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

(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. As to the one who does not give that reward (or ‘what has** come** as a reward’) for him who ¢s the deserving one [for Zaratisht] (c) who is the one, that is, the one who gives to the just man [who és the good man], (d) what is that which is given to him as an injury at first, [that is, which is

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

Who from deserving man that prize withholdeth,

Nor on truth*!-speaking*!-saint hath e’er bestowed*1 it,

What as to this shall be his curse* at present,

Knowing, I ask it, well his doom* at last? *0y ye na = qui nam* (sic, not interrog.) daité = ‘who from* the creed-speaker unjust withdraws* it’, his punishment for that crime at first]?; (e) I ask this, for I am aware of what it wl be at the last; [what is his wickedness, that is, what is his degree in guilt, and so in punishment?). ** The i mado, or mado is an alternative and repeated trl. of yas tad(t).

Ner.’s sansk. text, (a) Pirvoktavat jieyaih. (b) Yah praptath prasddaim anuriipine* not dadati [Jarathugtra-pratimaya*] (c) yam asti tasmai satyavakta naro dadanah [uttamo? na], (d) kim tasya tena doshena asti, tasya prathamam, {kila tasya tena pdpakarmatvena prathamath]? (e) Vetta’smi tasya yad asya asti niddne*, [ka tasya durgatih]?

* P. only margin; J.°, J. om. ? all °mo.

Ner. transl. (a) To be understood as beforesaid. (b) With regard to him who does not* give the reward which has*! come*! for the One. fitted for (or ‘deserving of’) it [to Jarathustra’s equal], (c) the reward which the truthful man, [that is, the good man] is giving to him, (d) what is the first thing which is his through this?, [that is, what is his first chastisement in consequence of this fault?]; (e) for I am aware of that which his punishment shall be in the end; [that is, what is his wickedness (or ‘misery **) ?]

*1 Ner. of course was not aware that mado was a second and alternative trl.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit.

is?, [that is, what is his first chastisement in consequence of this fault?]; (e) for I am aware of that which his punishment shall be in the end; [that is, what is his wickedness (or ‘misery **) ?]

*1 Ner. of course was not aware that mado was a second and alternative trl.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. An ¢ az Ta pursam rast 4n man g6*, Hormuzd x; (b) kih an @ rasid éstéd muzd an & ¢ arzéni*(?) [ [an = zak] Zaratusht] nah dehad, (c) kih hast kf an fi 7 rast mard dehad, [¢ veh mard], (d) kndam & ¢ pah An [| [niyayishn*(?) = niyayishn] | hast avval, [ktish pah an vandh-kari padafrah [] chih [kunand = vdgénand*)? * (e) Akah (sic) hastam an kih fi hast akhir*! ([chiyash [an = zak] darvandih] * “1 Or ‘akhar’,

Free tr. Have Daéva-worshippers, O Lord yet governed well?

They who, thus ask I Thee, have fought for those

Through whom the Karp hath giv’n our herds to Rapine;

Whence too the Kavan foul in strength hath prospered,

Nor field for kine hath ever show’ring blessed! (b) sic [immo] id [vel ‘vere’] interrogo, [hi Daevarum-cultores] qui certent his, [i. e. contra nos servos Tuos] vere*t (c) a-quibus [scelestis infidelibus inimicis incitati] Bovem [sacram] Karpanus[-pani Usikhs que (ji. e. falso-studiosus[-iosi]) [pro-] Daemoni-{-ne]-incursionis sibi-dederunt**, [i. e. acceperint, [vel ‘una-cum-quibus Bovem K., U-qne, Furiae (nostrorum inimicorum) dederunt*’], (d) quaque-[-re, i, e, ob quam causam*? Kavanus [-vani] in vigorem-

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robustum [vel ‘in-vi-inflexibili’] creverint, [vel ‘crescent’]? (e) Non eam*$ [id est, Bovem*?] pluvia-madefaciebant [-facient per] Sanctitate[-tem, i. e. non labore*4 secundum legem sanctam efficaci pascua-Bovis irrigaverunt] pratum prodendo* [sic ad verbum, i.e. ad pascua Bovis irrigatione fecunda reddenda et sic ad prosperitatem nostrae agri-culturae omnino nobis afferendam].

*1 Vel fortasse ‘ut (= ydis) Bovem--- acciperent’. *? vel ‘ut (= ya) K.--- crescerent’. ** vel ‘him = id*(?) -- pratum’). ** fortasse ‘per preces suas --- ei prato pluvias et ubertatem imprecati-sunt’.

