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1om. from khaditum to ’smi inclus, * C. evaditume 6 Soldia, Jes, Ja, butC.. Py badhy®. 4J.°, J.4, J.* “kam, C. “karma. * so J.%, but C. yena, P. yina. (Trivial variations and obvious corrections are not always mentioned. Kopaluh is for kupayuh accidentally (?) altered on account of irshyaluh). Ner. transl Among You the Soul of the herds complained, [O good Lords], for whom am I not (sic) patterned, [to eat (?) and to keep]? For whom am I formed*? [that is, to whom am I given over]? (b) He is angry with me, [who destroys me with anger], and a murderer he is, |who seizes me with violence], the envious one [who slays without limit. The words ‘he tor- ments’ are everywhere (see ‘without limit (?)’) to be understood] and he is a cleaver and a thief [who commits life-smiting upon me, and robs me}. (¢) There is no other protector for me save You, so that one prepares* for me the best cattle-culture (not ‘sacrifice’), [I know not also from whom good so comes as it does from You]. (Many Sansk. words throughout express unusual meanings). Parsi-persian Ms. An Shuma, Amshasfendin, Goshtrtn bang-kard, {héd (sic) kih édim gfiyad é@: khudai [] guft an Hormuzd pésh (Pahl. rfin) kt}: 4n kih man péda- kard hastam, [pah khtirdan u dashtan] [] [wa 6= va dn] kih man tashid-hastam, [kQ, an kih dad hastam]? (b) An man 4n ¢ hishm (sic), [[u = va] kih man pah hishm (sic) zanad], zulm, {kfm bih 4zar-dehad], ¢zakhm, [kfi, [|] bi-andazah kushéd (so) ma-ra kinah- kunad pah tamam], baz — ham; [ktm [] [zit = zakat (sic)] bih —] —, {ki — bih diizdad] * (c) Nah man parwarish-kunandah (Pahl. vastiridar (sic)) digar az Shuma, [ka ['m = — (?)] kasi nah danam, kih am néki édfin azash chtin az Shuma}, édin [ ] ra sizad (?) an ¢ veh kah * (w = English v throughout.) a 22 KKB es .84ypqp2s )oa-br»a0 go goss Fang. cgpaeys | eee kena go anges ang es Rosaugbaggas) p2aul.sgsey | beegussapindy.sueay. cour pwser Lepdrsase Spebrwaule coco ws-rysjesrress.eno | cerepananeeagsrisber.cgy Trlit. Ada tasha Geus peresad(t) Ashem: katha t6i Gavdéi ratus Hyad(t) him data, khshayafité, hada vastra, gaodayé, thwakhsh6? Kem hoi usta. ahurem ye dregvod(e)bis aésh(e)mem vadaydid(t) ? Verb. trl. Deinde creator Bovis interrogavit, Sanctitatem: quomodo [vel nonne] tibi Bovi magister [{fuit], (b) quum eam creabatis dominantes [vel potentes]? simul-cum pabulo [quomodo tibi magister fuit] in-re-pecuaria- aptus efficax [que]? (c) Quem illi [Bovi] volebatis, i. e. statuebatis dominum, qui a-sceleratis [emissam] saevitiam repercutiat ? Pahl. text tr. Aétiind zak i géspend! tashidar [Atharmazd], ptrsid aigh: Ashavahishté mtn lak géspend radé, |aighat? denman dadistand? chigin, aighat? rad6 i gdspendan min], (b) ‘min denman® dado® pAdakh- shah? [vashtamintand$ va? daéshtand], minash ait yehabinéd vastar1, zakich géspendan dahishnd® tikhshak, [aighash vastar yehabtnéd, afash pastshatrin I min zak pédakinéd, mtin géspend bara afzdyinéd]? (c) Min avo1! pavan nadtkih -khadai!?, [amatash fravarishn® 14
2min], (b) ‘min denman® dado® pAdakh- shah? [vashtamintand$ va? daéshtand], minash ait yehabinéd vastar1, zakich géspendan dahishnd® tikhshak, [aighash vastar yehabtnéd, afash pastshatrin I min zak pédakinéd, mtin géspend bara afzdyinéd]? (c) Min avo1! pavan nadtkih -khadai!?, [amatash fravarishn® 14 vadinyén ach padakhshah* vashtamtintané], min avo14 darvand: khéshmo* andér zanishno!3: |yehabinéd denman pasukhv6, aighash sttibd vadinyén|? * Or Aéshmd. *D. om. i. 2D. om, at. 3DJ. dina. £D. ins. va. ®so DJ.D. &so M., but D. yeha- binéd; DJ. *biind. 