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

Trlit. Ada zi ava Drijé (avo) bavaiti skendé spayathrahya Ad(t) asista yaozanté* a hushitdis Vanhéus Mananhd Mazdao Ashahyacha yoi zazenté vanhau sravahi.

Verb. trl. Deinde enim desuper-in Drujae[-jam] (dein-super) est (i. e. cadit) discissura (sic, deletio) exercitus; (b) at velocissimi (i. e. citissime) festinant (vel yaoj® congrediuntur) ad [in] faustae [-tam]-habitationis [-ionem] Bonae Mentis, (c) Mazdae, Sanctitatisque qui progrediuntur (fortasse gignuntur (zan(?))) in bona fama [vel in sancta disciplina docti].

Pahl. text translit. + Aétind pavan zak dahishné+ [pavan tand* i pasing] valman i? Drij [i?+® Ganrak* (?)* Minavad] pavan fréd-biyishnih> [amatash*+4 mindavam bara avd’ uizarih yekaviminad6] tebrini-ait sipah, (b) aétand tizo aytizénd (or aytj°®) [avd mozd yansegiintan‘] zak i pavan hi-manishnih? ¢ Vohimando [amat pavan frartindih ketriinasto* (sic) yekavimtind!°+4]. (c) Avo Atharmazd va? Ashavahishtoch! [ayizénd] mtn vakhdtnd* zak i shapir namikth, {aigh, zak’! aish vazlinéd avo mozd yansegintand$+2+4 mun hi-srdbd aitd].

‘See P. 2D. om. * DJ., D., om. 7 va. *DJ. ganakh (?). * M. yehevitnishnih. * DJ. ins. ash. 7DJ. ghal. *D. °tinand. ° Mf °min®. '°D, “Gnéd. “ DJ. ins. 2 #2 DJ.

Pahl. transl. Thus in that dispensation [in the later body] the Drij [who is Ganrak* Minavad] will be overthrown (in overthrow) when his affairs are in a state of meagreness, and his(?) host is shattered. (b) Thus they move* keenly on (or swiftly unite) to seize the reward which is attained in (or

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through) the good habitation (or abiding) of Vohiman, [when they shall have dwelt in piety]. (c) They who are seizing (or creating (vadind)) a good renown are thus moving on toward Attharmazd and Ashavahisht, [that is, the person who is of good repute goes forward to seize the reward].

Ner.’s sansk. text. Taya datya hi asau Devah adhasi (? adhas) bhaveta, krigatarapatakinikah* (b) evath cighraih prarohanti te sunivasatatayd (so, *tém) Uttamasya Manasah}, (c) Hormijdecha Dharmecha, [techa ye sadacharataya avasitih santi prasAdeshu gighrath prayati (-ydnti)], ye kurvanti* uttamanam? kirtith, * P. ins. pranati (for prayati).

dhasi (? adhas) bhaveta, krigatarapatakinikah* (b) evath cighraih prarohanti te sunivasatatayd (so, *tém) Uttamasya Manasah}, (c) Hormijdecha Dharmecha, [techa ye sadacharataya avasitih santi prasAdeshu gighrath prayati (-ydnti)], ye kurvanti* uttamanam? kirtith, * P. ins. pranati (for prayati). 2 P. uttamam no.

Ner. tr. For by means of this dispensation that Deva should be put in subjection (underneath), his host having become thinner. (b, c) So in view of this they who are producing the fame of the most exalted ones (the good) are arising quickly through (meaning ‘to’) the good lodging of the (their (?)) best mind to Hormijda and to Sanctity, [and they who are thus lodged there because of good conduet advance quickly among the rewards].

Parsi-persian Ms. Edn pah an [] [pah tan 7 pasin] fi ¢ Druj [¢ Gana Mini] pah — — [kiyash (kih ash) chiztbih 4n nizari istad] shikastah sipah * (b) edtin tiz (no tr. for Pahl. ayfizénd) [an muzd sitadan]* an 7 pah nék [] [minishni* = méinishn (so)] 7 Vahoman (sic), [kih pah néki mandah (?) istad] % (c) An Hormuzd u Ardibahisht [] [no tr. for indecipherable Pahl.] kih [] [kunad = vagtnéd| an i veh nami (?), [kf, an kas shawéd* (-wad) an muzd* sitadan kih — hast] #

Free tr. When then these doctrines ye learn which Ahura gave, O ye mortals, For our welfare and in grace, when long is the wound for the wicked, And blessings the lot of the pure, upon this shall there be salvation. Verbatim. Quum [vel quod] has doctrinas discite quas Mazda dabat, {i. e. revelavit, O yos] homines, (b) [quas] sua-sponte (vel, [ad] prosperitati [-tem augendam) inspirat(?) [vel strenuitate-promovet (?)], quodque [quumque] [revelavit etiam] longinquam [adversus] scelestis [-tos] sauciationem, beneficia {emolumentaque pro hominibus] probis, tum in [post (?)] his [haec] erit salus! Pahl. text tr. ‘Zak i? kola II afrinagdnih*! amiikhtishné (sic) min? Adharmazd dadé¢ ayd anshitaand (b) ‘minich® khyad(?) [nahin(h)(?)] (or khvaén*?

