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

action, but who are affording me protection im it?] (e) Declare these (Thy Fire and Gvahmana) forth to me through the the commandment represented by (or ‘contained in’) the Din, [that is, tell me this, since I (or ‘that* I may*’) accept the Din through the spiritual Master].

Parsi-persian Ms. irlt. Kih [] an man, Ormuzd, mayan [shagirdan 7 man] pasbani dehad, (b) kih man an ¢ darvand [Ahariman] pah dashtan darad kinah, [kim kinah ava darad, ma-ra pasbani kih kunand] (c) digar az Ta Atash u Bahman?; (chih Shuma, ra dinam kim pasbani kunand], (d) kih pah ésh4n kunishn Savab paryaram, Ormuzd, (ka, kar u kirfah kunam; ma-ra paspani kih kunand]? * (e) An ¢ an man Dastir 7 Din fraz g6*1, [in g6** [] ] *# * Or ‘gt’.

Free tr. He who my settlements to harm hath given,

Ne’er may his burning* wrath* through deeds destroy!

In hate to him come that which weal opposeth;

That to his body come which holds from blessing ;

May naught from vengeful wrath deliver, Lord! ejus me deyorans-et-vastans-‘furia’ actionibus attingat*, [neve me illa saeva vastatio crudeliter contundat]. (c) Momenta-ulta (sic), [i. e. momenta res contrarias adversus eum gerentia*!] haec [momenta ulta] huic, i.e. [ad hunc vastatorem] aggressa*-accedat{-dant] odio ([vel tentemus iterum ‘(c) Res damnum-rependentes*, [i. e. res damnum ab hoc v. actionibus in nos illatum rependentes*?], haec [effecta factorum suorum (vel ‘alia, moventia* mala, i. e. res

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omnino in hac conjunctione hunc inimicum infidelem miseria afficientes) ad [vel adversus] huic [i. e. hunc] accedat{-dant odio]) (d) [ad (vel ‘contra’) corpus [ejus] (ad) [accedant eae res] quae eum [a] bonae|-na]-vitae[-ta, i. e. a prosperitate] detineat, [i.e. retardent]! (e) Non, [i. e. ne (vel ‘nullo modo’) res ad eum accedant quae eum a-] calamitatis[-tate retardent] omnino**, O Mazda, odio, [sed ultione ad eum omnes res usque ad exitium ejus aggressaeaccedant, O Ahura], **Ad verbum ‘[negotium) adversus-agens’ neut. sg. part., vel (advyersus et contra *gerenter’ adverbialiter usurpatum. *°i. e. negotium rependens, vel (adverbialiter) *rependenter. ** ad verbum ‘aliquae’.

Pahl. text translit. ‘Mfn zak i li géhand yehabinéd avd valman i? kinikt, [aigh, khvdstaké pavan Dastdbar? Aharmdkand yehevinéd’, ash* padafras vadtinafid]; (b) 1a pavan zak i valman® ktinishnd® homan’ valman® asar*® résh9, [pavan tand*®, val® jan’, rfiiband, résh vadtinyén], fraz raninidar hémanam, [aigh!4, padafras biindak bara kardané 1a tiband]. (c) Pavan padirak yamttinishnd pavan?? zak i!8 kola dé, [amat!* mindavam i!5 minavad va stih 14 khipd' vadinyén] yamttnéd [avé valman i!¢ Aharmék] pavan bésh!; (d)! avd tand'7? [avé! gabra] khtiidai yamttinéd; [aighshan padafras vadinyén] mtin denman pavan'® hi-zivishnih panakih*, [aighash denman dina aétind aigh panakih i!® damand pavan frartindih'® vadtinyénj; (e) la pavan dtshzivishniht pavan kadarchai daman6, Attharmazd, béshidar [ 7? saritaran6).

*See P. throughout. * D. ins. i. * DJ.

i yamttinéd; [aighshan padafras vadinyén] mtin denman pavan'® hi-zivishnih panakih*, [aighash denman dina aétind aigh panakih i!® damand pavan frartindih'® vadtinyénj; (e) la pavan dtshzivishniht pavan kadarchai daman6, Attharmazd, béshidar [ 7? saritaran6).

*See P. throughout. * D. ins. i. * DJ. yehevinéd; D. yakhsenun-. *D. om. °D., Mf. valman. ® DJ., D. om. 7. 7D. hémanam (late). §D. valman i; DJ., D., Mf. asar. ®°DJ., D., M. résh mfin payan tano*, ?°DJ., D.om. “ DJ., D. ins. am. +? DJ., D. ins. 18D. om. i. # D. om. amat. **DJ. va, or -6, 1° DJ., D.ins.i. 17P. tanaén(?). #8 DJ. ins, va. ?#9DJ., D. ins. i.

