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

t, O Lord, for The Holy Cause do Ye reach us

Your aid, O Living One, now yea, the helpful gift of Your faithful.

(c) Ahura nunc nobis [proferte] auxilium huic#* [Magae] largitatis vestri-similium [vel servorum vestrorum corde addictorum]. % Vel éhmé = simus (participes). -

Pahl. text translit. *Aigh dahishnd i2 Ashavahisht, va? Vohiman va ‘Khshatraver, min aéttind avd li yamtininéd [gdbishnd i Zarattishtd, aigh, zak i? mozd, aigh jindik yekavimtinéd}? (b) Lektiim am‘, Atharmazd kabed pavan hand mas magih padadahishninéd [aigham pavan hana® ayéjak shapirih® padadahishnd vadiinyén)], (c) Atharmazd, kevan lanman kamak zak i avé7 lanman radih i® min? Lekim [kevan amat afdih i Lekiim vésh khavitdp. 36nam, am nadikih 119 min Lekim kamaktar. Yehevund min yemalelinéd1! aé: kevan amat}2 Din ribak bard yeheviind, li va havishtand i2+19 li!* mozd 115 min Lak kamak]. + See P. 2 DJ., D. om.i. * DJ., D. ins. va. *DJ., D., M. am. 5DJ., D. hana. °D. véhih. 7DJ. valmani, D. om. all. * DJ. om. i. * DJ. ins. i. *° D. ins. 41 DJ, D. gtift. 12 D. om. 1% DJ. ins, nadtkih. “ DJ. om. ™ DJ., D. ins. i.

Pahl. transl. Where is the dispensation of Ashavahisht, Vohiman, and Khshatraver, Ye who are thus sending* 7¢ to me? [J¢ zs the word of Zaratiisht; where 7s the reward?; where is its place?] (b) Do Ye recompense me much, O Adharmazd, for, or in, this chief Magianship, [that is, do Thou, (or they shall) bring about my reward in this pure goodness]. (c) Give us now, O Atharmazd, our desire, that which zs a liberal gift for us which is from You. [Now, since I know Your wonderful grace better, that happiness which comes from You is more desired by me. Some say this: ‘Now since the Religion has been fully advanced, mine and my disciples’ is the reward which is from Thy desire’]. * Perhaps not caus.; read ‘coming’; see Ner.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Kva danara, Acavahisto, Gvahmanah, Saharevaragcha, evar mahyari prapsyati, [kila Punyarn, Uttamarhcha Mano, Rajyarncha, sa prasidah kva sthane dste yah evath mahyarh prapsyati]? (b) Yiyara Ma-

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Trlit. Ad(t) tâa vakhshya ishefit6, ya mazdatha hyadchid(t) vidushé.

Staotacha Ahurai, yesn{ijyacha VanheuS Mananhd,
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Humazdra Asha yaécha, ya raochébis dar(e)sata urvaza [vraza].
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Verbatim transl. Ita haec dicam [O vos] venientes, quae [sunt]-admonitiones [ei] quid-omnino [quicquid sit] [penitus-] scienti, (b) laudesque Ahurae, sacra-officiaqgue Bonae Mentis, (c) duo-benigna-consilia [per] Sanctitate [-tem| quaeque-duo! [sunt ea] qua [= per quam rem, vel = ut] in luminibus visa-sint propitia. * Fortasse ashayaecha — Sanctae beatitudini(?), vel etiam yecha = exoro (aegre).

Pahl. text translit.

cienti, (b) laudesque Ahurae, sacra-officiaqgue Bonae Mentis, (c) duo-benigna-consilia [per] Sanctitate [-tem| quaeque-duo! [sunt ea] qua [= per quam rem, vel = ut] in luminibus visa-sint propitia. * Fortasse ashayaecha — Sanctae beatitudini(?), vel etiam yecha = exoro (aegre).

Pahl. text translit. ‘Aétind zak 1? kola IL gébishné khvahishné i Atharmazd dad? [Avestak va Zand], minich* akds [aigh, danak, ash Aérpatistand ktnishnd), (b) mfin stéyishnd i Atharmazd, va Yazishnd 2 Vohiman,

[afash pédak zak i® Avestak va® Zand], (c) min hi-minidér pavan Ahardyih,p. 37 hajnanin, prabhitatarazn mahattamena uttamatvena! prasddayati [-ata*2], [kila, tena nirmalatamena* uttamatvena mahyath prasadam kuru]. (c) Svamin, iha asmakath, asmabhyaricha dakshinaé Tvattah. (Dviyarain vachyo gujastah - - ..)

* J.4, C. ins. matena; P. tena. * see yiiyam. * J.* latvena.

Ner. transl. Whence will the gift so come to me? and Ashavahista, Gvahmana, and Saharevara, [that is, Sanctity, and the Highest (Good) Mind, and the Kingdom?; where is the reward placed which will thus come to me]? (b) He affords (?, or do Ye*1, O Great Wise One, afford*) me the more excellent thing, in reference to, or by the greatest exaltation*?, [that is, effect a reward for me as regards, or by that spotless exaltation*?]. (c) Here, O Lord, is the gift which cs ours, and which comes to us from Thee. (This teat to be repeated twice), etc. ** The Pahl. ‘néd was misread. *? the Holy Cause.

