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

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}. (c) Atheistic-falsehood (with® its resudts*) is for him who produces that profanity toward us; (d) 0 Adharmazd and Ashavahisht, I ew? content You as to Your desire; (e) therefore I will scrutinize that [Your Religion] with wisdom and also with attention.

*! Not ‘his it is even in the body of heaven’; see the gloss and also Ner.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Yo madarthai sadai’va sa evath vapusha utkrishtatarah, {kila, jagati kichit® idam eva utkrishtataram, yat chhatratvam™ me kriyate}. (b) Mahyaih lakshmim vatah? (“sie ?) Uttamam asvadayati Manah, [kila, yo mahyaii lakshmim dadati tasmai Gvahmanah prasidam dadati). (c) Andstikatvari tasmai yo ‘smabhyati anistikatvat* datte; (d) he Mahajidnin, he Dharma, Yushmin svechchhaya satkarayami; (e) tam ahath buddhy& manasa cha. vivinajmi [Dinim]. *' J. schhe (?). 7 I8, J.* vyatah; P. vaintah; all y-; it seems the possessive termin. which Ner. intended to use; or read atah.

Ner. transl. He who foils for my sake remains for ever the most exalted through his bodily condition, [that is, the most excellent thing on earth for any one is just this, that discipleship should be formed for me]; (b) thence* it is that the Best Mind assigns property* (2?) to me (or ‘inculcates and stimulates the bestowal of riches upon me’), [that is, Gvahmana rewards him who offers me bounty]. (c) Infidelity* is for him who practises* infidelity® toward us; (d) O Great Wise One and Thou, O Sanctity, I propitiate You according* to Your own* desire* (hardly ‘spontaneously’), (e) and I discern this [¢A’s Din] with wisdom and intelligence].

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Kih an man [] [jan = gan (sie)], [ka, shdgird? ¢ man kunand}, & pah ham tan pahlim (sic), [kiish pah géti chiz in padhlim (sic)} * (0) Kih an man khezinah, [kim khezinah dehad) az-(sic)-ash Bahman chashad, [kish muzd dehad] * (c) Nah + hast? (sic) an Q kih an ma [) [wek**-hasti (!) = Aa-**(?) -hasti] dehad (!) ® (a) Ormuzd* u Ardibahisht, pah kamah Shuma sitidam [kunand = vdgtnd* (?), an alternative conjecture (?)] % (e) An man pah khirad pah ach (? sic fortasse) minishn bih [] [defaced purposely) = vacinad] [Din] #* a

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Verbatim transl. (with paraphrase). [Immo utinam omnes principes ad - Causam meam se adjungerent et mihi opibus (ad civitatem sacram nostram constituendam sufficientibus) subvenirent (vide supra)] qui [enim adjutor] mihi, i. e. in gratiam (vel ‘gratia’) mei] Sanctitate, [i. e. secundum praecepta et significationes sanctae legis] re vera [id] efficiet (b) [mea] Zarathustrae [causa] id quod [cum larga-benevolentia (vel ‘secundum voluntatem meam’) meum conatum magnum] maxime-promovens-et-prosperans*? [sit, i. e. prosperet], (c) huic [adjutori liberali et generoso* ut] praemium pro-eo-consequentesdant* [Ahura et Asha (vide stropham XVII (17), d.) praemium] ad-mundumillic-pertinens (i. e. ultramundanum*) (d) [cum omnibus] mente acceptis [emolumentis] (cum omnibus) [causi*-]Bove*?[-vis] materna[-nae*]; -(e) haecetiam (vel ‘omnino’] mihi nuntiavisti*® [vel nunties*(-tiabis*)] Tu, O Mazda, [qui eorum] scientissimus [sis]. ** Vel lege hanefité, ‘huic praemium merenti* in-vitamulteriorem-validum [dabunt Ahura et Asha]--’. *? Doctus certus reddit ‘duas-boves duas-maternas’ (2), *% sunt qui ‘fecisti tu’ vertant.

