Verbatim transl. Audite auribus. Optima conspicite flammas [sacras (vel lumina caeli(?))] Mente; (b) ad [apud] electiones [i. e. per occasionem hujus de capitibus doctrinae] discretionis virum [i. e. vir per] virum [singuli] proprio corpori [proprie] (c) in-facie magni conatus huic [ad hanc] nostram(?) enuntiare*1 [enuntiationem] experrecti [sunto (expergiscimini)] (ad). %+ (vel (om. né (2)) huic [personae (singulatim)] enuntiabo (infin. for imper.)).
Pahl. text translit. ‘Goshand? sriid* nydkhshishnih? [aighash‘ gdsh bara vash- ammind, shad vazliind, bara karitiind*] vahisht* [vakhshinishnih, aighash¢ Aér- patistané? ktnishnd]. Minash dvinapdak’ zak i réshané pavan minishnd [aigh, zak i* Aérpatand réshané avo? tarik]. (b) Kamak lanman bara vijinishné, main - gabra va!° néshman hémaném, avd zak i nafshman tané [aighman mindavam 7 frarano min zak i avartind bara vijinishnd, afmand zak i frarind + ghal kinishn). (ec) Aigh bara, pavan zak® mas kar [pavan pasakhtd!? i138 pavan tanod* {14 pasind], avé zak ¢!* amakhtishnd i® lanman nikézénd pAdadahishnd [aigh- mand mindavam* {1 frartind Amakhtand rai*® padadahishnd vadtinanid 27].
* See P. 280 DJ.; D., M. gdshanak. * M. om. * DJ., D. om. from gdsh to -aighash inclus. °M. ins. nydkhsh®. * DJ. ins. ya. 7D. aé or Ay-vin° (?); DJ. vin®; Sp., M. avin’. * DJ. om. * DJ., D. valman. * M. ins. va. ™ D. frarfnd(?). % DJ., D. 3 so D., M.; DJ. om. * D. om. ** DJ, mindayam (?). 7* M. om. *7 so Mf. ete.; D. °yén.
Pahl. trl. Let there be*! a listening to what is heard* by the ear, [that is,
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from the Avista-word, and the Interpretation], and he is a propitiator of the Highest Mind [of Gvahmana]. (c) He who thinks* good thoughts through Sanctity [he who meditates a thing which is more correct, his is the Sanc- tity of the great Service], who also és rejoiced by a view which he gains amidst the light, [that is, the joy of those persons arises, who behold the Lord in the spiritual service]. * If sumaté = “tani, then ‘kindly thoughts’. Parsi-persian Ms. Edfin an ¢ har dt guftan khwahishn (sic) ¢ Hormuzd dehad [Awesta u Zand] kih ham Agah, (ka, dina, ash Magopatdarih kardan] **, (b) kih sitidan v Hormuazd, wa yazishn ¢ Bahman, [azash (sic) péd& an 7 Avesta u Zand] * (c) kih — pah Sawab, 4n ham miin (sic? kih), [mandtim (sic pro chiz) ¢ frartin minéd, ash kirfah yazishn 7 meh béd] kih -shan andar rfighani pah minishn (sic pro binishn) khdéshi
[ktishan, kih [u = va] mint yazishn vinénd, ashan (?) ramishn béd] *%
Fr. Hear ye this with the ears! Behold ye the flames with the Best Mind. Faith’s choice must ye now fix for yourselves man and man deciding, The great concern is at hand, ,to this our teaching awake ye!
the ear listened to it, and hecame glad, and they will invoke it] as what is best [as prospering increase, that is, priestly studies are to be completed by him*). What affords one a view, becomes light in the mind, [that is, the Herbad’s light in darkness]. (b) Our desires are to be discriminated, we who are men and women, for our own selves (or bodies), [that is, the pious thing is to be distinguished by us from the impious, and what is proper is to be done by us, or for us]. (c) So besides this, in that great undertaking, [in the consummation which zs in the final body] they are attentive to, i. e. they are considering a reward*? for us for our teaching, [that is, they will effect a recompense for us for teaching the pious things).
*1 Tnfin. for imper. ™ or ‘to our teaching, and considering its reward’.
Ner.’s sansk. text. Yaccha crotracravanah*, [kila, kirnchit prasAda- taram crinoti], vikagayita, [kila, adhyayanakarta], Alokayitacha nirmalatararm manasa‘, [kila, Ervadeshu yah nirmala(h)*?, yah nirmalatarah tasmat yah timiravan, tena adhyayanam karyam]. (b) Kamar asmakari vibhetta, yah, naranaincha narinazicha sviye* vapushi, [{kila, tachcha yat sadAcharitaraii*4 anacharitaram** [sat*] vibhinatti]. (c) Prakrishtarn mahata karyena tari vayamn ¢ikshapayamah® darcayanto upari, [kila, kirnchit yat sadichdratarath7 cikshapayanto smah®], +J.* sah. ?allscem “la. *s0J., J.*; J.4 °yena. ‘cp. charin(?). * J.* om.; others gat. * so J.3, J.4; 0. cikshay®. 7 so J.t * the most ’smah (sic).
