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wicked. * Oblique by position, or ‘as theirs’.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Te dushtabuddhayo bhavanti ye koparh! varshantah** santi saramarjanaih? yat, [kila, svamino® antah tanau? pragnamm (!) kurvantah santi?]. (b) Yat sviyajihvayaih vindcganarn tat avindcanath, [punar api na* abhipsayet! vinacayituia]. (c) Te gubhodita na vaiichhitah, ye dushtasamacharitah santi. [Te nirmalatvam dharayet]. (d) Teshdih Deva guravah santi, ye {antah], durgatimatar Dinih. Variations unimportant.

Ner. transl. They are of evil intelligence (or ‘disposition’) who are raining* down* anger, which ¢s* yet a purification* (?), [that is, by this means the masters are instituting an investigation (?) within the person (or ‘body’) (sic)]. (b) What is destruction in (or ‘through’) their own tongue (or ‘language’) that ¢s no destruction, [because again also (at another time) one may not desire to destroy]. (c) Those who are well-born(?, or ‘well spoken of*’?) are not desired by them, but* they who are evil in their ways; [let a person therefore all the more hold Thy purity fast]. (d) The Devas* are their* spiritual masters, they who [are within]; and their Din is that of the wicked!

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Oshan bad-khirad hend kih* shan kheshm* [] [khirad = va khirad* (? sic)], éstéd [] hasad ham, [kfishin andar tan [] [fréb = frifi] kard hast], (b) an ¢ khwésh zaban afzini-kunandah az an i nah-afztini-kunandah [[] [az 4n= mn zak] ¢ nah bayad afztini (sic)] * (c) Oshan nah nék-kunishn kâmah kih bad-ikhtyar*- kunandah hast*;. {andar shakmandi [] pah in dashtan (?)]. (d) Oshan [] [Déw = Shah*} hukhm hast, kishan* én 7 darwand(?) Din, [bar hast darwandén darwand = madam hast darvandén darvand] %*

Free tr. But he will bring us blessings, Lord, and riches Who guards our Faith, through Good Mind’s ruling power. Through Holy Law shall each true patriot devoted

With all Thy saints within Thy Kingdom dwell.

talibus civibus*? honestis] in Tuo Regno, O Ahura, [ut fidelis erga patriam defensor noster agnitus honorabitur, et semper sic clarus manebit}.

*1'Vel etiam fortasse ‘valde-sapiens*’. ** utrum ‘his omnibus (i. e. ubertate et abundantia) praeditus’ vertere possimus, necne?

Pahl. text translit. Aétind valman it Adharmazd shirinih va charpih, [aighash mozd yehabiind?], (b) man zak Dind* sardarih pavan Vohiman, [aigh, zak § min Dind! pédaik pavan frardindth vadainyén’+2], (c) pavan bindak minishnih kadarchai Ahardyih khip shindsakih?, [aigh, kadarchai kar vas dina shindsakihé vadinyén]. (d) Valmanshan harvisp-gdn® hana i Lak khidayih,

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-Afiiarmazd, [valmanshén min sardarih pavan frartinéih vAaddnaid, ashan -shalitath min Laké)], *D, om.i *see P. ins. *so D, *P..om. *D4J.

Pahl. transl.

hardyih khip shindsakih?, [aigh, kadarchai kar vas dina shindsakihé vadinyén]. (d) Valmanshan harvisp-gdn® hana i Lak khidayih,

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-Afiiarmazd, [valmanshén min sardarih pavan frartinéih vAaddnaid, ashan -shalitath min Laké)], *D, om.i *see P. ins. *so D, *P..om. *D4J.

Pahl. transl. Thus that one zs (or ‘his’), O Atharmazd, (‘are’) the sweetness* and agreeableness*, [that is, they are bestowing a reward upon (or ‘from’(?)) him]; (b) those favours are the chieftainship of the Religion exercized in accordance with a Good Mind, [that is, they shall (or ‘do thow’(?)) fulfil with correct-piety whatever is evidently from the Religion], (c) and everything which is Aharayih’s beneficial wisdom they shall (or ‘do thou’(?)) fulfil with perfect-mindedness, [that is, they shall fulfil all duty and legal requirement in an understanding manner]; (d) theirs* (oblique by position (see even Ner.)) of every sort (or ‘theirs all’) 7s Thy sovereignty, O Adharmazd, [that is, theirs* (see Ner.) who would exercise authority with piety; their* sovereignty 7s from Thee].

