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A study of the Five Zarathushtrian (Zoroastrian)
Gathas, .
with texts and translations,
also with the
-Pahlavi translation for the first time edited with collation of manuscripts, and now prepared from all the known codices, also deciphered, and for the first time translated in its entirety into
a Huropean language, with Neryosangh’s Sanskrit text edited with the collation of fiye MSS., and with a first translation, also with the Persian text contained in Codex 12> of the Munich Collection edited in transliteration, together with a commentary,
being the literary apparatus and argument to the translation of the Gathas in the XXXIst volume of the Sacred Books of the East
by
L. H. Mills, D.D., Hon. M.A. Oxon.
Part I, YASNA XXVIJI-XXXTV.
This work is published’ with the assistance of the Secretary of State for India in Council (of Her Britannic Majesty’s Government), and also with that of the Trustees of the Parsi Panchayet Translation Fund of Bombay.
To be had of F, A. Brockhaus in Leipsie
Oxford 1892.
Druck der Universitats - Buchdruckerei von E. Th. Jacob in Erlangen.
A study of the Five Zarathushtrian (Zoroastrian)
Gathas,
with
texts and translations,
also with the
Pahlavi translation for the first time edited with collation of manuscripts, and now prepared from all the known codices, also deciphered, and for the first time translated in its entirety into a Huropean language, with Neryosangh’s Sanskrit text edited with the collation of five MSS., and with a first translation, also with the Persian text contained in Codex 12» of the Munich Collection edited in transliteration, together with a commentary,
being the literary apparatus and argument to the translation of the Gathas in the XXXIst volume of the Sacred Books of the East
by
Lawrence H. Mills, D.D.
Parts I-IV, YASNA XXVIII- XXXIV, XLIL-L, LI, LUI; Comm.
This work is published with the assistance of the Secretary of State for India in
Council (of Her Britannic Majesty’s Government), and also with that of the Trustees of the Parsi Panchayet Translation Fund of Bombay.
To’be had of F., A, Brockhaus in, Leipsic.
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A study of the Five Zarathushtrian (Zoroastrian)
Gathas,
with
texts and translations,
also with the
Pahlavi translation for the first time edited with collation of manuscripts, and now prepared from all the known codices, also deciphered, and for the first time translated in its entirety into a European language, with / Neryosangh’s Sanskrit text edited with the collation of five MSS., and with a first translation,
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‘with the Persian text contained in Codex 12 of the Munich
Collection edited in transliteration,
together with a commentary,
being the literary apparatus and argument to the translation of the Gathas in the XXXIst volume of the Sacred Books of the East.
by
Lawrence H. Mills, D.D.
Part. I], YASNA XLIUI- XLVI.
This work is published with the assistance of the Secretary of State for India in Council (of Her Britannic Majesty’s Government), and also with that of the Trustees
of the Parsi Panchayet Translation Fund of Bombay.
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To be had of F. A. Brockhaus in Leipsie.
Druck der Universitits- Buchdruckerei yon E. Th. Jacob in Erlangen.
A study of the Five Zarathushtrian (Zoroastrian)
Gathas
with texts and translations,
also with the
Pahlavi translation for the first time edited with collation of manuscripts, and now prepared from all the known codices, also deciphered, and for the first time translated in its entirety into a Huropean language, with Neryosangh’s Sanskrit text edited with the collation of five MSS., and with a first translation, : also with the Persian text contained in Codex 12» of the Munich Collection edited in transliteration, together with a commentary,
bemeg the literary apparatus and argument to the translation of the GAathds in the XXXIst volume of the Sacred Books of the East
by
L. H. Mills, D.D., Hon. M.A. Oxon.
Part I, YASNA XLVU-L,LIII.
This work is published with the assistance of the Secretary of State for India in
Council (of Her Britannic Majesty’s Government), and also with that of the Trustees ot the Parsi Panchayet Translation Fund of Bombay.
To be had of F. A, Brockhaus in Leipsie.
Druck der Universitits - Buchdruckerei von E. Th. Jacob in Erlangen.
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PREFACE.
In attempting to follow the usual custom prevalent in writing prefaces and introductions I find myself, in the present case, at a certain disadvantage.
The Introduction proper to this work has been already published in pp. i-xlvii of the XXXIst vol. of the Sacred Books of the East. But, owing to the unusually extended range taken in by the present treatise, a preface of itself must take on some of the characteristics of an introduction ; that is to say, in explaining my procedure, and in extenuating my shortcomings, I am obliged to enter to some degree into discussion, and therefore into matters more fitting to an introduction than to a preface.
If I attempt to make any distinction at all between a preface and an introduction, I shall have to do so on mechanical principles. That is, I shall simply take out from the bulk of my introductory preface some important particulars which might not receive their due share of notice if left there, and as to what these particulars should be no one will disagree with me. They are simply the expression of my great indebtedness to eminent scholars for providing me with the means of consulting very important MSS. and books, and to others for what was equally desirable, and that is, for assisting me to defray the expenses involved in the printing of my work by subscribing beforehand for a good number of copies of it.
