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

existence arrive?]; (c) and when shall they make] Your efficiency (or ‘efficiency towards You’), |that is, Your duty and law complete]?; and when shall also the suppliants* for my words appear? ({or not impossibly ‘when shad/ that which is my spoken or ‘worded’ (gdbishnhémand) supplicator* (i. e. ‘supplicating* prayer*-in-words’}) be heard?’); that is, when does (or ‘shall’) the progress of the Religion become complete], (d) and when shall the coming-on (or ‘existence’) of a chief for Héurvadad and Amerédad be realized, (e) thus according to the Manthra?, [that is, thus they are bestowing the reward as it és revealed through the Manthra|,p. 18 whose portion 7s secwred through [the accompanying-help of Righteousness (or ‘Sanctity’).

Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Pirvoktavat jineyam. (b) Kada!, Mahajiianin, samayakartritvaih* Yushmakam, [kila, kalo yah pacchatyasya kada prapsyati]? (¢) sé vikramataé ya Yushmakam? [kila, karyani nyayanaih Yashmakam kada sampirnani karishyanti] yecha me bhavanti vachasam ihayitarah* [kila Dineh pravrittih sarhptirna kada bhavishyati], (d) svamino bhavishyanti upari Avirdade Amirdade?, (e) evarn Manthravanyah, ye danam Dharmasarhmicram ?, [kila, prasadam evar dadanti*? yathé Manthravanyah prakatam].

*1 So P, marg.; J.4 om.; J.* kathaih, but has kada& praps®. * J.® dadati.

Ner. transl. (a) To be nnderstood as beforesaid. (b) When, O Great Wise One, does Your appointment* of the time*! (see the Pahl.) take place ?, [that is, when shall the time of the final existence come?]; (c) and when shall that energetic-advance* which is Yours de effective?, [that is, when shall they au )epas sup bunls whe 4456) 496) gos 1183 950 eae 18. Text.

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Verbatim transl., etc. Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, O Ahura; (b) quo-modo Sanctitate hance praedam-ut-praemium merito-consequar*!, (c) decem equas masculinis-junctas [vel ‘und cum equo*? "|, camelum-que?; (d) [hoc Te interrogo] quia mihi, O Mazda, (nuntiatum*-est) Salubritate, (e) [et] Immortalitate, [i.e. causa meae (vel ‘nostrae’) Salubritatis et meae Immortalitatis] [nuntiatum-est] ut [vel ‘quo-modo’] has-duas [haec duo dona [i. e. equas -- et camelum in sacrificium*] Tibi*? dem [dabo]. * Vel lege hanani ‘quo modo dem*, [i.e. quo modo obtinebo hoc praemium ut id Tibi offeram’, vel ‘ut id Tuis* devotis dem*’], **yel ‘gravidas’, aegre. * vel lege taéibyé ‘his [meis discipulis ut donum honoris causa des* [dabis*, vel dem (dabo)]’.

Pahl. text translit.

sacrificium*] Tibi*? dem [dabo]. * Vel lege hanani ‘quo modo dem*, [i.e. quo modo obtinebo hoc praemium ut id Tibi offeram’, vel ‘ut id Tuis* devotis dem*’], **yel ‘gravidas’, aegre. * vel lege taéibyé ‘his [meis discipulis ut donum honoris causa des* [dabis*, vel dem (dabo)]’.

Pahl. text translit. Zakd i min Lak pirsem!, rdst® avo li yemalelinai, Adharmazd; (b) chigtind rastiha? pavan zak mozd arjanik® yeheviinam, [aighamé afriftariha® nafshman yeheviinéd], (c) X (dah) siisya® i® gishand va7 gamla? (d) Amat homan’, Atharmazd, dén khavitinam Haurvadad? Amerodad®, (e) aéttind zak 71° kolA dé Lak yehabtinds!

*D. ins. i. * DJ. rast. *Mf. °kih, or “kash. ‘DJ. ins. am. *Mf. rth, °D. aspo i. 7 D. ins. .va. * D. va add ‘m’ late, so homanam*. ® D. ins. va.. 7° D. om, i.

Pahl. transl. That which I ask of Thee, tell me aright, Adharmazd; (b) by what means may I become justly deserving of that reward?, [that is, a a ip. 213 fulfil the deeds (or ‘duties’) of Your laws perfectly* (or ‘make them complete’)|; and when shall they also come and fulfil them who are the inspirers* (meaning, the desirers**) of my* words (or ‘of words to me’), [that is, when shall the advance of the Din become complete?]; (d) yea, when shall they come and fulfil them who shall be lords over* (or, ‘on behalf* of* ’), Avirdada and Amirdada?, (e) even thus becoming those who are bestowing a gift trom the Manthra-word, and befriended by (and ‘united with ’) Rectitude, [that is, they give a reward as it zs revealed from the Manthra-word].