Ner.’s sansk. text. Evari yat, Svamin, uttamatvarh mahattamatvath [prasddam dehi], (b) yat asyah Dineh adhipatih*! Bahmano ’sti, [kila, asyah Dineh prakatath yat suvyaparath kuru]. (c) Yat sarnpirnamanasa kebhyagchit*? cuddhath satkéryara kuru, [kila, kebhyagchit karyamh, nyayath, satkaryaim, kuru], (d) tesham sarvesham yat Tvarn raja Svaimi Hormijda, [tesham yat* yorg)s AWN GEMIDS AUR IG sssagagspon)d seul 29 6. Text. AM QPZWIIG sv 40139 994 Gedy -ayr4en) «b AN AL saveyswsasras) 9 od 485 O39 9 ssavsog opal wate) a0 gen deosrascuody +AU LD GRILO 49 “GLO

Verbatim transl. (with paraphrase). Prorsus [igitur] Vos [i.e. Vestram naturam omnipotentem et nobis bene-volentem et consilia vestra sapientissima] declarem[-rabo*], O Mazda, Sanctitas-que [(sic nom. sg. vide infra pl. prim.) etiam] dicit, [i. e. civis propheta a Sanctitate inspiratus doctrinas sacras Vestras etiam mecum una enuntiet[-tiabit eas cogitationes et veritates elatas] (b) quae Vobis (vel ‘vé = vere’) sapientiae (gen.) Vestrae (a (sic) Mente conceperitis (c) recte discernere, |i. e. discernite*? et explicate*? eas veritates quo-modo [vel ‘ut’] eas [ut capita doctrinae] promulgemus [ego et civis sanctus] (d) Religionem sacro-sanctam quae Vestri-devoti*, [i. e. principis nostri piissimi et clarissimi], OAhura, [sit]. *! Vel fortasse ‘Vobis supplicem[-cabo (sic a me ipso in priori meo libro)] et Sanctitatem[-tati] dicere (sic, sed compara Yas. LXI, 1 ubi sine ulla dubitatione significat fraéshyamahi declaremus (vel ‘landemus’). Vel etiam (tentemus iterum) ‘Vobis supplicabo, et Asha respondit’. ** vel se conjungit ‘vichidyai’ cum ‘fraéshya’ directim, ‘ Vobis supplicem[-abo] discernere[ et explicare]’; vel etiam ‘vichidyai = discernere = discernam’, infin. loco imper. prim. sing., ‘utinam discernam’. *8 vel ‘quae Vestri-similis, [i.e. Tui ipsius (sic) sit’], vide Y. XLIV, 1; sed in stropha proxima

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chidyai’ cum ‘fraéshya’ directim, ‘ Vobis supplicem[-abo] discernere[ et explicare]’; vel etiam ‘vichidyai = discernere = discernam’, infin. loco imper. prim. sing., ‘utinam discernam’. *8 vel ‘quae Vestri-similis, [i.e. Tui ipsius (sic) sit’], vide Y. XLIV, 1; sed in stropha proxima

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Adhipatyar suvyapararh kuru. Tesharn adhipatih PAtasdha Dvami): ?* J.“ °tim, *2 J.4 ins. cuddham tat. *% J.> °ute.

Ner. transl. Therefore, O Lord, [do Thou grant] that which 7s goodness* and greatness* [as a reward], (b) since Bahmana is the supreme master of the Din, [that is, do Thou effect for (or ‘in (?) us’) that which is the evident ‘teaching (or ‘result’) of the Din, which is good works]; (c) and that which is good*t to any (i. e. to all) persons through the Perfect Mind, as an act of propitiation, do Thou produce, [that is, produce duty*, law, and reverential propitiation for any (or ‘all’) persons]*; (d) and because Thou, O Atharmazd, art King and Lord over them all [do Thou also make that which és their* sovereignty one abounding in good works. Their sovereign and*2 Patasdha Thou art]. *! Hardly ‘clear’; see the Pahl. *? or ‘their sovereign P.’.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Hdtn & ¢ Hormuzd** shirini u charbi, [kfish muzd dehad(?), [i kih az dil shak dérad = varman* min min rabemman* gundn* janstined* | |, (b) kih an Din sardari { ] {kunad =—] pah Bahman, (kf, 4n az Din [ra=rd] péda** pah néki kunad(?) [ira nah dehad=varman* ra* la* daébinéd*]; (c) pah pur minishni* [] har-jai*(?) (vel *har kas* (?))* [= Pahl. kadarja* (sie)]Sawab khfib shnési [kunand = végénand*), (ka, har ja

[= kadarja* (sic)] kar [] insdf danai(?) kunand *; (d) dshan tamam in 7 Ta khudai, Hér-

Se

muzd*?; [Oshan kih sardari pah nékikunand, ashan (sic) padishahi az Tu] % ** Or “Orm.’.

Free tr. Forth will I speak, O Lord, with saints* inspired

What in Your understanding’s thought abides;

Teach* us* aright how we Your words should utter,

The holy creed which Your devoted* leads. videtur khshmavao ut subjectum verbi ‘sraotti’ ad explendum esse, tum in ea re est ‘Vestri (vel ‘Vobis’) devoti’ sensus aptior. *! vel ‘Vestrum ipsorum’.

Pahl. text translit. Frazé avd zak i Lektim farmayém, Atharmazd, [vat kar, vat dina i Lektim] va? Ashavahishtich? rai, yemalelinam, idichiash dadak-gobih* vadtinam-é], (b) va? zak i Lekim pavan khirads, va® zak i? pavan minishn6 [?Dind* i Lektim pavan khiradé minishnd bara vajinam]. (c) Rast bara vajinam®, aéttind denman srdyém? (d) zak i Dind* i Lekim, Attharmazd.

* D., P. om. va. * DJ. ins. va. ® DJ. ins. i. * DJ. om. k. 5 DJ. has va displaced; P. om. va. * DJ. and P. ins. va. 7 See P. ins.

Pahl. transl.