Parsi-persian Ms. in man — [], [kim an édtn é yak hasil-kunad], an an ¢ ma (sic) 4amikhtan an yak kih shunay* (= nydshak (?)) (b) Zaratusht ¢ Spitaman & an 7 ma, Hormuzd, kamah, Sawab ham, (ki, bayad an kar u kirfah pur] % (c) Charah — ham srayad, [ki, charah ¢ Drtj ¢ andar jihan* bih gtyad] kih 4n fi — dehad pah gobishn, (kt, guftan 2 néki r& 7¢ 6 gityad, ash anya [-ja], pah mini, gah 7 nék dehand]. # * Or shin°. Fr. Then wept the Kine’s Soul: ‘gainI | a lord for the grieving feeble, A voice of an impotent man, while I pray for a kingly chief’. When shall he ever appear who may give to her help strong-handed ?
him with perfect /iberality|] (b) owing to the inefficiency of és words also to, or for, men, [since the religion is not making full progress], for whom by me there is a desire for a will which extends to sovereignty, [that is, for their sakes I need a Mobadship of the Mobads (?)]’. (c) However is that dis- pensation ? [that is, is that time ever coming] when aid is given to him [to that Zaratusht] through powerful prayer?* * A mind without the needed thing. Ner.’s sansk. text. Evazicha gopactinaiin* Atma krandati: yah aydcha- kah, andnandamana* adakshinddanena!, [yad asyo ’pari vapuh sampurnarm na dakshinyam?! ayachakaccha, acaktitaya], (b) vacharh naranam asadhana- tayai? [yat® Dinih sarnptirnarh na pravartate], yah tasmai ipsayita yachayita rajyain [tasmai Jarathustraya Moibadanam‘ Moibadatvaii* samihate] (c) Katham datih*? Kadachit sa asti, [kila, sa kalah kadachit prapsyati'], ya® asmai dasyati caktitaya sahayyam7*, [asmai Jarathustraya?} +All -kshan®. * P. sadh®, * so Co) butePsyataso* Je moivad®, © J.4- *.so J.4; P. yo (?). 7 P. sahayam. Ner. tri. And so the Soul of the cattle bewailed: ‘He who is prayer- less, and of joyless mind because they do not give, [because for him the body, or person, is entirely without offered-reward, and without prayer through powerlessness], (b) dewailing the voice of men for its inefficiency, [because the Din does not fully advance] who is desiring and praying * for the autho- rity for this one, [that is, he desires the Mobadship of the Mobads for this Jarathustra]. (c) How is that gift? Some day (when(?)) will it come ?, [that is, is the time ever (when is it ever?) coming?], which gif shall afford helpful
companionship to him with power [to this Jarathustra]?’ 5,
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Parsi-persian MS, Edtin [] Ruwaén 7 gésfendan ghaugha-kard kit: i 7 n4-khwastar ra, [na-tuwan Zaratusht], man béd (sic) ¢ N&-shad minishni, pah 4nz na-sakhi, dehad, {kiyash pur [u=va] awar bih nah —]s¢ (b) Wa gobishn ham 7 an mardaiman [no tr. for anafzar-(?)] ra
Trlit. Ytzhém aéibyd Ahura aogd daté Asha khshathremch4 Avad(t) Vohi Mananha ya hushitis ramamcha dad(t)
Azemchid(t) ahya Mazda Th(u)wam* ménhi paourvim [°viyem] vaédem.
Verbatim transl. Vos his, Ahura, [rem] eratum [-am, et felicitatem (vel fortasse potentiam)] date, Sanctitas, Regnumque (b) tantum [tale] Bona Mente [institutum] quo [his] prosperitates-domesticas gaudium-que det. (c) Ego-etiam [vel omnino] hujus, Mazda, Te existimavi primum possessorem.
* DJ. ins. va, see P. throughout. ? K.*, M. om. kh. °-D, om. + Dey De olds om. repetition. ® D, om. ft, 7 original (?) correction in DJ. * D, mindavam.
Pahl. transl. Give ye assistance to these, Atharmazd, Ashavahisht, and Khshatvér6, [that is, may they (or do Thou) secure the happiness of Zarattisht, and Zarattisht’s disciples by this means], (b) so also Vohiman, who gives him a pleasing habitation [the place which is beyond] and also joy. (c) I even
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Trlit. Kudé Ashem Vohucha Mané Khshathremcha: ad(t) ma masha
Yaizhém Mazda frdkhshnené mazoi Magai 4 paiti-zanata
Ahura nti nao avar(é) ehmai ratdis Yashmavatam.
Verbatim tri. Quando [vel unde] Sanctitas, Bonaque Mens, Regnumque, venitis? Tum me [obviam venientes mihi] festinantes (b) Vos, O Mazda, ad me edocendum [causa] magnae Magae [hujus magni conatus] adjudicate [i. e. offerte]
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{kih — pur nah rawé] kih man oshin kamah khwa4hishn 7 6 sahibi [[] [kish = dghash] Oshin ra Mébadin Mobadi bayad] * (c) Chin hargiz 4n — hast, {kfi, in zaman hargiz raséd], kih 6 # dehad pah tuwan khwahishn yari, [an f Zaratusht] ? %
Free tr. Grant gladness, O Ahura and the Right, unto these a kingdom, A Realm with the Good Mind ordered, which joy and amenity giveth.
