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

nobis opes (ad annisum* sacrum nostrum necessarias) impertiens (vide stropham II (2))]? (e) Mihi [tamen; i. e., quod ad me attinet] Te [ipsum] duci-docenti [i.e. ut meum ducem-docentem] eligo [et precibus aggressus in partes meas induco], O Ahura.

“ Utrum yertere possimus ‘auctores** dierum’; i. e. ‘prosperitatem et felicitatem dierum eorum efficientes et augentes’, vel ‘quando assurgent aurorac’? *? ‘cogitationes prophetarum poetarum in hymnis suis metricis enuntiatae’, vel ‘consilia proposita excogitata de nostra salute hac et illic, et cogitationes nos scientia rerum omnino (subtilium et gravium) instruentes, quando prorsus successu haec cogitationes* progredientur ? ** vel fortasse ‘potenter*-efficacibus*’ (?).

Pahl. text translit. ‘Aimaté zak dahishnid, Atharmazd, [aigh, zak damanak} aimat yamtinéd] amat vakhshinidar i? rajand, frashakard-kardar, jaigh, dén yom kar va kirfak afzdyinénd], (b) dén ahvan pavan pédakih, rtep. 243 upon a friend; (e) [grant me] thus holy* wealth* through the instruction of the Best Mind; [if I am jirs¢ instructed in (or ‘through’) good conduct, do Thou then vouchsafe me tts reward]. *! Or ‘that’,

Parsi-persian Ms. trit, Agah hastam &n, kih hastam, Ormuzd, (nah, +) na* + kh(v)astar [] hastam = hdminam)], [kt [| [chiz = mandém] n&-tuvani chih [] [nah* = /a) (danam] * (b) Man kih kam-gurth [ [] [hastam = hdmdéinam] khezinah kam], va kih ham kam-mard hastam [kfm [ [] shak (vel ‘shuka’** (?))= giind (sic) [] afzar kam ham danam, kt, chih ra] * (c)Gharzam dn [pésh* = levin] Tt, an} [] [Bahman = Vahéman| bin, Ormuzd*; [kim charah [| [kun = vagtin*], [man hastam(?) = ra héminam]] (a) [] [ramishn + ma-ra =rdmishnam**] ka* (sic pro kamah) kih [yak = (a)dak*] dost (vel ‘dist’) an a [digar = zakd] dést* dehad *% (e) pah Amfikhtan ¢ Bahman, [kih pah neki amikht [} [éstéd = jakndmeinéd*] an 7 Savib khezinah ma-ra [dehi = -7*] 3

Free tr. When come, Ahura, they the day’s light-givers

Of life’s true Law* the stay, and forwards pressing,

Wise plans of prophets each with potent teaching?

To whom for help comes too the Good Mind’s server ?

Thee for my teacher, Mazda Lord, I seek! [ashkarak fraz pavan Aharayih fravaménd], (c) pavan varzishné amfikhtishn6* (sic) i* zak f stid-homandan khiradét [aétind chigind min Dind* pédak]? (d) Avé mtin zak sid‘+? pavan Vohtiman yamtinéd?, [aigh, zak mozd pavan frarainih bara yehabtind, avd mfin yehabtind']? (e) Li hand i? Lak amikhtishnd* (sic) ddsham, Attharmazd.

* See P. throughout. ? D, ins. 7. * DJ. om. * DJ. om. sfid.

Pahl. transl. When /s that dispensation*, O Atharmazd, {that is, when does that time come] when the increaser* of days* the Producer-of-completed-progress zs bestowed upon us?, [that is, they wéll cause duty and good works to increase in that day]; (b) when és it that they advance forth publicly*! [and manifestly*!] in the world, by means of (or ‘in regard’) to Holiness, (c) and also through the teaching of the practices, those

-completed-progress zs bestowed upon us?, [that is, they wéll cause duty and good works to increase in that day]; (b) when és it that they advance forth publicly*! [and manifestly*!] in the world, by means of (or ‘in regard’) to Holiness, (c) and also through the teaching of the practices, those inereasers (so of course after the Gatha) which are (or ‘which instruction zs’) the wisdom of the benefactors [so as it is (or ‘as they are’) manifest from the Religion]? (d) To whom is that advantage thus approaching by means of a Good Mind? [that is, they will bestow that reward on account* of* piety, but to whom z2// they give it?]; (e) this Thy teaching, O Adharmazd, do I love (or ‘for me (myself = li (sic, see the Gatha)) this Thy teaching do I love (or ‘choose’), *! Perhaps pedakih here = ‘creation’ later sense, which would be near the Gatha, but see gl.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Kada t4*! datayo*, Mahajianin, ya vikAcayitryo ahnarh ? [akshayakarah? kila, sa kalah kadé prapnoti yatra’ntar dineshu karyaui punyam pravardhayanti]? (b) Bhuvane parisphutath prakrishtari punyatayé prabruvanti (c) karmasu ciksharh labhamatarh buddheh, [evar yatha Dinitahp. 4 prakatarh]; (d) keshu labhah Uttamena prapnoti Manasa, [kila, tar prasddarh yaih sadvydparataya dadate, kebbyo*? dadate?|?; (e) ahath Te cikshaim samihe, Svamin, [Dinimn Te]. *? So J.4. *? so. JL.

