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

, which zs i¢?], (d) whose possession** zs acquired through the deeds of Vohtiiman? [That is, it is necessary to make the possession** of it one’s own through piety]. *NB. Tarsakasih* distinctly means here ‘honour from God to man’ hence ‘reward’ (see mozd in the gl.) = ashdis.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Kada Te Svaminah Uttamasya samihe rajyath ? [Kila, rajyam gurutaram, Tvadiya vriddhih, kada?] (b) Kada Te bhaktigilan* ye*! manonyan*(?)? (sic, lege madiyah*(?)), Svamin, [me cishyah cighrath prasadam te? prapnuvanti?] (c) Kada Te parisphutarh prakatarm|[-am*] dakshinarh samihe, [yat dakshina* ayam*(?) Tvaih‘ prakatah* ({lege ‘dakshina ya Tava* prakata’ (? vel ‘dakshino ’yam Tava* prakatah’?)|) kada bhavishyati], (d) yat Bahmanasya karmanah dharanamh sadvyaparena® dharayishyanti, [yat sviyena cakyate kartum]?

Boley ac SOU Va ae ROYON Vale deeds; den ins, te: “Jey dace Ne ayam tvam; C. dakshinayatvam-; P. °ayam tvam. ° J.*, J.* suvy®. ** Comm. corrected.

Ner. trl., etc. When shal/ I desire (or ‘pray for’) Thy Kingdom, that of the most exalted (or ‘best’) Lord? [that is, when zs the greater kingdom coming, that development (or ‘increase’) of Thine]? (b) When does 7t* come* to* Thy*! religious devotees who are - - -*, O Lord? [when do my disciples arrive expeditiously at theirreward?] (c) When shall I seek* for* Thy bounty so illustriously* (Asha° recalling the fire) revealed, [which* means* (aigh) the bounty which Thou rececvest, when shall it be manifest? ([or. ‘this liberal one of Thine, when shall he appear’?|) (d) when they shall acquire the possession of Bahmana’s action through good conduct, [when it shall be possible to do thus of one’s own power*?]. *!Manonyan, or manyony? (so) here translates manikénd simply as—=‘mine’; see me cishyéh; but man=‘to think’ may possibly have been seen, as in y, 8.

Parsi-persian Ms, Kudam Tf, Hormuzd, an ¢ veh khwahishn 7 khudai, [kt, khudai

7 veh 7 Tit ash afzti (? lege -tin) az chih? [Ma-ré bih — = am bana jamntin*]] * (b) Kudam in ¢ Ti bandagi kih az TA mayan, Hormuzd, [ka, shigirdan 7 man ashin muzd padash rasad]? s (c) Kudam Tt Th(S)awab* + buland [= Ashavahisht] zahir sakhawat khwahishn, [ki, sakhawat(i) {] ¢ Ta [4n= zak] zahir kadar (sic)], (d) kih pah Bahman kunishn dashtari, [ki, pah nék[-i = -7] dashtari 4n khwésh shayad kardan] ? »

Freetr. When shall I know if aught for me Ye govern,

O Lord, through Holiness o’er griefs* and fears

Aright for joy to me show* Good Mind’s favour;

Let Thy true** prophet find how grace is his!

Verbatim trl., etc. Quando (vel ‘Nonne’) scivi [scio, vel ‘sciam’”] si cujusquam* (i. e. aliquid] regatis? (b) O Mazda, Sanctitate cujus, [id a si in eamp. 10 dominamini quae sit] mea oppressio*! [et mea] dubitatio, [i e. si dominamini in meum dubium ut oppressionem illam tollas et hoc dubium resolvas]* ? (c) Recte mei [vel mihi, i.e.

ciam’”] si cujusquam* (i. e. aliquid] regatis? (b) O Mazda, Sanctitate cujus, [id a si in eamp. 10 dominamini quae sit] mea oppressio*! [et mea] dubitatio, [i e. si dominamini in meum dubium ut oppressionem illam tollas et hoc dubium resolvas]* ? (c) Recte mei [vel mihi, i.e. (pro me)] (Jegitimum-)gaudium*? Bonae eratiamsuavem-et-mirabilem Mentis (d) inveniat [(vel illud gaudium plene intelligat*)} Propheta [nobis profuturus (sic ad verbum)] ut (vel ‘{etiam inventurus] quo modo’) sibi-ipsi beatitudo [propria, i. e. praemium-gratiae proprium] sit. ** Vel e contrario ‘si in ea* regnetis quae est mea res-certe-cognita*, et si etiam valeatis in meum dubium’. **veletiam ‘utinam mea recte fruar(prim. sg. conj.) -- gratia’; vel(semel iterum) ‘recte mihi dicat (fichim = °tam III sg. perf. imper. vach.) vel mihi dicatur (med. loco pass.)’.

Pahl. text translit. ‘Aimat? zak dahishn akas yehevinam, amat [tand, ] pavan chigamchai*, padakhshahih [nadikih** bara dad, aigh, zak damanak5 aimat® yamtinéd] (b), Auharmazd! va Ashavahishto, amat pavan zak i valman® damano, zak f li havishté rai! Ashkaérako yehevinéd, zak i pavan giimanikiht (c) Rast! li, pavan zak i rast‘ zivishnih, zak 18 pavan Vohimané vishipishnd, [aigh, amat pavan frarinih zivém, am g6ndak7 7 saritarand taiban yeheviinéd vishtiftand]. (d) Akas yehevandndt stiid-homand anshitd’ chigtin zak 7 valmanshan [Yazadan'] tarsakdsih ait3. 1 See P. 2DJ. destroyed. * DJ., D. diff. char. for “ai. *DJ., D. yehabtind; K.5 dad. *DJ. daman. so DJ., D. so, DJ. *D. tai, °so D. (** I think that nadfkih (sic) bara dad may have arisen from the likeness of padokhshahih (D.) to pad yeh dehih in the orig.)

