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

that 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’,

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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 anadharatvet "pi, [kila, adharo jagatya? na’sti] (c) anipatinith? [Idarhcha vedmi yat na nipatati]; kah* apo vanaspatimcha [dadau]?; (d) kasmat vata? arbbudagcha 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))], khvéshkari ?]; ** (c) [az = min] kih Hormuzd, [] Bahman pédaish*!, [ki Bahman pédaish*+ - kih [dehad = ddbiinéd] *? * Vel ‘paidayish’.

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fortasse sit legendum ‘balantar*’ (?) vel melius balanad = ‘facit ut se moveant*’) tiz[[] [n. tr. pro rak (sic videtur, cf. stropham III, lak= tvad(t))], khvéshkari ?]; ** (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’,

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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**’

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Verbatim transl.

her of the number**’

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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, auctoritatemsacram-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,

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Ner.’s sansk. transf. (a) Parvoktavat* jieyam. (b) Kah sunirikshane rochirnshi 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.

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