7so D., but DJ. *hih; M. shalitaih. * DJ, D. miindd. ° DJ., om. va. DJ, D, ins. va. ** D. valman. 1? DJ., D. ins. i. 1° D. paddkh*; DJ. padakhshahih; M. shalita. * Mf. valmani. ** Mf, D. vino. (3? D. later received; I correct Comm. p. 413.) Pahl. tr. So the herd’s Creator asked thus: Ashavahisht, by what means (or who (?)) was there a master of the herd for thee, [that is, what is this thy opinion, by what means (or who) was there a herds’ chieftain -pwrras) aeesargo Ba 2o WO9)rSs | wy). p2 2} asa san gap ae L wieonuog eo (su yomansuya Mo |orrseb-pob}.cge ey yours Suynrg )eg-mcryrcogprsS-swerrayay | Reoagsey barbrercye ewer RIX. 2, 3. 23 How had’st thou for kine a chieftain? thus the Cow’s maker asked of Asha; When, ruling ones, ye made her, with the field, kine-breeding, zealous? Whom gave ye her life’s master, wrath from the wicked ones smiting? for thee], (b) when (or whom °) ye (or he) did as ruling* create (or appoint) this one (the herd (?)) [to feed and to keep] by whom (or whose) it is that one gives (or ye give) them pasture, and also that one is diligent as to the giving, or producing of the herds, [that is, one gives, (or ye give) it pasture, and also one makes (or ye make) a cattle-guardian manifest from that who will increase the herd]. (c) Whom did ye appoint as a ruler with a benefit [a ruler to feed it when they would provide no nourishment for it, and who gives this answer] to the wicked: ‘The fury [of the Non-iranian is] to be smitten’, [that is, ‘they shall (or do thou) render him stupefied *}. ~ Ner.’s sansk. text. Evan! ghatayita gopacinari2 Hormijda aprichchhat? Dharmai: kas te gopactinam guruh, (b) yas tebhyo data svimi saha gocha- rena*5 gosrishtivyavaséyinath, [kila, gocharati® dadati tebhyah pacupata- raiicha dadati, yo pagan pravardhayati|? (c) Kas teshaih cubhasya svami, yo durgatimatam dmarshasya* talanar (sic) datte, [kila, yo durgatimatazh anyayath nihanti? Sa eva rajidm raja teshari, gubhari khadituih svami]. * J.* ins. go. 2 J. om. go. 3 J.* abravit. * J.4 (?), C., P. gov? (2). ©® P. goch?. 'Ner. tr.
3ati, yo pagan pravardhayati|? (c) Kas teshaih cubhasya svami, yo durgatimatam dmarshasya* talanar (sic) datte, [kila, yo durgatimatazh anyayath nihanti? Sa eva rajidm raja teshari, gubhari khadituih svami]. * J.* ins. go. 2 J. om. go. 3 J.* abravit. * J.4 (?), C., P. gov? (2). ©® P. goch?. 'Ner. tr. So Hormijda, the herds’ former, asked of Sanctity: ‘Who is thy herd-master, (b) who is thy lord giving them, together with pasture*, a clever cattle-breeder ?, [that is, who gives them pasture, and a herdsman who increases the herds]? (c) Who és the lord for* their benefit, who delivers a blow! upon the rage* of the wicked, [that is, who smites their disorder ? He is thus a king of these kings, a lord to devour their good)’. 1Cp. Y.1,19; 9,68. Parsi-persian Ms. Edin An 7 gosfend tashidar [Hérmuzd] pursid ka: Ardibahisht kih tii gésfend rad, [kit in hukm chin [] rad ¢ gésfend kih], (b) [wa va] kih An dehad laik* [khfirdan u dashtan] kiyash hast i dehad kah, wa An ham gdsfendin dadan ku- shishn, [kt, [] kah dehad, azash pasash(h)tiran (sic) az an zahir, kih gosfend bih afzayad] ? (c) kih tt (?) pah néki khuda [kiyash parwarishn nab kunand ham, laik* khurdan(?)], kih 6 dar- wand: kheshm ¢ anér khirishn (? sic vid.), dehad in (?) jawab, [kfish — (?) kunand] (?). *layik. Free tr. Asha to him made answer: ‘No chief driving grief can be offered. Of these things that is hidden how the lofty move their plans. Of beings He is mightiest whom I near with earnest calls’. Verb. irl. Huic Sanctitate [vel °tas, lege Ashem]: Non est magister expers-vexationum [i.e. vexationes procul prohibens] Bovi [pro Bove], respon- dit. (b) Ex illarum-rerum non ad-sciendum [est illa res] qua accedat |-dant] ad (vel promoveat [-veant]) fines-propositas-suas spiritus-elati*+. (c) (Fortasse Bos(?) loquitur). Exsistentium ille potentissimus cui [i. e. ad quem] invocationes [dirigens] adeam* 2 [adibo] dirigens-strenuitate. ** vel ab illis non ad scien- 24 XXIX. 3. 