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1Tibi [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. * vel etiam ‘quod ad has res attinet’. ; Pahl. text translit. Zako i min Lak pfrsém' rdstd avd li yemalelinai, Attharmazd, (b) aimat avd valmanshand zak bara yamtinéd bindak minish- nih, [aigh, havishtano2 liy bindak minishnih yeheviinéd], (c) min valmanshan, . Atharmazd, han&é { Lak Dind* yemalelind? (d) Avé li Lak min valmanshan fratiim fraz navidinishnih yehabtinai, [aigham min Ameshdspendand fratim3 nadt- kih* (sic) Lak yehabtin]. (e) Min harvispgtint zak #5 zakai® minavad? paspaninom i béshidar, {aigh, min Ganrak* Minavad, va Shédaano, javidak yeheviinam?]. ‘DJ. D. ins. 1. *D. ins. 1. * Mf, om. *s0 DJ.; D. harvist-° (2). §so D.; DJ. -8 (2). *so DJ., D.; K.5, M. other sign for aé. 7DJ., D. ins. *D. ganak. ° gee P. throughout, Pahl. transl. That which I ask of Thee tell me aright, O Atharmazd; (b) when will that perfect mind come to those persons, [that is, when does the mind of my disciples] (c) those who declare this Thy Religion, Athar- mazd [become perfect]? (d) Grant to me before* these (or ‘first from (or Bis) ysis .awpbaly be 4456) ¢ 0496) ay 805 ee 12. Text. sul eorevg)s 43496) oA 99 4U Ly 4) )40 09 4 ah) Deo gus sw lo by vey sul b) po yu au) -og)auoag words +IGIMO) 4) 49-49 19 use eoed)s +46 “£rXo SLOW HE} 94G Bo us eee poh hays Geog Brees <> j Le XLIV. 11, 12.': 201 Free tr. This ask I Thee, aright, Ahura, tell me How unto these of Yours Devotion cometh By whom for Thee, O Lord, Thy Faith is uttered; As Thine and first of these known* am I, Mazda, Aliens from Thee my soul with hate beholds. ‘eoncerning’) these’), the proclamation of the good news, [that is, grant me happiness before* the Ameshdspends (or ‘first* from* the Ameshdspends’)]. (e) Against that which is the other spirit of all kinds* of persons* I keep my guard, I who am their hater (or ‘Against every other kind of spirit, which is, malevolent, I keep my guard’), [that is, from Ganrak Minavad and the Demons I am separate]. Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Parvoktavat jieyam. (b) Kada teshu sa sama- gamishyati sarapirnamanasata* ?, [kila, gishyandr me sarpirnamanasata* kada bhavishyati] (c) yet, Mahajianin, Tvadiyath samudgiranti Dini? (d) Mah- yam Tvam tebhyah prathamar sathpradanai* dehi, [kila, amarebhyo ma- hattarebhyah prathamarh cubhath Tvam dehi]. (e) Vigvebhyo anyebhyo adrig- yamurtibhyah prayatnayami* pidakarebhyah, [kila, Aharmanat Devebhyag cha vibhinno bhayami]! + J.* ins. purushahu* (? sic). Ner. transl. (a) To be understood as before.
