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1boedientia] 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 [con- siderato], (e) [i. e. has meas laudes] cum-mira-efficienti [-et - me-inspiranti Sanctitate] considerato* (sic ‘man*’ active) (Sanctitate) Mazda Ahura. ** Vel et fortasse certius* (?): ‘(I Tu illuc] ubi [Ahura habitat et laudes] in vestro {sancto}] metrico*-cantu* (loc. sing.) [recipit (vide stropham XVI (16))] (b) nullo-modo laudem- sine-metro, O D.-H-.’ ** vel ‘semper agnoscite* (?) et probate (sic ?) has meas laudes - - -’. Pahl. text translit. ‘Aétind zak i? Lektim padman gdbishn3, [aigh, Dino* i Lektm gobishnd?]; (b) 414 apadmanikiht Dastdbar Jamaspé i Hvéban', [aigh, zak min Dind* 14° pédak 14 yemaleliinéd?]. (c) Pavan aito*-(?)- da- hishnih avd zak { Lekim’ niydyishnd sattinéd. Pavan Srésh rad dahishnih aé aitd**-dahishnih, [aigh*, Dino* i Lekam yemalelinédd, va tandch radinéd avo Aérpatistand®]. (d) #°Baras vijinéd min‘! dahishnd, va manich adahishnih?2; [vat> val'* valman? yehabtinéd mtin avdyad yehabiintan6'4]. (e) 1Danak pad- mand; pavan rastih i? Afharmazd hand, [aigh, pavan Dind* i Afharmazd akas hémanéd!]. +See P. ? DJ. ins. i. *D. om. *D. ins. va. ®D. ins. ich. * DJ. om. “DJ. ins. va. *D, hand. *DJ. aérpatand. 2D. ins. va. 14 DJ., D., M. min and om. va. =~ DJ. ih. > DJ. om. **s0 DJ.; D. ayo. DJ, D. indo. Pahl. transl. Thus your metrical(?)-measure (or ‘ritual’) is to be spoken, [that is, Your Religion is to be declared]; (b Dastur Jamaspt, who is of the Hv6b, will not utter an unmetrical*® (or ‘profane piece’, or ‘a legal irregularity’), [that is, that which is not evident (or ‘evidently ’) from the Religion he does not declare]. (¢) With the bestowal of what és*t continuously™ present™ (or ‘with a continuous*! bestowal’), he proceeds to Your worship; and this giving of* what* is continuously*! present*! 7s through the bountiful liberality of Srésh (Obedience), [that is, he declares Your Religion, and de- XLVI. 17. 271 Free tr. Where I in holiest metre chant the doctrines; Never the measureless profane I’ll utter; Praise with Obedience and with gifts I offer. Who severs keenly each the false and lawful, May He with wond’rous Sanctity give heed. votes his personal efforts to priestly studies and duties]; (d) and he distin- guishes thoroughly* what zs to be given (or ‘what 7s giving’), and what also zs not to be given (or ‘not giving’) [and he gives to him to whom it is necessary to give]; (€) wise zs A’s metrical* measure (or ‘ritual’), and this is in accordance with the truth (‘or justice’) of Aflharmazd; [that is, he is intelligent through (or ‘in regard to’) the Religion of Atharmazd].
