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

durgatimatah na dadyat*?]. (c) Yat Dineh atah para niyojayet prasadam, [kila, prasâdaddnam dehi]. (d) Pacchat punyaih niyojayet karyath nyayarn Jaémaspasya, [kila, yat asau suvyaparam? pracharati|.

+ 3.8, J.*, Caya.. “ cp. dadmi, ete.

Ner. trl., etc. Wherefore listen (with* goodness* - - (altern. trl., transliterating nyéksh nadakih* (same signs)) to the doctrines, after the acquisition of our desire has been made, [that is, grant to* Phiragaustra the greater (or ‘the greatest’) [Din]. (b) Do not bestow the sovereignty of the truthful upon the wicked. [That is, grant the sovereignty to* Phiracaustra (or ‘grant us Ph.’s (?) sovereignty’); may one (or ‘may he’) not grant it to the wicked]. (c) Let him*! join* on*, i.e. continue* (or ‘unite* with* (?) us’, or again ‘enjoin upon us’) the reward which is hence on, beyond (in Heaven (see pahlim = vahisté)), and which* appertains* to* the Din*, [that is, grant him for his righteousness the gift of the reward]. (d) And let him* also afterwards in the future continue (or ‘enjoin’) that righteous action which és the rule of* JamAaspa, [that is to say that person proceeds with (or ‘practises’) good conduct}.

*1 Possibly meaning, ‘let what belongs to the Din attach the reward’. *%or ‘let him enjoin the rule upon* Jaémaspa’.

Parsi-persian Ms. Kih shunavad [wa = va] [] [Amizad + Amfzdnad (sic) = Pahl.-éd] an ¢ afzini sid tashidar (sic), [ki, Frashdshtar ¢ Dini shunayad, [wa meh 4n dehad = va mahist zak ddbind|], (b) nah 4n i rast gdbishn sardari dehad an darwandan, [ki, Frashéshtar pddishahi 4n darwandan nah dehad], (c) kih [] Din buland [] (kushishn-kunad = Pahl. dyéizéd (sic)] muzd, [(defaced) muzd dehad (?)] % (da) [] [azash (?) = ajash] Sawab [] [kushishn-kunad = dytzend) [no tr. for va kari] 7 Dastdbar Jamasp, [kfish pah néki raftan].

Free tr. These give I safest, Lord in Thy protection,

The saints on* earth*, and souls* long* since* in* Heaven*;
Self-humbling praise I give with blest Devotion

With wisest* Ruling and immortal* strength*.

{mea (cp. Y. 34, 14) et] cum-potestate [ad officia tibi praestanda] advenio (avémi (sic)) divitiis (ra = raya); vel semel iterum (d) simpliciter: ‘magna regna [mala (?)] potestate [Tua] moribunda* (sunt, i.e. pereunt]’. * The Comm. here refers to the old edition.

Pahl. text translit. 4Aétfindch, Attharmazd, hand i Lakd dam bara netrind’, (b) Vohtimané, zakich i ahardbind rfiban, (c) zakich i? niydyishndhémand Spendarmads? afzinik homand, [va niydyishn-hdmandih hand‘; aigh, mindavam! { Aharayih! bara yehabinéd]. (d) Man minishnd avd khidayih vizinéd* [i? avartind>] frdd yemitind® yeheviinéd, [aighash apagayéhé? yehevunéd]. +See P. *DJ., D, ins. i. *DJ. ins. va; D, ins. i, * so DJ., D., M. *D. seems to ins. ior I. * so DJ.; D., K.5 mard. 7 Zend. characters,

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Pahl. transl., etc.

binéd]. (d) Man minishnd avd khidayih vizinéd* [i? avartind>] frdd yemitind® yeheviinéd, [aighash apagayéhé? yehevunéd]. +See P. *DJ., D, ins. i. *DJ. ins. va; D, ins. i, * so DJ., D., M. *D. seems to ins. ior I. * so DJ.; D., K.5 mard. 7 Zend. characters,

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Pahl. transl., etc. Thus also, O Aiharmazd, will they*! guard this Thy creation, (b) the good mind, and also the souls* of the righteous (¢) and her also who is the worshipful, the bountiful Spendarmad, [and her worshipfulness is this, that she will bestow something of holiness wpon them]. (d) He who causes them to bestow thought upon the government [which is impious] has totally perished (lit. died down), [that is, this is a decease to him]. *! But see Ner.

Ner’s sansk. text. Eva yat, Svimin, Tava srishtitn palayami, [kila rakshain karomit Tava srishteh?] (b) Bahmanasya [Uttamasya Manasah] yat muktatmandm* atma* [Aste]. (c) Asya yat prandmah aste sarhptrnamanasa vriddheh, [kila, kivhchit punyarh dadyat tasya prandmah|]. (d) Yo manasa asya Svaminah na pagyati [avyApdrena], tasya adho Narake mrityur bhiyat, [kila, ‘apagaiahi3’ bhavet]. +J.° has from karo-(sic) to 1la antar Narake all on the margin, in smaller, but not necessarily different, handwriting; ins. te sa before antar. *P. reads on in the same way after srishteh te sa antar, etc.--- ®so C.; J.3 °ooahi; P. °gohi.