2ebhyah prathamar sathpradanai* dehi, [kila, amarebhyo ma- hattarebhyah prathamarh cubhath Tvam dehi]. (e) Vigvebhyo anyebhyo adrig- yamurtibhyah prayatnayami* pidakarebhyah, [kila, Aharmanat Devebhyag cha vibhinno bhayami]! + J.* ins. purushahu* (? sic). Ner. transl. (a) To be understood as before. (b) When will this perfect disposition of mind come among these, [that is, when will the mental per- fection of my disciples take place], (c) that of these who proclaim Thy Din, O Great Wise One? (d) Do Thou give me the presentation* before (or ‘first from”* (?)) these, [that is, do Thou grant me a benefit before* (or ‘first* from’ (?)) the Greater Immortals]. (e) Against all other spirits, even the tormenting ones, I make effort (or ‘take care*’), [that is, I am separated from the influence of Aharmana and the Devas]. Parsi-persian Ms. trlt. An ¢ az Ti pursam, rast an man g6* (gt*), Hormuzd; (b) kai an dshan an bih rasad *bundah minishni { {] bashad], (c) kih dshan, Hormuzd, in ¢ Tt Din gtiyad? % (d) An man Tf az dshan avval fraz ya‘dah dehad (deh) [= dabim] [] * (e) Az tamam 4n 7 digar mini* [] [pasban-handtar (?)*!=pasban hodmanéd (?)] ¢ azar- kunandah, [ki, az Gana (?) Minfi* u Dév judd bavam (vel bom)] * **Or ‘°mandtar(?)’. Free tr. This ask I Thee, aright, Ahura, tell me, Who as to what I ask is pure, or evil? Which is the wicked’s foe*, or which the wicked? He who Thy useful gifts as mine opposeth, Wherefore is such an one not evil held? Verbat. tri., etc. Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, O Ahura; (b) quis sanctus [vel ‘rectus’ est] quibus, [i.e. de iis rebus de quibus Te] interrogo, [an quis] scelestus-infidelis (an)?; [utrum ego scelestus sim an adversarius 26 202 XLIV. 12, 13. meus princeps-falsus-propheta? (c) Apud*!] utrum (juxta*!) [sit] malus- laedens-aggressor, an [sit] ille-ipse (an) laedens*-malus? (d) Qui me [hoc est, adversus me, Tuam Fidem defendentem et promulgantem] scelestus-infidelis [et contra] Te [quod ad] Tua utilia-dona-gratiae [attinet] se-opponit[-nat et nos aggrediatur], (e) qui*-fit [i.e. qua-re] ille (-ipse) non [sine ulla tali dubitatione hic meus adversarius ut re-vera contra omne rectum] laedens*-ageressor- malus existimatur ? *Vel fortasse ‘contra utrum horum duorum est laedens*-aggressor-”, Pahl. text translit. Zakd i min Lak pdirsém!, rast avd li yemale- lanai?+s, Adharmazd; (b) kadar ahariibé mtn‘ hamparsids, va> kadar darvand$? (c) Kadar zak0’ 1 Ganak™ M.**? va7 zako iS Gandk**? (d) Man li, darvand, pavan hana* i Lak sid patiyarinéd [pavan hana i Lak Dind*], (e) min maman amat benafshman valmanshan pavan® yatinishnd** 14 Ganakt minam!°?, [aigh, maman rai'amat valmanshan khaditinam, ashan pavan Shédayya la shindsém122], *D. ins. i. 7M, %h. *DJ. ins. i. 430 Mf; DJ. min; D. atmat. 5DJ. om. ®s0 D.; DJ. darvandan. 7D. zak ganak(?) va zak ait (this last later) zak ganak(?). ® see P. *D. om. %°DJ., D. minam. * see P, “DJ. %sdm (2). ** elsewhere ‘ganrak’. Pahl. transl.
3han khaditinam, ashan pavan Shédayya la shindsém122], *D. ins. i. 7M, %h. *DJ. ins. i. 430 Mf; DJ. min; D. atmat. 5DJ. om. ®s0 D.; DJ. darvandan. 7D. zak ganak(?) va zak ait (this last later) zak ganak(?). ® see P. *D. om. %°DJ., D. minam. * see P, “DJ. %sdm (2). ** elsewhere ‘ganrak’. Pahl. transl. That which I ask of Thee declare to me aright, Athar- mazd; (b) which is the righteous one who*! held the conference? ; and which is the wicked? (c) Which (or ‘whose’) is he who is Gandk* [Minavad*?], or he who is the evil servant* of G. M.*2? (d) He who is the wicked one who opposes me in this Thy helpful-benefit [in this Thy Religion], (e) what is the reason why I do not of myself*® regard those* as evil in their ap- proach*4]?; [that is, from what reason is it that when I see these evil opposer - ww) yop sup burly hg yg) 13496) gay ss se ae 13. Text. +381 4449 565} ( 491} od “Eecuns 492} 6Eyy)9 10 Og benenjeleys -ayebrouy») 8 shy syne say WRES Cp are SRI), 40 AW I9 QI LD LI -poby Sbwrniug -p)ajdpany ee ae veh) Verbatim trl., etc. Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, O Ahura; (b) quo- modo Mendacii-daemonem foras-procul a-nobis (ab) expellamus (c) [ad] hos [adversarios nostros] (ad) infra [in statu depresso omnino et de honestate et de potestate politica], ad hos qui inoboedientiae pleni [sint]? (d) Non [ut] Sanctitatis [socii, i.e. cum Sanctitate consociati de vera Fide] edocti-illustran- tur“ (consociati et comitati); (e) non [neque] interrogationes [nec-quaestio- nes sua propria parte] Bonae dilexerunt Mentis {i. e. quaestionibus de Tuis — operibus et de Tua voluntate (vide hoc caput ubique et Avestam reliquam a ety XLIV. 12, 13. 203 I* do not at once recognize them as Demons ?] *! Or is it possibly ‘with whom = yais’, mfin so to be rendered as oblique owing to priority of position. *° although minavad seems to be a late gloss, I admit it to relieve the otherwise senseless passage. * or ‘why do I not regard those as of themselves evil [in their approach], i. e. ‘as obviously such’; see Comm. especially. ** mistaking ayem (!). Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Pirvoktavat jieyam. (b) Kah punyatma yah prichchhati?; ko va durgatiman*? (c) Ko ’sau hanta va, sa vA hantd? (d) Yo [lege ‘ye’] mar durgatinah* Tava lAbhe pratiskhalanti [Dinau Te], (e) kas- mat tén na agamane hantrin manye?, [kila, kimnarthar, chet tin pacydmi, devatvena na vedmi]? Variations not important. Ner. transl. (a) To be understood as aforesaid. (b) Who is the pure- souled-one (the orthodox saint), who asks the question, or who is the wicked ? (c) Who is that murderer, or this*! murderer ?, (d) and as to the wicked who fall foul of (or ‘oppose’) me in the matter of Thine acquisition, [in Thy Din], (e) from what circumstance is it that I do not think them slayers when they approach, [that is, from what reason is it that, when I see them I do not know them from their demoniacal character] ? *! Possibly ‘who is that smiter, or is he a smiter?’ Parsi-persian Ms. trit.
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.
1Tibi [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. * vel etiam ‘quod ad has res attinet’. ; Pahl. text translit. Zako i min Lak pfrsém' rdstd avd li yemalelinai, Attharmazd, (b) aimat avd valmanshand zak bara yamtinéd bindak minish- nih, [aigh, havishtano2 liy bindak minishnih yeheviinéd], (c) min valmanshan, . Atharmazd, han&é { Lak Dind* yemalelind? (d) Avé li Lak min valmanshan fratiim fraz navidinishnih yehabtinai, [aigham min Ameshdspendand fratim3 nadt- kih* (sic) Lak yehabtin]. (e) Min harvispgtint zak #5 zakai® minavad? paspaninom i béshidar, {aigh, min Ganrak* Minavad, va Shédaano, javidak yeheviinam?]. ‘DJ. D. ins. 1. *D. ins. 1. * Mf, om. *s0 DJ.; D. harvist-° (2). §so D.; DJ. -8 (2). *so DJ., D.; K.5, M. other sign for aé. 7DJ., D. ins. *D. ganak. ° gee P. throughout, Pahl. transl. That which I ask of Thee tell me aright, O Atharmazd; (b) when will that perfect mind come to those persons, [that is, when does the mind of my disciples] (c) those who declare this Thy Religion, Athar- mazd [become perfect]? (d) Grant to me before* these (or ‘first from (or Bis) ysis .awpbaly be 4456) ¢ 0496) ay 805 ee 12. Text. sul eorevg)s 43496) oA 99 4U Ly 4) )40 09 4 ah) Deo gus sw lo by vey sul b) po yu au) -og)auoag words +IGIMO) 4) 49-49 19 use eoed)s +46 “£rXo SLOW HE} 94G Bo us eee poh hays Geog Brees <> j Le XLIV. 11, 12.': 201 Free tr. This ask I Thee, aright, Ahura, tell me How unto these of Yours Devotion cometh By whom for Thee, O Lord, Thy Faith is uttered; As Thine and first of these known* am I, Mazda, Aliens from Thee my soul with hate beholds. ‘eoncerning’) these’), the proclamation of the good news, [that is, grant me happiness before* the Ameshdspends (or ‘first* from* the Ameshdspends’)]. (e) Against that which is the other spirit of all kinds* of persons* I keep my guard, I who am their hater (or ‘Against every other kind of spirit, which is, malevolent, I keep my guard’), [that is, from Ganrak Minavad and the Demons I am separate]. Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Parvoktavat jieyam. (b) Kada teshu sa sama- gamishyati sarapirnamanasata* ?, [kila, gishyandr me sarpirnamanasata* kada bhavishyati] (c) yet, Mahajianin, Tvadiyath samudgiranti Dini? (d) Mah- yam Tvam tebhyah prathamar sathpradanai* dehi, [kila, amarebhyo ma- hattarebhyah prathamarh cubhath Tvam dehi]. (e) Vigvebhyo anyebhyo adrig- yamurtibhyah prayatnayami* pidakarebhyah, [kila, Aharmanat Devebhyag cha vibhinno bhayami]! + J.* ins. purushahu* (? sic). Ner. transl. (a) To be understood as before.