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(?) ahin(h)(?)) Aamikhtishné*+ (sic) zak mindavam, [aigh, vad am pavan pasakht68+1 yazishné 14 yehevinado], minich dér résh [min zak pasakhtd*+*] darvandan, (c) stidich 19 aharfiban, [aigh, chigin avayado kardan6], aétiind akhar val- -manshan aité nadikih*!° [amatzakstid btindak bard mad6]. +See P. 2D. om. * DJs D.(?), M., K.8%. *so DJ. *D. ins. va. *M. ich i, DJ..om. i, D. om. ich i. 7DJ.seems we corrected, not as in Comm. * DJ., D., M. ® DJ. ins. %° DJ., D. °iko.

Pahl. trl. Both those blessed revelations are doctrines which A. gave to men (b) by whose self(?) also [with no violence (?) (mercifully)| (or, ‘with whom also glittering (?) (iron(?)’) is that subject of teaching, [that is, while, or in case that, the service may not have been completed for me], and what also is the long wounding for the wicked [from that evi! celebration], (c) and those revelations are also advantageous to the righteous, [that is, when produced as it is fitting to produce them], and so after these

, while, or in case that, the service may not have been completed for me], and what also is the long wounding for the wicked [from that evi! celebration], (c) and those revelations are also advantageous to the righteous, [that is, when produced as it is fitting to produce them], and so after these things, there is felicity [when that benefit shall have fully arrived].

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Trlit. Ta Ve urvata [=vrata] mareiité, agusta vachao senhamahi
Aéibyé, yéi urvatais[=vra?] Drijd Ashahya gaéthao vimerenichaité,
Adchid(t) aéibyé vahista, yoi zar(a)zdio anhen Mazdai.

Verb. trl. Haec Vestrum [vestras] doctrinas memorantes huc usque-inaudita (vel sine-obedientia-audita) verba pronuntiemus (b) his qui doctrinis Mendacii-daemonis Sanctitatis [viros-| colonias [-habitantes] interficiant [-ient] (vel eas colonias vastabunt), (c) at-quidem [verba] his optima qui cordeaddicti. sint Mazdae.

Pahl. text translit. *Zak 2 kolA d6 Afrinaganith* i? avd? Lektim hdshmiroém! [Avesték va> Zand] valmanich® i anydkhshidar? [Aharmdk] pavan gobishnd Amiizém®, [dén varhomandih’® 12°, si bar avé+! gobishnd, va* amat Aévar* (2 cp. évar) khavittinéds, aigh 14 Amaikht-éd"? (sic) si bar]. (b) Valmanshan mtin!? pavan afrinaganih* i Drij4 zak i Aharayih géhan bara marenchinénd, [amat Draj? pavan Afrinagand yakhsenund], (c) adindch i? valmanshan pahlamp. 53 gikshayah, yagcha dirghar durgatimatarh chhetta, [kila, nigrahari papakarminar* yatha ‘nuripataya kurute] (c) labhagccha muktatmabhyah evati pacchat tebhyah asti gubhatarah. Ptrvoktavat. 1So J.°, but J.* yo, J.* ye; C., P. yau. Ner. transl. He who teaches these two revelations [the Avista-word, and the interpretation], which two the Great Wise One has given to men, (b) and who is also desirous of the doctrine, and has been long a cleaver of the wicked, [that is, he causes the defeat of those who work wickedness as if by congruity], (c) for such free-souled, or righteous, persons there is a benéficial acquisition, and so after these things that acquisition is more happy. (As before said at the end of verse 1; This verse is to be repeated twice). Parsi-persian Ms. (No translation for ‘a’; text as above except that amtkhtan stands for °ishn) (b) kih no tr. as far as ham, (text mtn khin ahin) ham 4makhtan an chiz, [ki, ta ma-raé pah pasâkht no tr. for gazishn (so for yazishn) nah bad], kih ham dér zakhm’[az 4n pasdkht*] 7 darwandan, (c) [wa = va| std ham 7 ashavan",

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