyarh; (e) paratre[-tra] Mahajnani svechchhaya sthane nivasati Svami. *! All but J.* °tre. *so J.%, J; J* Huo-, *°J.%, J.* ete. -na, but a fem. was hardly meant; yet see samptrn® in ¢ representing (?) the fem. Aramaitis.

Ner. transl. Pheracaustara, there are to be developments* of* offerings for Thee in the other world, [that is, official gifts* (perquisites*(?)) are to be presented to Thee in Garothmana], (b) O Huoguaja, he who is rendered content (or ‘satisfied*’)) with these things, his position is in happiness, [that is, whose reward gives him pleasure, his is happiness in the other world]. -(c) There in that other world Sanctity is embraced by the Perfect Mind, (d) there in that other world the one endowed with the Best Mind* is desirous* of the sovereignty; (e) in that other world the Great Wise One dwells in his abode, absolute, and according to his wiil, the Lord.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Frashéshtar anja [] an sakhavat (sic) raftan, [kit + ya‘ni + tf sakhavati andar Garétman] [], (b) kih az Hbobi (hasti, va] kih pah 6shan razamandi * [ki [] fn muzd bayad] ash pah néki éstishn + ka’ im * [kfish Anja nék(i) bashad]; (c) anja [] Ardibahisht ava bundah minishni*, (d) anja (?), ki [pah= pavan] -Bahman khyast éstéd khudai; (e) anja ki Ormuzd* pah kam (sic videtur pro kémak) andar [kallah* (?), fortasse kar sic pro gay = var? = demfin*] manad * oe) PU Se ie) ene be ee tesp. 17 vo fvenag eyed «b 10 )Oayay 17. Text.

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Verbatim transl., etc. [Veni tu huc (vel ex contrario ‘i tu illuc’)) ubi in vestro hymno-metrico, [i. e. hymno lege metri a vobis accepta composito | laudes-[Ahurae]-pronuntiem™[-tiabo*! etiam ego] (b) (non) [nullo modo] in [vel ‘secundum’(?) orationem] -sine-metro*, [i. e. metri-egentem*! et ergo profanam, celebrabo], O Dejamaspa Hvégva, (c) [sed] semper-cum agnita*? [et ab Ahura probata*? oboedientia] laudes [Deo pronuntiabo (cum oboedientia) oblationis, [i. e. cum oboedientia per largitiones in auxilium conatus (nobis omnibus communis) ample peracta]; (d) qui cernat rem-legalem (-que [vel ‘rem fidei congruentem et commodam’| eamque legibus-fidei-contrariam [considerato], (e) [i. e.