also his is a protracted coming into darkness, [that is, there must be a long period of time for him there], and also bad food is offered him, [that is, they give him even poison], and he says it is a vile experience, or proceed- ing, [that is, it has come on him ag a vile infliction]. (c) To darkness*, O ye who are wicked, your own deeds and your religion are leading your life [to do as you do is a necessity].
Ner.’s sansk. text. Yah pratarayati punyatmanaht chhadmana, tasya pagchat astu, [pagchat? astu; Atmani bhavati]. (b) Dirghara Agamanaih tamasi, duhkhadanam* anyayapravrittiricha (?) dattah (?), [aho! anyayo me prapto ’sti ’ticha’, dattah]. (c) TAmisrari vo bhuvanam, durgatimantah, karmani nijani, Dinigcha, nayati [-yanti] [Acharanaticha * abhipsanazicha *].
* All °atmah. ?J.4 om, 3J.4 stuticha. 4 Haug tam (bhuvanam as masc.),
Ner. transl. He who betrays the pure through his fraud, may the same be also his portion at the last, [that zs, let it be so afterwards; it is in his soul already]. (b) They (?) two (2?) give (?) him a long arriving in darkness, and vile food, and they carry out lawless proceedings [: ‘alas! he cries, the lawless one (lawlessness (?)) has come to me, and ig given (?) thus (or ‘they two present him, or it’)|. (c) Your own (inbred) deeds, and your Din [your habit and desire] are bringing on darkness as, (or ‘are bringing on this’ (tam (sic, masc.)) your existence es
Parsi-persian Ms. Kih fyad an ashavan pah frifishn, fi az pas no tr. for shin (sic), [kfish pah ruwan* — béd], (b) azash (sic) dér 4madishn andar tarik, [kish dér zaman anja bayad bid], wa bad-khfrishn, [kash zahr [] dehad], wa (defaced) giyad, [kt, [] —(?) rasid éstéd] x (c) An tarik jihan*, shuma kih darwand hastid, [] [at (sic) = amat] kunishn an 7 khwésh [] andar = dayen (?)] — [kard = kard] — x
Free tr. Mazda ahura will give both Health, and a Life immortal With the fulness of His grace from himself, as the head of Dominion, And the Good Mind’s power he’ll send to His friend in deed and in spirit;
sustinentem Mentis [illi (?)], qui sibi in-spiritu [animo] factisque amicus [fuerit]. *1 Vel: ‘Mazda dabit A. Salubritatis, Immortalitatisque (b) e plenitatis [-tate] Sanctitatisque e-suo-proprio Regno regimen-protegens (neut.) --’. (The transliteration is purposely omitted.) Pahl. text translit. 1Afharmazd! yehabind? Haurvadadd va* Amerd- dadé (b) bindak av’ valman man Aharayih zak, [mfmasht kar va kirfak kardé yekavimanéd]. Afash nafshman patih!, pavan zak ¢ valman i khidai sar-
1See P. 2D. dad. *D. has va. * so DJ., others aighash. *DJ., D.; M. shalitath. ® 30(?) DJ.*, Mf.; M. zakash. "so DJ., D., Mf. * DJ. ims. i. * DJ., D. *° D. ins. bara. 1 DJ, avd. ™% DJ., D. avd. ™ DJ., D. * Or DJ. may be zakash.
Pahl. trans]. Adharmazd gave Haurvadad and Amerédad, (b) the full gift (or, ‘to the perfect one’), to him whose (or ‘who’) is Sanctity he gave that, [by whom duty and good works are fulfilled], also His own author- ity He gave, in, or as, the chieftainship of him who is a lord, [that is, the authority which belongs to Him he maintains in the Dastur], (c) and that sustaining power of, or for, Vohiman [that also he gives to him, that is, he gives the good mind’s reward] to him who in the deed of that which 7s his own spirit is a friend.
Ner.’s sansk. text. Mahajnani dadau Svami Avirdadat Amirdadat (b) sarhpirnatvai* punydtmane, [udakat vanaspateccha prasadaih tasmai da- dau, yah karyarh punyazhcha kurute] nijari prabhutvarh rajne Adhipatyena*,
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Trlit. Chithra i hudaonhé, yathana vaédemnai Mananha,
Vohti hvd Khshathra Ashem vachanha, §(k)yaothanacha, hapti.
Hvo Toi, Mazdé Ahura, vazist6 anhaiti astis.
Verbatim transl. Manifesta [sunt] ea ei-bona-perficienti (vel ei-de-bono- sapienti) sicut [ei haec] invenienti (vel noscenti) mente, (b) bono ille-ipse Regno Sanctitatem in-verbo, factoque [veneratione-|sequitur [i. €. ei favet, eam colit]. (c) Ile Tibi, Mazda Ahura, maxime-promovens erit [ut] ens-cor- poreum (vel fortasse adjutor = Astis).