Of these, O Mazda, ever the possessor first I thought Thee.
that one, O Atharmazd, [that Zaratisht] (or I even of that thing), I think that from Thee is his (or its) first acquisition, [that is, to him happiness is first from Thee}.
Ner.’s sansk. text. Yayari etebhyah, Svamin, sAhdyyam datta Agavahistaya Saharevarayacha [Dharméya, Raéjiiecha']. (b) Evathcha Uttamaiya Manase2, Gvahmanaya, yah sunivasatérh® 4nandaricha datte [sthanar yat paralokiyarn]. (c) Ahamchit ayath [Jarathustro], Mahajidnin, Tvatto dhyayami praktandai labdhizh [kila, me prathamath cubhath Tvatto bhavati, (uktarh yat gortipam)}.
*So J.° seems; J.*, J.*, OC. -jiievacha (sic). 2P.°ah, others "asa. * all but J.’ °tvam.
Ner. transl. Do ye grant helpful friendship to these, O Lord, to Aca- vahista, and Saharevara [to Sanctity and to the King], (b) and so also to the Highest (Good) Mind, to Gvahmana, who grants* joy, and a good abode [the place which is beyond]. (c) I even, this [Jarathustra}, think that the an- cient acquisition was from Thee, O Great Wise One, [that is, happiness was first mine from Thee, (a speech which is adapted (referring (?)) to the Cow)}.
Parsi-persian Ms. Shtima an dshan, Hérmuzd, yari dehad (?), Ardibahisht uw Shaha- revar, (ki, Zaratusht, u— 7 Zaratusht, néki padash kunand] * (b) dfn ham Bahman, kih mandan [gah ¢ anja] u raémishn ham ash dehad * (c) Man ham fy, Hormuzd, [i Zaratusht], ash az Ta [ | [chiz = mandém] pradum (sic) — [ktish pradum néki az Ti béd (sic)] *
Fr. Whence Righteousness, Good Mind, and Thou | the Kingdom, come Ye? Then hastening
To grant us light, O Lord, for The Holy Cause do Ye reach us
Your aid, O Living One, now yea, the helpful gift of Your faithful.
(c) Ahura nunc nobis [proferte] auxilium huic#* [Magae] largitatis vestri-simi- lium [vel servorum vestrorum corde addictorum]. % Vel éhmé = simus (participes). -
Pahl. text translit. *Aigh dahishnd i2 Ashavahisht, va? Vohiman va ‘Khshatraver, min aéttind avd li yamtininéd [gdbishnd i Zarattishtd, aigh, zak i? mozd, aigh jindik yekavimtinéd}? (b) Lektiim am‘, Atharmazd kabed pavan hand mas magih padadahishninéd [aigham pavan hana® ayéjak shapirih® padadahishnd vadiinyén)], (c) Atharmazd, kevan lanman kamak zak i avé7 lanman radih i® min? Lekim [kevan amat afdih i Lekiim vésh khavitd-
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Pahl. transl. Where is the dispensation of Ashavahisht, Vohiman, and Khshatraver, Ye who are thus sending* 7¢ to me? [J¢ zs the word of Zara- tiisht; where 7s the reward?; where is its place?] (b) Do Ye recompense me much, O Adharmazd, for, or in, this chief Magianship, [that is, do Thou, (or they shall) bring about my reward in this pure goodness]. (c) Give us now, O Atharmazd, our desire, that which zs a liberal gift for us which is from You. [Now, since I know Your wonderful grace better, that happiness which comes from You is more desired by me. Some say this: ‘Now since the Religion has been fully advanced, mine and my disciples’ is the reward which is from Thy desire’]. * Perhaps not caus.; read ‘coming’; see Ner.
Ner.’s sansk. text. Kva danara, Acavahisto, Gvahmanah, Saharevarag- cha, evar mahyari prapsyati, [kila Punyarn, Uttamarhcha Mano, Rajyarncha, sa prasidah kva sthane dste yah evath mahyarh prapsyati]? (b) Yiyara Ma-
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Trlit. Ad(t) t&a vakhshya ishefit6, ya mazdatha hyadchid(t) vidushé.
Staotacha Ahurai, yesn{ijyacha VanheuS Mananhd,
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Humazdra Asha yaécha, ya raochébis dar(e)sata urvaza [vraza].
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Verbatim transl. Ita haec dicam [O vos] venientes, quae [sunt]-admo- nitiones [ei] quid-omnino [quicquid sit] [penitus-] scienti, (b) laudesque Ahurae, sacra-officiaqgue Bonae Mentis, (c) duo-benigna-consilia [per] Sanctitate [-tem| quaeque-duo! [sunt ea] qua [= per quam rem, vel = ut] in luminibus visa-sint propitia. * Fortasse ashayaecha — Sanctae beatitudini(?), vel etiam yecha = exoro (aegre).