4. Trlit. Ahmai Asha ndid(t) sar(e)ja advaéshé Gavéi paiti-mravad(t) Avaésham ndid(t) viduyé [=°dvé] ya Shavaité Adreng ereshvaonho ; Hatam H{ulvo aojisto yahmai zaveng jima keredusha. dum [est ea res] qua promoveat ignes sublimes. *? vel ad officia-oblationis ad- euntes [sunt] celebrantes. (Yahmai dat. of goal; cp. dat. with 4; otherwise for gen.). Pahl. Valman miin zak i! gospendand tano sardarih 1a pavan abéshidarih [ma- manash pavan béshidarih] Ashavahisht® pasukhv6 gtft, [aighash? padafras vadt- naid3]. (b) Valmanshan 14 Akas homand zak i* ashtih va> réshané i+ rasto, [valmanshan darvand padafras, i® pavan raband, maman chand vadtinand, la khavitinand’| (c) Min aitané® zak adj-homandtar, [aigh, a0j° i zak* i* valman pavan kartar], man avo1° zak pavan karitinishnd yamtinéd avé kardarih, faigh, amatash karittind aigh: kar va kirfaké vadin, vadtnyén]. 1 DJ., D. ins. i. 2D. om. ash. 8 M. vadinyén. * D. om. ® DJ., D. om. va, ins. i. 6 DJ. om. 7. 7 DJ. nd. * so DJs, others aitoand. ° D. ayo, or ano. 1° DJ.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1om. from khaditum to ’smi inclus, * C. evaditume 6 Soldia, Jes, Ja, butC.. Py badhy®. 4J.°, J.4, J.* “kam, C. “karma. * so J.%, but C. yena, P. yina. (Trivial variations and obvious corrections are not always mentioned. Kopaluh is for kupayuh accidentally (?) altered on account of irshyaluh). Ner. transl Among You the Soul of the herds complained, [O good Lords], for whom am I not (sic) patterned, [to eat (?) and to keep]? For whom am I formed*? [that is, to whom am I given over]? (b) He is angry with me, [who destroys me with anger], and a murderer he is, |who seizes me with violence], the envious one [who slays without limit. The words ‘he tor- ments’ are everywhere (see ‘without limit (?)’) to be understood] and he is a cleaver and a thief [who commits life-smiting upon me, and robs me}. (¢) There is no other protector for me save You, so that one prepares* for me the best cattle-culture (not ‘sacrifice’), [I know not also from whom good so comes as it does from You]. (Many Sansk. words throughout express unusual meanings). Parsi-persian Ms. An Shuma, Amshasfendin, Goshtrtn bang-kard, {héd (sic) kih édim gfiyad é@: khudai [] guft an Hormuzd pésh (Pahl. rfin) kt}: 4n kih man péda- kard hastam, [pah khtirdan u dashtan] [] [wa 6= va dn] kih man tashid-hastam, [kQ, an kih dad hastam]? (b) An man 4n ¢ hishm (sic), [[u = va] kih man pah hishm (sic) zanad], zulm, {kfm bih 4zar-dehad], ¢zakhm, [kfi, [|] bi-andazah kushéd (so) ma-ra kinah- kunad pah tamam], baz — ham; [ktm [] [zit = zakat (sic)] bih —] —, {ki — bih diizdad] * (c) Nah man parwarish-kunandah (Pahl. vastiridar (sic)) digar az Shuma, [ka ['m = — (?)] kasi nah danam, kih am néki édfin azash chtin az Shuma}, édin [ ] ra sizad (?) an ¢ veh kah * (w = English v throughout.) a 22 KKB es .84ypqp2s )oa-br»a0 go goss Fang. cgpaeys | eee kena go anges ang es Rosaugbaggas) p2aul.sgsey | beegussapindy.sueay. cour pwser Lepdrsase Spebrwaule coco ws-rysjesrress.eno | cerepananeeagsrisber.cgy Trlit. Ada tasha Geus peresad(t) Ashem: katha t6i Gavdéi