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

skest) as thy wisdom |as thy din dy means of the wise answers]. Through a perfect mind do thou bestow good intelligence as thy gift!

*1 Possibly Ner’s. expression for ‘iti’. *** hardly ‘she produced’. *** or it may be that Ner. understgod Ahura as the ‘Lord’ here addressed.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. An ham fi @ tf, Ptrfchist! kih Héchad Aspah [tukhm = tokhm) (b) «4 Spitiman hasti [] [kat (sic) = ménat] péda-kardan dukhtar [] [kih = min] 4 Zartusht hasti # (c) Pah an i Bahman pah [] [kaim-mind! = astishni] [nék {] [azash = —] anat [] ] % Pah Sawab danai anash hast ash an tfi dahishn sardari (d); azash aédtm 4n [] [ham = ich] hampursid 7 pah in 7 tf khirad [pah din 7 ti];

% 1 azash (sic) pah afzitni pur minishni an i nék-danaiha [din [] khwahish-kunad] %* *ménad(?)

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378 LI. 4.

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Gu1.919 9) 9—L9
Trlit. Tem zi (ve) speredani varani ya fedhré vidéd
Paithyaécha vastryaéiby6 adcha vaétaové,
Ashauné ashavaby6 Mananh6o Vanhéus tvénvad
hanhus; me bed us.
Mazdao dadad Ahuro Daénayai vanhuyai

yavoi vispai a.

Verbatim transl. Hunc enim vestrum *1 aemuler eligamque [id est, amabo]; quo [id est, quum vel quoniam] patris [id est, a patre donante] me obtineat [ille vester princeps]. (b) Domino(que), agricolis sic-etiam cognato-domino (c), probo [et] probis [omnibus] Bonae Mentis [sit] nitens beatitudo; mihi [sit] vere [vel, leg. bavad, sit] mentis-lux! (d) [Et eam] Magni-donator det Dominus (vivus) pro Religioni- [-ione] bonae [-na in] durationi [-nem] omni {-nem] (ad)! #1 vos?

Pahl. text translit. Mamman valman? zak i lekim hii-sptirik déshishnd [?Dind]; afash avd? abidarth* bara yehabiinishnd [tani pavan néshmanih, zak ° Portichist6| (b); afash valmanich aé® abi rai vastryéshanb7 [va® kar i kadak-khiidai rai]; va aétinéch avd nafshmanand® fash tant pavan nafshmanih?° * bara yehabinishnd], (c) aharfibé [Porichist6] avd valman i aharibd [Jamaspd 1], pavan zak i8 Vohtimand khvéshih 12, [frarfénd khvéshth rai, zish1t aito]. Sirth [bindakih13 {14 khfrishnd va vastarg15 mozd padadahishnd| va masinidér’¢ hfishih; [va dandkih17 hish]. (d) Atharmazd dahishné1* pavan Dind i shapir hama{1® vad av62° vispd [zak2t yekaviminadd‘ pavan Dind i241 shapir raf].

• * DJ. avo; Sp. and P. valman. ? DJ. ins. i; P. ins. va. *® P. ins. madam. * DJ. -ih Sp. and P. -dar. ® P. ins. ham. ® so P. reads; Sp. avoch 7 abti; DJ. avoch abti; see P. 7 DJ. and P. -dsh; Sp. and Gathé -And. *® DJ. ins. °® so DJ.; Sp. and P. khwéshan.
• * P. napashmani. 1 P. ins. dabfin. see P. 1% DJ. and P. bimdak; Sp. -th, “DJ. om. i. © P, ins. ya. 18 P. om, 7 PR. -<ak. 2° P and DJ, -no, Sp; -uih, «72 Oge -ik, 9° P, zak, ™ DJ. ins. f.

Tea hee ee ee 1 Se

Lill. 4 379

Free tr. I will love and vie with him when from father he gains me.

shan. * P. napashmani. 1 P. ins. dabfin. see P. 1% DJ. and P. bimdak; Sp. -th, “DJ. om. i. © P, ins. ya. 18 P. om, 7 PR. -<ak. 2° P and DJ, -no, Sp; -uih, «72 Oge -ik, 9° P, zak, ™ DJ. ins. f.

Tea hee ee ee 1 Se

Lill. 4 379

Free tr. I will love and vie with him when from father he gains me.
For the master and tiller, and more for lord-owner,

For the pure and the pure ones be the Good Mind’s bright blessing, and mine be the insight ;

May Ahura bestow it for the good Faith’s advancing, for time everlasting!

Pahl. trans}. For his, or that, ¢s your well subjected (2) affection [your Religion], and to him [a body] is to be given up for fatherhood (or to the father ((abidar); so Sp. and Pers.) [in wifehood [that is, that Pordchist isto be thus given]. (b) Also by her* this is to be done for him on account of, or for, this father *?, and the husbandmen [and on account of the duties due* to the householder which she undertakes]; and so also to her own relations [her body is to be given up in possession or relationship (or possibly by her relationship)] (c), the righteous [Porichist] to the righteous [Jamasp] and this is to be according to Vohtiman’s ownership [according to that pious ownership which is his *1]; and a repletion; [that 7s, a complete provision of food and clothing is to be hers *1 as the recompense and the reward], and the understanding of a magnifier, or glorifier **, [the understanding of wisdom]. (d) It is the gift of Atiharmazd in the good Religion for ever unto all duration [and may she abide in the Religion, for it (lit. which) is the property of the good].