Pahl. text translit. Chigtin akarazé, Aftharmazd, Shédayya! hi-khidai yeheviind homand?; (b) aétind denman ptrsém aigh, valmanshan min? netrind’, [aigh anshfitaan* min® kar va kirfak kardané® ghal’ padiranénd® (vel padiraninénd*), valmanshand min [homand Kikand va® Karpand] (c) min Gospend [yemalelind aigh] Karp? Usikhshcha**™® (sic) va Aéshmo (or ‘ Khéshm6'!’) avéch!! yehabtind [Shédaan], (d) mfuich Kiko asttibd!? va ranakih dadar, [aigh, min mindavam i! avdrtino sttibé 14 yehevtinéd, ach i yemalelind aighshan yehabtindd] (e) zak man lach!4 pavanich mozd‘4 zak i!%+14 Aharayih'5+1!4 kar!6 fraz yehabtnd, [aigh, amatshin mozd!” yehabtnd, min‘® mindavam i frarain la vadtinafid]. * DJ. spells shédaé. * DJ. ins. homand. * DJ. ketrtind (?); D. netrfiimand (sic?). *DJ. om. va ‘*DJ. om. °DJ., D. kardano; M. vadin (so). 7DJ., D. ghal. *D., P. -inénd, ®P. obscure. 1° DJ., D. om. cha, (Zend characters). ‘1 DJ.

aigh, amatshin mozd!” yehabtnd, min‘® mindavam i frarain la vadtinafid]. * DJ. spells shédaé. * DJ. ins. homand. * DJ. ketrtind (?); D. netrfiimand (sic?). *DJ. om. va ‘*DJ. om. °DJ., D. kardano; M. vadin (so). 7DJ., D. ghal. *D., P. -inénd, ®P. obscure. 1° DJ., D. om. cha, (Zend characters). ‘1 DJ. and Sp. join and DJ. ins. 1; D. seems Aéshminan for ‘gin? (?). 12° DJ; D: oms't;° M. ins, 1 75 DJ.,) D. ins. i.)- “7see (PB. 45 DI-ashkarakeest)Dasinse va kirfak; DJ. om: kar. 27 DJ., D. ins. mozd. *% DJ.

Pahl. transl. How have the Demons, O Atharmazd, ever been good rulers?, ((b) this therefore I ask thus) those who keep (or ‘hold back’), [that is, who oppose men in (i. e. hinder men from) the fulfilment of duty and charity, those who are the Kikds and the Karps], (c) as whose*! (or ‘by whom*!’) [they say that] the Karp and the Usikhsh have given the Kine to“, Rapine [i. e. to*# the Demons], (d) whose*! is the Kika, du¢é yet unstupefied and a bestower of delight (or ‘impulse’), [that is, he does not become stupefied nor confounded from any impious influence, of* which they even affirm that something is given by them], (e) that also they do not give forth to* us as the reward for the fulfilment of the duty of righteousness, [that is, when they bestow their reward they will not do so from any pious circump. 217stance (or ‘motive’); how have they therefore governed well ?] * Man oblique by position, or ‘who [say thus]’, but see even Ner. *? aydch must apply to Aéshmo (or Khéshmo). ** or ‘they the demons’.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Katharh kadachit, Mahajidnin, surajano Devah abhavan?; (b) evath idam prichchhami, ye pratiskhalanti, [kila, manushyan] kayanti™, (c) *tesham ye Yushmakar gavarh kadarthakAndih -.- (d) yecha Kikah*$ anirvinne** yah [ye] avyapdradatribhyah** [ye avydparakarmani* nirvinna® na bhavanti, tebhyagcha bruvanti] daturh, [Kikah adarcakah]. (e) Na te prasddeshu punyakaryath pradadante, [kila, yah prasddah tebhyo diyate, tena kitachid api sadvyaparitararh na kurvantil.

“1 J.° kayamh; others kayain; but J.‘ is reported as kayani (so). 7? line ¢ in P., in J.5, J.4 later. * J.2, J.4 * 3.3, J.4 advy®. ® J.4 nirvvitmana (?); J.* virvidtmana (?), or nirvveratman (?), possibly nirvviit’. ** adverbial (?), or read -nah.

Ner. transl. How, O Great Wise One, have the Devas ever been* good rulers?; (b) I am asking just this, the Devas who fall foul of (or ‘sin against’) men, [that is, who croak*!(?) against men], (c) and who belong to those who bring on the ill success of Your cattle --; (d) and who are also Kikas, and yet not exhausted** (or ‘confounded’) [and they say] to give a reward (see below) to those who produce idleness* (or ‘evil works’), [and to those who are not exhausted (or ‘confounded’) in their evil action, [the inexpert, (or ‘blind’) Kikas*?]; (e) nor do they discharge*® holy duties*? in the midst of rewards, [that is, they do not fulfil good works at all the more on account of the reward which is given to