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avan 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. I am speaking* forth* commandments* for* (or ‘to*’) You, O Atharmazd, [that is, I am speaking forth the duty and the decree which appertain to You], and according to (or ‘for’) Ashavahisht also am I speaking, [that is, I would perform the judicial pleading (or ‘mediation’) for him]; (b) and I wil proclaim that which is Yours with (or ‘through’) wisdom, and that which is Yours with (or ‘through’) consideration*, [that is, I will discern (or ‘explain’) Your Religion with wisdom and with thought]; (c, d) I will distinguish that which is right, and this do I thus proclaim, O Atharmazd, that which 7s the Religion which 7s Yours. is

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Ner.’s sansk. text. Prakrishtarh yat Te Adegayami, Svamin, [karyam Dineh Tava] parisphutarh yasm4t vadami, [kila, nydyavachanam karomil. (b) Yat Te buddhih* manasa [Dinih, Te buddhih*, manasa vivejayami, parikshayami]; (c)satyena parikshayami; evar idricarh samudgirami, [kila, Dinith pravartamanam karomi]. (d) Asau (?) Dinih Tava, Svaminah. Variations unimportant.

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? optanti cultum legitimum, i. e. carmina metrica vere sacro-sancta a Te sine ulla dubitatione inspirata constituet?; respondeat]. *! Utrum *khshmayao hoc loco explendum sit, necne?, et utrum kshm. sensu ‘Vestri-similis’ hoc est, ‘Vos ipsi’ (ut saepe in aliis strophis), an sensu ‘Vobis-devotus’ intelligatur?; vel fortasse ‘quis constitutionibus et legibus--- famam*(?) populo claram det [vel ‘ dabit’]?

Pahl. text translit.

at]. *! Utrum *khshmayao hoc loco explendum sit, necne?, et utrum kshm. sensu ‘Vestri-similis’ hoc est, ‘Vos ipsi’ (ut saepe in aliis strophis), an sensu ‘Vobis-devotus’ intelligatur?; vel fortasse ‘quis constitutionibus et legibus--- famam*(?) populo claram det [vel ‘ dabit’]?

Pahl. text translit. Aéttindch, Atharmazd, amatam! nydkshédd? Voht-_ man, (b) afam nydkshéd? Ashavahishtd, afam nyéksh*+* Lak, min Atharmazd hdmanih, [aigh, zak it yemalelinam?, am bara® nydkshéd]. (c) Am min® ayarmanih, va min khvéshih dadar aito, [aigham khvéshih vat ayarmanih’, min® vadinyén]; (d) mfinat® avd varzishnd!? shapir yehabinéds® fraz vafriganth**? [Aigh, kardé12 j Lak1$ pavan'! vafrigdntar* yakhsenunéds. At zak i nafshman ayarmano]|. + D. om. am. ?Sp. diff. spell’g. *DJ. nydksh (corr. from °shéd). *DJ. om.

5P. ins. harvisp. *DJ. ins. va. 7DJ. and P. om. va. ®P. ins. zak. ®P. tan. 1° DJ. ins. i. *11 P. prob. afringanih. 1? P. kardd here. ** DJ. and P. om. kardo here. ‘* P. om.

Pahl. transl. Thus also, O Adharmazd, since Vohtman listens to me, (b) and Ashavahisht also listens to me, do Thou who art Adharmazd also listen to me, [that is, give me full hearing in that which I shail say]; (c) ‘who is the bestower of*! alliance upon me and who is the recognizer* of * kinship**?,p. 815 that which is Thy Din, Thy wisdom, to be examined with thoughtfulness*);

• (c) I cause it to be examined with exactness (with truth), and therefore as such wisdom do I announce it, [that is, I render the Din progressive],
• (d) for this (lege iyam) Din is Thine, the Lord’s. *! Thy wisdom.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Fraz an an ¢ Shuma farmayam, Hormuzd*+, [ ]] kar [] insaf 2 Shuma] Ardibahisht ham ra gfyam, kfish jadangdi kunam] * (b) An i Shuma pah khirad [] an ¢ pah minishn*, [Din 7 Shuma pah khirad minishn bih vazinam + ya‘ni + shnasam] +; (c) rast bih vazinam + ya‘ni + shnasam [wa = va] édfin in giyam, [kt, rawa kunam = dgh riubak vdginam*], (d) 4n i Din 7 Shuma, Hormuzd*+ % * Or ‘Orm.”,

Free tr. This let our zealot* hear with Good Mind, Mazda,

With Holiness give ear, and Thou, O Lord,

Who with his gifts* as ally or as chieftain,

Who for the people saving rites will found? [that is, who may form an alliance and recognize* a kinship* (sic) for mel, (d) who will also give forth a good*(?)? ritual-blessing for Thee for Thine action*??’, [that is, he considers what Thou hast produced as a more potent* blessing because Thou hast produced it; Thine own ally he is]. * So according to the gloss; or ‘what is the alliance, what the kinship* (sic) as a giver?’ *? or ‘for good labour’, so DJ.

Ner’s. sansk. text.

ee for Thine action*??’, [that is, he considers what Thou hast produced as a more potent* blessing because Thou hast produced it; Thine own ally he is]. * So according to the gloss; or ‘what is the alliance, what the kinship* (sic) as a giver?’ *? or ‘for good labour’, so DJ.

Ner’s. sansk. text. Evarh, Svdmin, sarhpddayité Bahmanah, (b) me vachanam parisphutar crinu Tvarh Tava, Svaminah, [kila, yat aharh vadami tat sarvarn crinu]; (c) kah ddegah?, ko *bhildshah1, svadhinata, datrita', Aste? [kila, abhilashah, svadhinata, Adeco yat karaniyah]? (d) Yat tat samacharanai* uttamar dehi; prakrishtarh acirvadayami, [kila, kartavyarh Te yat acirvadataram dharayami yadi sviyabhildshah]. + Variations unimportant.

Ner. transl. Thus, O Lord, 7s Bahmana the acquirer (so, perhaps thinking of nadikih (same letters as nydksh) = happiness, or ‘bringer - together for the conversation’, or read ‘sampdd° = converser*’); (b) hear Thou therefore my enlightened* speech, for it isThine. (or ‘for Thee’) the Lord’s, [that is, listen to what I say; listen to it all]; (c) what is the command (sic)? [i. e. what is the petition?], the possession (sic) and the giving?; [that is, what is the prayer and the possession, an order because* it is to be carried out]? (d) Do Thou therefore grant (or ‘produce’) the best work, for I am utterting my benediction upon it; [that is, that which is to be done for Thee I hold as more blessed if IJ* do ct as following my own* (or ‘Thine* own’) wish].

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