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

aih [dadyat aparath, Svamin!} sa * cighrataro ’sti [te [leg. tebhyo’]; apagaiahi bhavet; apajivitarn kuryat].

*1 J*, 2 mistaking khrushishn for arastishn. * C. 4 probably reading vésh.

Ner. transi. That one is an avoider of the Din, following evil courses [and Jet him do, or he may be doing (i. e. he may be capable of doing) something unrighteous|, he may be a deceiver (b); he may be a smiter, or a contender at all times, against, or concerning, the arrangements, or embellishments, of the service. (c) This written sign of the good Lord is accompanied with an approach of joy; and he gives it to* the smiter of that lame and impotent one, ¢f perchance this abode here [may become] superapere)syeada}oey | venue) bee youl st 2un}e)arderg 9. Text. byyarge-bayoce | wed-porngy wae ye | para dacger-ay¢eoaorydtre-(Md | B)yrwsurspyaag Be eos | wersig bao cele guy | ce) appre surraee.soyhang. pa Seryabynbacos)s

Trlit. Duzhvarendis vaésh6 rastt Toi narepis rijis
Aéshasa (dé)jid-areta peshotan[u }v6.
Kti ashava Ahur6 ye iS jyateus hemithyad,

vase-itdischa ? Ad, Mazda! Tava Khshathrem ya erezhejyéi dahi drigaové vahyé!

Verbatim transl. [Per] male-credentibus [malas religiones sequentes] vexatio |i. e. adflictor] reddit Tui [Tuos cultores] viros-[hoc est, prophetas|,-nutrientes [i. e. eis prophetis subyenientes] repudiatores (?) * (viji8) (vel razhis (?) —) (b) [per illud] desiderio[-ium] virtutem - vincenti [-ens *] corpus-expulsum**! - habentis [i. e. per consortem culpaep. 391 ior, or improved, thereby. (d) They are falling, (for thei reward] may be with deceit. He who [may render *?] that greater and superior thing midnight darkness and death, [that is, another and different thing, O Lord!| is swifter in reaching his punishment, [it may be an ‘apagaiahi’ to these; i. e. to such as he 7s; it may effect their decease].

**1 Possibly ‘may be produced’. **? or ‘may give out, or report, the darkness as superior’.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Az [an == dn] 4madan hend; [ki, bih [] [an = zak] in Din nah amad [Pahl. -tnd]]; [wa = va] dish-varzidér hémand (sic); kit, chiz 7 bad {bih = bana (sic)| [] [kunad = vdgind (?)] firébandah hast] * (b) Zadan hend pah tamam zaman [] khroshidar ast + hend awar * (c) [] [Ormuzd! = Anhéma!] [ | {ma = ar (?)] t jih [] rah-zan [pah = pavan] gurz [= gavartini] [] zakhm [ ]! Bi-dast + bi-pai + wa + ya‘ni + lang [wa = va] na-kir [deh = dabin] [wa = va] pah admadan dahishn, kih an [] [mandan wanth = mdnishn vinds| mad] * (d) Uftad (2) [= hifténd] dshan; az [], firéb bid; dshan (sic) 4n @ [] [‘ajaibtar (sic?) = shikuftum|] {rah = rds], [margi = margth(?)] i giran, meh [az baki] dishwari + néz + ma (?)] wa + tiz hast; [ktishan bi (?)-jan bashad] +

Free tr. Through unbelievers the foeman Thine upholders perverteth
Through the truth-slaying wish of the body estranged *.

han (sic) 4n @ [] [‘ajaibtar (sic?) = shikuftum|] {rah = rds], [margi = margth(?)] i giran, meh [az baki] dishwari + néz + ma (?)] wa + tiz hast; [ktishan bi (?)-jan bashad] +

Free tr. Through unbelievers the foeman Thine upholders perverteth
Through the truth-slaying wish of the body estranged *.
Where’s then the lord righteous, who smites these out of living,
from license too hurls*them ?

Mazda, Thine is that kingdom whence to poor and right, living
Thou givest, Lord! better!

ejus]. (c) Ubi est sanctus dominus qui eos [i. e. tales ex-] vitae [-ta] ictuejiciat [et ex] ad-libitum-itionis [-ne] (que) [i. e. ex licentia eorum]. (d) Sic, O Magni-donator! Tui [est] Regnum quo recte-viventi des [dabis] pauperi [rem] melius [-iorem].

*%1 Vel fortasse ‘corpus (supra) Pontem Judicis non feliciter transiens habentis’ (vide Pahl. tandptihar).

Pahl. text translit. ‘Ddshih hémnuninidar homand béshishn? arastar ; [aigh, dardé béshishn? ribik vadindnd], min valman? Lak Dastobar va rijisinénd (? vel ri(i)zisinénd, sic videtur P.; fortasse réjinénd) [afash rayinénd (vel réshinénd®)] (b); afshin bavihinasto*® yekavimtinéd6” zado Dastobarih bindakih; faighshan Dastobarih bindakih zadé yekaviméinéd], va tandpiharkand hdmand. (c) Kaddér aharibd khidai, min yalmanshan makhitiinéd, afshin haméstdrinéd; [aighshané min vinds lakhvar yakhse-s nunéd] afshin pavan kimak6 kininédé. (d) Valman* Atiharmazd hana i Lak’ khiddyih; [aighash shalitath® min Lak. Aité mtn ‘avé Lak khfdayih’®

| an ao Ap. 10 yemaleltinéd] mfin'® avd1! rastd zivishnd daregtsh va asand yehabinéd;

[aighash nadtikih padash vadtinyén].