Pahl. text translit. ‘Aétind zak 1? kola IL gébishné khvahishné i At- harmazd dad? [Avestak va Zand], minich* akds [aigh, danak, ash Aérpatis- tand ktnishnd), (b) mfin stéyishnd i Atharmazd, va Yazishnd 2 Vohiman,
[afash pédak zak i® Avestak va® Zand], (c) min hi-minidér pavan Ahardyih,
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hajnanin, prabhitatarazn mahattamena uttamatvena! prasddayati [-ata*2], [kila, tena nirmalatamena* uttamatvena mahyath prasadam kuru]. (c) Svamin, iha asmakath, asmabhyaricha dakshinaé Tvattah. (Dviyarain vachyo gujastah - - ..)
* J.4, C. ins. matena; P. tena. * see yiiyam. * J.* latvena.
Ner. transl. Whence will the gift so come to me? and Ashavahista, Gvahmana, and Saharevara, [that is, Sanctity, and the Highest (Good) Mind, and the Kingdom?; where is the reward placed which will thus come to me]? (b) He affords (?, or do Ye*1, O Great Wise One, afford*) me the more excellent thing, in reference to, or by the greatest exaltation*?, [that is, effect a reward for me as regards, or by that spotless exaltation*?]. (c) Here, O Lord, is the gift which cs ours, and which comes to us from Thee. (This teat to be repeated twice), etc. ** The Pahl. ‘néd was misread. *? the Holy Cause.
Parsi-persian Ms, Kt — ¢ Ardibahisht u Bahman [] Shaharévar (imperfect), kih édiin an man r—(?) (guftan ¢ Zaratusht, ki 4n 7 muzd, ka jai istad]. * (b) Shuma ra (?ra=li) Hormuzd bisyar pah in meh — — [ktum pah in avézhah (so) véhi p&adadahishn kunand] * (c) Hormuzd, akn&i (sic-nfin) ma kémah an [] [& = varman] radii az Shuma, [aknifi (sie) kih — 7 Shuma zyadah danam, ma-ra néki 7 az Shuma kamahtar *% bid kih guft é:; aknfi [-ntin] [] Din rawa bih bid, man [] shagirdin 7 man muzd i az TA kamah] *
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Fr. Thus I will speak monitions, ye who come, yea the wise one’s monitions, Praises I speak for the Lord, and the offerings of the Good Mind Both benignant counsels from Truth whence signs in the lights seem friendly. zakich” min [mindayam i frarind minéd, ash kirfak yazishnd {4 mas yehe- viinéd], minshain dén,réshanih pavan vénishnih® hi-ravakh-manih [aighshan amat minavad yazishnd%t+ khaditind, ashin rdmishn yehevinéd]. +See P. 2 DJ. om. i. * DJ. yehabaind; K.5 dad. * DJ., D. om. i, * D. om. i. * DJ. om. va. 7 DJ. om. ich; D. (not Mf.) ins. i. * so DJ. * DJ., M. ayaz®, or Ayaz®, Pahl. tri. Thus both those truths are to be spoken, and are to be sought, (or a supplication, poss., O seeking ones (?)) which Attharmazd gave forth [the Avesta and Zand], which also are for the intelligent [that is, the learned, by him priestly studies are to be pursued], (b) which (or whose) are the praise of Attharmazd, and the Yasna of the Good Mind [also the Avesta and Zand are revealed to him] (c) which (or he who is) the good thinker ¢hinks through Sanctity; that one also who [thinks the thing which is p‘ous, to him good works equal* a great religious service], and what* things are* to them (or whose is) joy in looking into the light, [that is, to them when they behold the worship of the (or a) spirit, it is a joy to them]. * Or ‘by which to them there is joy’. Ner.’s sansk. text. Evaii te [tau] vichau! abhilashukah [-kau] ye [yau] Mahajnanin [-ni] adatte, [Avistavanith vyAkhydnaiicha], yagcha vetta [kila, jiata,
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tasya [tena] adhyayanath karyam], (b) ?stotacha? Svamino Hormijdasya‘, {[asau5 yasmat prakatah (?) Avistavachaso vyakhyanachcha], aradhakaccha Utta- masya Manaso [Gvahmanasya]. (c) Suma(n)ta(?)* punyena yaccha [sacha yah kimchit sadacharataram** manyate, tasya punyari [jisneh mahatydh bhavatil, yaccha *ntar rochishi alokanena aAnanditah [Svaminath ye adricyaéyam Ijisnau pacyanti, teshath 4nandah samudbhavati]. * Or °ta = tani (Sansk. of diff. period).
1J.* vachau, 2J.* ins. asau. *all stau®. ‘*J.*Haur®. *J.* om. *J.*, J.* °chara®, or °ri®; cp. charin.
Ner. transl. So these are the two words of prayer which the Great Wise One delivers [the Avista-word and the Interpretation]; and he who is in- telligent [that is, the one who is informed], by him study is to be pursued; (b) and he is a praiser of the Lord Hormijda, [that one by whom He (?) is revealed
Trlit. Sraoté Géushais vahista *a(a)vaénata sicha Mananha! A var(e)nao vichithahya narém narem Vahyai tanuyé (= °uvé).