2also zs not to be given (or ‘not giving’) [and he gives to him to whom it is necessary to give]; (€) wise zs A’s metrical* measure (or ‘ritual’), and this is in accordance with the truth (‘or justice’) of Aflharmazd; [that is, he is intelligent through (or ‘in regard to’) the Religion of Atharmazd]. *1 Perhaps hada spelt »” (* = h, » = d, » = 4) suggested wy = ait, or e#; it is extremely unlikely that this ¢, *, “ means ait, at least when taken in its usual sense; see Gatha and Ner. Ner.’s sansk text. Evari vah pramanatn vakta, [kila Dinith Yushmakam vakta]; (b) na apramani* Gurur Jamaspo*! Huogudjah?, [kila, yat* Dinivat” ((?)-vat)** na prakatar, tat* na brite], (c) sahadatya* vah Aste* namaskritaye Crogadakshinadanena**. [Sahadatir* iyarh yat* Dini Yushmakath brite, va- pugcha dakshini* kurute*], (d) yo vivinakti dinaricha, addnam cha, [tasmai dadati yasmai yujyate datum], (e) jnaté pramdnamh* satyatayé Maha- jnaninah Svaminah [Dinya Hormijdasya]. *: All Yém-. *%all should be read Huo-. *3 all “vat. ™* see forms of rad often rendered by dakshina, ete. *5 so J.‘ Ner. transl. Thus he* is a proclaimer of Your legal (or ‘ritual’) regu- lation, [that is, a proclaimer of Your Din]; (b) the spiritual Master Jamaspa Huoguaja is not @ proclaimer of an irregularity, [that is, he does not declare what is not evident (or ‘evidently’) according*! to*! the Din]. (c) He is devoted to (or ‘at’) Your Service with a an ever**2 accompanying*? (or ‘joint’)* gift to You, even with Croga’s presentation of offerings; [and this is an ever**? accompanying**, (or ‘joint’) gift, because 7¢ both declares Your Din, and makes the person an offering**]; (d) and he (lit. who) distin- guishes the gift* and what is not a gift*, [that zs, he gives to him to whom it is necessary and fitting to give], (e) and he understands the legal (or ‘ritual’) regulation through the truthfulness of the Great Wise One, the Lord, [through (or ‘in accordance with) the Din of Hormijda]. *1 Hardly ‘supporting the Din °vat’, see min Dini. ** see the Gatha, ** not literally meaning ‘goes to the right of the body’. Parsi-persian Ms. rit. Edin an i Shuma andazah [], [kf Din 7 Shuma gébishn [gityad kit gumani nah bashad = jdméiinéd* dgh* giimani la jantinéd*) x (b) Nah [] [bi-gu- mani* = avégimdngi*) Dastir Jamasp 7 Hbobi (ham-pusar = biman* (sic loco benman)], (ka, an ¢ az Din nah péda (vel ‘paida’) nah giyad [an gobishn kunand = zak gobishn 272 XLVI. 1%, 18. vagind*] % (c) Pah hast* dahishni an an 7 Shuma niyayishn rayad » Pah Srésh sa- khavat-didan + ya‘ni-kardan in hast + ya‘ni + hastam*? ((?) sic videtur) —[ [] [n= and] Din « Shuma gtiyad, va tan ham sakhayvat-kunad 4n magopatdari] * (d) Bih [va = va] 48 (24499 QL Peps, -rsuGenss ay ba p49 M99)ING -6M9 18, Text. Aid 3.9) cur dp qubdl 1at52 04452 ~fnd2 004 AUP IING «URED i} Ep LUGE OBE EREA dicgupbayeudy og )aulo -ceguvguody upg) 49h. HEpol -wyssyys}are sayrcon) whe Bae Verbatim transl. (with paraphrase).
34n magopatdari] * (d) Bih [va = va] 48 (24499 QL Peps, -rsuGenss ay ba p49 M99)ING -6M9 18, Text. Aid 3.9) cur dp qubdl 1at52 04452 ~fnd2 004 AUP IING «URED i} Ep LUGE OBE EREA dicgupbayeudy og )aulo -ceguvguody upg) 49h. HEpol -wyssyys}are sayrcon) whe Bae Verbatim transl. (with paraphrase). Qui mihi consecrationem*-validam attribuat[-uet], huic sit*! -[sint] etiam optima[-ae] res; (b) [ei enim res opti- mas* ex] meae [mea] opulentiae[-tid per] Bona[-nam] tribuam Mente[-tem] ; (c) [sed] angores-et-oppressiones huic, [i. e. in (vel ‘adversus’) hunc im- mittam] qui nobis [ut] crucians-oppressor*? [angorem, et oppressionem, i. e. angustias] inferat{-ret], id est, eas adversus nos immittat|-tet, i.e. inferat, (d) et], O Mazda, [haec faciam] Sanctitate, [i.e. secundum praecepta Vestrae legis], Vestrum[-tro] delectum**[-tui, i. e. Vestrae voluntati*-supremae et Vestro maudato de me] satisfacere-volens; (e) hoc [enim] meae intelligentiae, men- tisque, consilium-et-decisio [est]. *1 Fortasse significat aschid(t) ‘valde’, tum si haec traductio recta sit reddamus ‘huic valde res-optimas [ex] meae [mea] possessionis [-ione] impertiam’. ** vel lege Astai ‘qui nos angori, [i.e. ad nos angoribus opprimen- dos nos] capiat[-iet et tenebit]. ** yel simpliciter ‘ Vestrae religioni’. Pahl. text transl. 