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

hortans-docebat** (vel ‘mihi mandabat**’) inter-homines cordi-addictus [Tuus nuntius, vel ‘cordis devotio*’}

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(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. text translit. Afztintk am! aétind? Lak minid hémanih?, Atharmazd, (b) amat avd li Vohimand bara mado (c) amat Lektim milaya pavan nikézishné nikézidé fratiim, [Dino*], (d) va tang tand avé li guft dén anshfitaan rabak-dahishnih, [aightand hana gift, aigh Dind* ribak kardandé dishkhvar4]. (e) Aétfind varzishnd yehabinam, aightand> avo li guft pahlaim, [akharich® ghal vadtinam-é7]. + DJ., D. ins. am. * DJ. ins. am. * M. %th (or ‘ai”), D. °nanih. * DJ. dtish-khvar. * DJ., D. mfin®.. § DJ., D. om. 7. “so DJ.

Pahl. transl. Bountiful thus Thou wert** thought by me, O Atharmazd, (b) when the Good Mind approached me, (c) and when he first observed with observation (or ‘expounded (?) with exposition (?)’ (not impossibly ‘when I first observed, etc.’ see ‘am’ in line a.)) Your word*!, [that is, Your Religion]; and Ye declared to me that its propagation* among mankind was difficult, [that is, this was said by You, that ¢t was difficult to make the Religion progressive]; (e) therefore I effect*! cts accomplishment™, for this Ye declared to me to de the best; [and afterwards also I would effect it}.

*1 Or, ‘so I do* the action’.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Mahattama[-mo*] mahyari evarh Tyarh Mahajianin, amaisthah Svamin, (b) yan? mahyarn Uttamath samagachchhat Manah, [Gvahmanahj, (¢) yaih Yayarh [lege Yushmakam] vanith prarohinapraropita*2 [(sic (?)]

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Spas 2449/9) wo byy aa -basysbyuu) 2 EO» wal AY C9 Verbatim trl., etc. Quoniam-que mihi [indicans et explicans| dicebas: ‘ad-Sanctitatem venias*1 ad cognoscendum, [i. e. ad-discendum proposita singula Meae disciplinae et voluntatis’], (b) igitur Tu mihi non [ne] inaudita*? impera*’, {hoc est, ne mihi doctrinas et mandata usque ad hue invito animo auditas promulgare impera], (c) {neve mihi impera] assurge** [vel ‘exire (i. e. assurge tu ad partes tuas sublimes, exi ad populum cum tuo nuntio salutis de caelo’| prius quam mihi [ad me] accedat[-det] (d) Oboedientia, [i. e: civis fidelis oboediens et oboedientiam in congregatione confirmans| cum*-sacropraemio [et] cum*-magna gloria [vel ‘magna[-nis] ope[-pibus ad sacram Causam sustinendam’] comitata|-tatus (vel ‘iis praeditus’)]}*, (e) qua [vel ‘ut’ illa oboep. 173prathamam, [Dinimn], (d) vishamaihcha mayi avochat antar manushyeshu pravrittidataye, [kila, idara avochat yat Déniti pravartamandam kartur vishamam*]. (e) Tad eva karmani daddémi yat mayi avochat utkrishtataraih ; [kila, tatha’pi karomi]. +J.3, 3.4, J.*, B., ©, yan. *J.3; J.

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prathamam, [Dinimn], (d) vishamaihcha mayi avochat antar manushyeshu pravrittidataye, [kila, idara avochat yat Déniti pravartamandam kartur vishamam*]. (e) Tad eva karmani daddémi yat mayi avochat utkrishtataraih ; [kila, tatha’pi karomi]. +J.3, 3.4, J.*, B., ©, yan. *J.3; J. separates “hina praropita; J.* praro-na (so); at Y. 44, 15. d. J.? na praropita; J.* -hinam; J.* -hinam, (lege prarohina (?) prapropayatha, 2n4 pl., or “payita.)

Ner. trl. Thus Thou wert thought greatest*! to (or ‘by’) me, O Great Wise One the Lord, (b) when the best mind [Gvahmana] approached me (c) which word Ye* translate ((?) or ‘expound’ (reading °payatha) ‘with translation’ (lit. ‘transplant --’), ({or reading ‘Yushmdkam for Yuyam’ and “°payita’, ‘of which word J am an expounder’, or ‘he* expounded’)| first, [that 7s the Din], (d) and he declared to me that it was difficult for (ie. that there was a difficulty in) the production of progress among men, [that is, he said that it was difficult to make the Din current among men]. (e) In this manner do I produce in action that which he declared to* me to be most excellent, [that is, thus also do I perform it]. * Not ‘O greater one’.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit, Afztini-kunand (pro kunandah) édin Ti andéshid hasti, Hérmuzd*, (b) kih 4n man Bahman bih rasid (c) kih Shuma sakhun pah yaftan (sic vid.) bidar avval [ [pah = pavan] Din], (d) kahili-kunandahgan an man [Din = Din] guft andar Adamiyan (sic) rava-dahishn, [kfi, (4gh sic) tan in guft ki Din rava-kardan sakhti hast] * (e) Edan iktyar*-deham®* [] {kih = mén (?)] tan An man [Din = Din] guft buland, pas ham 6 (vel ‘fi’) kunam] *% *! So better.