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Verbatim trl., etc. Tum [iis scelestis infidelibus] mala-regimina-habentes [-ntibus et exercentibus obviam], mala-facta-facientes [-ntibus], mala-verbaloquentes|-ntibus], (b) malas-conscientias* (indoles-spiritales)-habentibus [vel ‘mala-praecepta-sequentes[-ntibus]’], male-cogitantes[-ntibus, i. e. consilia prava vel opiniones haereticas mente concipientibus] scelestos [-stis-infidelibus] (c) cum-malis escis obviam animae [suae, i. e. animae horum scelestorum ipsorum damnatae his scelestis ipsis in Tartarum intrantibus obviam] eunt (vide Yt. 22), ([vel etiam fortasse ‘animae [infidelium aliorum jamdudum mortuorum his scelestis] obviam eunt’]). (d) Mendacii-daemonis in-habitatione vere-exsistentia-et-manifesta sint [vel erunt] corpora* ([vel ‘ vere-exsistentes erunt habitationes*’]) [eorum].

Pahl. text translit. ‘Aétin’ zak 1 dtish-khadai, i dash-kinishnd, 1? dishgobishné, (b) dtish-dint, { dfsh-minishnd i darvand', (c) ash zak {® saritar khtrishnd padirakd rfiband padirak sAtinénd4. (d) ‘Afash! dén Driajo va demano5, [dén Dfiish-ahi], ashkarak6 ait yekavimunishno®. [Ashkarak6 Shéda- And’, Driijind7]. +See P. * Mf om. 8DJ., D. ins. *D. nand.; ins.: ‘vishdatcha yehabiind (Zend char.). * DJ. diff. ° D. ins. va. 7 D, shédan.

Pahl. tri. and expl. Thus as* ¢o* the evil-ruling, the evil-doing, and evilspeaking, (b) the falsely religious, evil-thinking, and wicked person (c) to

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Ner.

P. * Mf om. 8DJ., D. ins. *D. nand.; ins.: ‘vishdatcha yehabiind (Zend char.). * DJ. diff. ° D. ins. va. 7 D, shédan.

Pahl. tri. and expl. Thus as* ¢o* the evil-ruling, the evil-doing, and evilspeaking, (b) the falsely religious, evil-thinking, and wicked person (c) to

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Ner. transl., etc. Thus, O Lord, do I* protect that which is Thy creation, [that is, over Thy creation do I keep a guard], (b) and over Bahmana [the Highest (i. e. ‘the Best’) Mind], who (or ‘which’) is the soul* of the pious*, (c) That which is his worship is ever offered through the Perfect Mind of increase (i.e. increasing blessings), [that is, let his worship grant me some holy acquisition]. (d) He who does not see according to the mind of the Lord [on account of his evil works (or ‘idleness’)| Je¢ his death take place below in Hell, [that is, let it be an ‘apagaiahi’ to him]. *Ner. read netrinani; 80 corr.

Parsi-persian Ms. Edin ham, Hormuzd*, in i Tai pédaish*! bih [no tr. for netrind], (b) [pah = pavan] Bahman 4n ham 7 ashayan rtiban (sic) [-ré parwarishn kunad (?) = rd (so for rai) parvarishn vdginad (or ‘-tind’)]] x (c) An ham 7 niyayishhend (sce pro -mand) Spendarmad afztni hast, [[] niyéyishmandi [], kt chiz ¢ Saw4b bih dehad (?)] % (d) Kih minishn an khudai [] [rava*? -kunad (or ‘dtir-kunad = avinéd (-tninéd’ (?), see Ner.))] [ ¢ bad-[mard ra = gabnd ra}] frod [] [kunad andar Dozakh mirad (?) = vagunéd dayen Dushdn jemiti[-nd|| bashad, [kish bi-jan bashad] « *1 Or paiddyish. *2 so I now think the Parsi-writer meant.

Free tr. Then evil rulers, evil doers, speakers,

Those believing* ill*, and false men evil-minded (*or ‘of eyil soul’)
With evil food the souls to meet are coming.

In Falsehood’s* home at last their forms abide!

him the souls* of those-who-have-the-vilest food* (adj. compos.) come meeting, even meeting him (for ‘to him that which is the vilest food* and the soul come meeting ’]). (d) His very existence also becomes really*!-and-manifestly*! fixed in the abode of the Draj[in Hell. The Demons, the Drajes, are manifestly**present™ to him. *11 think that Ashkaraké where it translates haithy® means more than ‘manifest’, Ner.’s sansk. text. Evarh dushtaparthivatvena, dushtakarmand, dushtavachasa, (b) dushtadinya*, dushtamanasa, durgatigdminah [santi]. (c) Nikrishtataraih khadyam™ sarnmukhath 4tmanah** sarimukharh pracharati**|, (c) Yah antah* Drijasya prandimam* kurute te*2 [antar Narake| prakata vidyante® [ye santi prakata Devanam, Drijanaim, madhye]. * Allshad%sic). 2J.3 had karo te sa with karo (mi completing karomi on the margin); it therefore ins. te sa; see P.. ins. v. 10, a; sa was a begun santi. *so J.*, C. ** corr. or ‘Atmanah (MSS.) pracharanti**’. Ner. tri., (c) And the most disgusting food goes forth to meet the souls (atmanah) (for ‘the souls (atmanah*) go forth (pracharanti*) to meet the vilest food’]). Parsi-persian Ms.