2ebhyah prathamar sathpradanai* dehi, [kila, amarebhyo ma- hattarebhyah prathamarh cubhath Tvam dehi]. (e) Vigvebhyo anyebhyo adrig- yamurtibhyah prayatnayami* pidakarebhyah, [kila, Aharmanat Devebhyag cha vibhinno bhayami]! + J.* ins. purushahu* (? sic). Ner. transl. (a) To be understood as before. (b) When will this perfect disposition of mind come among these, [that is, when will the mental per- fection of my disciples take place], (c) that of these who proclaim Thy Din, O Great Wise One? (d) Do Thou give me the presentation* before (or ‘first from”* (?)) these, [that is, do Thou grant me a benefit before* (or ‘first* from’ (?)) the Greater Immortals]. (e) Against all other spirits, even the tormenting ones, I make effort (or ‘take care*’), [that is, I am separated from the influence of Aharmana and the Devas]. Parsi-persian Ms. trlt. An ¢ az Ti pursam, rast an man g6* (gt*), Hormuzd; (b) kai an dshan an bih rasad *bundah minishni { {] bashad], (c) kih dshan, Hormuzd, in ¢ Tt Din gtiyad? % (d) An man Tf az dshan avval fraz ya‘dah dehad (deh) [= dabim] [] * (e) Az tamam 4n 7 digar mini* [] [pasban-handtar (?)*!=pasban hodmanéd (?)] ¢ azar- kunandah, [ki, az Gana (?) Minfi* u Dév judd bavam (vel bom)] * **Or ‘°mandtar(?)’. Free tr. This ask I Thee, aright, Ahura, tell me, Who as to what I ask is pure, or evil? Which is the wicked’s foe*, or which the wicked? He who Thy useful gifts as mine opposeth, Wherefore is such an one not evil held? Verbat. tri., etc. Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, O Ahura; (b) quis sanctus [vel ‘rectus’ est] quibus, [i.e. de iis rebus de quibus Te] interrogo, [an quis] scelestus-infidelis (an)?; [utrum ego scelestus sim an adversarius 26 202 XLIV. 12, 13. meus princeps-falsus-propheta? (c) Apud*!] utrum (juxta*!) [sit] malus- laedens-aggressor, an [sit] ille-ipse (an) laedens*-malus? (d) Qui me [hoc est, adversus me, Tuam Fidem defendentem et promulgantem] scelestus-infidelis [et contra] Te [quod ad] Tua utilia-dona-gratiae [attinet] se-opponit[-nat et nos aggrediatur], (e) qui*-fit [i.e. qua-re] ille (-ipse) non [sine ulla tali dubitatione hic meus adversarius ut re-vera contra omne rectum] laedens*-ageressor- malus existimatur ? *Vel fortasse ‘contra utrum horum duorum est laedens*-aggressor-”, Pahl. text translit. Zakd i min Lak pdirsém!, rast avd li yemale- lanai?+s, Adharmazd; (b) kadar ahariibé mtn‘ hamparsids, va> kadar darvand$? (c) Kadar zak0’ 1 Ganak™ M.**? va7 zako iS Gandk**? (d) Man li, darvand, pavan hana* i Lak sid patiyarinéd [pavan hana i Lak Dind*], (e) min maman amat benafshman valmanshan pavan® yatinishnd** 14 Ganakt minam!°?, [aigh, maman rai'amat valmanshan khaditinam, ashan pavan Shédayya la shindsém122], *D. ins. i. 7M, %h. *DJ. ins. i. 430 Mf; DJ. min; D. atmat. 5DJ. om. ®s0 D.; DJ. darvandan. 7D. zak ganak(?) va zak ait (this last later) zak ganak(?). ® see P. *D. om. %°DJ., D. minam. * see P, “DJ. %sdm (2). ** elsewhere ‘ganrak’. Pahl. transl.
