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1ing’) what* (min oblique by position) is the desire for instruction? [that is, for* what* (man oblique) is care and attention required by thee, that thou understandest* it ?]; (d) there- fore to this Thy Fire I am bountiful in praise, (¢) and on Sanctity I meditate, and will continue so to ponder as long* asLam a suppliant. * Or ‘as long as I wish’. Ner.’s sansk. text. Mahattama{-mo*] mahyath evati Tvarn, MahdjiiAnin, amamsthah, Svamin, (b) yat mahyath Uttamari samagachchhat! Manah {Gvah- manah], (c) enarh (?) aprichchhat! Hormijdah yat: Te kasya vicishtajiane kamah? [Kila, te pratiyatnah? kasya rochate, kimchit jhasyasi?]. (d) Evan asau ‘Tvadiyaya Agnaye dakshini bhavami [pranamena*], (e) punyaticha ahath yavad ichchhami dhyayami’. +©., J.4, J.* °prachchh®. 2 corrected; ie Ey Oseohenrn Ner. transl. Thus Thou wert thought greatest*! by me, O Great Wise One the Lord, (b) when the Highest (Good) Mind, [Gvahmana] came to me (c) and Hormijdah asked him (or ‘me’ (lege madm(?)) this: ‘for what is thy desire in thy discerning knowledge ?’, [that is, devotion toward what pleases thee so that thou wilt (or ‘mayest’) know a thing?’ (d) And so he (?) answered: ‘to Thy Fire I am bountiful [with praise*], (e) and upon Sanctity do I medi- tate as long* as I have desire. ** A voc. was hardly meant; see Gatha and Pahl, Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Afzimi-kunandah (?) man édin Ta andéshid hasti, Hormuzd, (b) kih 4n man Bahman bih rasid » (c) U ¢ Hormuzd [kih = amat| pursid ka: Zakiyat (sic vid.) kih agah-dahishni kamah, [kit parhéz kih laik, kih dani]? * (d) Kdtn 4n in 4 Ta Atash sakhdvat hastam pah niyayishn * (e) Savab [man =7a] chand [] khvyastar hastam, andésham (?) % Free tr. Do Thou Thy Holiness revealing teach me, Since with Devotion joined I seek perfection* ; Ask Thou us questions such that Thou may’st* search* us For question Thine is ever of the mighty When e’er his searching* word* Thy ruler speaks. (b) Devotione[-nem] comitatus [eam sequens ut eam Sanctitatem omni spe et opera enisus obtineam|]. (c) Rogaque [etiam] nos qua*!, [i. e. ‘ut (ya=yéna) Tui, [i.e. a Te] simus*! (ehma = adsma*(?)) [penitus] rogati* [de nostris necessitatibus (omnino ut iis succurras)|; (d) quaestio enim a Te [posita est] talis qualis hoc [ea] potentium (e) quum Tuus regnans-princeps optationem [i.e. voluntatem suam de scientia rerum spiritalium, i.e. quaestionem suam de salute] ponat 22 170 XLII. 10, 11. fi. e. enuntiet] potentem. *1 Vel fortasse (c): ‘Roga nos [eas interrogationes quae] Tibi (vel ‘Tui [Tuae]’) a (sic) nobis (= éhma*(?)) [a* Te*] rogatae, [i. e. quae in tempore futuro praeponendae sint], (d) interrogatio enim Tua [in nos* inspirata* est interrogatio] potentium, [dominorum nostrorum] (c) quum Tuus regnans [-princeps] optationem**, [i. e. voluntatem suam pet interrogationes de rebus vere optabilibus} reddat potentem, [i. e. quum sic voluntatem suam in re vera plene constituat]. *° Vel fortasse ‘precationem — pronuntiet’ (?) = aéshem dyad(i).
