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

J., D. ins. 7, 280 DJ. ?P. ins. varman ra (so D. late). * DJ. khvarishn; D. om. va. °P. ins. pavan fgh. 7Mf. om. *D. for min. °DJ. ins. ash. 2°DJ. om. DJ., D: om. zak. ’DJ., D. have line d so. 3M. Aharayth shapir for rast and om. pavan. z. ive eolins, i. 1° P. om. ash! #8 ao D.; DJ, °mai., +) Dicom. 729D7--tned;

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the pure and religious one (to the disciple, that is, let it be to me no decease]. This text is to be repeated twice, etc. (NB. Notice is again given to the student that the translations of the Pahl. and Ner. are throughout rather expositions than translations, as final translations of either in the ordinary sense are wholly misleading and therefore worse than useless; see Introd. pp. XIV-XVIT, XXYV).

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Va niydyisln an shuma, Gasan 7 asho! Nék ti kih an ¢ [] néki har-kudam, [kt. har-kudém adam? az néki7 ti néki Hast kih édtn Ltiyad; in néki {] az [} Din [] @ har kas [] néki], % (b) [] pah kémah padishahi dehad Hormuzd*, [pah lai (2?) ¢ t)* (c) Kishishn 7 tuvaniha, [ztr [] kuvatiha) ma-ra pah rasad* (?)

az Ti kémah * (a) An ¢ Savab dashtan dehad [an ¢ [ma-ré = am] pah [] Savab dashtan bih dehand], [] 4n man dehad Spendarmad % (e) An 7 raizmand, 7 bandagi [] {shagird = dhavisht] [] [an man] pah Bahman jan [dehad (sic) = dn ra pavan Vohiman add (sic pro khaya) débiina(é)d* (sic)], kim [i [baat*- (0) diet (2 dir-)| -jan nah bashad] * #1 Oy? (2), (NB. v is used for w in this Gatha; see note on page 2, Parsi-p )

Free tr. And to* this one that best of all things (** or ‘for’) May that the glorious man bestow*2, the glory; (#2 or ‘obtain’) Reveal* Thou, Lord, to us with*! Spirit bounteous (* or ‘0 spirit bounteous’) What truths by Right* Thou giv’st, and Good Mind’s wisdom,

With life’s rejoicing* increase and on every day.

Pahl. transl., etc. Thus also that which is of every kind the best, (b) the beatitude (not merely ‘the welfare’) is to be given to* (2?) the beatified man [as a reward]; (c) do Thou therefore make manifest, [i. e, do Thou declare who the glorified (or ‘beatified’) man is (so in this erroneous gloss), for through Thee is his manifestation], O bountiful Spirit who art, (or “Spirit of’) Atharmazd, [that is, Thou understandest who the elorious (or ‘beatified’) man és]; (d) and do Thou also make manifest what Ye* give (or “he gives’) as just (or ‘aright’) in accordance with (or ‘as’) a good mind’s regulation, [i. e. the Religion] (e) during every day as the joyful-minded giving-on* of a long life.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Kvaticha tasmai vicvebhya*! utkrishtataraya (b) cubhamate* naraya, cubharh pradatavyain, [prasddah], (c) Tvaih prakacaya, {kila, Tvari brihi yat cubhaman narah kah], Tvaih, mahattarah* adricyamirtir*, Mahajnanin, [kila, Tvati jandasi yat cubhamdn narah kak], (d) yo dadati satyazi uttamena pramanaih manasa [Dinim] (e) vigveshu vasareshu dirghajivitataya** utsavasya data. * So J.*, P., C.

Ner. transl.

Tvaih prakacaya, {kila, Tvari brihi yat cubhaman narah kah], Tvaih, mahattarah* adricyamirtir*, Mahajnanin, [kila, Tvati jandasi yat cubhamdn narah kak], (d) yo dadati satyazi uttamena pramanaih manasa [Dinim] (e) vigveshu vasareshu dirghajivitataya** utsavasya data. * So J.*, P., C.

Ner. transl. (a, b) And so to this man more excellent than all and beatified (or ‘glorious(?)’) happiness (or ‘glory (?)’) is to be given [the reward]; (c) do Thou therefore manifest, [that is, do Thou declare, who the beatified man is], Thou the greater[-est] Spirit, O Great Wise One, [i. e. it és Thou who knowest.who the beatified man is], (d) who gives the true regulation

158 XLIII. 3. [the Din] and with the best mind, (e) he in all coming days and by means. of (or ‘throughout’) a long life a giver of festive prosperity.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. fidan ham 4n 7 az tamam buland(?) (b) an & 7 asinimand mard, [i ra = varman* (sic) ra] Asani dahishn { [] muzd * (c) Ta péda (or ‘paida’), spasssgay, soos a} bosepals argon bay es 3. Text. prbupes Lay cpap yaya 49950 fas) gto is 939.38 99339} 436 bess) goaas Hod -s2y%9 Yon eqns «gp soees = wEsGie Sa9hang dewey spree Mu Sp nwase ‘B)g¢)s

