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1er, and I have there- fore a double reason to be satisfied with the apparently large pecuniary sacrifice that I made. T may now state, as directly bearing upon what follows, the reasons why a year, or more, must yet elapse before I re-issue that first volume in its completed condition. The new MSS. which have been acquired, and the extensive citation of variations in Geldner’s edition, would of themselves suggest the reprinting of many sheets of it, while the length of time which has transpired since the first pages were printed should render the presentation of the work in its antiquated condition a most improper proceeding. But the remodelling and printing of the Commentary, together ~~ with other professional labours, has occupied the close labour of the ~ last three and a half years. The reprinting of antiquated parts will now be proceeded with. : In the all-important matter of the acquisition of MSS. my gratitude is first owing to Destoor J amaspji Minocheherji Jamasp Asana, Ph.D. of Tuebingen, Hon. D.C.L. Oxon., for having sent me for my private use three valuable MSS. of the Yasna, and one of the Vendidad. The first of these is the now celebrated MS. with Pahlavi translation, J.2, written by Mihirdpan Kai Khisr6, in the year of Yezdegird 692 (a.p. 1 323), the sister MS. to that so justly treasured by the University of Copenhagen (K.°), which was brought to that city by Rask previously to 1832. . The second was an ancient codex, J.°, written soon after the death of Neryosangh, the learned Parsi scholar, whose important labours date from about 500 to 600 years ago. This is a Yasna with N eryosangh’s Sanskrit translation, beautifully written, and, if of less value than the other, it is so wy PREFACE, v only because its translation is in Sanskrit rather than in the more original Pahlavi. I should mention that this latter MS. is in a very fragile condition, and that many of the folios have suffered from abrasion. I am also deeply gratified that the learned possessor has presented both of these precious codices to the Bodleian Library at my suggestion. I must also express my hearty thanks as an individual scholar to Professor Max Miller and to Sir William Markby for their great interest manifested in this matter, and to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press for the issue of a colloty ped reproduction of the Zend-Pahlavi MS. mentioned, executed in the actual dimensions and in a manner which surpasses that of most publications of the kind. The third MS. is in Zend with Sanskrit translation, J.*, written by an ancestor of the Destoor’s, and apparently some hundreds of years old. The fourth MS., a valuable Vendidad with Pahlavi trans- lation, the generous scholar has presented to me as a personal gift. Beside these, Destoor Darab Peshotan Sanjana, Professor of Zend and Pahlavi in the Sir Jamshedji Oriental College, Bombay, has kindly sent me a Yasna with Pahlavi translation.
2he fourth MS., a valuable Vendidad with Pahlavi trans- lation, the generous scholar has presented to me as a personal gift. Beside these, Destoor Darab Peshotan Sanjana, Professor of Zend and Pahlavi in the Sir Jamshedji Oriental College, Bombay, has kindly sent me a Yasna with Pahlavi translation. This is not an ancient codex, but it is executed with unusual critical care and attention. ‘ I also take this opportunity to thank Professor v. Spiegel for sending me his transcription of the MS. numbered 6 in Wester- gaard’s catalogue in the University Library of Copenhagen, con- taining also a collation of the MS. numbered 2 fonds d’Anquetil in Paris. -I would also express my grateful thanks to Professor R. v. Roth for furnishing me, in 1883, with a collation of the Sanskrit translation contained in the very important MS. J.%, already mentioned as later presented to the Bodleian Library, and also to Dr. M. A. Stein for a collation of the Sanskrit translation in J.