3han khaditinam, ashan pavan Shédayya la shindsém122], *D. ins. i. 7M, %h. *DJ. ins. i. 430 Mf; DJ. min; D. atmat. 5DJ. om. ®s0 D.; DJ. darvandan. 7D. zak ganak(?) va zak ait (this last later) zak ganak(?). ® see P. *D. om. %°DJ., D. minam. * see P, “DJ. %sdm (2). ** elsewhere ‘ganrak’. Pahl. transl. That which I ask of Thee declare to me aright, Athar- mazd; (b) which is the righteous one who*! held the conference? ; and which is the wicked? (c) Which (or ‘whose’) is he who is Gandk* [Minavad*?], or he who is the evil servant* of G. M.*2? (d) He who is the wicked one who opposes me in this Thy helpful-benefit [in this Thy Religion], (e) what is the reason why I do not of myself*® regard those* as evil in their ap- proach*4]?; [that is, from what reason is it that when I see these evil opposer - ww) yop sup burly hg yg) 13496) gay ss se ae 13. Text. +381 4449 565} ( 491} od “Eecuns 492} 6Eyy)9 10 Og benenjeleys -ayebrouy») 8 shy syne say WRES Cp are SRI), 40 AW I9 QI LD LI -poby Sbwrniug -p)ajdpany ee ae veh) Verbatim trl., etc. Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, O Ahura; (b) quo- modo Mendacii-daemonem foras-procul a-nobis (ab) expellamus (c) [ad] hos [adversarios nostros] (ad) infra [in statu depresso omnino et de honestate et de potestate politica], ad hos qui inoboedientiae pleni [sint]? (d) Non [ut] Sanctitatis [socii, i.e. cum Sanctitate consociati de vera Fide] edocti-illustran- tur“ (consociati et comitati); (e) non [neque] interrogationes [nec-quaestio- nes sua propria parte] Bonae dilexerunt Mentis {i. e. quaestionibus de Tuis — operibus et de Tua voluntate (vide hoc caput ubique et Avestam reliquam a ety XLIV. 12, 13. 203 I* do not at once recognize them as Demons ?] *! Or is it possibly ‘with whom = yais’, mfin so to be rendered as oblique owing to priority of position. *° although minavad seems to be a late gloss, I admit it to relieve the otherwise senseless passage. * or ‘why do I not regard those as of themselves evil [in their approach], i. e. ‘as obviously such’; see Comm. especially. ** mistaking ayem (!). Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Pirvoktavat jieyam. (b) Kah punyatma yah prichchhati?; ko va durgatiman*? (c) Ko ’sau hanta va, sa vA hantd? (d) Yo [lege ‘ye’] mar durgatinah* Tava lAbhe pratiskhalanti [Dinau Te], (e) kas- mat tén na agamane hantrin manye?, [kila, kimnarthar, chet tin pacydmi, devatvena na vedmi]? Variations not important. Ner. transl. (a) To be understood as aforesaid. (b) Who is the pure- souled-one (the orthodox saint), who asks the question, or who is the wicked ? (c) Who is that murderer, or this*! murderer ?, (d) and as to the wicked who fall foul of (or ‘oppose’) me in the matter of Thine acquisition, [in Thy Din], (e) from what circumstance is it that I do not think them slayers when they approach, [that is, from what reason is it that, when I see them I do not know them from their demoniacal character] ? *! Possibly ‘who is that smiter, or is he a smiter?’ Parsi-persian Ms. trit.
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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