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1ling (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 Rec- titude (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’, 198 XLIV. 10. 33 )poypas sup bls woe 2496) sare )eay .serses ‘ee 10. Text. 40904499 y48/9 “GR VAYP «AU Hy GR} HOMS GRE sw} GEpargy se2bgue)d) we Gyo bg away geegeag ade ajadbonsguapsagdy -apsbyne(s))a Ravgsng -g4) MENG? HOSE 42 b poassy gu Qu sng 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 ‘Sanc- titatem ’] sequens** [vel mecum-consociata R. (d) Religio] Devotionis [et Pie- tatis 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.
2mecum-consociata R. (d) Religio] Devotionis [et Pie- tatis 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 desi- derans [(°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* den- man 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?? Athar- mazd [amat li kam! 14 yehabtind'2] * D, ins. i. ?DJ., D. om. *D. om. *D, %shniha. °DJ., D., Mf. minishniha. ° D. baram. 7DJ., D. ins, i: *D. avdich, ® P. and DJ., D. valman for Sp.’s ayo. 1° D., ete. fananam (sie). 11s0 D. 1% see P, throughout. Pahl. transl., etc. That which I ask of Thee, tell me aright, Athar- mazd; (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 set- tlements with (or ‘through’ (see the Gatha)) righteousness, whose (the set- tlements’) 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 XLIY. 10, 199 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 vidya- manebhyah utkyishtataré [me brdahi], (c) ya me bhivibhitiri* Dharmasya vriddhidatya agleshayati, [kila, Dinir iyarn lakshmim sadvyAparat kurute].
3‘through the furtherance’, *? hardly ‘do Thou perform it’, *§ not ‘for Afiharmazd’. Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Parvoktavat jieyam. (b) Tam Dinish yd vidya- manebhyah 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] * 200 XLIYV. 11, 12, ais yg wp bale wg sty ge 33496) a) 49S ete 11. Text. -3{3940806 (41) )as. purocay, .¢b AW. wyeEe swOarg OND “powporgayal sb ose 8098596 Ua oH Hoge brald daay)yb anes ody J 40 dogs 65s SoHE HO4)?9 +49 9.59.49 0549 202f221-06 Cele wygrub Verbatim trl., etc. Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, Ahura ; (b) quo- modo [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 in- strumentis*? (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.
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.
1ling (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 Rec- titude (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’, 198 XLIV. 10. 33 )poypas sup bls woe 2496) sare )eay .serses ‘ee 10. Text. 40904499 y48/9 “GR VAYP «AU Hy GR} HOMS GRE sw} GEpargy se2bgue)d) we Gyo bg away geegeag ade ajadbonsguapsagdy -apsbyne(s))a Ravgsng -g4) MENG? HOSE 42 b poassy gu Qu sng 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 ‘Sanc- titatem ’] sequens** [vel mecum-consociata R. (d) Religio] Devotionis [et Pie- tatis 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.
2mecum-consociata R. (d) Religio] Devotionis [et Pie- tatis 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 desi- derans [(°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* den- man 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?? Athar- mazd [amat li kam! 14 yehabtind'2] * D, ins. i. ?DJ., D. om. *D. om. *D, %shniha. °DJ., D., Mf. minishniha. ° D. baram. 7DJ., D. ins, i: *D. avdich, ® P. and DJ., D. valman for Sp.’s ayo. 1° D., ete. fananam (sie). 11s0 D. 1% see P, throughout. Pahl. transl., etc. That which I ask of Thee, tell me aright, Athar- mazd; (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 set- tlements with (or ‘through’ (see the Gatha)) righteousness, whose (the set- tlements’) 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 XLIY. 10, 199 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 vidya- manebhyah utkyishtataré [me brdahi], (c) ya me bhivibhitiri* Dharmasya vriddhidatya agleshayati, [kila, Dinir iyarn lakshmim sadvyAparat kurute].
3‘through the furtherance’, *? hardly ‘do Thou perform it’, *§ not ‘for Afiharmazd’. Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Parvoktavat jieyam. (b) Tam Dinish yd vidya- manebhyah 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] * 200 XLIYV. 11, 12, ais yg wp bale wg sty ge 33496) a) 49S ete 11. Text. -3{3940806 (41) )as. purocay, .¢b AW. wyeEe swOarg OND “powporgayal sb ose 8098596 Ua oH Hoge brald daay)yb anes ody J 40 dogs 65s SoHE HO4)?9 +49 9.59.49 0549 202f221-06 Cele wygrub Verbatim trl., etc. Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, Ahura ; (b) quo- modo [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 in- strumentis*? (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.
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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