*1 Otherwise ‘of the meeting’.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. An ¢ az Ti pursam rast an man g6*, Hormuzd; (b) kih, Hormuzd, zaman kardari ¢ Shuma, [kfi, zaman 7 tan 7 pasin kih béd] ? (sic) # (c) [v’ = va] an 7 kardari + kardan 7 Shuma [ [] kt, kar [] insdfan ¢ Shuma kai bundah kunand ve va kih ham an 7 man gobishn hend khyastar?, {ki Din rava bundah kih béd] ? (sic), (d) [va = va] sardar bavishni* avar Khordad u Amerdad ?; ** (e) édfn [] Mansar, (kt, muzd édtim dehand chitin az Mansar péda*], kih bahar az Savab [madad]* *1 Or ‘paida’.

Free tr. This ask I Thee, aright, Ahura, tell me

How through Thy Right for me that prize to merit,

Ten mares male-mated* and with them the camel?

Since it was shown to me for Deathless Welfare

How as Thine offering I both may give? (or ‘How unto these of Thine - ”’) how may it become my own without deceit], (c) that reward of ten stallions and a camel? (d) I¢ is (or ‘Js it’) when, O Afharmazd, I thoroughly comprehend weal and Immortality (Haurvadad and Amer6dad); (e) thus both are bestowed by* Thee*, [or not impossibly ‘thus Z* give them both to Thee (see Ner. and the Gatha)].

Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Parvoktavat jieyam. (b) Kathari satyatayd tasya prasddasya anurtipo bhavami, [kila, me apratdranataya* svadhino* bhavet| (c) dagdnaih agvanam sabijanar* ushtranamecha*? ; (d) yatha me, Majda.

hee*, [or not impossibly ‘thus Z* give them both to Thee (see Ner. and the Gatha)].

Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Parvoktavat jieyam. (b) Kathari satyatayd tasya prasddasya anurtipo bhavami, [kila, me apratdranataya* svadhino* bhavet| (c) dagdnaih agvanam sabijanar* ushtranamecha*? ; (d) yatha me, Majda. Yat evar vedmi Avirdadasya** (?) [-dam**] Amirdadasya** (?)[-dam**]; (e) evar yatha Tubhyarh cha dadami? * So J.3 ** or ‘prasadam’ is to be supplied.

Ner. transl., etc. (a) To be understood as aforesaid. (b) How may I with truthfulness become deserving of this reward ?, [that is, how may it come justly into my possession without overreaching] (c) this reward of ten pregnant mares and camels (so meaning) ?; (d) tedd me how (or ‘in order that’) é¢ may become mine, O Majda. J¢ cs when I become (or ‘since I am’) acquainted with Avirdada and Amirdada, (or ‘with the reward of Av. and Am.’), (e) that* I may thus (or ‘how I may thus’) render* them as offerings* to Thee?

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Verbatim transl. Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, O Ahura, qui praemium [sancto civi nostro] merenti non dat [vel ‘det’], (c) qui id [praemium, vel ‘vere’| huic fideli-verum-dictum-loquenti, [i. e. [viro] veram-fidem-confesso (vel etiam fortasse ‘{sancto civi] dictum-suum-re-vera-constituenti’)] non*! dat* [det], (d) quis [i. e. quae plaga] eum [i. e. ei] ejus [i.e. de hac* injuria*] (plagacondemnationis™) sit (i. e. infligetur] [nunc et hac in-hoc tempore[ priori?, (e) hoc Te interrogo] sciens [bene} illam [plagam] quae eum [i. e. ei] sit [i.e. infligetur ultima [i. e. postremo et illac]! ** Vel yé na daité = qui nam (sic) (vel ‘vir’) id praemium tam bene meritum a sancto cive auferat’.

Pahl. text translit. Zako i min Lak pairsém1, rastd avd li yemalelinai, Atharmazd; (b) min zak (i mad6*) yekaviminéd mozd avo valman ? arjanik [Zaratisht6] 14 yehabinéd, (c) min aité, aigh, avo valman i rastd gabra yehabiinéd, [i shapir gabra], (d) kadar? valman pavan zak {3 vindsishno! aitd fratim, [aighash pavan zak 13 vindskarth pAdafras fratim> maman®]? (e) Akas homanam® zak min valman aité afdim {mamanash’ darvandih].

* D. ins. i. * DJ. om. f. * DJ. ins. 7. * so D.; DJ. and P. niyayishn. °% see P. ° M., K.° ins. i. 7 DJ. mindavam i; see P. ** mtn zak = yas tad(t) also = i mado.

Pahl. transl. That which I ask of Thee, tell me aright, O Adharmazd.