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

ver one commits (lit, they would commit) iniquity it is owing to the lodging of Akéman (the evil mind) within one’s (or ‘their’) body]. ** Altern. trl. for chéis, see eliashidd, *2 ‘bestow their benefits’ as Ner. seems to render bakhshénd is improbable; see both Gatha and gloss.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Tatagcha, mahattara adricya Mahajnianin Svamin, [kila chet dakshinam na chhindati] (b) punyatmabhyo Asvadayati yam kArbchit utkrishtatamataia(?)", [kila, tasmat cubharh sarvath uttamebhyo dattar], (c) rite Tava samihitan? durgatino* varshanti, [kila, lakshmimn na abhipsitena Te dadhate], (d) tasya karmani nikyishtasya Anivas4t?* manasah, [kila, asya, ‘gatatvamh* Akamanasya vapushi tasya yah pépath kurute}].

"J.4,5.*, -tatamatém. *s0J.4,C.,P.; J.* samih®.. **J.4, J.* ani®; C., P. aniv®

Ner. tri., etc. And thence, O Greater Spirit the Great Wise One the Lord, [if one does not cut off (or ‘curtail’) his offering* (but see y. 4, a)|, (b) he teaches the religious whatever is the most elevated (the best), [i. e. from that cause every advantage* is bestowed upon the most exalted ones (the good), (¢) but the wicked rain down (or ‘bestow’, or perhaps ‘choose’ (? varsh° having been intended as an aorist present of var*! (vri)) their gifts (or ‘advantages’) apart from Thy desire, etc. (trl. shortened, as elsewhere occasionally, to save space). * Yet see Y. 50, 3.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. [] [Kih = —] in ham, [kih sakhawati nah shikanand], afztini Mina ¢ Hormuzd, (b) [6’sh* an ashavan chashad har-kudim buzurgi, [kw’ [’sh = -sh] an ra néki tamam 6 [] [vehin = shafirdn*| dad] (c) Jud& az in ¢ TA khwahishn darwand bakhshand, (ki, khastah (sic) nah pah biyad* (2?) ¢ Ta darad(?)] % (d) Kih an ¢ 4 [] [guft (?)** = kunish* (? gobishn (?))] ash az AkOman [] [manad* (?) = —], [kt, mihmani? Akéman pah tan ¢ tt ra, kih wanah kunand] * ** A slip of the pen, see the Pahl.

Free tr. These Lord Thou ‘It give and through that spirit bounteous, By Fire for good to strivers twain in judgment Through growth of Reverence* and Truth*, Ahura, For she* instructs her many seekers. Verbatim trl., etc. Eas res duas, [i. e. Salubritatem et Immortalitatem (vide supra s. V(5) et I(1)) des [vel dabis per Tuum] Benigno{-num] Spiritu {-tum*! (in sanctis Tuis vivum*)], O Mazda Ahura, (b) per Tuum) igne[-nem]

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in-bona distributione (vel ‘addictione’) (°té** = °tya’ = °tyarh, loc sg. fem.) [praemiorum bonorum et in bona, i. e. in justa et aequa compositione et impositione suppliciorum] certantibus-duobus [vel (iterum et fortasse certius) (b) {eas-duas res, vitam bonis abundantem et longaevitatem [des (vel ‘dabis’)] per-obrussamsacri-Ignis-Tui in-bono, [i. e. de bono (adverbialiter), i. e.

iorum bonorum et in bona, i. e. in justa et aequa compositione et impositione suppliciorum] certantibus-duobus [vel (iterum et fortasse certius) (b) {eas-duas res, vitam bonis abundantem et longaevitatem [des (vel ‘dabis’)] per-obrussamsacri-Ignis-Tui in-bono, [i. e. de bono (adverbialiter), i. e. ad addictionem praemiorum et suppliciorum aequam et justam efficiendam] distribuit (vidaiti*?) [hic Tuus Spiritus (?) Benignus] certantibus-duobus**-controversiam - habentibus (de auctoritate legitima causarum suarum duarum inter se contrariarum)], (c) {sic distribuit Tuus Spiritus] Pietatis per-promotione[-nem vel per incrementum Devotionis] Sanctitatisque ; (d) illa enim multos (vel [pourti(n)s (?) = viros] [ad se] cum-desiderio-venientes [scientia vera plene et sine amphibolia] instruit[-struet].

*1 Vel voc. (?) ‘O Tu Benigne Spir. M. A. *? Vel etiam fortasse (tentemus iterum) est ‘yidditim’ legendum, ‘et (ta=) ex eo distributionem dabit, etc.’; sed vide annotationes. Fortasse est vidaité (sic) pass. cum neut. pl. *° vel ‘e duobus lignis’.

