Pahl. transl. Tell me this distinctly, [tell 7¢ to me clearly, where is that reward? How ought one to make it one’s own], the reward which is to be given me through Sanctity [when duty and good works have been fulfilled by me| that gift which is the good one?, [that is, let there be (or ‘when is?’) the giving of that good reward to me]. (b) Give me that information, which is through Vohiman, [that is, tell me thoroughly what is wisdom realized through piety], and from*! whom, or which, [by means of that one] that which is for* right (or ‘justice’) becomes also mine, [that is, may it be possible to me through the piety of that wisdom to give every man an answer according to right]. (¢) That also which does not exist, O Aflharmazd, it, (or ‘A.’) [declares] according to what does exist, [that is, according to the Gathic doctrine which exists He* declares where it does not exist (or‘ where there is nothing’). ** Oblique by pos.
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Trlit. AhmdAi anhad(t) vahistem yé mdi vidvao vaochad(t) haithim [=°iyem], Mathrem yim Haurvataté Ashahya AmeretAtascha ;
Mazdai avad(t) Khshathrem — hyad(t) hoi Vohf' vakhshad(t) Mananha
Verb. tri. Huicerit (vel erat) optimum, qui mihi sciens [id] dicet((?) dicebat ut]
verum (b) Rationis-verbum quem [quod] Salubritatis Sanctitatis Immortalitatis-
a ON ht i mi i
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Ner.’s sansk. text. Tat mahyarn viviktarh? bréhi, [kila, me idari nir- malataram* brihi] yan mahyath punyena danari uttamam, [kila, yan mayd karyath punyathcha kritamtaste, tena Te yat uttamar prasddadanam; kathath sviyam cakyate karturn]. (b) Vettritvam? Uttamena Manasa mahyarncha‘ dehi, [kila, me tat jidnarh yat sadachadrataya brihi5|] yena me achchhedah*, [kila, tena jidnena sadacharina pratyuttaram *achchhedai*® cakto bhavami datur| (c) tachcha, Mahajnanin Svamin, yan no’ va asti, asti va, [srishtaye yat asti uchyate, yachcha na ’sti].
_ 1 JA tatah? 2 J.% -vikta (so), J.*, C. vikta. * J.* vettritt®?. * C. om. cha; J.4 adds. ° C. om. gloss. ° J.* achhed®. 7 all yan mo.
Ner. transl. Tell this to me distinctly, [that is, declare to me this more clearly*] that which is the highest gift, and which is given to me through sanctity, [that is, because even a* boly* work* is done by me, therefore the best gift of Thy reward is bestowed, but how is it possible to make it one’s own]? (b) Grant me the knowledge through the Best Mind, [that is, declare that intelligence to me which comes through good conduct], and by which also safety from injury is secwred to me, [that is, through that beneficent information, or science, may I be able to render a reply without receiving a blow]; (c) and declare either that which is not, or that which is, O Great Wise One, the Lord, [that is, that which is, as well as that which is not, is declared to the world].
Fr. To him wasthat most* precious*, who declared it as truth, the All-wise One, That Manthra which is the word of Health, Right, and the Life Immortal: “To Mazda shall be such Kingdom as shall grow through His holy Mind.”
que [sit]; (c) Mazdae tale Regnum [sit] quod [quale] ei Bona crescat Mente ([vel Regnum quod ei Bona faciet-ut (illud Verbum-rationis)-se-promulget Mente)).
Pahl. text translit. *Valman? aité pahlam, man avd? li akasiha*’ yema- Jelindi*! ashkarak [réshanak‘, aigh, Aérpat shapir aigh'+ havishté] (b) Mansar i® hamak’+* rabishnd, [aigh, hamak’++ dim pavan® ras i? Mansar lakhyar avd khwéshih i Atharmazd yamtinédd], i amat pavan Aharayih yakhsenund [hi-kin*!°] amarg-ribishnih afash [yehevinéd dén zak it LVIL shnat|. (c) Atharmazd avind (sic) khiddyih chand dén valman” vakhshéd
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Tri. Yasta masta paouruyo| = °viyo] raochebis roithwen| = roithu®|vathra[ =huv°],
Hyd Khrathwa damis Ashem, ya darayad(t) Vahistem Mand;
Ta Mazdé mainyi ukhshyé ye 4 ntremchid(t) Ahura hamd.
Verbatim transl. Qui haec mente-concepit primus, [et in] luminibus [-ina] manabant [se induebant [-ent* veritates (cp. Y. 30) supernae] glo- riosa |-sae] (vel caela (?)), (b) Ile intelligentia Creator [creavit] Sanctum- ordinem, qua fecit-ut-tenuerit [-tenta sit] Optimam [-ma] Mentem [Mens] (vel qua sustinebit 0. m.), (c) Haec, Mazda Spiritus, * facias-ut-crescant, qui [es] {usque ad] nunc etiam [vel omnino], Ahura, idem!
