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1that it will not fall]? Who made the waters, and the plants?; (d) from whom is 7# when they yoke*t-on the wind and the cloud, swift ones as they are, [for their*? (spontaneous”) activity]?; (e) whose*® O Attharmazd, (see P. az min) is also a8 ) eps sup basly wg aye) 49496) gay ase ‘eee 5. Text. 1 Sid 9 49 6409 6 E69 es saprrguopbas) ~ £489 gj.) Qy? ze) -aspang uo) "es AU GEOIInY — £489.04) Q)) “£9 sau aay ayanasia dy swasorgce)s ENO) sO 9 Ssworqpreoc) as -GEqequs rena ba6any aye) bbspasg + 40 AL Verbatim transi., etc. Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, Ahura; (b) quis, artifex-bonus, lumina[(?) fortasse lumina in domibus* (?), vel ‘lumina stellarum’, XL. 4,5. ' 189 Free tr. This ask I Thee, aright, Ahura, tell me, Who ever* earth and sky from falling guardeth? Who hath save* Thee* brought forth rivers and forests Who with the winds hath yoked storm-clouds spanned* racers* Who of the Good Mind’s grace ever was source? the creation(?) of Vohiman, [that is, of** Vohiman whose* is the creation]? *1 Oy ‘they move on quickly’ (aytizénd). ** reading Pers. lak for ayo: ‘ds ct Thine efficiency which produces this’, see y. 8, d. ** or poss. ‘who (?) is the creation of Vohiman’? ** this gloss is to emphasize the gen. ‘Ner.’s sansk. text. pirvoktavat jieyam. (b) Ko dhatte jagatim cha an- adharatvet "pi, [kila, adharo jagatya? na’sti] (c) anipatinith? [Idarhcha vedmi yat na nipatati]; kah* apo vanaspatimcha [dadau]?; (d) kasmat vata? arbbu- dagcha upakramanti acu, [satkaryaya‘]?; (e) ka Uttamasya, Mahajianin, srishtir Manasah? [Gvahmanasya srishtih ka]? *P.; J.“ amadhyaratve. *so J.5, J.*, J.4, P., C. ? so J.4. 4J.* satyak-, J. satk®, Ner. transl. (a) To be understood as above. (b): Who holds the world in a non-supported state ?, [that is, there is no support for the earth; how as this?]; (c) and who secures its non-falling, [for this I know that it does not fall]?; who [made] the waters, and the tree(s)?; (d) by whom do the winds and the clouds advance rapidly* (reading ‘aytizénd’) [for beneficence] ?; (e) what is the creation of the best, (i. e. of the Good) Mind, O Great Wise One?, [that is, what is the creation of Gvahmana?]. Parsi-persian Ms. trit. An ¢@ az Tu pursam, rast 4n man go (sic) Hormuzd; (b) kih darad zamin pah na-darishn [ki[-sh = -ash] [] [dashtan = ddshtan] [] 7 géti nist]? (c) [] [6 (vel ‘i’) bih = val** bana*] uftadan [é in (?) dinam kit bih nah uftad]; * kih av u firvar [dad]? (d){] [kih = min] kih*, kih* bad abr* (sic corr.)* (sic?) balatar (sic videtur, sed fortasse sit legendum ‘balantar*’ (?) vel melius balanad = ‘facit ut se moveant*’) tiz[[] [n. tr. pro rak (sic videtur, cf. stropham III, lak= tvad(t))], khvésh- kari ?]; ** (c) [az = min] kih Hormuzd, [] Bahman pédaish*!, [ki Bahman pédaish*+ - kih [dehad = ddbiinéd] *? * Vel ‘paidayish’. Free tr.