1 Mtn avo li yan?, [aigh® havishtih i li vadinyén] valman* pavanich® tand* i pahltim, jaighash? pavan® stih mindavam aé® den- man pahlim]. (b) Man avo li ishtd, [aigham® khvastak yehabtinéd] afash’? Vohiman chashéd, [aighash mozd yehabtinéd]. (c) Andstiht! avé valman mtn avo’ lanman anastih yehabinéd. (d) Aftharmazd va Ashavahishté pavan kamaké Lektim shnayém'. (e) Zak li pavan khiradd, pavanich minishné, bara vijinam!, [Dind!}]. ‘See P. throughout. ?DJ., D., M. yan. *DJ. om. ‘DJ. ins. ich; Mf. has avo only. °DJ. om. ich. ©D. om. i, 7D, aigh (ash) ich. *DJ., M. I so also prob. D., but possibly i. ®°DJ. om. am, *°D. afash. 1D. va anastih (2), or ‘anafitih’ (?). 22 DJ., D. avi. Pahl. transl. He who affords me a blessing, [that is, when they, such persons, shall fulfil the duties of discipleship toward me] even in* the body* of that person this is* that which is the* best, [that is, this is the best thing for him even in this matter of the world]; (b) he who provides me with means, [that is, ‘endows me with property’] the Good Mind is teaching him, XLVI. 17, 18. 273 chinad kih dahishn va kih ham na-dahishn, [ [] an ti.dehad, kih bayad [] (did = —}, [an Jamasp = dx Jaémdsp] | * (e) [Pah = pavan] dan& andazah, pah rasti ¢ Ormuzd (sic) in, [kti, pah Din % Ormuaid*® akih (agah) [hast = hast] ] # ** Hasti (?). Free tr. Who Sanctity on me bestows for blessing Him of my wealth give I through Good Mind best; Grief upon him I send who sends oppressions; Thus,’ Lord, I justly seek your will to gladden; This is mine understanding’s choice and aim. [that is, he is his teacher because he is giving hima reward for his offerings to me}.
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.
1boedientia] 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 [con- siderato], (e) [i. e. has meas laudes] cum-mira-efficienti [-et - me-inspiranti Sanctitate] considerato* (sic ‘man*’ active) (Sanctitate) Mazda Ahura. ** Vel et fortasse certius* (?): ‘(I Tu illuc] ubi [Ahura habitat et laudes] in vestro {sancto}] metrico*-cantu* (loc. sing.) [recipit (vide stropham XVI (16))] (b) nullo-modo laudem- sine-metro, O D.-H-.’ ** vel ‘semper agnoscite* (?) et probate (sic ?) has meas laudes - - -’. Pahl. text translit. ‘Aétind zak i? Lektim padman gdbishn3, [aigh, Dino* i Lektm gobishnd?]; (b) 414 apadmanikiht Dastdbar Jamaspé i Hvéban', [aigh, zak min Dind* 14° pédak 14 yemaleliinéd?]. (c) Pavan aito*-(?)- da- hishnih avd zak { Lekim’ niydyishnd sattinéd. Pavan Srésh rad dahishnih aé aitd**-dahishnih, [aigh*, Dino* i Lekam yemalelinédd, va tandch radinéd avo Aérpatistand®]. (d) #°Baras vijinéd min‘! dahishnd, va manich adahishnih?2; [vat> val'* valman? yehabtinéd mtin avdyad yehabiintan6'4]. (e) 1Danak pad- mand; pavan rastih i? Afharmazd hand, [aigh, pavan Dind* i Afharmazd akas hémanéd!]. +See P. ? DJ. ins. i. *D. om. *D. ins. va. ®D. ins. ich. * DJ. om. “DJ. ins. va. *D, hand. *DJ. aérpatand. 2D. ins. va. 14 DJ., D., M. min and om. va. =~ DJ. ih. > DJ. om. **s0 DJ.; D. ayo. DJ, D. indo. Pahl. transl. Thus your metrical(?)-measure (or ‘ritual’) is to be spoken, [that is, Your Religion is to be declared]; (b Dastur Jamaspt, who is of the Hv6b, will not utter an unmetrical*® (or ‘profane piece’, or ‘a legal irregularity’), [that is, that which is not evident (or ‘evidently ’) from the Religion he does not declare]. (¢) With the bestowal of what és*t continuously™ present™ (or ‘with a continuous*! bestowal’), he proceeds to Your worship; and this giving of* what* is continuously*! present*! 7s through the bountiful liberality of Srésh (Obedience), [that is, he declares Your Religion, and de- XLVI. 17. 271 Free tr. Where I in holiest metre chant the doctrines; Never the measureless profane I’ll utter; Praise with Obedience and with gifts I offer. Who severs keenly each the false and lawful, May He with wond’rous Sanctity give heed. votes his personal efforts to priestly studies and duties]; (d) and he distin- guishes thoroughly* what zs to be given (or ‘what 7s giving’), and what also zs not to be given (or ‘not giving’) [and he gives to him to whom it is necessary to give]; (€) wise zs A’s metrical* measure (or ‘ritual’), and this is in accordance with the truth (‘or justice’) of Aflharmazd; [that is, he is intelligent through (or ‘in regard to’) the Religion of Atharmazd].