See Pers. 1 DJ. has space. ? so P. % DJ. va ano or ayo. “4 P. va rizisinend (?) or varzasinénd (?) or razpasinénd (?), indecipherable. ° so P. © DJ. a superfluous stroke. 7 DJ. ins. va. ° DJ. ins. 7. ° DJ. spells dite, 7° so DJ; 9Sp. and P. mins 4 so DJ.; Sp. and P. valman.

Pahl. transl. The teachers of evil they are, and preparers * of the tormenting; [that 7s, they will cause progress in the torment of anguish] ~ they who are causing Thy Dastur to flee (?), or treating him as ‘rijis’ signifies, [that is, they are driving him on, or away, or wounding him (réshinénd)] (b); also the smiting * of the Dasturship’s completeness is desired by them, [that is, the Dasturship’s perfection is smitten by them], and they are unpardonably sinful. (c) Which is the righteous sovereign who is smiting these, and who is effectively opposing them, [that is, who keeps them back from sin], and also takes vengeance on them at will? (d) To that one, O Atharmazd! belongs this Thy sovereignty; [that is, his sovereignty is from Thee. Some say that the teat should be rendered ‘the sovereignty is for Thee’], and for righteous living it renders the poor man comfortable; [that is, they shall afford him happiness thereby]. ; Ner.’s sansk. text. Duhkritena svechchhaya santi Tava labdhena samarachanat; kila, pidaih labdhith pravartamanath kurute [leg. kurvate] ].

d be rendered ‘the sovereignty is for Thee’], and for righteous living it renders the poor man comfortable; [that is, they shall afford him happiness thereby]. ; Ner.’s sansk. text. Duhkritena svechchhaya santi Tava labdhena samarachanat; kila, pidaih labdhith pravartamanath kurute [leg. kurvate] ]. (b) Teshaih samihitara evarh? Aste yat nihantarah gurtnath sampirnanam. Tesham ‘tanavaragunaha’ dste. (c) Ke muktdtmandm, Svamin! yat nihantee a ? rep. 393 arah, te pratipaksha bhavanti? [Teshdth papati pacchad aste], yat teshar vatichha dveshasyo* “pari. (d) Yat, Mahajianin, Tvar Svamit, yah satyataya . [saralataya*] jivet durbalasya samadhanam dadyat, ye cubhar {tatra kurute]

See Rem besdwe,or d.*, Je syaminab= (no yah), so also in c.

Ner. transl. By their headstrong crime they are the evil-meaning purifiers (or ‘adjusters’) by means of, (or ‘by occasion of’) Thine acquisition, [that is, they make the acquisition of the advancers a torment through their evil teaching (?)|. (b) Their desired object is this, that they may* be* murderers of the perfect spiritual masters, and theirs is the ‘tandvaragunaha’. (c) Who, because they wre the smiters of the free-souled ones, O Lord, are thus Thine adversaries? [Theirs is the evil later on], because their desire is concerning (or ‘for’) hatred. (d) Because Thou, O Great Wise One, art Lord let him who lives (or ‘may live’) in truth [and in right] grant welfare to the feeble, for thereby {he (lit. who) does him] good [beyond].

Parsi-persian Ms. trit, Badi ikhtiyar-kunandah (so = adminiddr*)[ ] {hast = homiind* (?),

[] [azar = béshishn} [] [arastar* = ardstér (sic)], [kii, dard [ ] [azar = béshishn] rawakunad], kih i Ti Dastir ya‘ni + hukm [] [ikhtiyar-kunad (?) = va rezisinénd ? (sic vid.)}, [az-ash (sic) [] kharab-kunad =résh(?)énénd], (b) az-shan (= ajshdn (so)) khwahishn éstéd [] dasttri* [wa = va] bundagi; [kishin — [wa = va] bundagi zad éstéd], [] Margarzan hast % (c) Kudam ashé khuda, kih éshan zanad, az-shan (sic) skikastkunad, [ktish (pro kfishan) az wandh (sic) baz darad], az-shan (sic) pah kamah (kin-)

kunad % (d) U ¢ Ormuad (n. tr. for ana) [] ¢ [in (?)] = zak] khudai, [kt [] [shan = shan] padishahi az Ti % Hast kih ‘an Tf khudai’ gtiyad] az fi 7 rast zindagi darwish u Asani dehad, [kfish néki padash* (sic) kunand] * *! Often ‘Hormuzd’ throughout.

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A study of the
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Pahlavi translation for the first time edited with collation of manuscripts, and now prepared from all the known codices, also deciphered, and for the first time translated in its entirety into a Huropean language, with Neryosangh’s Sanskrit text edited with the collation of five MSS., and with a first translation, - also with the Persian text contained in Codex 12> of the Munich Collection edited in transliteration, together with a commentary, being the literary apparatus and argument to