Pahl. text translit. ‘Madash padman? fratim, minash avo réshanih gimikht6 khvarth, [{* Atharmazd min*+! denman‘t kardd, aigh, nadéikih zakash latamman, ash tamman levatman, ash denman mindavam mado yekavimtinéd, aighash Gasdnikih lakhvar yamtinéd6|. (b) Valman dam, [aigh, dam i frarind® valman nafshman] min'* pavan khirad} Aharayih
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1a ’sya parthivatvarh vapushi mAnushtye tavad eva, yavad asmin Uttamanh vikaca- yati Manah, [kila. ’sya Gvahmano vapushi abhyagatah]. 1 J.* vetta’. 2 J. tyena,
Ner. transl. That person is more excellent [than the teachers, or than the scholars] who speaks for me clearly and with knowledge (b) that Manthra, which is @ universal advance, an immortal (eternal) advance through sanctity, [that is, if the entire creation proceeds according to the way of the Manthra- word, and comes again into the possession of Hormijda, that is, if it, or He, possesses, or establishes, the Manthra through good conduct, eternal (im- mortal) progress will become its* own within fifty-seven years. The word of the Manthra (thus) 7s the Avista-word]. (¢) The kingdom of Hormijda exists so long, [that is, his sovereignty exists so long (or ‘to such an extent’) in the human body] as an exalted Mind sheds light (or ‘causes increase’; see the Pahl.) within it, [that is, so Jong, or so much,as Gvahmana is a guest within that body].
Parsi-persian Ms. U hast buland, kih an man 4gahiha (sic vid.) git ashkarah [{] [rishan = rdshdn (2)], ki, Hérbad veh [] [b& = awd] shagird] » (b) Mansar (sic), 2 tamam raftani*, (ki, tamam pédaishn* pah rah i Mansar baz an khwéshi ¢ Hormuzd raséd (so)], ¢ kih pah Sawab darad (space for two words) bi-marg raftani* azash (sic) [béd andar panjah u haft sal (? sal)] % (c) Hormuad (no tr. for dhand) (sic) khudai, chand andar ti afzayéd* (so) — (?), [ktish padishahi pah tan ¢ mard — chandi* — (?) pah tan mihman]
Pahl. transl. The regulating measure came first to Him who mingled His glory (or ‘whose glory was mixed ’) with light, [that is, zt cs the glory of Atharmazd, who did this, that is, the benefit which is his here in what he created is with him beyond; and this thing has come to Him, that is, His Gathic doctrine comes back to Him]. (b) His are the creatures, [that is, the proper (clean ?) creatures are His own], whereby* He maintains Sanctity through wisdom, and the best mind also, {that is, He maintains them through truth and piety|. (c) Adharmazd causes, (or, ‘O Atharmazd, do Ye(?) cause’) both these influences to increase through spirituality, [that is, He will (or, ‘do Ye (?)’) increase the thing which is spiritual, and also that which is of this world], He who is, (or ‘ Thow who art (?)’) now even, the same, a king.
64 XXXI. 7, 8.
Ner.’s sansk. text. Praptocha* pramanath prathamarh, rochishi sarhglishta cubhata, [kila, yah prak adricyatayaih kritah, tasye ‘darh' kirnchit* praptam eva sti, yat srishtau punah prapnoti']. (b) Tasya srishtih buddhya punyaih yo dadau utkrishtataram manah, [kila, yah satyath sadAcharatvarncha dadau, srishtih tasyai ’va svadhina?]. (c) Tad dvitayam Mahajiidnt adricyataya* vikagayat, [kila, kivnchit* yat paralokiyar* ihalokiyarncha*| yasya sa punar api raja sarvasya]. 1 C. °tu. 2 J.* ina, P. ah, J.* “inah.
Ner. transl. And he* attained* that regulating-conception first, and the glorious object, or ‘characteristic’, became enclosed in light, [that is, he who was formerly produced in invisibility (in the spiritual state), his is this thing (see mindavam) thus obtained when he comes again into the creation]. (b) His is
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Trlit. Ad(t) Thwa ménhi paourvim[=°viyem], Mazda, yezim|*iyem| stOi mananha
Vanheus patarém Mananhé, hyad(t) Th{u]wa hém chashmaini (héeit)grabem,
Haithim [= °yem] Ashahyé damim anheus Ahurem §(k)yaothanaésht.
Verbatim transl. Tum Te existimavi primum, Mazda, adorandum [i. e. adorabilem] populo*!-civitatis [nostrae] mente (b) Bonae patrem Mentis, quum Te cum- [valde] in-oculo*? comprehendebam [-di], (¢) verum fet benignum| Sanctitatis creatorem, [nostrae] vitae Dominum [salvantem* (servantem)| in-actionibus! #1 Esse (? aegre). ** visu.
vad. *DJ. ins. i, °DJ. om. va, M. has. *°M. ins. i; DJ., D. om. uUDJ. om. “all but M. aimar (sic). ** DJ., D. “aiid (aé (?)).