ratus Hyad(t) him data, khshayafité, hada vastra, gaodayé, thwakhsh6? Kem hoi usta. ahurem ye dregvod(e)bis aésh(e)mem vadaydid(t) ? Verb. trl. Deinde creator Bovis interrogavit, Sanctitatem: quomodo [vel nonne] tibi Bovi magister [{fuit], (b) quum eam creabatis dominantes [vel potentes]? simul-cum pabulo [quomodo tibi magister fuit] in-re-pecuaria- aptus efficax [que]? (c) Quem illi [Bovi] volebatis, i. e. statuebatis dominum, qui a-sceleratis [emissam] saevitiam repercutiat ? Pahl. text tr. Aétiind zak i géspend! tashidar [Atharmazd], ptrsid aigh: Ashavahishté mtn lak géspend radé, |aighat? denman dadistand? chigin, aighat? rad6 i gdspendan min], (b) ‘min denman® dado® pAdakh- shah? [vashtamintand$ va? daéshtand], minash ait yehabinéd vastar1, zakich géspendan dahishnd® tikhshak, [aighash vastar yehabtnéd, afash pastshatrin I min zak pédakinéd, mtin géspend bara afzdyinéd]? (c) Min avo1! pavan nadtkih -khadai!?, [amatash fravarishn® 14
2min], (b) ‘min denman® dado® pAdakh- shah? [vashtamintand$ va? daéshtand], minash ait yehabinéd vastar1, zakich géspendan dahishnd® tikhshak, [aighash vastar yehabtnéd, afash pastshatrin I min zak pédakinéd, mtin géspend bara afzdyinéd]? (c) Min avo1! pavan nadtkih -khadai!?, [amatash fravarishn® 14 vadinyén ach padakhshah* vashtamtintané], min avo14 darvand: khéshmo* andér zanishno!3: |yehabinéd denman pasukhv6, aighash sttibd vadinyén|? * Or Aéshmd. *D. om. i. 2D. om, at. 3DJ. dina. £D. ins. va. ®so DJ.D. &so M., but D. yeha- binéd; DJ. *biind. 7so D., but DJ. *hih; M. shalitaih. * DJ, D. miindd. ° DJ., om. va. DJ, D, ins. va. ** D. valman. 1? DJ., D. ins. i. 1° D. paddkh*; DJ. padakhshahih; M. shalita. * Mf. valmani. ** Mf, D. vino. (3? D. later received; I correct Comm. p. 413.) Pahl. tr. So the herd’s Creator asked thus: Ashavahisht, by what means (or who (?)) was there a master of the herd for thee, [that is, what is this thy opinion, by what means (or who) was there a herds’ chieftain -pwrras) aeesargo Ba 2o WO9)rSs | wy). p2 2} asa san gap ae L wieonuog eo (su yomansuya Mo |orrseb-pob}.cge ey yours Suynrg )eg-mcryrcogprsS-swerrayay | Reoagsey barbrercye ewer RIX. 2, 3. 23 How had’st thou for kine a chieftain? thus the Cow’s maker asked of Asha; When, ruling ones, ye made her, with the field, kine-breeding, zealous? Whom gave ye her life’s master, wrath from the wicked ones smiting? for thee], (b) when (or whom °) ye (or he) did as ruling* create (or appoint) this one (the herd (?)) [to feed and to keep] by whom (or whose) it is that one gives (or ye give) them pasture, and also that one is diligent as to the giving, or producing of the herds, [that is, one gives, (or ye give) it pasture, and also one makes (or ye make) a cattle-guardian manifest from that who will increase the herd]. (c) Whom did ye appoint as a ruler with a benefit [a ruler to feed it when they would provide no nourishment for it, and who gives this answer] to the wicked: ‘The fury [of the Non-iranian is] to be smitten’, [that is, ‘they shall (or do thou) render him stupefied *}. ~ Ner.’s sansk. text. Evan! ghatayita gopacinari2 Hormijda aprichchhat? Dharmai: kas te gopactinam guruh, (b) yas tebhyo data svimi saha gocha- rena*5 gosrishtivyavaséyinath, [kila, gocharati® dadati tebhyah pacupata- raiicha dadati, yo pagan pravardhayati|? (c) Kas teshaih cubhasya svami, yo durgatimatam dmarshasya* talanar (sic) datte, [kila, yo durgatimatazh anyayath nihanti? Sa eva rajidm raja teshari, gubhari khadituih svami]. * J.* ins. go. 2 J. om. go. 3 J.* abravit. * J.4 (?), C., P. gov? (2). ©® P. goch?. 'Ner. tr.