Verbat. tri., etc. Sic ille(-ipse*) [ad] bono melius, [i. e. ad summum bonum hic et illac ille*] vir [princeps-propheta] accedat (b) qui nobis rectas [vias, i. e. veras et sacratas] beneficii-[-superni Tui, Ahura], vias [constitutas, (i.e. leges et instituta de fide et de moribus) vias] docens-monstret, (c) [vias] hujus mundi (vel ‘vitae’) corporalis, [illius] spiritalisque (d) [vias in] re-vera-(reapse*) exsistentes (vel ‘in aeternos’) (ad) mundos [ducentes, ut instituta in sanctos usus et in sacras res eorum mundorum semper valida], quos [quas vias] (ad) habitat Ahura*, (e) [ad illud* optimum™ accedat ille*! vir*!] adjutor-bene-largitus, Tuisimilis [vel ‘ Tui*-devotus’] valde-sapiens* [vel ‘nobilis’, vel etiam fortasse ‘bonus-civis’] beneficus [vel ‘sanctus’ (?)], O Mazda. ** Vide a, 0.

Pahl. text translit. Aéttind avd‘ valman [i?] shapir gabra’ véhih madam yamttnishné* [mozd] (b) main zak i lanman> avéjako i® stid-hémand’ ras Amtzéd [avé aishan}] (c) dén denman ahvo® i® ast-hdmanddn®, va munich minishno® [dén LVII. (panjah haft) shanat] (d) amat ashkaraké zak sti, [aigh, réshanak6! aigh tané* i pasind yeheviinéd], dén zak ketrinéd Atharmazd (e) it rad6 i khtp-danakih'? Lak havand, afzinik Atharmazd.

*DJ. hasavo. * DJ. ins. 7. ?see P. ins. *so DJ.; others “inishno. *DJ., Mf. om. i. *so DJ., D. 7DJ., D. om. t. *DJ., Mf. ahvd; others ahvan. ® M. minavadano. ?° DJ., D. rdshanak; others °and. 1D. ins, i. so P.; others °danasak* (?); DJ. broken off.

Pahl. tri., etc.

? Lak havand, afzinik Atharmazd.

*DJ. hasavo. * DJ. ins. 7. ?see P. ins. *so DJ.; others “inishno. *DJ., Mf. om. i. *so DJ., D. 7DJ., D. om. t. *DJ., Mf. ahvd; others ahvan. ® M. minavadano. ?° DJ., D. rdshanak; others °and. 1D. ins, i. so P.; others °danasak* (?); DJ. broken off.

Pahl. tri., etc. Thus there 7s a coming of a benefit to (or ‘for’) the* good man [as a reward] ({so perhaps, especially if avd valman be read, but see the Gatha and apply shapir* as gen.* by position* to véhih, taking yamtin® in the participial** sense, and read: ‘Thus to* that man zs approaching** the goodness of the good (the highest good)}), (b) who is teaching our (or ‘to us a’) pure and profitable way [to persons] (c)in this world of the corporeal

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XLITt. 8. 159

(ka, [pah (2) ka (2) = pavan agh] Tt go* kit asanimand mard kih [], [chish = chish] {] Ta peda (or ‘paida’)], afzini mini i Hormuzd, (ka, Ta dani ki Asanimand mard kih], (d) kih dehad [Savab = Afldish*] rast pah an i Bahman andazah [Din] (e) pah hama raz [] ¢ dér zistan, khéshi-minishn [] dehad (sic) %

Free tr. Thus that better than the good may he come nearer Who unto us straight paths of profit showeth

Of this life bodily the use, of that the mental,

In the existing realms where dwells Ahura *! (or ‘eternal’ )
Like Thee noble and august, O Mazda Lord,

ones, and of that which is also the mind (or ‘of the spirits (minavadand)’) [in fifty-seven years], (d) when manifest is that world within which Atharmazd dwells, [that is, when it shall have become* clear that (or ‘where *) the final body exists], (e) this ‘good* mun*’ teaches thus who is a liberal-giyer, who is also beneficiently-wise, the one like Thee bounteous, O Atharmazd.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Evari tasmin uttame uttamatvaih nare upariprapnotu |prasadah] (b) yo ’smakam nirmalari Jabhamattararm* panthanam cikshapayati* [kebhya¢chit*] (c) antah* etasmin bhuvane yat ihalokinath, yachcha paralokinam [antah' sapta pafichacat varsheshu]. (d) Parisphutd sA srishtir ya™*, [kila, nirmalatara vapushi pagchatye bhavati| antah tatra nivasatit Svami? {Hormijdah?]. (e) Data Tyattulyah cuddhasatkarta, mahattara Mahajnaniné.

se G2 S.2%da. = J" adds svamin.

Ner. transl. Thus in this most exalted (i. e. ‘best’ happiness) let the exaltation (or ‘goodness’, or ‘happiness’) come to the man [as grace (or ‘as a reward’)|; (b) et it come to him who teaches our pure (or ‘clearly*-right*’) and more profitable avay [to any one (meaning ‘to every one’)| (c) within this world of the mundane ones and in that which belongs to those of the world beyond, that is, in that dispensation which is to appear within fifty seven years]; (d) for the creation (or ‘ world’) is manifest which - -, [that is, it becomes clearer* and therefore unmistakable** in the future body]; and there within the Lord [Hormijda] dwells. (e) A giver he is (or, ‘a giver is’) the one like Thee, O greater Mahajiianin, and one purely (or ‘clearly (?)’) a benefactor.