* in the same year. I would also express my acknowledgments to Dr. Laubmann, the Librarian of the Hof. und Staatsbibliothek in Munich, for sending to the Bodleian Library, for my use, a valuable Zend-Pahlavi Yasna, and also a VendidAd in Pahlavi with Persian translation. These last MSS. were formerly the property of Professor Haug, and the first was presented to him by some of the Parsis in recognition of his labours on the Avesta, and of his epoch-making transliterations of the Pahlavi. (One of my collateral occupations during the past three years, as I may mention in passing, has been VI PREFACE. to transcribe in its entirety the Persian translation of the Pahlavi in this MS. of the Vendidad, it being in its extent about one-third of the Avesta.) I would also mention that my kind friend Dr. Rost, the Librarian to the India Office, has sent me many and valuable works to be used in domicile, The space would fail me to express my obligation to eminent scholars for various acts of friendly assistance, and I shall take a further opportunity, but I cannot refrain from thanking once more my distinguished friend Dr. West for devoting, in 1881, an entire month of his valuable time to reading and revising my first Pahlavi translation of the Gathds, and for giving me much counsel and assist- ance in the, at times, almost insurmountable difficulties of my task. I would here recall the fact that Haug’s translation of the Pahlavi Yasna xxviii-xxxii, 1, (see the Essays, pp. 338-354,) was largely revised by Dr. West, and it is owing to this fact that this masterly performance has assumed its present shape. One might well enquire how far the learned public is aware of the exceptionally difficult nature of the Pahlavi documents with which Dr. West so ably deals in the Series of the S. B. E. In some respects the decipherment of Pahlavi surpasses in difficulty that of the most ancient Inscriptions in other languages, and our gratitude to this eminent scholar should be proportionate.
3difficult nature of the Pahlavi documents with which Dr. West so ably deals in the Series of the S. B. E. In some respects the decipherment of Pahlavi surpasses in difficulty that of the most ancient Inscriptions in other languages, and our gratitude to this eminent scholar should be proportionate. Finally, I have to thank those whose generous co-operation has made the appearance of this work (in its present form) possible. And first among these I have the honour to name Major- General Sir Henry Rawlinson, Bart., &c., to whose interest I owe it that the Secretary of State for India in Council has subventioned me with a considerable sum. Not less liberal has been the action of the trustees of the Parsi Punchayet Translation Fund of Bombay, who have assisted me with a subscription to the amount of nine hundred and twenty-five rupees (about), Other friends who have taken copies, thereby enabling me partially to meet the expenses involved, are gratefully mentioned in my subscription list. L. H. M. Oxrorp, January, 1891. P.S.—I am happy to add that Destoor Darab Peshotan Sanjana has, at my suggestion, offered the eM valuable MS. mentioned above to the Bodleian Library, and that it has been thankfully accepted. che Se TA Ke afl “Gena mee ieP er PP Bis} yn ak pene npqeqle dea bie Bs, ‘ 7 OFT NG HPAI) LS 5 LES: ee ~ pre e gus ioe Sef Cafe perro ORIOLE 222 Bree Rigen Perey ew Pai lai Yer : | Neuen 2h as Pt Baeeke kee ‘ bleep 218 Uae ee ee) noma pints . Supplementary Introduction. As I have stated in the preface, the first part of this book has been circulating among specialists for several years, although it has « Wever heretofore been offered for sale. ‘ _ The reason for this has also been long known (see my remarks in the Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlindischen Gesellschaft 42. Band { S. 439, 1888). The book was never finished, one eighth part of it | standing in type, while the former portions had been so long printed: , that they had already become somewhat antiquated, and the second part consisting of the Commentary was entirely in manuscript, and in a different shape. The completion of the work was rendered for the time impossible by my accepting the invitation of Professor Max Miiller as strongly urged by Professor Darmesteter, to undertake the translation of the Yasna, Visparad, Afrinagain, and Gahs in the XXXIst vol. of the Sacred Books of the Hast (see the London Athenaetim of April 12th, 1884). i But this interruption is really only apparent. The aon con- | tained in the XXXIst vol. of the S. B. E. pp. i—xlvii, as well as the | extensive summaries at the head of each chapter in that work, and _the comments there presented throughout were, and are, an integral c\part of this same exposition. If they had not been presented there, hey would have been presented here. This book contains, as is stated jon the title-page, the literary apparatus and argument to the other.
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.
