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

positum] Vestrum [a Vobis designatum] nemo audet [-deat (lege darSta vel ‘deresta’) inire (= ité**)] (e) illius desiderabilis mundi [vitam (vel ‘beneficium’) mihi date] quae [vita,

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*mahadatra [Jarathugtrena*] sarnmicrah® (e) yo viceshatah satyath prativadibhyah labham dadati. + J.4, J* ‘ram. ?J,4 °taratvat. * J.*, J. ins. upari, *J.4 puruh; J.* punah. * J.* om. from 5 to 5 inclus.

Ner. transl. And when Thou declaredst to* me: ‘the approach to Sanctity 7s more (most) abundant’, (b) then Thou said’st to me that it was from no disobedience, [that is, 7 was no disobedience* which was mine when Thou said’st this, that it was not possible to grant that excellent gift avew (sic)| (c) for the uprising, before that he reaches me, (d) he Cro¢a, the purein-soul [7. e. Gustaspa (?)], the one allied*-and-accompanied [with Jarathustra] the great* bestower (or ‘the bestower* of great* things*’) (e) who (Groca or G.) especially bestows the truth as a saving-acquisition upon the disputants.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Kih ham tan an man [Din = Din] guft, kt [} [tan= tan] Savab rasidan bisyar; (b) édin Tf ra (sic) az 4n ¢ man, nah-shunayidari (?) ava guft, (ka = dgh] nah shunavidari [] ¢ [Din = Din] man ra bid, kih tan in guft, [] aknfin(?) dad nah shayad], (c) bala buland pésh az 4n ta kih [Vishtasp = Vishtdsp| an man [] rasad % (d) Srésh ashé, [[] Vishtasp] [rasid = mad] kiyash an 7 meh sakhi(?) ava [Zaratusht [hastam = hdminam]], (e) kih [] [pah = pavan] rast an dalil-kunandahgan, sud dad, [4n Vishtasp] »

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Free tr. Thus I conceived Thee bounteous, Ahura Mazda,
When with the Good Mind’s help Obedience neared me;
Aims of my will to gain this wish then give me,

Long life, that boon which none from Thee hath wrested,
Gifts in Thy Realm give too most choice declared.

vel ‘qui mundus’] in Tuo Regno esse dicta{-tus] est. *! ‘Fines propositas desiderii [mei] scire’, [i. e. ‘ut sciat ille*]’, sic longe non; vide Y. 33, 8 ubi voizh® non sic vertere possumus.

Pahl. text transl. ‘*Afztinik? aétind am? Lak minid hémanih, Atharmazd, (b) amat avé li Vohtiman baré madd. (c) Zak i valman‘ dinad® nivékinidar (sic, lege ‘nivédinidér’) kamak6, [min dina® avd! aishin’ nivékinéd® (nivédinéd)], zak avd li yehabinéd®, (mozd] (d) pavan dér yamtinishnih i jan [pavan tand* i pasind‘], min avd hand! i?+1 Lekaim 1a aish pavan’ nikézishn6" satindd'4, (e) Pavan! kamako! yekavimtinad! afash! hand‘ {'§ Lak khadayih gifts, [aigh, aétind chigind li yekavimiinad! aish 14 yekavimainad!].

*See P. ?D ins. am. * DJ. ins. am. * DJ. avd; D. valman i. * DJ. dina; D. dadistand. °so DJ. -7DJ. aishan(?). %so D. néd; M. nivékéd (sic). ° DJ., M. °néd. 7° DJ., D. om. va; M. ins. *DJ., D. hana. 12 D. om. i. 1? DJ. ins. 14. 4* DJ. yazishnih(?) satundd. ** D. hana i; DJ. hana; M., K.® aé i.

Pahl. transl.

?D ins. am. * DJ. ins. am. * DJ. avd; D. valman i. * DJ. dina; D. dadistand. °so DJ. -7DJ. aishan(?). %so D. néd; M. nivékéd (sic). ° DJ., M. °néd. 7° DJ., D. om. va; M. ins. *DJ., D. hana. 12 D. om. i. 1? DJ. ins. 14. 4* DJ. yazishnih(?) satundd. ** D. hana i; DJ. hana; M., K.® aé i.

Pahl. transl. Bountiful thus Thou wert* thought by me, O Atharmazd, (b) when Vohtiman approached me; (c) do Ye grant me therefore [as a reward] that which is a desire of him who is the announcer of the opinion

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(or ‘decrees’) [of him who announces the decree to persons] (d) in the long future of life {in the future* body], into which as being Yours no one has come through his insight. (e) According to desire [i. e. desirable] also this Thy sovereignty was (or possibly ‘let it be’) declared by (or ‘to’) him, [that is, thus as mine it was (or ‘let it be’): another’s it was not (or ‘let it not be 9h

Ner.’s sansk. text. Mahattama[-mo] mahyarh evar Tvath, Mahajiianin, amaiisthah, Svamin, (b) yan! mahyaii Uttamarh samagachchhat Manah, [Gvahmanah]. (c) Nydyanivedayituh? kamarh tar mahyai dehi, [yo nyayati kebhyagchit nivedayati, tasya prasadam mahyath dehi] (d) dirghapraptau? jivasya [vapushi pagchatye*] yo [lege accus.(?)] Yushmakari na kacchit upakramena pra(cha)chara®. (e) Svechchhaya’stu, yat Yushmakam rajyai uktarh, [tasmin rajye, kila, evan yath@hat atishthai ko ’pi na atishthat}.