2also zs not to be given (or ‘not giving’) [and he gives to him to whom it is necessary to give]; (€) wise zs A’s metrical* measure (or ‘ritual’), and this is in accordance with the truth (‘or justice’) of Aflharmazd; [that is, he is intelligent through (or ‘in regard to’) the Religion of Atharmazd]. *1 Perhaps hada spelt »” (* = h, » = d, » = 4) suggested wy = ait, or e#; it is extremely unlikely that this ¢, *, “ means ait, at least when taken in its usual sense; see Gatha and Ner. Ner.’s sansk text. Evari vah pramanatn vakta, [kila Dinith Yushmakam vakta]; (b) na apramani* Gurur Jamaspo*! Huogudjah?, [kila, yat* Dinivat” ((?)-vat)** na prakatar, tat* na brite], (c) sahadatya* vah Aste* namaskritaye Crogadakshinadanena**. [Sahadatir* iyarh yat* Dini Yushmakath brite, va- pugcha dakshini* kurute*], (d) yo vivinakti dinaricha, addnam cha, [tasmai dadati yasmai yujyate datum], (e) jnaté pramdnamh* satyatayé Maha- jnaninah Svaminah [Dinya Hormijdasya]. *: All Yém-. *%all should be read Huo-. *3 all “vat. ™* see forms of rad often rendered by dakshina, ete. *5 so J.‘ Ner. transl. Thus he* is a proclaimer of Your legal (or ‘ritual’) regu- lation, [that is, a proclaimer of Your Din]; (b) the spiritual Master Jamaspa Huoguaja is not @ proclaimer of an irregularity, [that is, he does not declare what is not evident (or ‘evidently’) according*! to*! the Din]. (c) He is devoted to (or ‘at’) Your Service with a an ever**2 accompanying*? (or ‘joint’)* gift to You, even with Croga’s presentation of offerings; [and this is an ever**? accompanying**, (or ‘joint’) gift, because 7¢ both declares Your Din, and makes the person an offering**]; (d) and he (lit. who) distin- guishes the gift* and what is not a gift*, [that zs, he gives to him to whom it is necessary and fitting to give], (e) and he understands the legal (or ‘ritual’) regulation through the truthfulness of the Great Wise One, the Lord, [through (or ‘in accordance with) the Din of Hormijda]. *1 Hardly ‘supporting the Din °vat’, see min Dini. ** see the Gatha, ** not literally meaning ‘goes to the right of the body’. Parsi-persian Ms. rit. Edin an i Shuma andazah [], [kf Din 7 Shuma gébishn [gityad kit gumani nah bashad = jdméiinéd* dgh* giimani la jantinéd*) x (b) Nah [] [bi-gu- mani* = avégimdngi*) Dastir Jamasp 7 Hbobi (ham-pusar = biman* (sic loco benman)], (ka, an ¢ az Din nah péda (vel ‘paida’) nah giyad [an gobishn kunand = zak gobishn 272 XLVI. 1%, 18. vagind*] % (c) Pah hast* dahishni an an 7 Shuma niyayishn rayad » Pah Srésh sa- khavat-didan + ya‘ni-kardan in hast + ya‘ni + hastam*? ((?) sic videtur) —[ [] [n= and] Din « Shuma gtiyad, va tan ham sakhayvat-kunad 4n magopatdari] * (d) Bih [va = va] 48 (24499 QL Peps, -rsuGenss ay ba p49 M99)ING -6M9 18, Text. Aid 3.9) cur dp qubdl 1at52 04452 ~fnd2 004 AUP IING «URED i} Ep LUGE OBE EREA dicgupbayeudy og )aulo -ceguvguody upg) 49h. HEpol -wyssyys}are sayrcon) whe Bae Verbatim transl. (with paraphrase).
