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

pahlim li] Yazishnd madam. (b) Akfs Atharmazd, [mozd va+ padadahishné}]. Mtn yehevand hémand, va miinich yehevind?, (c) valmanshan yazam* pavan zak i nafshman shem?® [Ameshéspendan; afshan] madam yamtfinam avé aiyyarth.

*? DJ. om. 2 DJ. yehevind. 3 0 DJ. +4 DJ., D, om. * see P. throughout.

Pahl. transl. He whose [grace] is derived from Sanctity possesses the most excellent of things, [that is, from the Yazads that best thing ¢s mine] upon worshipping (or, ‘it is worship offered up’ (?)). (b) Well does Atharmazd

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Ner. transl. The greater, or more masterly*, man-who is wise concerning the end fulfils, or utters, his, or the, word with a perfect mind (b); and that one 7s an increaser of the Din of righteousness. [Bestow upon him there- Jore| the sovereignty of the highest mind. (c) Give us then, O Great Wise One, the Lord! [Thy reward so full of grace], for I desire that which is the highest (the good) sanctity [a religious nature]. Not ‘the greater teacher’.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit, An ¢ pur minishni mard 7@ afztmi kih danat (2?) pah sakhun [] kunishn [kunad = vdyénéd] (b) & Din ¢ Sawab afztini-kunandah pah an ¢ Bahman khudai [kunad = vdginéd] x (c) Ormuad [] [Ta = Kak] dehad (?) [muzd [wa = va] badal-dahishn] wa [] [kih = mun] t khwaham pah an 7 veh bandag(i)

Free tr. Him whose best gift from Asha is mine in the offering,
Well Ahura doth know him. Who have lived, and live ever,
By their names will I praise them, while I compass their altar!

understand [the recompense and the reward]. Those * who have ever been and who also stl exist (c) [the Ameshdspends] I worship by their own proper names, and I also approach them for friendship.

* Or ‘He knows them who’ etc.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Yo me punyasaricleshat! utkrishtatararm [bhuvanan dehi] aradhand [-anarn] upari. (b) Vetta Tvarh [Tvar], Mahajnanin', Svimin! yecha abhivan?2, yecha santi [sarveshaii Tvath jiata] (c); tan aradhaye nijair? ndmabhih [apardn AmicAspintan 3); upari prapnomi sthdyyamattaii? *, + ¢, 2 all abhfvan. * J*+* sthayyamattamam.

Ner. transl. [Grant Thou] the more excellent [world (i. e. heaven)], the worship which is celebrated above, Thou who dost offer it tome from my union with righteousness (?) *1 (or grant that which zs [yat] to me the more excellent world etc.). (b) For Thou knowest *, O Lord! both those who have been, and those also who still exist, [of all Thou art cognizant *]. (c) The [other Amigéspintas| a/so I propitiate by their own names. To friendship with them I am approaching (lit. coming on, or up).

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. U kih az Sawab [madad + baki] buland; [kfi, az izadan an buland [man] yazishn awar] x (b) Agah Ormuzd {muzd wa badalah-dahishn] * kih badah hend (?) wa kih ham hend (c) éshan yezbahaminam pah an i khwésh naémah [az = min] Amshisfendin azshén (sic)] awar rasam an yari *

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Nem6é yvé Gathao ashaonis'!
Trlit. Vahista istis sravt Zarathustrahé
Spitamahya yézi hoi dad ayapta
Ashad hacha Aburé Mazdao yavéi vispai 4,
hvanhvim (huanhuviyem),
Yaécha hdi daben saskacha Daénayéio vanhuydo
ukhdha skyaothanacha.

Verbatim transl. Optima optatio audita-est Zarathustrae (b) Spitdmae si [vel ut] ei det proposita-feliciter-attacta (c) Sanctitate-ex Dominus, Magni-donator, [et in-|durationi[-nem] omni [-nem] (ad) beatam-vitam [haec fuit optatio ejus] (d), [et etiam ei det Ahura eos] qui(que) ei [eum] fallebant *! [nunc mutata mente, ut] discipulos(que) ** Religionis bonae in-dicto facto-que. 1 Vel, leg. daden, dent. ** 2 Vel discant, sasken. (?).