Pahl. text translit. *Mén zak i? li Ahardyth Ashkarak’ min zak varzéd

• (b) 2av6 Zaratushtd [¢numaids yekavimtinéd] mfinash kamak® fraztim!, [aighash avayd6 vésh aigh kard8*], (c) zak i pavan mozd arjanik yehevinéd? dén kola dé ahvano, (d) min avi li nivékédt (vel ‘navidéd’*), [aigham mindavam yehabtinéd], ash levatman yeheviinéd pavan harvisp® [damané] Tora 19 Az!
• (e) Zakich lit khfirsandih amat hand {1° Lak, Atharmazd akAs homanam, [Dind" i Lak]. ‘See P. throughout. ?DJ. om. °D. ins. 3. “DJ., D. om. fraz. = DJ.,
• D. om. va. °DJ., D. kardané; D. ins. denman din, but very late. 7DJ., D. ins. *s0 DJ.,; D. harvist. ° DJ. ins. 3. 2°'D, ins. 7%

_ Pahl. transl. To him who practises my* (?) Sanctity (or ‘acts from Sanetity toward* me*(?)’ so better*; see the original) openly (or ‘with open reality’ or ‘truth’) and from that*t motive*!, (b) ze, toward Zarattishts, that [is revealed]

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Free tr.» Who from the Right for me true welfare worketh,

For Zarathushtra help most wished and mighty,

Him give they the reward than earthly better

With all mind-blessings gained from holy* pasture*;

These teaching me, O Lord, art Thou most wise! which is his most advanced desire, [that is, he* desires for him (Z.) more than has been accomplished*], (c) ¢o him who is deserving as to the reward in both worlds, (d) who also makes*? an*? acquisition*? for me, [that is, bestows something as a offering for the Cause upon me], with him, (i.e. with such an one) as that reward the Kine called ‘Az’ abides for all [time]; (e) this is likewise my satisfaction*, O Atharmazd, when I am acquainted with this which is pre-eminently Thine, [Thy Religion]. **NB. zak is inserted as if to make* sure* that min = hacha should be applied to Aharayih (totally impossible in ordinary Pahlavi; see p. XIV, Introd. flg.).

all [time]; (e) this is likewise my satisfaction*, O Atharmazd, when I am acquainted with this which is pre-eminently Thine, [Thy Religion]. **NB. zak is inserted as if to make* sure* that min = hacha should be applied to Aharayih (totally impossible in ordinary Pahlavi; see p. XIV, Introd. flg.). *?so far better than ‘announces’ as I formerly rendered; see vistais. ** probably reading vas (see Y. 49. 4, c.) for sas.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Yo me punyarh prakatarh tasmat samacharati (b) Jarathuctrasya yah kamah prakrishtatamah, [kila, yo Jarathuctrasya nidargita* aste], (c)sa prasdide anuripo bhavati ubhayor bhuvanayoh. (d) Mam grihituh* (sic, lege grah°) sarhclishté sadai’va Goajinamni!, [yo mahyarh kithchit* dadati, tena saha sariclishta bhavati sadai’va Goajinamni]. (e) Tayai’va me sathtoshah* Tvadiyaya, Mahajiianin, vijidtya* [Dinyd Te]. *C.;J.%,J.4 P. gauaj°.

Ner. transl. He who practises my righteousness publicly. from this (b) which is Jarathustra’s most pronounced*! desire, [that is, from that which is the revealed desire of Jarathustra], (c) is fitted for and deserving of the reward prepared in both the worlds. (c) To the one who receives me*? the © Cow named Aji belongs and she is for ever united with him, [that 7s, whoever bestows anything as an offering upon me, with him the Cow named Aji is united for ever]; (e) and just hy this means, O Thou Great Wise One, is my contentment* realized; that is, by means of Thy known doctrine, [that is Thy Din]. ** So meaning *? lit. ‘of the seizer of me’.

Parsi-persian Ms, trit. Kih 4n man Savab 4shkarah az an (n. tr. p. varzéd) [kunam = vdgiindm*| (b) 4n Zaratusht [ [] numiid éstéd] kiyash kamah [] fraz [ktsh bayad (sic) zyidah [= vésh], ka [] [kardan = —] (?) [in Din = giiman® (sic) Din] x (c) An ¢ pah muzd arzani (?) bashad andar har da jihan*, (d) kih an man [] [va‘dah + dehad = navidinéd], [ka, ma-ra chiz dehad] ash av(&) bashad pah tamam [zaman] Gat ¢ (indeciperable) % (c) An ham [] razamandi, kih in 7 Tf, Ormuzd*’, agah hastam [Din * Ta] * *! Ormuzd seems oftener written in some parts of this MS., Hér® in others.

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274a XLVI, 1.

Yasna XLVI.
Gatha(a) Spenté Mainyti (Spentamainyu).
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(NB. The Commentary here refers also to my former printed and circulated edition.)

Verbatim tri. (with extensive paraphrase here especially necessary owing to the meagreness of the text.) (Laus vobis Gathae sacrae!) [Per] benefico[-cum Suum] Spiritu[-tum et per] Optima[-mam Suam] Mente[-tem in sanctis Suis vivam et in omne bonum efficacem], (b) ex Sanctitate, [i. e.