2fortasse sit legendum ‘balantar*’ (?) vel melius balanad = ‘facit ut se moveant*’) tiz[[] [n. tr. pro rak (sic videtur, cf. stropham III, lak= tvad(t))], khvésh- kari ?]; ** (c) [az = min] kih Hormuzd, [] Bahman pédaish*!, [ki Bahman pédaish*+ - kih [dehad = ddbiinéd] *? * Vel ‘paidayish’. Free tr. This ask I Thee, aright, Ahura, tell me, Who with skilled* hand* the lights* made?; who the darkness? Who, with wise* deed* hath giv’n sleep and our waking* ? Who hath Auroras spread, noontides, and midnights, Warning discerning man, calling to toil? sed vide stropham III] dedit [et creavit], tenebras-que? (¢) Quis, artificiosus, somnum vitamque-sedulam, |i. e. expergefactionem]; (d) quis ea [eas creavit] quae*! auroras|-rae sint], meridies, noctesque, (e) quae [ut] monitores {virum] intelligentem [-sanctum] officii [de officio ejus] monent|-neant]] ? ‘Vel ‘quis (constituit eam legem] secundum-quam aurorae etc.: {immo secundum] quam [vel ‘ut (ya = yéna)’] monitores [moneant - -]’; ve lege ‘yao = quae aur, sint’, 190 XLIV. 5, 6. A AA Pahl. text translit. Zak} i min Lak pirsém!, rasté avé li yemalelinai, Atharmazd; (b) min pavan? ht-ayafaki* [sic] réshanih yehabinds? Man tarikih?; (c) min pavan hi-aydfaki** khvap** yehabind va ztvy-havandth [va tikhshakth’]?; (d) man hish® rapisavin (or rapithavin’) va® lélya [hishand va rapisavin (or ‘rapithavin’’) va damanak is lélya min yehabiind] (e) min padmané i valman i aimar vijardar pavan dina, [aigh, zak damAnako i? amat Sdshans’? yamtinéd!? min yehabtind]? *D, ins. i, *D, om. pavan. *so DJ.; see P. *so D.; DJ. diff. spell’g. on marg. K.° bidarih. °D. ins. va. ™so D.; see P.: *D. insist = DP ing. is 190 DS, Pahl. transl. That which I ask of Thee, tell me aright, O Atharmazd; (b) who by a happy discovery (or ‘attainment’) created the light ?, who the darkness?; (c) who by a fortunate discovery* produced sleep and waking (lit. life-likeness, liveliness), [that is energy]?; (d) who created the dawn, noon, and the night?; [that is, who made the small hours (héshashin) and the noon and the season of night?] (e) which are*! (or ‘ which furnish *) the rule*1 for“ the reminding™ of him who is the distinguisher of the decree, [that is, who determines (or ‘which determine’ (not a question)) that period when Sdshans shall come?*] * Perhaps manadthris is twice translated by padmén, and amar, if so we should use ‘or’, ‘rule’ (or ‘reminder’), or ‘man’ may = padman, and ‘thris’ may have recalled ‘three’; ‘which are (or ‘give’) the rule of the distinguisher of the number**’ ais) yeypas wp daly he watye)e -.a09¢) gay suse ‘eee 6. Text. 499 Gory OH 4090 SOMO a s9pstydy0»9300) “40 C9 139902506 (41) )as oem jeg rats 2aspeb bs sgaty ges * «ANd Gp 3.49)496 Dw} Ip vb 6) Garpsyady bass, S60 Supa CHU 629024) ¢g39—boaju) ahs bas 24o4g Verbatim transl.
3her of the number**’ ais) yeypas wp daly he watye)e -.a09¢) gay suse ‘eee 6. Text. 499 Gory OH 4090 SOMO a s9pstydy0»9300) “40 C9 139902506 (41) )as oem jeg rats 2aspeb bs sgaty ges * «ANd Gp 3.49)496 Dw} Ip vb 6) Garpsyady bass, S60 Supa CHU 629024) ¢g39—boaju) ahs bas 24o4g Verbatim transl. (with paraphrase) Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi die, O Ahura; (b) [de iis] quae enuntiabo (Te interrogo], si [vero] -ea ita res-verae, [vel ‘negotia re-vera-exsistentia’ sint]? (¢) Utrum Sanctitatem [vero] in-[vel ‘de-’] actionibus [nostris] promoveat Pietas [prompta mens] a Te in nostros animos nunc de novo inspirata necne, [i. €. utrum instimulet sanctitatem quum in actionibus caerimoniorum sacrorum tum in factis honestis omnino in vita quotidiana|?; (c) [utrum] his [Tuis sanctis] Regnum, [hoc est, auctoritatem- sacram-regalem] Bona constituens-assignet [illa Devotio (‘vel Pietas’)| Mente] {necne]? (d) Quibus [in gratiam quorum vere] maternam* gaudii-efficientem Bovem* creavisti?; [nonne in gratiam nostrum ?] Pahl. text transl. ‘Zaki i min Lak pirsém?, rast avd li yemalelinai, XLIV. 5, 6. 