2] potentium, [dominorum nostrorum] (c) quum Tuus regnans [-princeps] optationem**, [i. e. voluntatem suam pet interrogationes de rebus vere optabilibus} reddat potentem, [i. e. quum sic voluntatem suam in re vera plene constituat]. *° Vel fortasse ‘precationem — pronuntiet’ (?) = aéshem dyad(i). ** Sunt qui ut sequitur reddant: (a) Ahura dicit ‘invoco’ (?sic)...; (e) quoniam [vel ‘ut’] Te capax (= khshaydas) [aliquis] contentum (= aéshem) reddat potentem (ex eo est quaestio tua quaestio potentium), Pahl. text translit. Aéttind Lak avd li yehabanait Aharayih amatat? hémanam? pavan karitiinishné? karittinam (b) pavan Bandak Minishnih avakih, amat zak i valman if biindak [minishnih® avé nafshman vaduniayén*(?)*; aigh zakich’ pavan dad ras aéttind avo nafshman shayad kardand, amat Aér- patistand bindak minishniha’ vadinyén. Yebevind mtn “Amikhtishnéd (sic)” a! gift]. (c) Pirsaich®? min lanman min'? Lak"! pavan zak pirsishné*!? [Dind*} - (d) maman pirsishnd Laké minat aétiind pavan zak i'® amAvandih, [pavan zak pursishnd] (e) amat avo!2 Lak padakhshahih'4, Atharmazd, pavan khvah- ishnd yehabinédé amavandih, [aigh, amat Diné* yemaleltinih, at amavandih yehevinéd'*]. +D. ‘ih i, *D. tan man, * DJ. ‘nih. ‘so DJ. ins. zak i aé; D. has zak i; M., K.5 zakai. © see P.; others om. © so all. 7 M. ins. 7, *® so DJ. ® D. °sihich. *'DJ., D. ins. min. *! D. ins. lak, 72 DJ; msi 2 DJvome 1, eee: bee shalita. + see P. throughout. Pahl. transl. Mayest Thou therefore give me Sanctity since I invoke Thee with invocations (b) with the accompaniment (or ‘assistance (?)’) of the Perfect Thought, when [they shall make] that which és that perfect* [thought their own, that is, that also it is necessary to make one’s own in the way prescribed by the law (or ‘in the appointed way’), if they would carry out with a perfect mind the priestly assemblies (or ‘studies’); some have said that ‘the perfect doctrine’ was the correct rendering]. (c) Ask Thou of us also those questions which are Thine, and contained in that questioning [which ts the Religion?]; (d) for the questioning is Thine* which is thus a0) reps UAE -sahnc. was BY -GEewES! 11. Text. 449 Qy3 4) $496 padays)ovg qv Ly +406 pd 62 )rbasey Hoyssingas -Hy2vedy sug eody ae sity? 0280609) a6 “OB How raginG pps bg sas) Seewsyrorwl wb) whe esse ssavsogaygaa6e)el eae Verbatim trl., etc. [Bene]-largientem [vel ‘sanctum (?)’] sic Te, Mazda, existimavi*', Ahura (b) quum me [Oboedientia, i. e. servus Tuus oboediens XLII. 10, 11. 171 Thine in power {in that questioning}, (e) since in Thy sovereignty, O Afthar- mazd, it gives forth power fin answer to prayer, [that is, when Thou de- clarest the Religion power is with Thee}. * Possibly ‘make Thou Thine own’. Ner.’s sansk. text.
3, i. e. servus Tuus oboediens XLII. 10, 11. 171 Thine in power {in that questioning}, (e) since in Thy sovereignty, O Afthar- mazd, it gives forth power fin answer to prayer, [that is, when Thou de- clarest the Religion power is with Thee}. * Possibly ‘make Thou Thine own’. Ner.’s sansk. text. Evari Tvati mahyari dehi punyam yad aharh prar- thanaya‘ (?) prarthaye (b) sarpirnamanasa Salimigrah? aparebhyac cha pari- pirnam, [kila, *tach cha yat sadachdrimarge evari svAdhinarn cakyate kartura chet adhyayanai saraptirnamanasa? kriyate]. (c) Prichchhach4’sman yaté Te* etasmin* pragne [Dinau] (d) pracno yatas Te yah evar tena utsdhena (e) yar tubhyarh raja Hormijdah abhipsaya® dadati utsdhari®, [kila, chet Dinith brite, tatas te utsdho’? bhavati]. + J.* *thana. *% J.4 sanmishté. * J,* om. from 3to manasa in sampurnam®. * J,3, J.4, J.* yat te tasmin. * J,4 °psyaya (sic). ® J. uchhaham (sic). 7 J.