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

thitim. Asti [prakrishtahadasya’ (so, hardly for-tatayah* ?)]. (d) Yat* ayarh samarachand* [?-narh (?)] mama [cishyandrh kuru]. Tat* Bahmanasya cishydii [meaning cikshath] dehi. +J.4, P.; 5.8 yas; ©. yata. 2J.4 ste; J. te (yas te, but see aigh). 8 J.4 "asya. * J.* vaya. © so’ all.

Ner. trl., etc. Wherefore(?), O Lord, do Thou produce* this, the Avistdword, [which means, (so, see aigh) ‘I am (altern. trl. of the Pahl. as reading yedrinani*) making the A. word propitious’ ([or read -anath (see the Pahl.) ‘I am offering worship’]); (b) for then am I producing the friendship [the protection*(?)] and the praise of Sanctity the bestower, [that is, I am doing the deed of Sanctity, 1] Jarathustra [the well prospered]. (c) 1am bestowing knowledge (or ‘understanding’) through the tongue, which is the standing of (or ‘the abiding upon’) the true path. | That path] is [that of ‘prakrishtahdda’ (so; see the Pahl., hardly ‘of excellence’ [-tatayah)]. (d) Because this one (the bestower) is my regulator [lit. (?) regulation] [make him also that of my disciples]. Grant that which is the teaching (hardly ‘the female disciple’) of Bahmana.

*! Probably reading Pahl. yedrfnyén.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Kih pah Manth(h)rah (sic vid.) gdbishn barand, Hérmuzd, [kt, Yazishn kunad(?)} (b) [ka = dgh[] n. tr. pro déstin 7* (sic vid.)] iz(a)dan 7 [vehan = va (?) shapirdn| Sawab niyayish* guftar, {ki, 4n kar u kirfah khwanam (?), kih] Zaratusht [hastam], (c) deh* 4n man khirad [u = va] zaban, [] [dar didan = rdtk* astinishn*] [] [bisyar-sitadan (?) = farahat? vel farahahti** (sic vid.)], (d) kih 4n [] arastan, [kf, shagirdi 7 man kunand*], ash 4n 7 pah Bahman Amfikhtan bashad * **See Comm.

Free tr. Then Yours yoke on the eager ones and swiftest,
Your praisers’ victories* for ever gaining,
Your mighty ones yoke on through Right and Good Mind.
With these drive on; so be Ye for my aid.
Altern. Then Yours I’ll* yoke, the eager ones, and swiftest,
The ‘Bridges*’ of Your praises mounting* over*,
Your mighty ones I'll yoke, through Right and Good Mind,
Through these incite* Ye me; be near to help!

334 Bode a:

Verbatim trl., etc. Tum vestros [-stris servis sanctis (sub specie equorum in curriculo currentium animo conceptis)| jugum-impone [vel ‘imponam’| ardentes [-tibus] celeres [-ribusque] (b) [sic] vincens*, [i. e. attingens et transcendens] pontes*? ([vel vincens [in] contentiones[-ibus] strenuas*[-nuis]]) adorationis Vestrae, [i. e. vincens in annisibus* ad adorationem Vestram plenam reddendam necessariis], (c)*#O Mazda [per] Sanctitate[-tatem jugum-impone (vel ‘imponam’) his servis Vestris] robustos[-tis per] Bona[-nam] Mente[-ntem]; (d)* cum quibus [huc usque] vehamini; meo sitis auxilio. ** Vel lege jayaig = ‘incitationibus’. *2 sine dubio Pons Judicis ad caelum ducens etiam una comprehensus est. ** Altern. trl.* (a) [Cum] Vestris [sanctis] me-conjungam ardentes[-tibus] enixos[-is]--, (c) M. A.

is per] Bona[-nam] Mente[-ntem]; (d)* cum quibus [huc usque] vehamini; meo sitis auxilio. ** Vel lege jayaig = ‘incitationibus’. *2 sine dubio Pons Judicis ad caelum ducens etiam una comprehensus est. ** Altern. trl.* (a) [Cum] Vestris [sanctis] me-conjungam ardentes[-tibus] enixos[-is]--, (c) M. A. [cum] potentes [potentibus]- -, (d) [per] quibus [quos] me ad bona facta perficienda incitetis, etc.

Pahl. text translit. Aétund zak i Lekiim aydijem! [avd kar va dina? i Lekim, min] déshak*, [va‘t+ avayishnik,] va arvand [hémanéd1, avar-kar], (b) pavan yamttnishné® avd> vadarg, vat niyayishnéd ? Lekim rdai, [aigh, vad amat avd tamman yamtinani am vat niyayishné® ayd® Lektim tiban yeheviinadd kardan6], (c) Atharmazd va® Ashavahisht6 chirt, Vohiman6! [chir lakhvar aé7 Vohiman), (d) vakhdindar® yehevinani* zim*+5 [min Lekim'] aitd1° aiyyarih, [aigham zakt aiyyarih i min™ Lektim*! avé nafshman ttiban yehevinad kardan}].

*see P. * D. dadistano. *s0 DJ., D., M. *DJ., D. om. *D. ins, i. *DJ. om. 7DJ.; soD. * D. g(ijriftar. * all seem zak am, save DJ. *° DJ. ins. lekim, ™ DJ. and P. ins. i min Lekiim; D. i lekim.

