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

i modo dabunt?] Ita illi [i. e. tales] sint {vel erunt nobis]-Profuturi* (sic ad verbum), [i. e. principes-Prophetae] provinciarum [nostrae patriae], (b) [ii], qui propitiationem*! [Tuam] Bona Mente sequantur [-entur], [id est, eam efficere nitentur] (c) actionibus [suis per] Sanctitate [-tem, i. e. per sanctam legem] Tuae, O Mazda, doctrinae [moti, vel adjuti]. (d) Illi enim dati [sunt ut] oppugnatores*? Furiae, [i. e. Daemonis incursionis inimicorum nostrorum cruentorum]. *! Vel fortasse ‘sapientiam-salutem-nobis-afferentem’; vide chistis in stropha undecima. ‘*2 yel lege [-stro] aéshemem ahyd: ‘oppugnatoris contra-furiam hujus’.

Pahl. text translit. 1Aétaind valmanshan homand stid-hémand!, 7 pavan Mata [Frashakard kardar], (b) manshand?2 shnayinidarih?+1 payan Vohiman levatman, [aigh, anshita pavan frarandih* ghal shnayinénd‘], (c) va® pavan ktnishné¢ rast [homand], va7 hana i Lak, Atharmazd, Amukhténd (sic), [Dind* i Lak]; (d) maman valmanshan yehabind yekavimtind’ haméstarih® {1° valman1 ¢ Khéshmé*. +See P. 2D. amat®. *DJ. om. i, *DJ., D. and P. “th. *DJ., P. om. ya. ® DJ. ins. 1, "DJ. om. va. * DJ., D., P. *néd; Sp. and. °D. star. #°DJ. om. i. DJ. Ano, or avo.

Pahl. trl., etc. These are therefore the benefactors (or ‘the beneficial ones’), those who are in the Province [the producers* of Completed Progress], (b) whose reverencing (or ‘enlightening = shnsinidarih’) és with (see Ner.) the Good Mind together, [that is, they are honouring (or ‘enlightening, shnas° ’) men with (or ‘through’) correct piety]. (c) In their actions [they are] just, gS ee ae

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Ner. transl. (a, b) When is this gift (or ‘ dispensation’) coming, O Lord, when*! 7¢ is to be manifestly*? established*2 with the Perfect Mind, and when the toiler** comes with good intention, and good work? (c) When may he deliver the blow upon* (or ‘fitted for’) the wicked and upon* the angry*, lame, and impotent one* (d) when they may attain to all of this in the final state of the Good Mind? *! Reading aimat, see Pers. ? or read karye = avd k. ‘when it is evident in action’. **‘the agriculturalist’(?). ‘not ‘the blow of anger, etc.’.

Parsi-persian Ms. Kai an dahishn, Hérmizd, [wa = va] [] [kai = admat*], Ardibahisht awa Pur Minishni [bavad = j@niénd*] wa Shaharéyar, rasad pah [] [nék-mandan = hit-méanishn] an [nék = nadtik*] kar? % (c) Kih an darwandan silah [zakhm [kunad = vagitina(e)d*]] | | bi-pai (bi-pai = arméshti] nah-kari* dehad ? # (d)[] kih an ¢ [] Voha**-

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rasad*” -man** (sic) [danai= -](?) #** ‘rasad ddndi’ misplaced, ‘Vohti-man’ being divided.

Free tr. Aye, such shall be the Region’s future Saviours Who with the Good Mind’s help Thy worship* serve With Truth, O Lord, and deeds of Thy monition,

For set are they as every Raider’s* foe.

and this which is Thy doctrine, O A., they are* teaching* [Thy Religion}, (d) for as an opposition against that Wrath-demon are they given.

Ner.’s sansk. text.

ho with the Good Mind’s help Thy worship* serve With Truth, O Lord, and deeds of Thy monition,

For set are they as every Raider’s* foe.

and this which is Thy doctrine, O A., they are* teaching* [Thy Religion}, (d) for as an opposition against that Wrath-demon are they given.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Evarh teshaii santi labhamatam yat nagarar, [gramath, degarh, akshayatvamn karishyati], (b) ye jiatarah yat Bahmanasya samath [manushyaih suvyaparam vilokayanti]. (c) Yat karmana satyena(?) [santi anyayinah* (?)] Tava Syaminah [jananti], gishyanti, [Dinih Tvadiy4]. (d) Yatah teshati dadantah santi pratipakshanath teshazh kopena*!. + Triffing variations.

Ner. trl., etc., Those who understand (see below) belong to (or ‘are for’) these beneficent (lit. ‘ profitable’) men when* [one (i.e. they) shall render] the city, [village, and region the Indestructibility (i. e. the State of the Deathlessness)|, (b) who are knowers of (who know) what belongs to Bahmana together with [men, and they discriminate good works]. (c) When they, the adversaries (see below) are lawless*! as regards*! truthful action, these who are Thine, the Lord’s [perceive (or ‘understand’) it], and give instruction, [that is, Thy Din gives instruction], (d) because they are bestowers of * chastisement* upon*? these their* adversaries, and with*? anger. * Or read nyayinah ‘being lawful [they know] and teach’. *2 gen. for dat.; or ‘because the lawless (see above) are bestowers of these opponents in their wrath’. *%or ‘on account of’.