34n magopatdari] * (d) Bih [va = va] 48 (24499 QL Peps, -rsuGenss ay ba p49 M99)ING -6M9 18, Text. Aid 3.9) cur dp qubdl 1at52 04452 ~fnd2 004 AUP IING «URED i} Ep LUGE OBE EREA dicgupbayeudy og )aulo -ceguvguody upg) 49h. HEpol -wyssyys}are sayrcon) whe Bae Verbatim transl. (with paraphrase). Qui mihi consecrationem*-validam attribuat[-uet], huic sit*! -[sint] etiam optima[-ae] res; (b) [ei enim res opti- mas* ex] meae [mea] opulentiae[-tid per] Bona[-nam] tribuam Mente[-tem] ; (c) [sed] angores-et-oppressiones huic, [i. e. in (vel ‘adversus’) hunc im- mittam] qui nobis [ut] crucians-oppressor*? [angorem, et oppressionem, i. e. angustias] inferat{-ret], id est, eas adversus nos immittat|-tet, i.e. inferat, (d) et], O Mazda, [haec faciam] Sanctitate, [i.e. secundum praecepta Vestrae legis], Vestrum[-tro] delectum**[-tui, i. e. Vestrae voluntati*-supremae et Vestro maudato de me] satisfacere-volens; (e) hoc [enim] meae intelligentiae, men- tisque, consilium-et-decisio [est]. *1 Fortasse significat aschid(t) ‘valde’, tum si haec traductio recta sit reddamus ‘huic valde res-optimas [ex] meae [mea] possessionis [-ione] impertiam’. ** vel lege Astai ‘qui nos angori, [i.e. ad nos angoribus opprimen- dos nos] capiat[-iet et tenebit]. ** yel simpliciter ‘ Vestrae religioni’. Pahl. text transl. 1 Mtn avo li yan?, [aigh® havishtih i li vadinyén] valman* pavanich® tand* i pahltim, jaighash? pavan® stih mindavam aé® den- man pahlim]. (b) Man avo li ishtd, [aigham® khvastak yehabtinéd] afash’? Vohiman chashéd, [aighash mozd yehabtinéd]. (c) Andstiht! avé valman mtn avo’ lanman anastih yehabinéd. (d) Aftharmazd va Ashavahishté pavan kamaké Lektim shnayém'. (e) Zak li pavan khiradd, pavanich minishné, bara vijinam!, [Dind!}]. ‘See P. throughout. ?DJ., D., M. yan. *DJ. om. ‘DJ. ins. ich; Mf. has avo only. °DJ. om. ich. ©D. om. i, 7D, aigh (ash) ich. *DJ., M. I so also prob. D., but possibly i. ®°DJ. om. am, *°D. afash. 1D. va anastih (2), or ‘anafitih’ (?). 22 DJ., D. avi. Pahl. transl. He who affords me a blessing, [that is, when they, such persons, shall fulfil the duties of discipleship toward me] even in* the body* of that person this is* that which is the* best, [that is, this is the best thing for him even in this matter of the world]; (b) he who provides me with means, [that is, ‘endows me with property’] the Good Mind is teaching him, XLVI. 17, 18. 273 chinad kih dahishn va kih ham na-dahishn, [ [] an ti.dehad, kih bayad [] (did = —}, [an Jamasp = dx Jaémdsp] | * (e) [Pah = pavan] dan& andazah, pah rasti ¢ Ormuzd (sic) in, [kti, pah Din % Ormuaid*® akih (agah) [hast = hast] ] # ** Hasti (?). Free tr. Who Sanctity on me bestows for blessing Him of my wealth give I through Good Mind best; Grief upon him I send who sends oppressions; Thus,’ Lord, I justly seek your will to gladden; This is mine understanding’s choice and aim. [that is, he is his teacher because he is giving hima reward for his offerings to me}.
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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