Ner. transl. And he ahd is hearing-of-ear, [that is, who hears some- thing more gracious] is a revealer (or an increaser of prosperity*), [that is, the student], and the one who observes the clearest* thing with the mind, {that is, he who is clear (or pure (?)) among the Ervads, who is clearer* Jar than he who is in darkness, by him even study is to be pursued].
40 XXX. 3, 4.
(b) And he also is an analyst of our desire, the desire of men and of women, each in his, or her own self or body, [that is, he distinguishes what is better done, and what is less (or worse) done]. (c) And we cause this to be promulgated by the great enterprise, showing it above other things, [that is, we are causing something which is a better course of action to be taught]. * okacayité prob. renders vakhsh®, sense ‘increaser’; I. corr. Comm.
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Trlit, Ad(t) té Mainya paouruyé[=°viya] yé yema vaf(e)nd asr[ulvatem,
Manahicha, vachahich4, §(k)yaothandi, hi vahyé akemcha,
Ayaoscha hudaonho eres vis(k)yAta, noid(t) duzhdaonho.
Verbatim transl. Ita hi duo-Spiritus duo-priores (paourvya*) [vel °yé
in principio(?)] qui gemini sua-sponte-agentes auditi-sunt [clari-facti-sunt] (b)
in-cogitatione, in-sermone, in-actione hi (vel haec) duo, melius, pravumque
[sunt]. (c) Eorum-que (de iis duobus) bene-facientes [vel sapientes] recte
decernant, non [ne] malum-statuentes [vel male-sapientes]. * Vide annotationes.
Pahl. text translit, *Aéttind zak ¢? kola Il Minavad [Atiharmazd va
Gan(r)ak] ashand frattim zak i yomai** benafshman srtid, [aighshand vinds va
kirfak benafshman bara yemalelind 4], (b) minishno, va® gobishné, va ktnishné,
1See P. ?DJ., D. om. *D. yom Ai. * DJ., D. gift. ° D. ins. va. *D. om. 7 DJ., ins. 7, *DJ., D. ins. °D. ins. 7. 1°DJ. seems ganrakh®; M. ganak-.
Pahl. transl. Thus these two Spirits, Aftharmazd and The Evil One, at
\ the first declared themselves, or were heard of, as a pair, [that is, they announ-
ced themselves fully as sin and good works] (b) as to thought, word, and deed,
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Trlit. Ad(t)cha hyad(t) ta hém Mainyi jasaétem paourvim [=°viyem] dazdé Gaémcha[=gayem’°], ajyditimcha[—=ajiv’], yathacha aihad(t) apemem anhus, Achist6 dregvatam, ad(t) ashauné Vahistem Mano.
Xxx. 3, 4. 4]
Parsi-persian Ms, Gdshu (sic) srid —, [ktish [] Magopatdari kardan], Kiyash [ ] [é = aé?] an 7 ritshan pah minishn, [ki, 4nz Magopatdari rish (sic) [6, or {1 = varman|] tarik] * (b) Kamah ma bih —, kih mard u (= va) zan hastim an an 7 khwéshtan {kt, man chiz 7 nék az an @ bad bih —, [] ma an 7 nék (= frarin) 6 (or i (?)) kunishn] (c) Ka bih, pah 4n meh kar [pah sikhtan] 7 pah tan? pasin, an; no tr. for the remainder ; Pahl. text: amikhtishn 7 varman (sic vid.), then as above. x
Free tr. Thus are the spirits primeval who, as Twain, by their acts are faméd In thought, in word, and in deed, a better they two, and an evil; Of these, let (2) the wise choose aright, and not as the evil-minded.
___the one who is good, and the one who is evil. [One thought, spoke, and did good, one (the other) evil]. (c) Of these, the wise [Atharmazd(?)] chose aright, and not [the Evil Spirit], wise-in-evil. *Or °6d = ‘choose ye aright’.
Ner.’s sansk. text. Evam tau! Adricyamtrti?, [Hormijdah Aharma- naccha], ptirvaz yau* bhimandale svayari avochatim, [kila, yau punyath papaincha svayarn avochatam| (b) manasicha, vachasi*, karmanicha, tat dvitayam, uttamaiacha nikrishtarncha. (c) Etayogcha uttamajiani [Hormij- dah] satyam vibhaktavan, nacha dushtajfdni [Gandmainio{-ah]].
180 J.*; J.40., P. to. ? P. *Haug. *so J.*; J.4,C., Ps vachakar®; no note of om. in J.°.
Ner. transl. Thus the two Spirits [Hormijda and Aharmana] who uttered first in the world, each his own* principle, [that is, who each de- clared, one his own good deed, and the other his own* sin], (b) these were a pair, in thought, word, and deed, a highest, and a degraded one. (c) And of these two, the one endowed with good intelligence [Hormijda] was the distinguisher of the truth, and not the one with evil intelligence, [|Gana- mainia|. * Or ‘themselves’.