Pahl. text translit. Niyayishnd avd Lekim Gasénd ¢ aharfbd+! Pablim khvahishno 2+ sribé i Zartfisht [aigh, min zak i avé bavihtind mindavam ? denman‘ pahltim Avestak® Zand]. (b) Spitaéman6 +1 zim(?)* valman” yehabinad avadih [aigham Vishtaspd Magdpatand® Magdpatih® yehabtinad®]. (c) Min Aharayith avakih Atharmazd am? hamai vad avo! vispé hd-ahfiindd; [aigham vad tanfi i pasind’ hamai tag4t-libbemmanih yehabinad]. (d) Mtn zak {12 vyalmanich! friftar [Aharmék] amikhtishné (sic) 1 Dind i shapir pavan milaya ktinishnd 2.

DJ. ins. t., 7? Sp. -th “DJ Pand PA sPaome o> seek, ans) Dd aseemaezim: 7 DJ. valman; so P.; Sp. avo. * so DJ. and P. ® DJ. seems ‘m’, 1° DJ. ghal. ™ so DJ.; Sp. tang. P. impf. ” DJ. om. 1% see P. addition.

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LUI. 1.
The Anthem ‘the best wish’.

Praise to you, O sacred Gathas!

Free tr. His best wish has been heard, the prayer of Zartushtar;

That Ahura might grant him, from Righteousness moved

The attainments of effort, and life which is blessing, to him the great Spitima,

Grant him them who deceived him, as the Good Faith’s true learners in word and in action!

Pahl. transl. Praise to you, O sacred Gathis! (a) The best wish was, or as, the word of Zartisht*; [that is, of that which they ask for this thing is the best, the Avesta and Zand]. (b) That possession of the Spitaman, even his, may he, or one, grant which [is also for me], that prosperity; [that is, may Vishtasp grant me the mobadship of the Mobads*+], (c) By the help of righteousness may Atharmazd cause me to live aright, or prosperously, for ever unto all duration; |that is, may he ever give me stoutness-of-heart until the final body}.

rant which [is also for me], that prosperity; [that is, may Vishtasp grant me the mobadship of the Mobads*+], (c) By the help of righteousness may Atharmazd cause me to live aright, or prosperously, for ever unto all duration; |that is, may he ever give me stoutness-of-heart until the final body}. Even he who 7s*? that deceiver [Aharmdk] is to be instructed 7m the word and deed of the good Religion. * So according to the gloss. *** This gloss is probably from a later hand, as it seems to mistake avadih for azadih (= nobility, possibly dignity) written with the same characters. Avadih, = ayapta, could not directly represent ‘authority’. Ner. gives a second and alternative translation of avadih by adyatam, and renders it thus also elsewhere as his first suggestion. ** in ordinary Pahlavi ‘whose is the teaching’; but see the Gathic.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Namo yushmabhyam, he Gathah punyitmanyah! (a) Atah param bhuvanaii samihe, vachanarh Jarathustrasya [kila, yat idar varichhaye kithchit etat atah1 parath bhuvanari Avistdjandaricha]. (b) Spitamanasya evar idarh [leg. imarh] dehi sampattith, Adyataim?, [kila, Vastaspasya* grihapateh grihapatitvam dehi]. (c) Yat punyaii? saripattin, Svamin, Mahajiianin! sarvati dehi [sarvaii‘] ydvat dhanyati sarveshar gotrinarm dehi [kila, yavat tanoh akshayatvam etesham apardndm dehi]. (d) Tat yat asau vipratarayati® Aharmanah® cishydpayati, Dineh uttamdyah vachanazi kuru karmana.

1p. * J4 C. aghatam (?) P. aghatam (?), * J* has-ya. * C. ° P.

Ner. transl. Praise to you, O sacred Gathas! I desire the world which is beyond and the word of Jarathustra which leads to it, {that is, this which I desire is this something which 7s hence, the world which is beyond, and the Avista and Jand]. (b) And therefore do Thou grant me this good

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fortune, which is the priority, or (possibly) the affluence (?) of the Spitaman; [that is, grant me the chieftainship of Vastaspa, the chieftain]. (c) And grant, O Great Wise One, and Lord! that which is righteousness as prosperity, and all else*1; grant all, as much as is the rice of all the fields; [that is, as long as until * the indestructibility. of the body grant that blessing (or the indestructibility (?)) of these other things]. (d) That in which that Aharmana deceives, and which he teaches, make Thou through action *2 the word of the highest Din! %+ or ‘all that is righteousness’ **? possibly ‘through Thine action’; but see the Zend and Pahl.

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Trlit. Ad(cha) hoi schafiti Mananha ukhdhais gkyaothanaischa

Khshnim Mazdai vahmai 4 fraored yasnascha
Kavacha, Vistaspé Zarathustris Spitamd,
Frashaostrascha,

Daonhé erezis pathd yam Daénim Ahurd

Saos(k)yafito, dadad.

Verbatim transl.