Pahl. trl., etc. Thus I am joining (or possibly ‘I am yoking You’) [for both Your duty and opinion, Ye who are] friendly [and desired], swift, [and working on-high (that is, ‘heavenly’)] (b) in my coming to the Bridge, and for the sake of celebrating Your worship, [that is, may it be possible to me to celebrate Your praise until when I shall arrive (possibly meaning ‘in order that I may arrive’) beyond], (c) O Ye Attharmazd, and Ashavahisht the hero, and Vohtiman. [A hero again (or ‘likewise’) zs this Vohtiman (exegetical note)|, (d) and thus may (or ‘shall’) I be a seizer (or ‘recipient’) of that

-Bwrwelow weg) AU LY “es tal 4G 8. Text. byowaS}s0ee2) AVOSUE suissycs)aay 4346 6) -asyavsaesas)o¢) AU OO asl ee Ssvesuee(¢) per bypajag p¢osel tasly “ps Verbatim trl., etc. (Cum) Vos [cum] pedibus [metricis] quae [qui] lateauditi [-sint versus] adorationis [yel strenuitatis-abundantiam*-obtinentis*, id est, pedes metrici ad res optatas obtinendas aptissimi(?)] (b) Vos] circum-ibo, O Mazda, manus-extensas-habens, [id est, manus attollens]. (c) Tum vos [etiam],

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help which reaches me [from You], [that is, thus may it. be possible to me to make this help which comes from You my own].

Ner.’s sansk, text. Evarh yat Tvaih niyojayami [idarh kAryarh nyayasyat Tava?]. Mitrasya [vaiichhaih karomi] vegena. [Karyaih upari bhavet], (b) yat prapnomi etat antarale, prandmah Tava hetoh, [kila, ydvat tatra bhuvane prapnomi namaskritimn Te balishthatam (sic)* karomi]; (c) Svamin, parisphutat [prakatarh] balishthatam* Bahmanena [yat balishthata* pacchat Bahmanat, uttamat manasah]. (d) Asya grihitaro [grahita] bhavami yat Tvath [lege Tel, Svamin, sahayata® Aste, [kila, sahayatas yat svayath caktimdn* caknoti? karturi].

*C., P. punyam in brackets. * all** nava. *J.3 tatam. 43.8, J.4, J.* tata, 554 saha°, ° J.? sdhay®. 7 P. amti.

alishthata* pacchat Bahmanat, uttamat manasah]. (d) Asya grihitaro [grahita] bhavami yat Tvath [lege Tel, Svamin, sahayata® Aste, [kila, sahayatas yat svayath caktimdn* caknoti? karturi].

*C., P. punyam in brackets. * all** nava. *J.3 tatam. 43.8, J.4, J.* tata, 554 saha°, ° J.? sdhay®. 7 P. amti. ** so J.* also; I correct Comm.

Ner. trl., etc. Thus am I joining (?) Thee (or possibly, ‘enjoining that which Thou [lege Tyarh] commandest’(?)), [this deed of Thy rule (or ‘system’). I am fulfilling the desire (or ‘making the prayer’ (?)) of friendship [toward Thee], and with activity. [Let it be also a duty, (or ‘an action’) above], (b) performed while I am coming upon the intervening* space* (or ‘Bridge*’). Let it be worship offered by me for Thy sake, [that is, so long as until* I shall have come to the world beyond I am making Thy praise a most powerful influence*]. (c) Thus, O Lord, am I making Thy most mighty power an open* illustration* (see Ashavahisht which recalled the Fire) [or ‘manifest’ (gloss)] and through Bahmana, [because afterwards the most mighty power és from Bahmana (or ‘because after Bahmana, the Best Mind, it is the most powerful influence’)].*(d) Thus am I a seizer (or ‘acquirer’) of that which is Thy friendship, O Lord, [that is, this friendship is something which the capable man is able to produce of himself (or ‘to make his own’)].

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Edin an i Shuma [] [kushishn am (sic) = yézam!] an kar u inséf ¢ Shuma, kih) [] [khwahish = —] [ [] lik (or layik*)] wa buland [hasténd*, [az = min] buland-kayr], (b) pah vasidan 4n rah {] niydyishn ¢ Shuma ra, [kti, ta kih an anja rasam, man [] niyayish* 4n Shuma tuwan bad kardan, (c) Hormuzd u Ashavahisht, ghalib[] baz [] [6é = é*(?)] [Bahman], (d) giriftar bavam [an 7 = dn 7] ma-ra az Shuma hast yari, [kfm an (6 = o] yari ¢ az Shuma 4n khwésh tuw4n* bad kardan] » *or °ind.

Free irl. Yea, I would circle You with hymns in metre,

With lifted hands and verses loudly chanted,

With Holiness, O Lord, and helper’s* praises,

And with the Good Mind’s virtue* would I come! per Sanctitate[-tem] viri-principis-adjutoris (vel ‘oblationis’)-que cum-adoratione, (d) tum vos [circum-ibo in] Bonae Mentis virtute, ((vel fortasse in B. M. perspicientia (?)]).

Pahl. text translit. Levatman pai Lekfim frdz srayém pavan afztind, [amat avd zohar yehabtindd vazltinam Avestak ghal yemaleliinam]; (b) bara yamtinam avé Attharmazd pavan! Atistand*! dastiht, [minishnik?]. (c) Aétind avo® lekfim’, Ashavahisht63, radd hémanam pavané niyayishnih, (d) aétind avo lekim

336 L. 8, 9.

pavan zak i. Vohimand® hinar ribishnih®, {i° frarind htinarih rai? zim® aitd). 1SoDJ.; D. om. pavan, has atisténo hi-(?, or ‘an-’)-yadmanih. *so D.; DJ., M., manishnik. 3—D., P. after niyayishnih. *DJ., Mf.om. va. see P. °D.om.i, 7D., P. ins.; soDJ. §DJ. om.

Pahl. transl.