Parsi-persian Ms. Edi an ¢ har di Mint {Hérmuzd wa Gana] ashan (?) awwal anz [ ] [razha = jomd (?)] khéd srad, [ktshan gunéh u kirfah khod bih guft] % (b) Minishn u gobishn u kunishn, fn 7 har di, kih veh u [] [[] [kardan (?) = —?] ju = va] yak an i badtar % (¢) [] [kih = mim] oshdn f 7 nék-dand [Hormuzd] rast bih vazidan (? sic), nah an 7 bad-dana [Gana Mint] +
Fr. Then those spirits created, as first they two came together, Life and our death, decreeing how all at the last shall be ordered, For evil men Hell, the Worst life, for the righteous, the Best Mind,Heaven.
Verbatim transl. Atque quum hi-duo con- duo-Spiritus -veniebant primum ad-constituendum* (b) vitamque non-vitam [mortem (?)]|-que, -et-quo-modo sit [erit] postremo mundus, (c) pessimus [mundus, id est, Tartarus*] scelestorum
[-tis], sed sancto Optima Mens [id est caelum*]-- # Vel ‘creat uterque(?) (creayerunt)’. 6.
49 XXX. 4, 5.
Pahl. text translit. Aétinéch zak i kola Il Minavad avd ham mado hémand av6 zak it fratim dahishné, [aigh, kola II minavad avd Gayd- mardé? mad hodmand]. (b) [Amatich*®] pavan zéndakih*, [Atharmazd pa- van hana kar, aigh vadash zéndak#t> yakhsenunand®], va minich pavan azéndakih?, [Ganrak® Minavad pavan aé® kar, aigh vadash bara yekte- limanid], minich aétind zak ait vad val! zak i afdiim dén ahvan, [aigh, anshiitach i+ avarik madam ghal yamttinéd]. (c) Vadtimih {12 darvandan, [Aharmand*5 darvandan rai awasihinishnih' bara khaditind 5], va!3 aétind zak i aharibo pahlim minishnih+*, [Atharmazd hamit '7+48 hamaikiha 1°],
Pahl. transl. Thus both these Spirits came together for the first creation , [that is, both spirits come together for Gaydmard]. (b) [When Atharmazd produced him] in life, [it was for this object, that (or while) they might preserve life in him, and when [Ganraék Minavad made him] in non-life, {it was for this object, that they might kill him], which is also the case until the last in the world, [that is, it happens so also to other and later men]. (c) [Aharmana saw thoroughly] the worst thing (or production) of the wicked [the devastation owing to the wicked; and so Atharmazd saw forever] the best thought of the pure.
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Trlit. Aydo manivdo varata ye dregvao achista verezyé [= °iyd];
Ss Sees TS es = Sari alenheten aa A
Ashem mainyus spenisto, ye khraozhdistefig asend vasté,
Yaécha khshnaoshen Ahurem haithyais §(k)yaothanais fraored(t) Mazdam,
Verbatim trans!. Horum-duorum Spirituum [ita] sibi- eligebat qui scelestus [erat], pessima perpetrans*!, (b) [sed] Sanctitatem [eligebat] spiritus beneficen- tissimus, quise in-firmissima caela*? induit, (c)[eos| quique propitient (vel-tiabant) Ahuram vere-bonis actionibus pie|-perfectis] Mazdam. ** °trantes (?) *? saxea:
Pahl. text translit. 4Min déané minavadin ash déshid min darvand zak { saritar varzishnd, [Aharmand; zak i saritar varzishnd kamak bid?).
Xxx..4, 5. 43
ajagmashuh (sic)? praktanam yarn datau [Gaiomarde] (b) jivitenacha ajivitenacha {Hormijdah anena karyena, kila, yat* yavat* (2) jivitara dadhati, Aharmanaccha anena karyena, yat yavat* (?) nihanti], evaricha Aste? yavat* nirvanam antar bhuvane, [asyth upari samagachchhatah']. (c) Nikrishtamatdm pralayarn jasyah dadarga Gandmainio(-ah)|, evar punydtmano [Hormijdasya] utkrishta- taram manah. + C., P. diff. * so all; read Ajagmatur.
Ner. transl. And thus these two spirits came mutually together to the first production in the creation [in (?) Gaiomarda], (b) with life and non- life [Hormijda with the former action, that is, as long as until* he establishes life, and Aharmana with the Jatter action, until* he destroys as much as 7s to be destroyed|, and so it is in the world, as long as until* Nirvana, [for this creation, they two come (or came (?)) together]. (c) The destruction of the degraded ones [of the creation Gandmainia beheld]; and so the most exalted (good) mind of the pure-souled [Hormijda Hormijda viewed as His]. * Yayat = vad.
Free tr, Of these two spirits he chose who is evil, the worst things working, But Right chose the Spirit bounteous, clothing-on the firm stones of heaven, (Choosing) those who content Ahura with actions essentially pure.