191 Ner.’s sansk. transf. (a) Parvoktavat* jieyam. (b) Kah sunirikshane ro- chirnshi dadau; kagcha tamisram*!? (c) Kah sunirikshane svapnaih? dadau, Jagaranam cha[adhyavasdyath]"1?; (d)ko yah hucainakalam rapithvanakalaih cha’ ratreh®?; [pirvardhakdlamh (sic) apardrdhakdAlaii cha (sic) ratreh?, ko dadau], (e) yag¢cha pramanath sarhkhyar vivektuh(r)4 nyayena, [kila, tarh kalaih yatra Cociosah prapnoti ko dadau]? ‘J.* tamishtam; J.* *micrath. 2C. °P. ‘all °ktu. Ner. transl. (a) To be understood as above. (b) Who gave us the lights with his keen discrimination; and who the darkness?; (c) who, in his keen discrimination, gave us our sleep and waking, [that is, diligence (or ‘activity’)]?; (d) who is He who gave the time of hucaina, and the time of rapithvana and of the night?, [that is, who made the first half, and the latter half of the night (?sic)?], (e) who also gave us the method and the calculation of him who discerns by means of the rule?, [that is, who has appointed the time when Cociosa shald come] ? Parsi-persian Ms. trit. An 7 az Tf pursam, rast an man g0* (sic), Hérmuzd; (b) kih [] nék-yaftan*? rfishani (vel ‘résh®’) dad?; kih tariki? *; (¢) kih [] nék-yaftan khvab (sic) darad (?), [] tuvani, [kushishn]? (d) [Va=va] kih hash u rapisavin® (sic loco rapis°) u lélyé? [Héshan u rapisavin (sic videtur loco rapis*) u zaman i lélyéa kih dédj?; x (e) kih andazah ¢ fi [riz = jdm] ¢ shumar vazardar pah dadistén?; [kti, Aan zaman kih Soshyés rasad kih dad]? 1* = °Ay4fishni. Free tr.
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.
1that it will not fall]? Who made the waters, and the plants?; (d) from whom is 7# when they yoke*t-on the wind and the cloud, swift ones as they are, [for their*? (spontaneous”) activity]?; (e) whose*® O Attharmazd, (see P. az min) is also a8 ) eps sup basly wg aye) 49496) gay ase ‘eee 5. Text. 1 Sid 9 49 6409 6 E69 es saprrguopbas) ~ £489 gj.) Qy? ze) -aspang uo) "es AU GEOIInY — £489.04) Q)) “£9 sau aay ayanasia dy swasorgce)s ENO) sO 9 Ssworqpreoc) as -GEqequs rena ba6any aye) bbspasg + 40 AL Verbatim transi., etc. Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, Ahura; (b) quis, artifex-bonus, lumina[(?) fortasse lumina in domibus* (?), vel ‘lumina stellarum’, XL. 4,5. ' 189 Free tr. This ask I Thee, aright, Ahura, tell me, Who ever* earth and sky from falling guardeth? Who hath save* Thee* brought forth rivers and forests Who with the winds hath yoked storm-clouds spanned* racers* Who of the Good Mind’s grace ever was source? the creation(?) of Vohiman, [that is, of** Vohiman whose* is the creation]? *1 Oy ‘they move on quickly’ (aytizénd). ** reading Pers. lak for ayo: ‘ds ct Thine efficiency which produces this’, see y. 8, d. ** or poss. ‘who (?) is the creation of Vohiman’? ** this gloss is to emphasize the gen. ‘Ner.’s sansk. text. pirvoktavat jieyam. (b) Ko dhatte jagatim cha an- adharatvet "pi, [kila, adharo jagatya? na’sti] (c) anipatinith? [Idarhcha vedmi yat na nipatati]; kah* apo vanaspatimcha [dadau]?; (d) kasmat vata? arbbu- dagcha upakramanti acu, [satkaryaya‘]?; (e) ka Uttamasya, Mahajianin, srishtir Manasah? [Gvahmanasya srishtih ka]? *P.; J.“ amadhyaratve. *so J.5, J.*, J.4, P., C. ? so J.4. 4J.* satyak-, J. satk®, Ner. transl. (a) To be understood as above. (b): Who holds the world in a non-supported state ?, [that is, there is no support for the earth; how as this?]; (c) and who secures its non-falling, [for this I know that it does not fall]?; who [made] the waters, and the tree(s)?; (d) by whom do the winds and the clouds advance rapidly* (reading ‘aytizénd’) [for beneficence] ?; (e) what is the creation of the best, (i. e. of the Good) Mind, O Great Wise One?, [that is, what is the creation of Gvahmana?]