* diff. Ner. transi. Do Thou therefore give me the sanctity which I desire with desire (b) accompanied by mental perfection and also fully by the rest, [that is, give me that which it is indeed possible to make one’s own in the way of good action, if study is applied to it with mental perfection]. (c, d) Do Thou also question us for Thine is a question in this questioning [in (or ‘concerning’) the Din], because Thine is the question which is thus asked with this vigour, (e) the questioning which Hormijdah the Monarch gives thee* through desire (on account of thy wish for it) as strength, [that is, if He utters the Din, thence is thy* strength]. Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Edfim Ta 4n man deh* (?) Sawab, kih [] [tan = tan] [] {kih = amat(?)] pah khvandan khvanam (b) pah bundah minishni madad, kih 4n 7 fi ¢ bundah [minishni* = minishni] (an khvésh kunand, kf, 4n ham pah dad rah édtn 4n kKhvésh, |] (kunand = rdgénénd*], shayad kardan, kih magopatdari (sic) bundah minishni kunand*. Bavad kih amfkhtan guft + ya‘ni + guftan] (c) n. tr. pro pursich [] [kih = min| ma kih Ta pah an pursishn, [—] (d) chih pursishn 7 Ta kiyat édin, pah [] himmati + ya himmat {pah 4n pursishn] (e) kih [] {an = zak, « Ti padishahi [ | pah khyahishn dehad* himmati (sic vid) + himmat, [ki, kih Din gfiyad at himmat-_ mand (?) bashad] # * Or ‘dih®’, Free tr. Thus I conceived Thee bounteous, Ahura Mazda, When with the Good Mind’s help Obedience neared me, And with Your words my soul I first instructed; Woes that devoted one ’midst men forewarned me. Yet will I that fulfil named by Thee best! cum-interrogationibus (?)] Bona circumibat*, [i. e. ad me accedebat] Mente, (c) quum {verbis (hymnis) et mandatis] a-Vobis-dictis me-commoveo primum, (d) difficilia [et-res-aerumnas] mihi [me] hortans-docebat** (vel ‘mihi man- dabat**’) inter-homines cordi-addictus [Tuus nuntius, vel ‘cordis devotio*’} 172 XLUI. 11, 12. (e) hoc facere*2 quod mihi dicebatis*! optimum. * Vel conjunct. *? sic ad yerbum, sed fortasse verti potest: (e) ‘sed tamen hoc faciam’ (inf. loco imper.), etc. Pahl.
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.
1ing’) what* (min oblique by position) is the desire for instruction? [that is, for* what* (man oblique) is care and attention required by thee, that thou understandest* it ?]; (d) there- fore to this Thy Fire I am bountiful in praise, (¢) and on Sanctity I meditate, and will continue so to ponder as long* asLam a suppliant. * Or ‘as long as I wish’. Ner.’s sansk. text. Mahattama{-mo*] mahyath evati Tvarn, MahdjiiAnin, amamsthah, Svamin, (b) yat mahyath Uttamari samagachchhat! Manah {Gvah- manah], (c) enarh (?) aprichchhat! Hormijdah yat: Te kasya vicishtajiane kamah? [Kila, te pratiyatnah? kasya rochate, kimchit jhasyasi?]. (d) Evan asau ‘Tvadiyaya Agnaye dakshini bhavami [pranamena*], (e) punyaticha ahath yavad ichchhami dhyayami’. +©., J.4, J.* °prachchh®. 2 corrected; ie Ey Oseohenrn Ner. transl. Thus Thou wert thought greatest*! by me, O Great Wise One the Lord, (b) when the Highest (Good) Mind, [Gvahmana] came to me (c) and Hormijdah asked him (or ‘me’ (lege madm(?)) this: ‘for what is thy desire in thy discerning knowledge ?’, [that is, devotion toward what pleases thee so that thou wilt (or ‘mayest’) know a thing?’ (d) And so he (?) answered: ‘to Thy Fire I am bountiful [with praise*], (e) and upon Sanctity do I medi- tate as long* as I have desire. ** A voc. was hardly meant; see Gatha and Pahl, Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Afzimi-kunandah (?) man édin Ta andéshid hasti, Hormuzd, (b) kih 4n man Bahman bih rasid » (c) U ¢ Hormuzd [kih = amat| pursid ka: Zakiyat (sic vid.) kih agah-dahishni kamah, [kit parhéz kih laik, kih dani]? * (d) Kdtn 4n in 4 Ta Atash sakhdvat hastam pah niyayishn * (e) Savab [man =7a] chand [] khvyastar hastam, andésham (?) % Free tr. Do Thou Thy Holiness revealing teach me, Since with Devotion joined I seek perfection* ; Ask Thou us questions such that Thou may’st* search* us For question Thine is ever of the