Pahl. text translit. ‘Péddkih ash avd? hi-dandk*+! amat$ chigindsh kasih yehabtinédd minédd, [aigh, pavan minishno zak minédd zish* ahu> Dastobar]. (b) Shapir zak i® khidai, main Aharayih pavan gobishnd pavan- ich kinishnd® ghal vadtinyen. (c) Zak i7 Lak, Adharmazd, bardar tand* aitd, - [aighat®+t dén stih m&hmanih pavan tand i valman].
Pahl. tri. Manifest is ct (or ‘Manifest things (pékakiha) are those *) to the wise, since as one gives him information he thinks (or, ‘since he gives ditention and thinks as is his knowledge’), [that is, he meditates with thought
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[yat? parthivatvarh Adecena Acharydnam3 dhatte], (c) Uttamena pivaratvar* Manasa, [tath prasadari yarn Gvahmanena dadate, tasmai dadate*] yo nijasya
adrigyamirteh karmana mitra,
1 J.* *tyena (Burn.).-* J.4, J.* yah. * J.4 ‘hh, * J.* datte. 5 all matyam (sic).
Ner. transl. (a,b) But the Great Wise One, the Lord, has given plenty to the holy of soul from Avirdida and Amirdada, [that is, He has given a reward from, or of, water and the tree (or ‘ plants ’) to him who fulfils the demands of duty and sanctity]; and has bestowed his own authority upon the king through his rule, [which is, that he institutes (or ‘maintains ”) authority through the command, or order, of the teachers]. (c) They also bestow (not ‘acquire’) prosperity (fatness) by (or ‘in accordance with’) a good mind, [that is, the reward which ¢s derived through Gvahmana they give to this one| who in* the action of his own spirit is friendly.
Parsi-persian Ms. Hormuzd [u, no Pahl. for a*| dad Khérdad u Amerdad (b) pur an a kih Sawab an, [[] (kish = dghash] kar u kirfah kard éstéd] s« Azash (sic) khwésh [] {padash = padash] pah an 7 tt ¢ khuda sardari, [kt padishahi zish hast pah Dastir darad] % (c) Azash (poss. nash) Bahman —, [kai, an 7 muzd Bahman dehad] ham 6 dehad] kih [] [6 (?) = avd (?)] an ¢ khwésh mint pah kunishn dést*! * or ‘dfst’.
Fr. Clear are these things to the wise as to one with the mind discerning With Holy Power he serves Thy Truth in his words and actions, And he shall be helpful to Thee, a being strongest to succour.
upon what*t his lord who is the Dasttir informs him of]. (b) Good is the king, through (or ‘toward’) whom they would (or ‘who would’ (?)) effect Sanctity in word, and also in deed. (c) That one who is Thine, O Atharmazd, is a person (a body) who is a supporter, [that is, Thy lodging in the world is within his body]. *!Or ‘upon him who is his lord Dastir’.
Ner.’s. sansk. text. Prakatatvam tena dvayena uttamajiidnino* yatha [ihalokena paralokena] prabodhaii! dadati manyatecha, [yatha Svaminah adegah]. (b) Uttamah sa raja, punyath vachasi karmanicha vilokayitd, [tad eva vakti, kurutecha yat sadacharitaram*?]. (c) Sa Te, Mahajidnin Svamin, mitrai asti, niveditatanuh*, (Tvam eva vapushi nije abhydgatai kurute].
* C. *bodha; others °bodhe. ? all °ita®, ep. charin.
Ner. transl. He is paying attention to, and meditating upon, the mani- festation of (or ‘for’) the one beneficently wise by (? or ‘as regards’) the twofold interest, [as* regards* the world here and that beyond, as the com- mand of the Lord directs]; (b) he is a highest (or a ‘good’) monarch, ob- serving Sanctity in Acs words and actions, [that is, he says just that which is the most correct, and he also does that which is the better deed]. (c) He is Thy friend, 0 Great Wise one the Lord, devoted personally (bodily) to Thee, [he makes Thee even (or ‘thus’) a guest within his own body].
86 XXXII. 1, 2.
Parsi-persian Ms. Zahiri [] [4 = varman} nék-dina kih chunin [] agahi dehad, andéshad*, [ki [an (sic) = Pahl. pavan] minishn* an minéd (so) zish sahib Dastir] s (b) Veh* an ¢ khuda, kih Saw4b pah gobishn pah ham. kunishn (bih khizad, ka an i
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Trlit. Ahyacha vaétus yasad(t), ahya verezenem mad(t) airyamna, ~~ “ Ahya Daévé; mahmi mandi Ahurahya urvazema (= vrazma) Mazdao. Thw6i [= thwaya] ditaonhé aonhama, téiig daray6 yoi Vao d(ai)bishenti. ~~ aid ~—
Verbatim trans!. Ejusque cognatus-dominus exorabat* [-et, vel-abit, at- que] ejus servitium [servi] cum amico-cive (b) ejus Deorum-falsorum-cultores [etiam exorent [-abunt]] (vel ejus [sunt] daemones (?)), [sed] in mea mente Ahurae amicus-faustus Mazdae [praeferendus est]. (c) Tui [= thwaya] (vel in Te = Tibi) nuntii simus, hos retineas, [i. . a Te prohibeas] qui Vos oderunt [vel vexant (-ent)] [falsos precatores |.