. Parsi-persian Ms. trit. An ¢@ az Tu pursam, rast 4n man go (sic) Hormuzd; (b) kih darad zamin pah na-darishn [ki[-sh = -ash] [] [dashtan = ddshtan] [] 7 géti nist]? (c) [] [6 (vel ‘i’) bih = val** bana*] uftadan [é in (?) dinam kit bih nah uftad]; * kih av u firvar [dad]? (d){] [kih = min] kih*, kih* bad abr* (sic corr.)* (sic?) balatar (sic videtur, sed fortasse sit legendum ‘balantar*’ (?) vel melius balanad = ‘facit ut se moveant*’) tiz[[] [n. tr. pro rak (sic videtur, cf. stropham III, lak= tvad(t))], khvésh- kari ?]; ** (c) [az = min] kih Hormuzd, [] Bahman pédaish*!, [ki Bahman pédaish*+ - kih [dehad = ddbiinéd] *? * Vel ‘paidayish’. Free tr.
2fortasse sit legendum ‘balantar*’ (?) vel melius balanad = ‘facit ut se moveant*’) tiz[[] [n. tr. pro rak (sic videtur, cf. stropham III, lak= tvad(t))], khvésh- kari ?]; ** (c) [az = min] kih Hormuzd, [] Bahman pédaish*!, [ki Bahman pédaish*+ - kih [dehad = ddbiinéd] *? * Vel ‘paidayish’. Free tr. This ask I Thee, aright, Ahura, tell me, Who with skilled* hand* the lights* made?; who the darkness? Who, with wise* deed* hath giv’n sleep and our waking* ? Who hath Auroras spread, noontides, and midnights, Warning discerning man, calling to toil? sed vide stropham III] dedit [et creavit], tenebras-que? (¢) Quis, artificiosus, somnum vitamque-sedulam, |i. e. expergefactionem]; (d) quis ea [eas creavit] quae*! auroras|-rae sint], meridies, noctesque, (e) quae [ut] monitores {virum] intelligentem [-sanctum] officii [de officio ejus] monent|-neant]] ? ‘Vel ‘quis (constituit eam legem] secundum-quam aurorae etc.: {immo secundum] quam [vel ‘ut (ya = yéna)’] monitores [moneant - -]’; ve lege ‘yao = quae aur, sint’, 190 XLIV. 5, 6. A AA Pahl. text translit. Zak} i min Lak pirsém!, rasté avé li yemalelinai, Atharmazd; (b) min pavan? ht-ayafaki* [sic] réshanih yehabinds? Man tarikih?; (c) min pavan hi-aydfaki** khvap** yehabind va ztvy-havandth [va tikhshakth’]?; (d) man hish® rapisavin (or rapithavin’) va® lélya [hishand va rapisavin (or ‘rapithavin’’) va damanak is lélya min yehabiind] (e) min padmané i valman i aimar vijardar pavan dina, [aigh, zak damAnako i? amat Sdshans’? yamtinéd!? min yehabtind]? *D, ins. i, *D, om. pavan. *so DJ.; see P. *so D.; DJ. diff. spell’g. on marg. K.° bidarih. °D. ins. va. ™so D.; see P.: *D. insist = DP ing. is 190 DS, Pahl. transl. That which I ask of Thee, tell me aright, O Atharmazd; (b) who by a happy discovery (or ‘attainment’) created the light ?, who the darkness?; (c) who by a fortunate discovery* produced sleep and waking (lit. life-likeness, liveliness), [that is energy]?; (d) who created the dawn, noon, and the night?; [that is, who made the small hours (héshashin) and the noon and the season of night?] (e) which are*! (or ‘ which furnish *) the rule*1 for“ the reminding™ of him who is the distinguisher of the decree, [that is, who determines (or ‘which determine’ (not a question)) that period when Sdshans shall come?*] * Perhaps manadthris is twice translated by padmén, and amar, if so we should use ‘or’, ‘rule’ (or ‘reminder’), or ‘man’ may = padman, and ‘thris’ may have recalled ‘three’; ‘which are (or ‘give’) the rule of the distinguisher of the number**’ ais) yeypas wp daly he watye)e -.a09¢) gay suse ‘eee 6. Text. 499 Gory OH 4090 SOMO a s9pstydy0»9300) “40 C9 139902506 (41) )as oem jeg rats 2aspeb bs sgaty ges * «ANd Gp 3.49)496 Dw} Ip vb 6) Garpsyady bass, S60 Supa CHU 629024) ¢g39—boaju) ahs bas 24o4g Verbatim transl.