But, before I mention the kind co-operation of my friends, I had better explain how it was secured. It was caused by the examination of the first part of the book, pp. 1-393, which came to be distributed in the following manner, In 1882 a copy of the proof-sheets was urgently requested of me by an eminent German friend under circumstances which precluded a refusal. I had received unusual kindness from him, and mutual assistance had taken place between us throughout the working time of an entire year; and although I felt some apprehension in placing a book of uncorrected proof-sheets in the hands of so redoubted a critic, I thought it was little enough for me to do to express a gratitude which I hope I shall never cease to feel, and it was a matter of great gratification that this friend, in requesting me to send him the remaining portions of my book, wrote of it as sehr erwiinscht.
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Having placed my unfinished book in the hands of this leading master, I decided to withhold it from nobody, and I accordingly sent it gratuitously to nearly all the leading specialists in Europe and America, refusing no application to allow it to be used, I should add that the first request had been followed by others quite as urgent and complimentary. .
I do not regret that I acceded to these expressed wishes, for it placed my humble labours at the service of those who are helping on the development of Zoroastrian science, and I have not been without many further indications, both published and private, to the effect that my labours have not been in vain.
It was entirely owing to the interest awakened by this gratuitous distribution that I have been enabled to secure the many important subscriptions to which I refer, and I have there- fore a double reason to be satisfied with the apparently large pecuniary sacrifice that I made.
T may now state, as directly bearing upon what follows, the reasons why a year, or more, must yet elapse before I re-issue that first volume in its completed condition. The new MSS. which have been acquired, and the extensive citation of variations in Geldner’s edition, would of themselves suggest the reprinting of many sheets of it, while the length of time which has transpired since the first pages were printed should render the presentation of the work in its antiquated condition a most improper proceeding. But the remodelling and printing of the Commentary, together
~~ with other professional labours, has occupied the close labour of the ~ last three and a half years. The reprinting of antiquated parts will now be proceeded with.
: In the all-important matter of the acquisition of MSS. my gratitude is first owing to Destoor J amaspji Minocheherji Jamasp Asana, Ph.D. of Tuebingen, Hon. D.C.L. Oxon., for having sent me for my private use three valuable MSS. of the Yasna, and one of the Vendidad.
The first of these is the now celebrated MS. with Pahlavi translation, J.2, written by Mihirdpan Kai Khisr6, in the year of Yezdegird 692 (a.p. 1 323), the sister MS. to that so justly treasured by the University of Copenhagen (K.°), which was brought to that city by Rask previously to 1832. . The second was an ancient codex, J.°, written soon after the death of Neryosangh, the learned Parsi scholar, whose important labours date from about 500 to 600 years ago. This is a Yasna with N eryosangh’s Sanskrit translation, beautifully written, and, if of less value than the other, it is so
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only because its translation is in Sanskrit rather than in the more original Pahlavi. I should mention that this latter MS. is in a very fragile condition, and that many of the folios have suffered from abrasion.
I am also deeply gratified that the learned possessor has presented both of these precious codices to the Bodleian Library at my suggestion. I must also express my hearty thanks as an individual scholar to Professor Max Miller and to Sir William Markby for their great interest manifested in this matter, and to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press for the issue of a colloty ped reproduction of the Zend-Pahlavi MS. mentioned, executed in the actual dimensions and in a manner which surpasses that of most publications of the kind.
The third MS. is in Zend with Sanskrit translation, J.*, written by an ancestor of the Destoor’s, and apparently some hundreds of years old. The fourth MS., a valuable Vendidad with Pahlavi trans- lation, the generous scholar has presented to me as a personal gift.
Beside these, Destoor Darab Peshotan Sanjana, Professor of Zend and Pahlavi in the Sir Jamshedji Oriental College, Bombay, has kindly sent me a Yasna with Pahlavi translation. This is not an ancient codex, but it is executed with unusual critical care and attention. ‘
I also take this opportunity to thank Professor v. Spiegel for sending me his transcription of the MS. numbered 6 in Wester- gaard’s catalogue in the University Library of Copenhagen, con- taining also a collation of the MS. numbered 2 fonds d’Anquetil in Paris.
-I would also express my grateful thanks to Professor R. v. Roth for furnishing me, in 1883, with a collation of the Sanskrit translation contained in the very important MS. J.%, already mentioned as later presented to the Bodleian Library, and also to Dr. M. A. Stein for a collation of the Sanskrit translation in J.* in the same year.
I would also express my acknowledgments to Dr. Laubmann, the Librarian of the Hof. und Staatsbibliothek in Munich, for sending to the Bodleian Library, for my use, a valuable Zend-Pahlavi Yasna, and also a VendidAd in Pahlavi with Persian translation.
These last MSS. were formerly the property of Professor Haug, and the first was presented to him by some of the Parsis in recognition of his labours on the Avesta, and of his epoch-making transliterations of the Pahlavi. (One of my collateral occupations during the past three years, as I may mention in passing, has been
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to transcribe in its entirety the Persian translation of the Pahlavi in this MS. of the Vendidad, it being in its extent about one-third of the Avesta.)
I would also mention that my kind friend Dr. Rost, the
Librarian to the India Office, has sent me many and valuable works
to be used in domicile,
The space would fail me to express my obligation to eminent scholars for various acts of friendly assistance, and I shall take a further opportunity, but I cannot refrain from thanking once more my distinguished friend Dr. West for devoting, in 1881, an entire month of his valuable time to reading and revising my first Pahlavi translation of the Gathds, and for giving me much counsel and assist- ance in the, at times, almost insurmountable difficulties of my task.