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

ling (full trl. of hademdi, ‘ha’ twice translated) wth Ashavahisht and Vohiman, [thaé ds, in companionship with them]. *1 Later usage; possibly ‘by which he is taught’ (?) was meant. *** navak translates ‘naos’ of hudanaog (!). *° or ‘who is (?) taught’.

Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Pirvoktavat jiieyam. (b) Katharh idari ahari yat* Dinin pavitrataraim pavitrayami, [kila, Dinith katharh pravartamanam karomi ?| (c) Yah' Uttamajiiani navari navarh gishyapayati* parthivatayd, [kila, Dinir iyam navari navari kitichit* yat sadvyApari gikshapayati*]? (d) Satyo rajye Tvattulyah vikramataya Mahajiianinah, [Dinya Hormijdasya yo rajyaih satyarh dadhati] (¢) sahasthanatayé* Dharmasya Uttamasyacha nivasati Manasah, |**“sahasakhayataya (so)]. + J.¢ om.

Ner. transl. (a) To be understood as before. (b) How shall I purify this thing which is already Thy purer (or ‘most pure’) Din, [that is, how shall I make the Din progressive]? (c) He who is the Great Wise One is teaching at again and again through his sovereignty ?, [that is, this Din (?) inculcates again and again a certain thing which is beneficent]. (d) The one true in the kingdom, Thine equal (or ‘like Thee’) through the surpassing* energy* of the Great Wise One, [and who establishes (or ‘maintains ’) the kingdom justly through the Din of Hormijdal], (e) is dwelling in community with Rectitude (or ‘Sanctity’) and the Good Mind, [that as, in friendship with them].

Parsi-persian Ms. irlt. An ¢ az TA pursam, rast 4n man 96* Hérmuzd, (b) chtn in ¢ man Din pak [7 khalis = avézah] pak-kunam ?, [kt, Din [] rava-kunam ». (c) kih an 7 nék-dana [] [t6! t61 (? sie videtur) = nay?- -(so)] amtikht]? [] pidishahi, [kih Din [] [to* to* = nay? nay?) chiz ¢ nék [] amikht] ? * (d) [Kih = mén] rast pah khudai Ta barabar, 4n ¢ pah tiz ¢ Hormuzd [pah Din ¢ Hormuzd, kih padishahi [zish = zakash] hast, rastiha dirad] » (e) Pash hamdil* (?) (mihan = mahdn) < Ardibahisht [] Bahman ham manad [pah hamishagi (sic)] * *T6—=‘fold’ as in ‘two-fold’. 2 or ‘nd, nd’; seems ‘nuh’,

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Verbatim transl. (with paraphrase). Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, Ahura, (b) [et] hane Religionem [explica] quae [rerum omnium] exsistentium optima [sit], (c) [et] quae mihi [i. e. meas] colonias Sanctitate proyehat (ad verbum ‘prodet**’ (sic)), [i. e. eas prosperas et felices reddat| [me, vel ‘Sanctitatem ’] sequens** [vel mecum-consociata R. (d) Religio] Devotionis [et Pietatis per] verbis [verba hymnorum, mandatorum et promissorum a Te inspirata et a nobis promulgata illa Religio] actiones [nostrorum fidelium guum in caerimoniis tum in factis omnino honestis recte [perfectas] reddat. (e) [Utinam optationes, i. e.

mecum-consociata R. (d) Religio] Devotionis [et Pietatis per] verbis [verba hymnorum, mandatorum et promissorum a Te inspirata et a nobis promulgata illa Religio] actiones [nostrorum fidelium guum in caerimoniis tum in factis omnino honestis recte [perfectas] reddat. (e) [Utinam optationes, i. e. preces] meae cognitionis [a Te edoctae et illustratae] Te (optationes) desiderent**?, 0 Mazda! *1Vel fortasse ‘precibus-petens [ego] Te desiderans [(°tis)sum] O M.’ Sunt qui usén neut. pl. ace. reddant, fortasse ‘conditiones vestras’.

Pahl. text translit. Zako i min Lak ptrsém? rast’ avd li yemalelinai, Atharmazd; (b) zak i? Dind* min aitand pahhim [am bara yemaleltinai] (c) mtin zak f li géhand pavan Ahardyth fradahishnth avakinéd [main Dind* denman khvastak min fraranth vadfnyénj]. (d) Va3 pavan bandak minishnihé milaya va kinishnd rast} yehabinéd, [aigh, mindavam biindak minishniha® yemalelinéd, vadtinyén]. (e) Man zak ¢ Ii farzanakih, [aigh farjim ? mindavam pavan frarfinih khavitinéd] ash hand i Lak igsht® baré [aigh, zak i2 mozd i7 avo Lak yehabtiind valich® yalman? yehabiind]. Khirsand hémanam?? Atharmazd [amat li kam! 14 yehabtind'2]