Parsi-persian Ms, Kt — ¢ Ardibahisht u Bahman [] Shaharévar (imperfect), kih édiin an man r—(?) (guftan ¢ Zaratusht, ki 4n 7 muzd, ka jai istad]. * (b) Shuma ra (?ra=li) Hormuzd bisyar pah in meh — — [ktum pah in avézhah (so) véhi pâadadahishn kunand] * (c) Hormuzd, aknâi (sic-nfin) ma kémah an [] [& = varman] radii az Shuma, [aknifi (sie) kih — 7 Shuma zyadah danam, ma-ra néki 7 az Shuma kamahtar *% bid kih guft é:; aknfi [-ntin] [] Din rawa bih bid, man [] shagirdin 7 man muzd i az TA kamah] *

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Fr. Thus I will speak monitions, ye who come, yea the wise one’s monitions, Praises I speak for the Lord, and the offerings of the Good Mind Both benignant counsels from Truth whence signs in the lights seem friendly. zakich” min [mindayam i frarind minéd, ash kirfak yazishnd {4 mas yeheviinéd], minshain dén,réshanih pavan vénishnih® hi-ravakh-manih [aighshan amat minavad yazishnd%t+ khaditind, ashin rdmishn yehevinéd]. +See P. 2 DJ. om. i. * DJ. yehabaind; K.5 dad. * DJ., D. om. i, * D. om. i. * DJ. om. va. 7 DJ. om. ich; D. (not Mf.) ins. i. * so DJ. * DJ., M. ayaz®, or Ayaz®, Pahl. tri. Thus both those truths are to be spoken, and are to be sought, (or a supplication, poss., O seeking ones (?)) which Attharmazd gave forth [the Avesta and Zand], which also are for the intelligent [that is, the learned, by him priestly studies are to be pursued], (b) which (or whose) are the praise of Attharmazd, and the Yasna of the Good Mind [also the Avesta and Zand are revealed to him] (c) which (or

(?)) which Attharmazd gave forth [the Avesta and Zand], which also are for the intelligent [that is, the learned, by him priestly studies are to be pursued], (b) which (or whose) are the praise of Attharmazd, and the Yasna of the Good Mind [also the Avesta and Zand are revealed to him] (c) which (or he who is) the good thinker ¢hinks through Sanctity; that one also who [thinks the thing which is p‘ous, to him good works equal* a great religious service], and what* things are* to them (or whose is) joy in looking into the light, [that is, to them when they behold the worship of the (or a) spirit, it is a joy to them]. * Or ‘by which to them there is joy’. Ner.’s sansk. text. Evaii te [tau] vichau! abhilashukah [-kau] ye [yau] Mahajnanin [-ni] adatte, [Avistavanith vyAkhydnaiicha], yagcha vetta [kila, jiata,

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tasya [tena] adhyayanath karyam], (b) ?stotacha? Svamino Hormijdasya‘, {[asau5 yasmat prakatah (?) Avistavachaso vyakhyanachcha], aradhakaccha Uttamasya Manaso [Gvahmanasya]. (c) Suma(n)ta(?)* punyena yaccha [sacha yah kimchit sadacharataram** manyate, tasya punyari [jisneh mahatydh bhavatil, yaccha *ntar rochishi alokanena aAnanditah [Svaminath ye adricyaéyam Ijisnau pacyanti, teshath 4nandah samudbhavati]. * Or °ta = tani (Sansk. of diff. period).

1J.* vachau, 2J.* ins. asau. *all stau®. ‘*J.*Haur®. *J.* om. *J.*, J.* °chara®, or °ri®; cp. charin.

Ner. transl. So these are the two words of prayer which the Great Wise One delivers [the Avista-word and the Interpretation]; and he who is intelligent [that is, the one who is informed], by him study is to be pursued; (b) and he is a praiser of the Lord Hormijda, [that one by whom He (?) is revealed ee | swear seysls.axssaneser (0 aueebas) a» 9. -4orrpange-sanssyvsses.ce)s}-¢¢)a | 4029p Gay aslo. taun)e)as/o.00 Repiy-pepagbs sraseg6us.¢}.oucers- Lorene ¢x6nas)ag

Trlit. Sraoté Géushais vahista *a(a)vaénata sicha Mananha!
A var(e)nao vichithahya narém narem Vahyai tanuyé (= °uvé).

Para maze yaonhd ahmai né sazdyai baodaiité paiti!

Verbatim transl. Audite auribus. Optima conspicite flammas [sacras (vel lumina caeli(?))] Mente; (b) ad [apud] electiones [i. e. per occasionem hujus de capitibus doctrinae] discretionis virum [i. e. vir per] virum [singuli] proprio corpori [proprie] (c) in-facie magni conatus huic [ad hanc] nostram(?) enuntiare*1 [enuntiationem] experrecti [sunto (expergiscimini)] (ad). %+ (vel (om. né (2)) huic [personae (singulatim)] enuntiabo (infin. for imper.)).

Pahl. text translit. ‘Goshand? sriid* nydkhshishnih? [aighash‘ gdsh bara vashammind, shad vazliind, bara karitiind*] vahisht* [vakhshinishnih, aighash¢ Aérpatistané? ktnishnd]. Minash dvinapdak’ zak i réshané pavan minishnd [aigh, zak i* Aérpatand réshané avo? tarik]. (b) Kamak lanman bara vijinishné, main - gabra va!° néshman hémaném, avd zak i nafshman tané [aighman mindavam 7 frarano min zak i avartind bara vijinishnd, afmand zak i frarind + ghal kinishn).