1er, and I have there- fore a double reason to be satisfied with the apparently large pecuniary sacrifice that I made. T may now state, as directly bearing upon what follows, the reasons why a year, or more, must yet elapse before I re-issue that first volume in its completed condition. The new MSS. which have been acquired, and the extensive citation of variations in Geldner’s edition, would of themselves suggest the reprinting of many sheets of it, while the length of time which has transpired since the first pages were printed should render the presentation of the work in its antiquated condition a most improper proceeding. But the remodelling and printing of the Commentary, together ~~ with other professional labours, has occupied the close labour of the ~ last three and a half years. The reprinting of antiquated parts will now be proceeded with. : In the all-important matter of the acquisition of MSS. my gratitude is first owing to Destoor J amaspji Minocheherji Jamasp Asana, Ph.D. of Tuebingen, Hon. D.C.L. Oxon., for having sent me for my private use three valuable MSS. of the Yasna, and one of the Vendidad. The first of these is the now celebrated MS. with Pahlavi translation, J.2, written by Mihirdpan Kai Khisr6, in the year of Yezdegird 692 (a.p. 1 323), the sister MS. to that so justly treasured by the University of Copenhagen (K.°), which was brought to that city by Rask previously to 1832. . The second was an ancient codex, J.°, written soon after the death of Neryosangh, the learned Parsi scholar, whose important labours date from about 500 to 600 years ago. This is a Yasna with N eryosangh’s Sanskrit translation, beautifully written, and, if of less value than the other, it is so wy PREFACE, v only because its translation is in Sanskrit rather than in the more original Pahlavi. I should mention that this latter MS. is in a very fragile condition, and that many of the folios have suffered from abrasion. I am also deeply gratified that the learned possessor has presented both of these precious codices to the Bodleian Library at my suggestion. I must also express my hearty thanks as an individual scholar to Professor Max Miller and to Sir William Markby for their great interest manifested in this matter, and to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press for the issue of a colloty ped reproduction of the Zend-Pahlavi MS. mentioned, executed in the actual dimensions and in a manner which surpasses that of most publications of the kind. The third MS. is in Zend with Sanskrit translation, J.*, written by an ancestor of the Destoor’s, and apparently some hundreds of years old. The fourth MS., a valuable Vendidad with Pahlavi trans- lation, the generous scholar has presented to me as a personal gift. Beside these, Destoor Darab Peshotan Sanjana, Professor of Zend and Pahlavi in the Sir Jamshedji Oriental College, Bombay, has kindly sent me a Yasna with Pahlavi translation.
2he fourth MS., a valuable Vendidad with Pahlavi trans- lation, the generous scholar has presented to me as a personal gift. Beside these, Destoor Darab Peshotan Sanjana, Professor of Zend and Pahlavi in the Sir Jamshedji Oriental College, Bombay, has kindly sent me a Yasna with Pahlavi translation. This is not an ancient codex, but it is executed with unusual critical care and attention. ‘ I also take this opportunity to thank Professor v. Spiegel for sending me his transcription of the MS. numbered 6 in Wester- gaard’s catalogue in the University Library of Copenhagen, con- taining also a collation of the MS. numbered 2 fonds d’Anquetil in Paris. -I would also express my grateful thanks to Professor R. v. Roth for furnishing me, in 1883, with a collation of the Sanskrit translation contained in the very important MS. J.%, already mentioned as later presented to the Bodleian Library, and also to Dr. M. A. Stein for a collation of the Sanskrit translation in J.