Pahl. text translit. *Avd kold déan* yehabinéd? afztnik Minavad i Atharmazd (b) Atash? vijarishnd bard yehabtinéd avd patkardaran, [aigh, bikht vat airikht*5(?) pédak vaddanyén] (c) amatash zak min zak i® stdbar’, biindak minishnih? Aharayihich [padash var sardar], (d) maman zak® kabed, amat nikirénd ashan, hémnuninéd?®, [darvandan zak! nirang i!! var vad't aharfiban! rai la padkar]. ‘See P. 2D. °bind. * DJ. ins. va(?). * DJ, om. *so DJ., D., M.; Sp. cites K.® airid (?). ° D. ins.i. 7so D, ° D. ins. va. °DJ. ins 7. *° M. hémntnéd %néd; DJ. written over. 11DJ., D. as above; K.°, M. darvand Nirang var ahar®, ete.

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Verb. tri. with paraphrase. Si factis [i.e. per facta vel consilia* capta sua] Sanctitate Mendacii-daemonem [hostes inimicosque nostros instigantem | vincet [vel destruet [sanctus*! noster civis princeps vel propheta|] (b) quum sit (sint*2) promotae (sic, lege as(t) Ashuta), [id est, quum ad nostram prosperitatem augendam vere et manifesto adyenerint eae dispositiones vel res promissae] quae [prius falso a malis ut] fallaciae pronuntiatae [et declarataesint] (c) in-Immortalitate [advenerint] a-Daevis(que) [daemonibus sic ut fraudes declaratae*? sed] ab hominibus|-(que)-sanctis promotae], (d) tum Tibi [Tuam per] beneficiis[-ia]-utilibus[-ia] adorationem augeat [hic civis sanctus, i. e, vim et beneficium Tuae adorationis amplificabit et propagabit], O Ahura.

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Pahl. trl., etc. For the two contending* parties* (hardly ‘in reference to the two, Haurvadad and Amer®’ (?)) the bountiful spirit of Atharmazd bestows the decision; (b) He will give the decision of* fire to the contenders*!, [i. e.

adorationis amplificabit et propagabit], O Ahura.

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Pahl. trl., etc. For the two contending* parties* (hardly ‘in reference to the two, Haurvadad and Amer®’ (?)) the bountiful spirit of Atharmazd bestows the decision; (b) He will give the decision of* fire to the contenders*!, [i. e. they will render (or ‘render Thou*(?)’) the true (or ‘certain’) and the untrue (lit. impure) evident]. (c) Since His is the powerful perfect-mindedone and Aharayih also, [and by his means does that perfect-minded-one become the chief (the prevailing one) of the var (or ‘ordeal’)|; (d) for when they behold those things she* (Aramaiti) causes* many to believe, [and the wicked are not opposers of that Nirang i var which decides for the righteous, (or ‘the wicked, owing to that N. ete., are not (i. e. no longer) opposers - -’)].

*1 Was vanhau not translated because it was taken in the sense of ‘bright’ and included within the idea of the ‘fire’? Atdsh oblique by position; see also Ner.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Tasyati dadau mahattaro ‘drigyo Mahajnani Svami (b) agnim vivikter*! datarazh prativadakritam, [kila guddharh aguddhaih prakati-kurute*?], (c) sarapirnamanase mahattaraya punyayacha, (d) sa yatah prachuran pacyatah pratibodhayati [durgatinah]. *' J.‘ °ktir. *2so J.4. (Trl. om.)

Parsi-persian Ms. trlt. An har daan* (sic) dehad afztni mint ¢ Hormuzd s (b) atash (space) guzarishn*(?) (or gaztr°, guwazishn*(?)) = vazarishn]) bih dehad 4n dalilkunandahgan, (ki, khalisi u {] [ma-khalisi = atrdd* (sic ?)] [] zahir kunand] (c) kiyash an kih an ¢@ buzurg pur minishniSawab ham [padash [] sardar], (d) chih an bisyar, kih nigirad ashan (sic) khwahad, [darwandan 4n (the Pahl. has, I think, an abortive Nirang, it seems nar* or tar*, no trl.) [] ta ashavan* ra, nah dalil] *

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Free irl. If through *his* deeds by Right he** slays the Falsehood,
When hopes* by* foes* called false at last shall triumph

In Immortality through saints*, reviled by faithless*,

Thy praise shall this, O Lord, through grace increase.

*1 Vide Ashava in secunda stropha. *2 vide annotationes. ** vel ‘per Daevas et homines effectae’ (?).

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Pahl. text translit. ‘Amat, pavan zak’ dahishné, [pavan tand** {i pasind}, Aharayih Drfjé vanéd, [Ashavahisht5 andar*? (vel ‘gondak*?’)], (b) amat zak yamtinéd minshan’, pavan friftariht, fraz gifts, [aigh la yamtânédd], (c) amarg-rtibishnih i Shédaan5 va® anshitaan, (d) aétind hana i Lak std! niyayishnd vakhshéd3, Atharmazd’, [Dind* i Lak]. *SeeP, *D, andar; DJ. gondak(?). *DJ., D. "shin. *DJ., D. om. i. *D. shédayyam. *D. ins. va. "DJ. om. va. ** not ‘°nt’.

Pahl. tri., etc. If, in that dispensation [in the final body] Sanctity smites the Drij, [i. e. if Ashavahisht smétes Andar (Indra (?)), (or ‘the foul one’ (gdndak))], (b) when that takes place which was. declared by them to be*t in deceitfulness, [that is, that 7# was not to happen], (c) (vz, the immor-

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