Parsi-persian Ms. Edin dshan hend, stid [] [-hend (sic) = -hémtnd*] 7 pah Deh (Ristakhiz* kardan (? = kardar)] # (b) Kishan khushndsi (sic?) [kunad = végiina(é)d*] pah Bahman awa, (ka, Adami pah nék[{i=—7] 6 (or ‘t’) shnaish(? shnési)-kunad, (c) [] pah kunishn rast hend, wa in ¢ Tai, Hormuzd, amtizad (?) = 4amfikhténd (sic)] [Din ¢ Ta]; (d) chih éshan péda*-kard* [] [hast =jakniménéd* (sic)] shikastan i i i Kheshm [Déw ra = — ra] %

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Verbatim tr. with paraphrase. Sic [immo vero] me [per longum] tempore [-mpus] Bendva ([i. e. princeps inimicus, (vel fortasse ‘Societas* infidelium hostium contra Z. foederata’)]) impugnavit [ille (vel ‘illa’)] quidem in proeliis nuper, pro(h)! commissis maximus [vel-ma, i.e. per suum magnum numerum vel potestatem inique assumptam victor (vel ‘victrix’)], (b) [me] gui [homines] malaconsilia-proposita-habentes mihi-conciliare-(vel docere)-cupiam [vel (lege khshnush6) ille (aut illa Soc.) eos pravos homines sibi-conciliare-cupiens est*!], O Sanctitas, (vel-tate (2)), O Mazda. (c) [Ergo Tu cum rei-] bonae*, [i. e. fortunae*2 secundioris*] (cum-) dono*? veni mihi, [i.e.

s] malaconsilia-proposita-habentes mihi-conciliare-(vel docere)-cupiam [vel (lege khshnush6) ille (aut illa Soc.) eos pravos homines sibi-conciliare-cupiens est*!], O Sanctitas, (vel-tate (2)), O Mazda. (c) [Ergo Tu cum rei-] bonae*, [i. e. fortunae*2 secundioris*] (cum-) dono*? veni mihi, [i.e. ad me] ad mei*, [id est, ad meas] aerumnas (tollendas], ([vel (lege 4rap&) me gaudio affice}), (d) [et pro me etiam] ejus [Béfidvae-hostis (vel Societatis* scelestorum-infidelium) | (Bona) exitium [i.e. devictionem* ejus per Bonam] obtine*! Mente[-tem, i.e. per nostros fideles fortes Tua Bona Mente inspiratos]. * Fortasse est °shnushé Illsg. perf. cupivit (forma minus secundum regulam). **vel lege ‘vahuhi = cum bona Tua liberalitate’. ** vel ‘obtineam’. (NB. The comm. refers partly to my former printing).

Pahl. text translit. 1Aéttind li haméi?+1, vad avé zak3+1 1% badttim? damand, panakih mahistd!, faigham*+4, vad tand* i pasind hamai painakih i daman chal?+t ktinishnd®], (b) vad zak i amat dish-nikirai® 17 [Aharmdk] chashid, va! rastih i Atharmazd, [vat Dind* i Attharmazd]. (c) Zak at® (or ‘Zit’®) 1 shapir dahishnd! yamtininishné [Vohtiman avd tand* i aishan] aigh, li zakich 13 li? ardminidart [raminid4r yehevinad]. (d) Zak f valmanshant adsh barat khavitinishné pavan Vohiman, faigh, charak 1? Aharmékané pavan frardnbih bara’ khavittinishné‘]. +See P. 2D. *DJ., D. *so D., P.; DJ. om. am. *so DJ., D. ®so DJ., D., M. ™DJ., D. om. *® DJ., D. seem zit, but may be zak at. ° DJ., D. li; Sp. la. 7° Mf. om.

Pahl. transl., etc.. Thus ever until (or ‘during’) the worst time mine is the greatest protection (sic, seeing the root pa(?)), [that is, the protection*(?) of the creatures is ever to be effected by (or ‘for’) me until the later body], (b) until* when* the evil intention [of the Persecuting-Infidel] shall have been taught, and also the truth of Attharmazd, [the Religion of Atharmazd likewise]. (c) That which is the giving of the good* is to be brought in by Thee,

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Free tr. Beridva the foul hath met* with* us and conquered,
Though I* with Holiness would win his* ruthless* hosts*.
Come, Lord, with gift of good to heal my sorrow;

Through Good Mind gain for me that Béiidva’s fall.

[that is Vohiiman is to be brought into the bodies of persons], and where there 7s to me that which (or ‘he who’) is no source of joy [let it (or ‘him’) become a source of joy]. (d) And that which is their destruction (that of those Persecuting Infidels (for ‘hésh for adsh*1’ ‘an understanding, i.e. skill (see Ner.) against the Infidels’]) is to be distinctly*? known through Vohtiman, [that is, a remedy against the Persecuting infidels is to be known through piety].

*1 Zend adsh° stood in the Pahl, characters which also spell hésh. *2 bara = vi, which is therefore twice, or alternatively, translated.

Ner.’s sansk.