Pahl. transl. He who delivers my settlements to the hater, [that is, he whose wealth is through the Persecutors (righteousness-destroyers) of the Dastir (or ‘the D. of the persecutors’, (ins. i)), on him let them (or ‘I will’ (read °ani)) execute chastisement]. (b) Not* of that wound of* the* consumer™ (hardly ‘that endless*(?) injury*’) which zs inflicted through his deed, [i. e. they would inflict injury upon body and life and soul], dat of that I am not the expeller*, the driver-off (sic) (not ‘instigator*’, (so)); see the gl.), [that is, it* is* not possible to inflict a full punishment upon them (sic(?))]; (c) in that meeting* (or ‘for that opposition’) in relation to both énterests, [since they (or ‘he’) will not fulfil the duties of the spirit and those of the world well] one* is coming [to him who 7s the Persecutor-of-righteousness] with torment, (d) dut* to his body [i.e. to that man] a sovereign**(?) [is coming]; i.e. he (or ‘they’) shall execute chastisement upon those s¢nners] who shall also (i. e. and they shall also) effect protection for* this other saint in his good living, [i.e. the opinion as to it is this thus [that the passage* (?) means* (?) that they should afford protection to the creatures in their correct-piety]; (e) notp. 255 solely* for the sake of punishing evil living is he, O Atharmazd, (or ‘is A. ’) a tormentor [of the wicked] at every moment. *!In the earlier trls, before the gl. was added héman may have been meant as an accus. ‘not by his deed may devouring violence wound me*; I am driving** him away’. *? or ‘to that man, the evil sovereign ,~-’. ** see Comm. especially; the trl. of this verse should be word-for-word only, and in the light of the Gatha.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Yo va me endm* jagadvibhttimn dadati dveshine, [kila, lakshmirh Adecena Asmoganarh dhatte], (b) na tasya’ hari, nricathsaih karmabhih, prakrishtarn prasarpayita, {kila tasya tanau 4tmanicha, chhedakaraih karmabhih* na “harh nigraharh sarapirnarh karturn caktah]. (c) Pratyabhimukhapraptya tena dvitayena, [kithchit* yat paralokiyai ihalokiyam' guddhara na kurute] tasya prapnoti pidayé (d) tanau [tasya Asmogasya]. Sa yah enam* sujivanitayé pita (e) no dushtajivanitayd. [Raja yah srishtith sadvyapadrataya rakshati, sa tasya nigrahath kurute]. Kadachit* Hormijdah duhkhakarta nikrishtanath. + P. om.

Ner. transl.

* yat paralokiyai ihalokiyam' guddhara na kurute] tasya prapnoti pidayé (d) tanau [tasya Asmogasya]. Sa yah enam* sujivanitayé pita (e) no dushtajivanitayd. [Raja yah srishtith sadvyapadrataya rakshati, sa tasya nigrahath kurute]. Kadachit* Hormijdah duhkhakarta nikrishtanath. + P. om.

Ner. transl. Or* he who gives over that my worldly (or ‘landed*’) property to the hostile party, [that is, who acquires property through the advice (or ‘instructions’) of the Asmogas] (b) on account of (or ‘for’) his cruel deeds I am not one who causes him* to creep* away*, [that is, I am not able to effect a full punishment in his body and soul on account of (or ‘for’) the cruel actions committed by him]; (c) on account of this opposition (or ‘in that meeting face to face’) with* regard* to* the two-fold interest, [since he performs nothing which concerns this or the other world aright], owr protector (see below) is coming with his torment, (d) that is, with torment in the body of the Asmoga]; he who is a protector of that* (my landed* possesion™ is thus coming) on account of (or ‘for the sake of’) our good-living*?, (e) and not on account of evil living*®, [that is, the king who protects the creation through, and on account of, righteous zeal, he zt 7s who is effecting the sinner’s punishment] ; Hormijda is at any time (i.e. always) an afflictor*? of the degraded, ** Or ‘my Din(?)’. *? ‘prosperity and adversity’. ** ‘one bringing afflictions upon’.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Kih an 7 man jihan* dehad an ft kinah [] [darvand = darvand], {ki, khezanah pah Dastfr i Ashméghan [] [darad = jansinéd] [] padahfrah {kih = min] kunand]? (b) Nah pah an 7 ft kunishn [ [] [hastam = héminam] 1 — zakhm [ [] [kih = min] tan u [] ruvan* zakhmi-kunand] friz ravai-kunand* (? -ah) hastam, [kifm = -am] padafrah bundah bih kardan nah tuvan] * (c) Pah pazirah rasidan pah 4n z har df [ [] [chiz 7 minfi u satya (? sic videtur) nah khth [kar = kar] kunand] rasad [fn & ¢ Ashmégh] pah azar- [] [-kunand = -vdginand*] (d) kih = min] an did* (?) [kunad = — (?)] [an mard khuda rasad; kfishaén padafrah kunand] kih in pah nék-zivishni(?) + ya‘ni + zistan pdsbani, {kfish in insaf édin, kit pasb4ni 7 pédaish* (or ‘paidéy°’) pah néki kunand] * (e) Nah pah bad-zistan [rasad, va = jatinéd va} pah har-kudém zaman, Ormuzd*, [az = min] azar-dehandah [i badtaran] #

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Verbat. trl. Quis [quidem ex contrario est] ille(-ipse*) qui me[mihi ut] adjutor-liberalis [persuasum-habens”] intelligens-oboediebat™[-diet*] primus [omnium meorum aliorum principum discipulorum] (b) [mihi indicanti] (quo-modo) Te [Deum] bene-invocandum [nostrum] veneremur* [et magnificemus] (c) [in hac nostra*] actione [sacrificii (et.