* All yan. ? J.* is reported-yitwhuh (sic); J.3, J.* tuka. °J.4, J* *noti; J.3 nan for tau (?); P. °no; C. *noti. J. seems pacchyatte (sic). ® Corrected from prachara.

Ner. transl. Thus Thou wert* thought greatest to* (or ‘by’) me, O Great Wise One the Lord, (b) when the most exalted (the good) mind [Gvahmana] came to me; (c) grant me the desire of him who proclaims the regu-

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Verbatim transl. (with full paraphrase). Quoniam* vir amico possidens [vel ‘scientia-religiosa-instructus (sacrorum nostrorum solemnibus initiatus)’] potens, |i. e. viribus et opibus abundans, adjumentum] det, (b) [tum] mihi, Mazda, Tui [-uam me-] gaudio-afficientem-gratiam, [nos Tua doctrina] instruentem [des], (c) quum Tuo Regno [vel Potestate-regali-armatus| Religiositate (*sic) ex [Sanctitatis ratione] praesto* (d) exire-ad (assurgere-ad), [vel fortasse ‘incitare, ut incitem’] ego*? principes* doctrinae, [i. e. summos principes sacerdotes doctrinam defendentes et promulgantes ([vel ‘[ego] princeps-propheta (sardando nom. sing. masc. = mathra ’)))|} (e) una-cum his omnibus qui Tibi [vel Tua] Sacra-Verba-rationis memorantes-et-memoriter-recitant[-tent].

** Id est ‘summa imperii suscepi’. ** i. e, ‘exire ad (vel ‘incitare’) principes’.

Pahl. text translit.

promulgantes ([vel ‘[ego] princeps-propheta (sardando nom. sing. masc. = mathra ’)))|} (e) una-cum his omnibus qui Tibi [vel Tua] Sacra-Verba-rationis memorantes-et-memoriter-recitant[-tent].

** Id est ‘summa imperii suscepi’. ** i. e, ‘exire ad (vel ‘incitare’) principes’.

Pahl. text translit. tAmat avo gabra #2 déstd i AkAs-dahishno? sid yehabiinéd, [aigh, std vadinyén], (b) avé li, Adharmazd, aé+ Lak raminidarih>+, vae++ kabed, [am yehabinail (c) min avd Lak Khshatraver min Aharayihp. 177 lation (or ‘law’), [grant me the reward of him who proclaims the regulation to any one] (d) in the long acquisition of life, [in the later body] in which* [yasmin (?) (or ‘toward which’, read the accus.)] as Yours no one has advanced through his own enterprise*!, (for read ‘yo’ ‘no one(?) whosoever (?) as Yours has advanced {in the final body] through enterprise’}). (e) Let what is said to be Your Kingdom be in accordance with one’s* own* desire* (hardly ‘when Your Kingdom is proclaimed let it be so with spontaneity’* (?)) [in this Kingdom, i.e. no one else has that standing in it which I possess (lit. ‘as I stand 7m 7¢’)|. *' Did Ner. read dorest for darst, and, thinking of dvar, render upakramena instead of a form of dric?; see the Pahl.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Afzini-kunand(ah) [man= am] édtin[] Ta andéshid hast(i), Hormuzd, (b) kih 4n man Bahman bih rasid. (c) An ¢ tt [andar = dayen] dadistan infizal + kardan kamah [az = min] [kih dadistin [] [ashan = ashdn] infizal + kardan], an an man dehad [muzd] (d) pah dér rasidan ¢ jan [pah tan 7@ pasin] [muzd = mozd], kih an [] [andar = dayen] Shuma nah kas, pah didan ravad * (e) [] in ¢ Ti khudai guft, [kt, édiin chin man éstaéd [hastam = hémiinam*], kas nah éstad [avar Din ¢ Tai = madam Din i Lak] x

Free tr. As the possessor gifts on friend bestoweth

So give to me, O Lord, rejoicing light

When in Thy kingdom, righteousness my motive,

Forth to arouse* I stand ’mid chiefs of doctrine

With all whose memories* Thy Manthras speak. avakih farmidd, (d) aigh, lala7+1 henj sattinand va’ sardar® i? danak, [vas Dastobar| i giftar i? Dind*, [aigh Zaratisht bard yehabtin] (e) levatman harvispan6!? valmanshand min hana i Lak Mansar héshmirénd*, [levatman Diné*? birdarand]. 'See P. throughout. ?D. ins. ?DJ., D. *D. and i. °DJ., D.; M. "dar - ODJ..,.... om: "DJ., Dale Kes Mo only la, = DJ., D. om, © Mf.(?)) °darih. PUD ecteuno (ses Mite. OMe. Ds insaets

Pahl. transl Since one gives an advantage to a friend who is instructed (or ‘since he who is (i hast*) instructed gives--- etc.’) [that is, since they will (or possibly ‘that is, do Thou*’) confer an advantage upon him], (b) (do Thou grant) me, O Atharmazd, this Thy rejoicing and abundantly (c) that which was ordered for Thy Khshathra (or ‘which Thy Kh.