*** One would say more naturally ‘by him’; it is impossible to determine the gender here with certainty. **? alternative translation, or gloss, by the Pahlavi writer, freely for paithyaécha (?). ** mistaking mé béed for moibad (?; hardly).

Ner.’s sansk. text. Yat tvarh cobhanath pariptirnaim danari dehi [yat Dineh*] anena pitra daitim * datta [-taimh| [tanuin striyah* sarnpraptarh [-tarh]}] (b); yat karyar kartérah kutumbinah karyat grihe svamina? evar sviyanam [yat tanuth palayati, dati muktdtmandm, prapnotu asau muktatma Jamaspah*] (c), yat uttamamana sviyai [suvyéparai sviyagotrinar 2 upari aste, tasya] susvadu! [sampfirnakhadyaih vastrarichat prasddarh prasadapiritam| gurukaéryarh chaitanyarh [jiidnatvarh sukhena dehi], (d) Mahajnanin! dehi, Svamin! Dini uttamarn sarvarh yavat [kila, eteshdr sarveshath apareshdiuh Dineh uttamaya+ upari sthitir vidyate].

Soa des (7 J '* poth Jamaspa: .* JA.

Ner. transl. Give thy brilliant, or good, and complete gift, [which 7s that given throuyh that gift of the Din] a gift given through this father [viz, a body obtained fort * a wife (or possibly, begotten from his wife)]. (b) And do thou discharge that duty which the active ones *, the house-

380 LI. 4,5.

holders, perform inthe house, they who are thus the lords of their own.

throuyh that gift of the Din] a gift given through this father [viz, a body obtained fort * a wife (or possibly, begotten from his wife)]. (b) And do thou discharge that duty which the active ones *, the house-

380 LI. 4,5.

holders, perform inthe house, they who are thus the lords of their own. [Let that pious Jamaspa come, for he protects that body, or person, the pious ones’ gift] (c); and do thou, endowed with the Highest, or Good, Mind, perform likewise for him* that which is one’s own good work for one’s own fields. Afford {him *| good nourishment. [Grant [him*] complete food and clothing, and that reward which is full of grace] [and give him *] the spiritual-mastership as exercised for, or over, thee, and intelligence [which is true learning through its goodness, or joy] (d); and grant, O Great Wise One! the Din, the highest, [i. e. the best] as much as *2 unto all [that is, the webu)e -basysaung | bosjawpesa6al. -w}eeouuas 5. Text “696 Dy tee oi ¢ | yg npn pee | pO Gaer seem af | Hy syr}uoag 699 bapouls = U34}496. so¢uneb | ogy =) Bay -pesunpraly cep. basa. fara

SoU U3 GE EEO?eY
Trlit. Saveni vazyamnaby6 kainibyé mraomi
Khshmaibyacha vaédemn6; méiicha (i) mazdazdim.
Vaédddim Daénabis abyasta* ahim ye
Vanheus Mananho.
Asha ve any ainim vivenhatti; tad zt hoi
hushénem anhad. ”

Verbatim transl. Monitiones (?) [in matrimonium] ducendis; [i. e. nuptum-ituris] virginibus dico (b) vobis [ego-] sapiens. [Ad] me (mâam*) que (ad) ea [de * eis] animos-advertite [vel animum*? (? aegre) ad ea advertite (?)]. (c) Scite [i. e. discite per] praeceptis-religiosis [-praecepta religiosa]; nitemini ad? [eam] vitam qui [quae] Bonae Mentis [vita est]. (d) Sanctitateque vestrum [duorum] alter alteri faveto * [id est, maritus et uxor sibi invicem favento, alter erga alterum fidelis maneto] hoc enim ei [id est, cuicui vestrum] amoenitas (?) [id est, felicitas in vita conjugali] sit!

** leo. méiiché i dazdim 2 Vel abyascha = hisque; vel etiam devotae. ;

Pahl. text translit. Zak i! sakhundnd? vazishné? pavan kanikand+4 gobishnd ; {aigh Dino ribakih® pavan Hitésh]. (b) Zakich i1 lektim akasih zitan® dén demand” [danakih, zitané® dén taniit ach * (sic) pavan ras] i?

Nae * ; oe :

p. 381

p. 7

Din’s place is, or is known, as* highest above all these others], | %* + not ‘of a woman’; see the Pahl. *** Usually yavat means ‘as long as until’ with Ner.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Chih t an @ Shuma nék-minishn du(6)shéd + khwéhishkunad, [wa = va] Din; azash (?) an [awar = madam] pidar bih dahishn; [tan pah [] [khwéshi = napashmani] an [ham = ich] «i Pirtchist] % (b) Azash (?) ft ham [ ] {in = aé] ra [] [vastryésh = -dsh] kar ¢ [ki = dgh] kadah-khudai ra; wa aédin ham fn khwéshan (?) [ash tan pah [] [khwéshi (?) = napashmani| bib dadan (?) ashd Piriichist fn ft ¢ ashO Jamasp [deh = ddbin] %* (c) Pah fn ¢ Bahman khwésh{? = — 7}, [nék khwéshi ra] an ash hast siri pur [khirishn wa wastar, [wa = va] muzd padah (?)-dahishn {] htish wa dana