3her of the number**’ ais) yeypas wp daly he watye)e -.a09¢) gay suse ‘eee 6. Text. 499 Gory OH 4090 SOMO a s9pstydy0»9300) “40 C9 139902506 (41) )as oem jeg rats 2aspeb bs sgaty ges * «ANd Gp 3.49)496 Dw} Ip vb 6) Garpsyady bass, S60 Supa CHU 629024) ¢g39—boaju) ahs bas 24o4g Verbatim transl. (with paraphrase) Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi die, O Ahura; (b) [de iis] quae enuntiabo (Te interrogo], si [vero] -ea ita res-verae, [vel ‘negotia re-vera-exsistentia’ sint]? (¢) Utrum Sanctitatem [vero] in-[vel ‘de-’] actionibus [nostris] promoveat Pietas [prompta mens] a Te in nostros animos nunc de novo inspirata necne, [i. €. utrum instimulet sanctitatem quum in actionibus caerimoniorum sacrorum tum in factis honestis omnino in vita quotidiana|?; (c) [utrum] his [Tuis sanctis] Regnum, [hoc est, auctoritatem- sacram-regalem] Bona constituens-assignet [illa Devotio (‘vel Pietas’)| Mente] {necne]? (d) Quibus [in gratiam quorum vere] maternam* gaudii-efficientem Bovem* creavisti?; [nonne in gratiam nostrum ?] Pahl. text transl. ‘Zaki i min Lak pirsém?, rast avd li yemalelinai, XLIV. 5, 6. 191 Ner.’s sansk. transf. (a) Parvoktavat* jieyam. (b) Kah sunirikshane ro- chirnshi dadau; kagcha tamisram*!? (c) Kah sunirikshane svapnaih? dadau, Jagaranam cha[adhyavasdyath]"1?; (d)ko yah hucainakalam rapithvanakalaih cha’ ratreh®?; [pirvardhakdlamh (sic) apardrdhakdAlaii cha (sic) ratreh?, ko dadau], (e) yag¢cha pramanath sarhkhyar vivektuh(r)4 nyayena, [kila, tarh kalaih yatra Cociosah prapnoti ko dadau]? ‘J.* tamishtam; J.* *micrath. 2C. °P. ‘all °ktu. Ner. transl. (a) To be understood as above. (b) Who gave us the lights with his keen discrimination; and who the darkness?; (c) who, in his keen discrimination, gave us our sleep and waking, [that is, diligence (or ‘activity’)]?; (d) who is He who gave the time of hucaina, and the time of rapithvana and of the night?, [that is, who made the first half, and the latter half of the night (?sic)?], (e) who also gave us the method and the calculation of him who discerns by means of the rule?, [that is, who has appointed the time when Cociosa shald come] ? Parsi-persian Ms. trit. An 7 az Tf pursam, rast an man g0* (sic), Hérmuzd; (b) kih [] nék-yaftan*? rfishani (vel ‘résh®’) dad?; kih tariki? *; (¢) kih [] nék-yaftan khvab (sic) darad (?), [] tuvani, [kushishn]? (d) [Va=va] kih hash u rapisavin® (sic loco rapis°) u lélyé? [Héshan u rapisavin (sic videtur loco rapis*) u zaman i lélyéa kih dédj?; x (e) kih andazah ¢ fi [riz = jdm] ¢ shumar vazardar pah dadistén?; [kti, Aan zaman kih Soshyés rasad kih dad]? 1* = °Ay4fishni. Free tr.
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.
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