3ati, yo pagan pravardhayati|? (c) Kas teshaih cubhasya svami, yo durgatimatam dmarshasya* talanar (sic) datte, [kila, yo durgatimatazh anyayath nihanti? Sa eva rajidm raja teshari, gubhari khadituih svami]. * J.* ins. go. 2 J. om. go. 3 J.* abravit. * J.4 (?), C., P. gov? (2). ©® P. goch?. 'Ner. tr. So Hormijda, the herds’ former, asked of Sanctity: ‘Who is thy herd-master, (b) who is thy lord giving them, together with pasture*, a clever cattle-breeder ?, [that is, who gives them pasture, and a herdsman who increases the herds]? (c) Who és the lord for* their benefit, who delivers a blow! upon the rage* of the wicked, [that is, who smites their disorder ? He is thus a king of these kings, a lord to devour their good)’. 1Cp. Y.1,19; 9,68. Parsi-persian Ms. Edin An 7 gosfend tashidar [Hérmuzd] pursid ka: Ardibahisht kih tii gésfend rad, [kit in hukm chin [] rad ¢ gésfend kih], (b) [wa va] kih An dehad laik* [khfirdan u dashtan] kiyash hast i dehad kah, wa An ham gdsfendin dadan ku- shishn, [kt, [] kah dehad, azash pasash(h)tiran (sic) az an zahir, kih gosfend bih afzayad] ? (c) kih tt (?) pah néki khuda [kiyash parwarishn nab kunand ham, laik* khurdan(?)], kih 6 dar- wand: kheshm ¢ anér khirishn (? sic vid.), dehad in (?) jawab, [kfish — (?) kunand] (?). *layik. Free tr. Asha to him made answer: ‘No chief driving grief can be offered. Of these things that is hidden how the lofty move their plans. Of beings He is mightiest whom I near with earnest calls’. Verb. irl. Huic Sanctitate [vel °tas, lege Ashem]: Non est magister expers-vexationum [i.e. vexationes procul prohibens] Bovi [pro Bove], respon- dit. (b) Ex illarum-rerum non ad-sciendum [est illa res] qua accedat |-dant] ad (vel promoveat [-veant]) fines-propositas-suas spiritus-elati*+. (c) (Fortasse Bos(?) loquitur). Exsistentium ille potentissimus cui [i. e. ad quem] invocationes [dirigens] adeam* 2 [adibo] dirigens-strenuitate. ** vel ab illis non ad scien- 24 XXIX. 3. 4. Trlit. Ahmai Asha ndid(t) sar(e)ja advaéshé Gavéi paiti-mravad(t) Avaésham ndid(t) viduyé [=°dvé] ya Shavaité Adreng ereshvaonho ; Hatam H{ulvo aojisto yahmai zaveng jima keredusha. dum [est ea res] qua promoveat ignes sublimes. *? vel ad officia-oblationis ad- euntes [sunt] celebrantes. (Yahmai dat. of goal; cp. dat. with 4; otherwise for gen.). Pahl. Valman miin zak i! gospendand tano sardarih 1a pavan abéshidarih [ma- manash pavan béshidarih] Ashavahisht® pasukhv6 gtft, [aighash? padafras vadt- naid3]. (b) Valmanshan 14 Akas homand zak i* ashtih va> réshané i+ rasto, [valmanshan darvand padafras, i® pavan raband, maman chand vadtinand, la khavitinand’| (c) Min aitané® zak adj-homandtar, [aigh, a0j° i zak* i* valman pavan kartar], man avo1° zak pavan karitinishnd yamtinéd avé kardarih, faigh, amatash karittind aigh: kar va kirfaké vadin, vadtnyén]. 1 DJ., D. ins. i. 2D. om. ash. 8 M. vadinyén. * D. om. ® DJ., D. om. va, ins. i. 6 DJ. om. 7. 7 DJ. nd. * so DJs, others aitoand. ° D. ayo, or ano. 1° DJ.
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