Free tr. And since Thou saidest: ‘Come for light to Asha*’.
Command me not the things ill-heard to herald,

Nor to go forth, e’er he that friend approach me,

Obedience hand -joined with weal and splendour

Whereby for striver’s help reward he gives.

dientia, i.e. ille oboediens] (dis*- [= vi]) praemia-beata certantibus [civibus pro fide contendentibus*! ad-iis|-benefaciendo[-dum] discernens-tribuat. *! Vel fortasse ‘Tu veniens in* edocendo’ (sic), i.e. ‘nos Tuam disciplinam edocens’. * sunt qui vertant ‘Tu mihi non in-mea-inoboedientia imperayisti, i. e. mandato Tuo oboedivi’. ** vel fortasse ‘incitare’, ut ‘incitem’, vide s. XIV (14), **vel semper verti potest ‘e lignis duobus (lege ranoibya (cp. Ved. arani) duobus ‘lignis ignem accendentibus’. Pahl. text translit. Mdanich tind* avo lit giftd, aighatt avd Ahardyih yamtinishnd kabed; (b) aétfind Lak 14 min? zak? i? li? anyOkshidérth? madam gift, [la anydkshidariht mint li raft bids5, amat tand hana gift, atgh® kevan yehabintano’ 14 shayad]. (c) l4l& henjishnih® pésh min zak vad? amat®+* avo? li zak° yamtinéd (d) Srésh aharib, [vat Vishtasp'] minash zak i? mas radé levatman! [Zaratisht*], (e) min, barat, rast avd patkardérand'®, std, yehabiinéd [zak Vishtaspd], +See P. *DJ., D. ins. *DJ., D, *DJ., D. om,

174 XLII. 12, 13. min zak. > D. yeheyiind.

jishnih® pésh min zak vad? amat®+* avo? li zak° yamtinéd (d) Srésh aharib, [vat Vishtasp'] minash zak i? mas radé levatman! [Zaratisht*], (e) min, barat, rast avd patkardérand'®, std, yehabiinéd [zak Vishtaspd], +See P. *DJ., D. ins. *DJ., D, *DJ., D. om,

174 XLII. 12, 13. min zak. > D. yeheyiind. ‘see P. 7D. ‘ind. *DJ, D. * DJ., D., M. vad amat. D. om. “DJ. rad. ** D. ins. mtn over orig. **D. ins. hémanam later. **D. pavan. 1D. °dar®.

Pahl. transl., -- you who*! also said to me thus: ‘By (or through’) Thee there is [or ‘there should be’ (inf.* in ishn* for imper.)| an abundant coming unto Sanctity; (b)it was therefore from no refusal on my part to hear Thee that is was declared by Thee, [that is, it was not on account of a refusal to hear on my part when this was said by You, that it is not necessary (or ‘fitting’) to grant that gift* at present], (c) [i. e.] the rising-up, now before that he (Srésh) comes to me, (d) Srosh the holy [and Vishtésp], together with whom #s also that great chieftain [Zaratisht], (e) who, in addition* (? bara = vi), gives (or ‘who will give’) justice (i. e. ‘a just decision’) as an advantageous blessing to the disputants, [that is, that Vishtasp* gives it]. *1 Or ‘min = amat = since’.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Yach cha mayi avochah: ‘punyapraptih prabhitatara”, (b) evarh Tvarh me, na acrotritvat2+% (?), avochah, [na acrutikarita* ya me abhit, yat Tvath idath avochah, yat muhur datum* na cakyate] (c) uchchair utthanaya purah* yavan mayi saiiprapnoti (d) Crocah, punyatma [Gustaspah], a0 )rqya SUAHiG -sw9hne wast OY -GECMEID 13. Text.

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: ower ang asp yea tals.cgy4. rap -asrseyary garg

Reply 2b) GSpo¢y eepsuseo 40 Py ap boo gar ously Verbatim transl. (with full paraphrase). [Bene] -largientem [vel ‘sanctum’ (?)] sic Te, Mazda, existimavi, Ahura, (b) quum me [Oboedientia (?); i. e. civis sanctus oboediens, cp. abmai, s. I, II, etc.] Bona circumibat, [i. e. ad me accedebat] Mente. (c) Recta-proposita [optionis meae vel ‘desiderii-religiosi mei’ (voluntatis sincerae meae de sacrificio et de cultu Tui, Domine Dee*, idoneo, et de debito meo politico et morali in sacra* nostra civitate), haec recta proposita| desiderii facere*!-ut-obtineamus*t (vel ‘ut a nobis sciantur™!), i. e. ea obtine*t pro nobis (vel ‘fac ut ea sciamus*!’) (infin. loco imper.) [ut ea enuntiemus], hunc [hoc propositum meae voluntatis] mihi date, (d) [desiderium, i. e. rem desideratam] longae-vitae, [i.e. longaevitatem hac et illac] quem [quod, vel quam] a-Vobis nemo audacitate-extorqueat™ (sic, lege darSaité** ([vel ‘in quem [in quod beneficium et propositum] Vestrum [a Vobis designatum] nemo audet [-deat (lege darSta vel ‘deresta’) inire (= ité**)] (e) illius desiderabilis mundi [vitam (vel ‘beneficium’) mihi date] quae [vita,

*mahadatra [Jarathugtrena*] sarnmicrah® (e) yo viceshatah satyath prativadibhyah labham dadati.

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