Ner. transl. When are those gifts! (?) bestowed (or ‘those creations* to appear’), O Great Wise One, which are the illuminators*? (so correctly*?, but meaning ‘which are increasers*?’) of the days, [the gifts that make imperishable (or ‘produce the ‘Indestructibility, i. e. the future life’), that is, when is that time to come when they shadl increase holy action within the dins]? (b) They are praising*? forth in a distinguished* manner* (or ‘ openly’) in the world and with sanctity (c) the doctrine of the wisdom of the beneficial ones in* their deeds {and proclaiming it as evidently from the Din], (d) dut in what deeds* (or ‘among whom’) does that beneficial-acquisition come through easy eyes) gdul aaserayos.cogeeny ened s oper: 43 4, Text. aly Co sul 22s body aye oeeel blo “BH “beayregurs ways} eb HIGH) ALyIsN Ed ADAH YY -aufbiwelorg su ly aprgroanay, padre +3096 596 1) Carpsody -GEreDsN IMD aewlay aprbesype wppsGay ewe BD epee-bne

Verbatim transl. Sic, [quod ad] hos [ministros-sustinentes (vide stropham

Ill (?)) attinet quos vir] scelestus (quos) [ut] Sanctitatis, [i.e. sanctae civitatis] ministros-agricolas detineat* (b) Boves[-oum] [a] promotionis*!{-ione*!, i. e.a prosperitate Boum efficienda in] provinciae[-cid] vel [in] regionis|-ione] (vel), (c) male-invocans*?, [i.e, mala voluntate instigatus daemones invocans| ens* |i.e. est, infidelis et] suis actionibus vitam-(vel ‘animam’)-suam-consumptamhabens*, [sed horum agricolarum sic ab illo detentorum (i.e.

a prosperitate Boum efficienda in] provinciae[-cid] vel [in] regionis|-ione] (vel), (c) male-invocans*?, [i.e, mala voluntate instigatus daemones invocans| ens* |i.e. est, infidelis et] suis actionibus vitam-(vel ‘animam’)-suam-consumptamhabens*, [sed horum agricolarum sic ab illo detentorum (i.e. retardationis eorum) ultio ad-postremum veniet; et de illo retentore hoc supplicium sumetur ; id est, ut sequitur dicetur]: (d) ille] qui (ut ultor] hunc [scelestum infidelem-retentorem] e-Regno, [i.e. ex Potestate-regali], O Mazda, per-ictum-ejiciat e-vitae [-ta] vel, (€) ille(-ipse*) [hic ultus, in] hos [has] prorsus Boves{-oum] vias*(?) [et in] bonae sapientiae [vias** prorsus et uno tenore] progrediatur [vel -ietur], [i.e. und cum Bove ut pecuarius diligens et aptus in et per has* vias* (sacras (etsi tritas) Bovem ad prosperitatem et incrementum ducentes) prorsus progrediatur]. "Vel lege froréitéis. ‘a jucunda pace et prosperitate Boum’. *? vel = ‘duzh + hazah+- vao=potentia maligna daemonica praeditus’. *vel ‘ahu--mustd=populum*-(sibi devotum)- deceptum-habens’ (sic ad verbum), vel ‘dominus fallax, i.e. imago falsa domini’, vel ‘a + hém +must6**—=non-gratiosus’ (mud); vel ‘A + hém + usté = yalde convulneratus, consumptus (ush = ardere, consumere)’, vel ‘a + hém + mugto = valde deceptus’. ** vide Y. XXXTI, 9; vel ‘ad Boum pascua* progrediatur’, vel (tentemus iterum) ‘pascua, [i. e. copiam-pabuli] sapientiae’ [i.e. ‘pabulum sapientia-providenti in egestates et asperitates hiemis] praeparet’.

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the Good Mind?, [that is, for what actions* (or ‘to whom’) do they give*# that reward which they bestow** through (or ‘on account of’) good conduct]? (e) Thy doctrine, O Lord, do I desire, [that is, Thy Din].

** How far Ner. while putting down intelligible words intended to express their

combined meaning is here (as often elsewhere) of course a question. *? only accidentally correct. ** NB. he read Pahl. frandménd. **dadate = ‘give’ here not ‘take’.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. [] Kih = amat] an pédaish (or ‘paiday®’), Ormuzd*, [kt, an zaman kai rasad], kih [raz = jom (sic)| afztni-kunandah ¢ rizha (r)istakhéz? [kt andar yfiz kar u kirfah [{kardir = k-} afztini-kunad] * (b) Andar jiban pah pédai (or ‘paida’), [zahir], fraz pavan™ (sic) Savab rayad (2); [An mard afztni-kunandah = zak gabna* (sic) vakhshintdari* (2)] *% (c) Pah yarzishn [u= va] amikhtan* 7 4n 7 stidmandan khirad-[-mandan = -héméndan*] [édin chim az Din péda (or ‘paida’)] (d) an kih An sid pah Bahman rasad, [kfi 4n muzd pah bahi* bih dehad, an kih dehad, [Bahman = Vahoman*]? %* (e)Man in i Ta* Amikhtan khvaham, Ormuzd, [Din i Ta = Din t Lak) 7

Free tr. Who bear our Law*, these saints the faithless foeman

From wealth of herds doth hold with evil power*;

By his own deeds he cheats his folk* of weal;

Who him from life and rule shall hurl expelling

Fields* for the Kine with prospered skill he spreads.

Pahl. text translit.