mighty When e’er his searching* word* Thy ruler speaks. (b) Devotione[-nem] comitatus [eam sequens ut eam Sanctitatem omni spe et opera enisus obtineam|]. (c) Rogaque [etiam] nos qua*!, [i. e. ‘ut (ya=yéna) Tui, [i.e. a Te] simus*! (ehma = adsma*(?)) [penitus] rogati* [de nostris necessitatibus (omnino ut iis succurras)|; (d) quaestio enim a Te [posita est] talis qualis hoc [ea] potentium (e) quum Tuus regnans-princeps optationem [i.e. voluntatem suam de scientia rerum spiritalium, i.e. quaestionem suam de salute] ponat 22 170 XLII. 10, 11. fi. e. enuntiet] potentem. *1 Vel fortasse (c): ‘Roga nos [eas interrogationes quae] Tibi (vel ‘Tui [Tuae]’) a (sic) nobis (= éhma*(?)) [a* Te*] rogatae, [i. e. quae in tempore futuro praeponendae sint], (d) interrogatio enim Tua [in nos* inspirata* est interrogatio] potentium, [dominorum nostrorum] (c) quum Tuus regnans [-princeps] optationem**, [i. e. voluntatem suam pet interrogationes de rebus vere optabilibus} reddat potentem, [i. e. quum sic voluntatem suam in re vera plene constituat]. *° Vel fortasse ‘precationem — pronuntiet’ (?) = aéshem dyad(i).
2] potentium, [dominorum nostrorum] (c) quum Tuus regnans [-princeps] optationem**, [i. e. voluntatem suam pet interrogationes de rebus vere optabilibus} reddat potentem, [i. e. quum sic voluntatem suam in re vera plene constituat]. *° Vel fortasse ‘precationem — pronuntiet’ (?) = aéshem dyad(i). ** Sunt qui ut sequitur reddant: (a) Ahura dicit ‘invoco’ (?sic)...; (e) quoniam [vel ‘ut’] Te capax (= khshaydas) [aliquis] contentum (= aéshem) reddat potentem (ex eo est quaestio tua quaestio potentium), Pahl. text translit. Aéttind Lak avd li yehabanait Aharayih amatat? hémanam? pavan karitiinishné? karittinam (b) pavan Bandak Minishnih avakih, amat zak i valman if biindak [minishnih® avé nafshman vaduniayén*(?)*; aigh zakich’ pavan dad ras aéttind avo nafshman shayad kardand, amat Aér- patistand bindak minishniha’ vadinyén. Yebevind mtn “Amikhtishnéd (sic)” a! gift]. (c) Pirsaich®? min lanman min'? Lak"! pavan zak pirsishné*!? [Dind*} - (d) maman pirsishnd Laké minat aétiind pavan zak i'® amAvandih, [pavan zak pursishnd] (e) amat avo!2 Lak padakhshahih'4, Atharmazd, pavan khvah- ishnd yehabinédé amavandih, [aigh, amat Diné* yemaleltinih, at amavandih yehevinéd'*]. +D. ‘ih i, *D. tan man, * DJ. ‘nih. ‘so DJ. ins. zak i aé; D. has zak i; M., K.5 zakai. © see P.; others om. © so all. 7 M. ins. 7, *® so DJ. ® D. °sihich. *'DJ., D. ins. min. *! D. ins. lak, 72 DJ; msi 2 DJvome 1, eee: bee shalita. + see P. throughout. Pahl. transl. Mayest Thou therefore give me Sanctity since I invoke Thee with invocations (b) with the accompaniment (or ‘assistance (?)’) of the Perfect Thought, when [they shall make] that which és that perfect* [thought their own, that is, that also it is necessary to make one’s own in the way prescribed by the law (or ‘in the appointed way’), if they would carry out with a perfect mind the priestly assemblies (or ‘studies’); some have said that ‘the perfect doctrine’ was the correct rendering]. (c) Ask Thou of us also those questions which are Thine, and contained in that questioning [which ts the Religion?]; (d) for the questioning is Thine* which is thus a0) reps UAE -sahnc. was BY -GEewES! 11. Text. 449 Qy3 4) $496 padays)ovg qv Ly +406 pd 62 )rbasey Hoyssingas -Hy2vedy sug eody ae sity? 0280609) a6 “OB How raginG pps bg sas) Seewsyrorwl wb) whe esse ssavsogaygaa6e)el eae Verbatim trl., etc. [Bene]-largientem [vel ‘sanctum (?)’] sic Te, Mazda, existimavi*', Ahura (b) quum me [Oboedientia, i. e. servus Tuus oboediens XLII. 10, 11. 171 Thine in power {in that questioning}, (e) since in Thy sovereignty, O Afthar- mazd, it gives forth power fin answer to prayer, [that is, when Thou de- clarest the Religion power is with Thee}. * Possibly ‘make Thou Thine own’. Ner.’s sansk. text.