Pahl. text translit. 1Zak2 [yan] 7 avé® pavan khvéshith bavihinast, zak i* valman® varinih, levatman ayarmanih, [zak 1° mozd {7 Atharmazd nafsh-
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Free tr. Thus his Lord kinsman prayed, his retainers and loyal peersman, And demon-servers; but mine _ is, in mind, the friend of Ahura. Messengers Thine may we be; _may’st Thou hold afar off Thy blasphemers!
self; and for this the Demons besought, thus: ‘Thy bearers* and loyal ones may we be’. This was besought by them]. (b) That which is his are Demons, and in (or ‘of’) my opinion, [that is, they think : ‘ours is a mind as pure as Zaratiisht’s ‘|; Atharmazd’s joyfulness-of-mind [is sought for by them]. (c) But we are Thy spokesmen, {that is, glorifiers (or ‘inciters’) of Thine], and we are holding back those who hate You, [that is, we are holding them back from molesting You].
Ner.’s sansk. text. Asya svadhinataya abhiléshukeshu* [asya iti sva- minah svadhinasya prasddasya], asya svapanktitaya™ sahadegataydcha*, [kila2, svadhinah”?, svapanktih*?, Adegikaccha Te bhavami]. (b) Asya Deveshu; man- manasi Svaminah pramodasya Mahajnianinah, [prasadasya]. (c) Tava stota- [rah]? bhayamah, [kila, dydtatvar te kurmahe], tan® darayanah (sic) yet Yushmakamh Abadhante. + F5, Pe 75 om. * 9.8, J* stata; Po stota. * J.% 74 Se ease Dec ompel® J, J“, J.* va sic for ye (?).
Ner. transi. Through (or ‘in accordance with’) that which is especially his own he is (or ‘we are ’) among the prayerful"! [for ‘his’ (thus, that is,) for the Lord’s own reward] with his own class, and with his obedient following, [that is, I (?) am Thine own, of Thine own line, and obedient to Thy commands]. (b) He* is* among his Gods. But in my mind J* am* in* prayers* (abhilashukeshu) for the Lord’s, the Great Wise One’s, joy (or ‘grace’ (?)) [for the reward]. (c) Thy praisers we are, [that is, we are producing Thy glory], and we are smiting (or ‘wounding’ (meaning ‘holding’ dhar°)) those who are tormenting Your disciples. * Or ‘in prayers (?)’.
Parsi-persian Ms. An [jan(?)] ¢ [] [a= varman] pah khwéshi khwastan, an 7 fi — aw (sic pro awa) farmani (?), [An ¢ muzd ¢ Hormuzd khwéesh, Déwan pah in, kf‘: — u farman (?) 7 Ta hastam % Ashin [] 0 khwast] » (b) An 7 fi Déwan pah man minishni* {hast = hast (?)], [kfi [pah = dgh (sic) (corr. pavan)] [man [] minishn édfin nék chunin Zaratusht], an ¢ Hormuzd khosh [ashan (sic) [ ], [minishn 7 i nah = minishni ghan ra] (sic)], khwast] (c) Ta guwa* bom* (bavyam(?)), [ktirasidan (sic Pahl, rayinidar) 7 Tu bom* (bavam(?)]; dshan (sic vid.) daram kih Shuma Azdr-dehad (?) [[] azShuma baz darém].
Free tr. Then answeréd them Ahura, by means of the Good Spirit ruling, As from His kingdom supreme with His Truth most brilliant and friendly: ‘Bouateous and good is your Faith; We have chosen her; may she be-ours’!
Verbatim transl. His Mazda, dominans Bona Mente (b) Suo Regno ex
88 XXXII. 2, 3.
Trlit. Aéiby6 Mazdao Ahur6 saremnd Vohii Mananha, Khshathrad(t) hacha paiti-mraod(t) Asha huShakha venvata [= huven*]; Speiitam ve Arfa|maitim vanuhim [= vanhvim] var(e)maidé; ha née anhad(t). respondit [cum] Sanctitate [ille Ahura] beneficus-amicus (Sanctitate) splendida : (c) bene-largientem vestram Pietatem [promptam-mentem] bonam eligimus ; ea nostra sit! [eos inimicos Deorum-daemonum-cultores exsecramur!|
1See P. ?D. avo. * D. shédan (so). * D. om. i. © D. °finéd. * DJ., D. ins. va. ™DJ., D. om. * DJ. biidd. * D., Mf. °sham (?). *° DJ., ins. va. ** DJ., D. om. i.