* in the same year. I would also express my acknowledgments to Dr. Laubmann, the Librarian of the Hof. und Staatsbibliothek in Munich, for sending to the Bodleian Library, for my use, a valuable Zend-Pahlavi Yasna, and also a VendidAd in Pahlavi with Persian translation. These last MSS. were formerly the property of Professor Haug, and the first was presented to him by some of the Parsis in recognition of his labours on the Avesta, and of his epoch-making transliterations of the Pahlavi. (One of my collateral occupations during the past three years, as I may mention in passing, has been VI PREFACE. to transcribe in its entirety the Persian translation of the Pahlavi in this MS. of the Vendidad, it being in its extent about one-third of the Avesta.) I would also mention that my kind friend Dr. Rost, the Librarian to the India Office, has sent me many and valuable works to be used in domicile, The space would fail me to express my obligation to eminent scholars for various acts of friendly assistance, and I shall take a further opportunity, but I cannot refrain from thanking once more my distinguished friend Dr. West for devoting, in 1881, an entire month of his valuable time to reading and revising my first Pahlavi translation of the Gathds, and for giving me much counsel and assist- ance in the, at times, almost insurmountable difficulties of my task. I would here recall the fact that Haug’s translation of the Pahlavi Yasna xxviii-xxxii, 1, (see the Essays, pp. 338-354,) was largely revised by Dr. West, and it is owing to this fact that this masterly performance has assumed its present shape. One might well enquire how far the learned public is aware of the exceptionally difficult nature of the Pahlavi documents with which Dr. West so ably deals in the Series of the S. B. E. In some respects the decipherment of Pahlavi surpasses in difficulty that of the most ancient Inscriptions in other languages, and our gratitude to this eminent scholar should be proportionate.
3difficult nature of the Pahlavi documents with which Dr. West so ably deals in the Series of the S. B. E. In some respects the decipherment of Pahlavi surpasses in difficulty that of the most ancient Inscriptions in other languages, and our gratitude to this eminent scholar should be proportionate. Finally, I have to thank those whose generous co-operation has made the appearance of this work (in its present form) possible. And first among these I have the honour to name Major- General Sir Henry Rawlinson, Bart., &c., to whose interest I owe it that the Secretary of State for India in Council has subventioned me with a considerable sum. Not less liberal has been the action of the trustees of the Parsi Punchayet Translation Fund of Bombay, who have assisted me with a subscription to the amount of nine hundred and twenty-five rupees (about), Other friends who have taken copies, thereby enabling me partially to meet the expenses involved, are gratefully mentioned in my subscription list. L. H. M. Oxrorp, January, 1891. P.S.—I am happy to add that Destoor Darab Peshotan Sanjana has, at my suggestion, offered the eM valuable MS. mentioned above to the Bodleian Library, and that it has been thankfully accepted. che Se TA Ke afl “Gena mee ieP er PP Bis} yn ak pene npqeqle dea bie Bs, ‘ 7 OFT NG HPAI) LS 5 LES: ee ~ pre e gus ioe Sef Cafe perro ORIOLE 222 Bree Rigen Perey ew Pai lai Yer : | Neuen 2h as Pt Baeeke kee ‘ bleep 218 Uae ee ee) noma pints . Supplementary Introduction. As I have stated in the preface, the first part of this book has been circulating among specialists for several years, although it has « Wever heretofore been offered for sale. ‘ _ The reason for this has also been long known (see my remarks in the Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlindischen Gesellschaft 42. Band { S. 439, 1888). The book was never finished, one eighth part of it | standing in type, while the former portions had been so long printed: , that they had already become somewhat antiquated, and the second part consisting of the Commentary was entirely in manuscript, and in a different shape. The completion of the work was rendered for the time impossible by my accepting the invitation of Professor Max Miiller as strongly urged by Professor Darmesteter, to undertake the translation of the Yasna, Visparad, Afrinagain, and Gahs in the XXXIst vol. of the Sacred Books of the Hast (see the London Athenaetim of April 12th, 1884). i But this interruption is really only apparent. The aon con- | tained in the XXXIst vol. of the S. B. E. pp. i—xlvii, as well as the | extensive summaries at the head of each chapter in that work, and _the comments there presented throughout were, and are, an integral c\part of this same exposition. If they had not been presented there, hey would have been presented here. This book contains, as is stated jon the title-page, the literary apparatus and argument to the other.
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.
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