3, i. e. servus Tuus oboediens XLII. 10, 11. 171 Thine in power {in that questioning}, (e) since in Thy sovereignty, O Afthar- mazd, it gives forth power fin answer to prayer, [that is, when Thou de- clarest the Religion power is with Thee}. * Possibly ‘make Thou Thine own’. Ner.’s sansk. text. Evari Tvati mahyari dehi punyam yad aharh prar- thanaya‘ (?) prarthaye (b) sarpirnamanasa Salimigrah? aparebhyac cha pari- pirnam, [kila, *tach cha yat sadachdrimarge evari svAdhinarn cakyate kartura chet adhyayanai saraptirnamanasa? kriyate]. (c) Prichchhach4’sman yaté Te* etasmin* pragne [Dinau] (d) pracno yatas Te yah evar tena utsdhena (e) yar tubhyarh raja Hormijdah abhipsaya® dadati utsdhari®, [kila, chet Dinith brite, tatas te utsdho’? bhavati]. + J.* *thana. *% J.4 sanmishté. * J,* om. from 3to manasa in sampurnam®. * J,3, J.4, J.* yat te tasmin. * J,4 °psyaya (sic). ® J. uchhaham (sic). 7 J.* diff. Ner. transi. Do Thou therefore give me the sanctity which I desire with desire (b) accompanied by mental perfection and also fully by the rest, [that is, give me that which it is indeed possible to make one’s own in the way of good action, if study is applied to it with mental perfection]. (c, d) Do Thou also question us for Thine is a question in this questioning [in (or ‘concerning’) the Din], because Thine is the question which is thus asked with this vigour, (e) the questioning which Hormijdah the Monarch gives thee* through desire (on account of thy wish for it) as strength, [that is, if He utters the Din, thence is thy* strength]. Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Edfim Ta 4n man deh* (?) Sawab, kih [] [tan = tan] [] {kih = amat(?)] pah khvandan khvanam (b) pah bundah minishni madad, kih 4n 7 fi ¢ bundah [minishni* = minishni] (an khvésh kunand, kf, 4n ham pah dad rah édtn 4n kKhvésh, |] (kunand = rdgénénd*], shayad kardan, kih magopatdari (sic) bundah minishni kunand*. Bavad kih amfkhtan guft + ya‘ni + guftan] (c) n. tr. pro pursich [] [kih = min| ma kih Ta pah an pursishn, [—] (d) chih pursishn 7 Ta kiyat édin, pah [] himmati + ya himmat {pah 4n pursishn] (e) kih [] {an = zak, « Ti padishahi [ | pah khyahishn dehad* himmati (sic vid) + himmat, [ki, kih Din gfiyad at himmat-_ mand (?) bashad] # * Or ‘dih®’, Free tr. Thus I conceived Thee bounteous, Ahura Mazda, When with the Good Mind’s help Obedience neared me, And with Your words my soul I first instructed; Woes that devoted one ’midst men forewarned me. Yet will I that fulfil named by Thee best! cum-interrogationibus (?)] Bona circumibat*, [i. e. ad me accedebat] Mente, (c) quum {verbis (hymnis) et mandatis] a-Vobis-dictis me-commoveo primum, (d) difficilia [et-res-aerumnas] mihi [me] hortans-docebat** (vel ‘mihi man- dabat**’) inter-homines cordi-addictus [Tuus nuntius, vel ‘cordis devotio*’} 172 XLUI. 11, 12. (e) hoc facere*2 quod mihi dicebatis*! optimum. * Vel conjunct. *? sic ad yerbum, sed fortasse verti potest: (e) ‘sed tamen hoc faciam’ (inf. loco imper.), etc. Pahl.
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