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Pahl. transl., etc. That which I ask of Thee, tell me aright, Atharmazd; (b) [tell me fully] what the Religion, the best of ad existing things as, (c) that which accompanies (or ‘helps on’) the*t promotion*! of my settlements with (or ‘through’ (see the Gatha)) righteousness, whose (the settlements’) wealth this Religion would produce from correct-piety]; (d) which Religion also produces just actions through the words of the Perfect Mind, [that is, it says a thing in a perfect-minded-manner, that*! they should so o> [a mee merc MeL SOEE Ce ee

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Free tr. Thus ask I Thee aright, Ahura, tell me,
What is Thine Insight’s rule than all things better;
Give that our homes to bless with Right befriended,
Just deeds and rites to help with hymns devoted;
Thus would my wisdom’s prayer, entreat Thee, Lord!

fulfil 7¢], (e) He whose cs that which zs my lore, [i. e. who understands the end of the matter (the conclusion of things) through his correct-piety], his is the enjoyment of this which is Thy wealth (or ‘offering ”), [that is, the reward (?)*? which is for thee*’, O Zaratésht (so understood, see the last words) they give also to him]; and I am content, O Atiharmazd, [since to me they do not give the less]. *! Aside from the Gatha ‘through the furtherance’, *? hardly ‘do Thou perform it’, *§ not ‘for Afiharmazd’.

Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Parvoktavat jieyam. (b) Tam Dinish yd vidyamanebhyah utkyishtataré [me brdahi], (c) ya me bhivibhitiri* Dharmasya vriddhidatya agleshayati, [kila, Dinir iyarn lakshmim sadvyAparat kurute].

‘through the furtherance’, *? hardly ‘do Thou perform it’, *§ not ‘for Afiharmazd’.

Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Parvoktavat jieyam. (b) Tam Dinish yd vidyamanebhyah utkyishtataré [me brdahi], (c) ya me bhivibhitiri* Dharmasya vriddhidatya agleshayati, [kila, Dinir iyarn lakshmim sadvyAparat kurute]. (d) 'Sathpirnamanasé vachamsi karmanicha satyani datte?, [kila, kirhchit saipirmamanasa brite, kurutecha], (e) me nirvdnajiianine Te lakshmit. [Yo nirvanajianaih kimnchit sadvyaparatayé vetti, tasmai prasddah yah tubhyarh (?) diyate, sa? diyate?]. Sartushto ‘smi, Mahdjiianin.

*J.* has line d in the margin from a later hand, *J.4, J.* dad-. °J.4, J.* om

Ner. trl., etc. (a) To be understood as aforesaid. (b) [Declare to me] the Din which is more excellent than al/ existing things, (c) and which husbands my landed*-property* through the promotion of Righteousness, [that is, this Din produces riches from good conduct]. (d) It also produces true words and action by means of the perfect mind, [that is, it says and does a thing with a perfect mind],* (e) and it grants Thy wealth to me as to the one wise concerning the end. [That is, he who knows the thing*! by means of good conduct, even*® a certain spiritual wisdom which concerns the end, to him that reward? is given which is given to* (? or ‘for’*®) thee*’] ; and I am content*4, O Great Wise One *! Mindavam. ** or adyerbially; ‘he who knows a thing* wisely* which concerns the end’. ** mere clumsiness; ‘the reward to the Mahaj?’ could not have been seriously meant. ** Z. was content, although a reward equal to his was given to another.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit, An 7 az Ta pursam rast 4n man gd, Hormuzd, (b) an 7 Din az hastan buland [am bih gé*], (c) kih an ¢ man jihan* pah Savab afztn-yari, [kih Din in khezanah az frérfin + néki kunand] (d) [] pah bundah minishni, va* sakhun u kunishn rast dehad (?), [kf, chiz bundah minishni (?) gfiyad, kunad]* (¢) Kih an 7 man danai, [kfi, anjam 7 chiz pah néki danam(?)], ash in 7 Ti khezanah baram (vel “bar am’), [ki, an 7 muzd 7 an Ti dad an ham (no tewt) fi dehand (?)] [], Hérmuzd, {kih man kam nah dehand] *

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Verbatim trl., etc. Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, Ahura ; (b) quomodo [vel ‘nonne’ ad] hos (ad) vestros [cultores] accedat [vel ‘-det’] Pietas (mens Devotionis ad omne bonum opus prompta) (c) [ad eos] a-quibus, O Mazda, Tua** [vel ‘pro-Te | enuntiatur Religio? (d) Ego Tibi [ut Servus Tuus devotus], iis [feorum omnium*] primarius, vel ({sententia diversissima) ‘iis instrumentis*? (ob eam causam) primarius {omnium’ (vel, lege °yé, ‘primum’)]) ante -(vel ‘prorsus-’)agnitus sum; (e) omnes alios spiritus [mei] aspicio odio!

*1 vel Thydi = thvé = thvaya, » = 4 = ya.