Pahl. trl., etc. When shall I become acquainted with that dispensation during which sovereignty, [i.e. happiness (?) (or ‘welfare’)] shall be fully established (or ‘ bestowed’) by (or ‘upon’™*) [You] in every particular, [that is, when is that time coming], (b) O Atharmazd and Ashavahisht, when, in that time that*t which*t was my disciple’s perplexity™ shall become manifest, that*t which*t was in doubt? (c) Righteous to me in my just living is that which is the destruction effected by Vohtiman, [that is, since (or ‘if’) I live in piety, it becomes possible to me to destroy the stench (or (read gimAanik, ‘m’ restored) ‘the doubt’) of the wicked]. (d) Let the beneficial man (the benefactor), wnderstand how reverence toward*2 them*2 [the Yazads] is increased.

*1 Or ‘he who is my disciple’. *2so with the gl.; otherwise ‘that which is their reverential recognition (reverence) toward them)’.

pore ba) yeh )(u)}ug , 1095 596 949) 105 Text: SOA PE AV IIOP clogs Tfaye ee Jero224g9)» bysey)ang rau sow) Qy gus SY MLS eR) 2 Es 0) Faeody—syr goad AU A pay

Verbatim trl., ete. Quando [vel‘Nonne’] O Mazda, intelligentiae, {id est, intelligentia spiritali et (in defensionem Causae sacrae nostrae) scientia rei* ee

p. 999

Ner.’s sansk. text.

gs Tfaye ee Jero224g9)» bysey)ang rau sow) Qy gus SY MLS eR) 2 Es 0) Faeody—syr goad AU A pay

Verbatim trl., ete. Quando [vel‘Nonne’] O Mazda, intelligentiae, {id est, intelligentia spiritali et (in defensionem Causae sacrae nostrae) scientia rei* ee

p. 999

Ner.’s sansk. text. Kada asyah siddheh avabodhaii (verb.* f.* not meant) [-budhyamano(?)] bhavami, yat sarveshar kimchit [abhilashah (prob. a second trl. of chahya, thinking of chan!)], rajyarh [sundaratararn (°tara points to bara (?))} yat dcharah (= dad, K.5, as = ‘law’), [kila, aya kalah kadd prapyate |? (b) Svamin parisphutam asmin samaye kad& me gishyah* prakat& bhavishyanti? [Asya samayasya me saridehah]. (c) Saralataya me yat [asmin samaye] satyena jivitazh bhavet, yat tat Uttamamanasah* vindganarh bhavati. [Yat suvyaparena jivitaih bhayet, sarve (am mistaken for ham*) nikrishtatara* balishtha bhavanti vindgayitur]. (d) Avabodho* (sic ?) -bhavami (reading Pahl. *ani) labhavataih manushyanam, yatha ete [svaminah] ye bhakticiléh santi. (Variations not important),

Ner. trl., etc. When shall I become aware*t (or ‘conscious*’) of this success, when the desire of all things, (sic, not ‘the desire of all ’, see the Pahl.) the [better] kingdom which the precept teaches, shall have been somewha realized, [that is, when does* this time approach*]? (b) When shall my disciples be revealed (that is, ‘appear ’) in a marked* manner* (like Asha, see the Pahl.) in this time, O Lord, [as to this time is my doubt]. (c) It is through my honour (or ‘justice’) when life may be passed [during this time] in rectitude, when that destruction takes place which is of (‘or through’) the Good Mind. [That is, when life is passed in good works all the most powerful*? baser*? ones are to be*? destroyed*?], (d) for I am cognizant*! of the beneficial men, and I understand how these [lords**] who are religious, proceed.

*! Not ‘the awaking, or intelligence of’. *2 hardly ‘the baser are most powerful to destroy’ (?). *3 or ‘pious ones of the Lord’.

Parsi-persian Ms. Kai an pédaish*! 4gah bavam (vel bom*), kih TA (? = tin) pah har kas, padishahi ¢ nék-i bih dehad, (ki, an zaman kai rasad], (b) Héormuzd, [] [az = min] Ardibahisht, kih pah ani & zaman, an ¢ man shagirdin [ra = rd] zahir bed + ya‘ni+ bashad an 7 pah giimani, (ki, judd giiman bashad = dgh javid giiman Jantinéd) ? % (c) Rast [-f = -?) man pah 4n ¢ rast [-i = -7] zistan, an ¢ pah Bahman kharab-kunam, [kf, kih pah néki ziyam, am shak*?(?) ¢ badtaran tuwan bad khardbkardan] + (a) Agah [] [bavam [vel bm] = —] stidmand Adami, chitin an ¢ 6shan [iz(a)dan (?)] bandagi hast #* ™ Or paiday®. *? slip of pen.

Free tr. When, Lord, shall come the men of mind’s perfection ?

When drive* they* hence* this soil* of drunkard’s rage,

Through whose foul zeal the murd’rous* Karps would plunder,

And by whose plottings tyrants reign.