: Pahl. transl. Thus I thought concerning Thee, O Atharmazd, that in production Vohiman was* Thy first, [iat is, when I saw Vohiman first it was thought by me thus: ‘He is Thine offspring’, (b) Thy* Good Mind’s
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the creation by wisdom, even Sanctity. His who has produced the most excellent (i. e. the good) mind, [that is, his own alone is the creation, who has pro- duced truth and good conduct]. (c) This two-fold thing the Great Wise One revealed (?, or ‘increased’ (see the Pahl.)) through his spirituality, [that is, that thing* which lies beyond, and that which is here] of all of which he is also once again the sovereign.
Parsi-persian Ms. — andazah awwal, kiyash an rishani amikht asani [¢ Hormuzd kih in kard, ki, néki — inja, ash anja awa + Ash in chiz rasid éstéd; kfish Gasani awaj (sic pro awazh = baz) raséd*] * (b) U pédaish*, [ki, pédaish* 7 nék fi khwésh], [] pah khirad Sawab darad, [] buland minishni, [kt, pah rasti u néki darad] * (c) Ani har di Hormuzd pah mintii afztnad, [kf, chiz 7 minti u géti i bih afzdyad], kih aknéin ham [] [am = am (?)] khuda » * Or paidayish.
Free tr. Foremost I thought Thee, Mazda, adored with the mind in creation, Father of Kindliest Feeling, when with eye at the first I seized Thee, Essential Creator of Grace, saving* Lord in the actions of Life.
father Thou art, when Thou art taken in by my survey, [that is, when Thou wast seen by me with both the eyes I thought thus: ‘Thou art the Good Mind’s father’). (c) Manifestly* real (?) ae*! the*! creatures* of Aharayih; [it is clear* that the creatures which are clean (pious) are created by Thee]; in the world Thou art a king in (or ‘over’), action, [that is, they shall render an account to Thee concerning sin and good works]. * Or ‘of the creatures’ (gen. by pos.) Ner.’s sansk. text. Evarh Tvarh mato ’si pfiirvarh, Mahajianin, yat yoni- tayA* tishthasi Gvahmanasya [pirvarh yan maya Tvam drishto ’si, evarh matarh!; yat yonitvaii* Gvahmanasyal, (b) Uttamasya pitararh? Manasah [kila Gvahmana- pratipdlako* ’si] yasyai*’ samalochanatvena* samagrihnanti* [yan mayd dvabyath lochandbhyai drishto ’si, evar) matarh5, yat] pita ’si Gvahmanasya] (c) Prakata- punyasya*® srishteh®, [kila, nirmalatarasrishtith sadacharinim Tvarh datse] bhu- yane raja ’si karmana, [yatra cubham yujyate karturm, yatracha nigrahath, tas- min caktiman asi]. *J.%, sata; J.* sata. 2J.%, J.4, C., P. pitan. ** srishtau under- stood. 4 J.? °nainti, J.* °hnanti. * P. matamh, J.4, C. mantam. © Ner. read Pahl. gen. Ner. transl. Thus Thou wert (?) thought at the first by me, O Great Wise One, when Thou wert (?) engaged in the production of Gvahmana, [when Thou wert (?) first seen by me I thought thus, that it was the pro- duction of Gvahmana], (b) in which production they apprehend the father of the Best Mind, observing him with a full-faced look, [that is, Thou art Gyah- mana’s protector. When Thou wert* seen by me fully, and with both the eyes, I* thought* thus; ‘that Thou art Gvahmana’s father’], (¢) and Thou art the father of that creation which is manifest Sanctity™, [that is, Thou makest
the clearer (or ‘purer’) well-conducted creation]. Thou art a king in the és ,
66 XXXI. 9, 10.
world by action, [that is, where it is fitting to confer a benefit, and also where it is fitting to inflict a punishment, in each of these Thou art capable], *! Or read °yadyih (adj.) = ‘of the manifestly holy creation’. Parsi-persian Ms. fdtini (sic) Tii-ra andéshad (?), Hormuzd, kit pah — éstéd (so) Bahman awwal, [ [] kih man Bahman didah (sic vid.) am édfin andéshad (?) kt,
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Verbatim transl. Tua* erat Pietas (mens prompta) Tuus [Tua] (ad) ([vel O(?)}) Bovis formator erat intelligentia (b) spiritui, Mazda Ahura, quum ei dedisti viam. (c) Ab-agricola [sancto nostro cive adjuta in cursu-laboris- Sui destinati] (vel) procedit, [aut ab eo] qui (vel) non erat [vel sit] agricola [i. e. a scelesto nostro hoste praedatore ducta]. * Vide annotationes.
Pahl. text translit. Lak aiti Spendarmads6, [aigh, Lak nafshman|. *Pavan Lak aité zak i gdspend® tashidar khiradé. (b) Pavan minavadikih, Adharmazd, at avd valman yehabtind ras, faighat ras i tamman avi valman yehabind], (c) man pavan varzidarih yatinéd, [aighash kar ya‘ kirfak kardé yekavimtinéd], min 14 ait varzidar [at la yehabtind].