Pahl. transl. (a,b) And He, Aiharmazd, uttered a full response zo these [Demons] through the chieftainship of Vohiman, [that is, when a good mind was lodged in his body], and from Khshatraver, and Aharayih the good, who was made fis good friend, [that is, he also was lodged in His body], (c) he answered thus: ‘Spendarmad the good [the perfect thought] who is belonging to you (or, ‘on your account’) we love (we have chosen in friendship), her who is ours, [that is, let her also be a guest within our body’|. >/
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Trlit. Ad(t) ys, Daéva! vispaonhd Akad(t) Mananho ¢ta chithrem! Yascha vao mag yazaité oe Drijascha pairimatdischa S(k)yaomam aipi daibitand (?) yaiS asriidtiim [= °dvem] bimyao haptaithé ! Verbatim transl. Ita vos Deorum-falsorum-cultores [vel Dei-falsi] omnes a-Mala Mente estis semen [stirps], (b) [et-] qui(que) vos multum [vel (qui) vir (?)] colit Mendacii-daemonis mentisque-perversae [est]. (c) [In] pro- motionem (ad) [sunt*] fraudationes* [vestrae] quibus auditi-estis [famosi-facti- estis] terrae in-septima [-regione et in-aliis-sex]! * Vel fallax (vir (?)) = daibita-(na). Pahl. text transl. ‘1Aéttind, Lekim mtn? harvispo* mint Shédayya® hémanéd, ataénd min? Akémané aitd tékhmak, [aightand tokhmak min tamman, aigh, Akémanjch], (b) mtinich Lekim, [Shédaand® kabed yezbekhinéd, Drajotar va7+1, avarminishntar! yeheviinéd]. (c) Satiininéd man (?see °mam) min akharash*
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Ner.’s sansk. text. Tebyah, Mahajiani Svami, svamitayain Uttamasya Manasah, [chet Gvahmano vapushi abhyagato ’bhit], (b) Saharevarat pratyut- taram abravit, [kila, gurutvad asya vigeshate*] Dharmena cguddhasangibhyah* satyakritena, [chet satyarh sadachadratvam vapushi abhydgatam abhitit]. (c) Prithivith vo sathpirnamanasam uttamdm mitraydmi; sd? me ’sti, [kila, me vapushi abhyadgata bhavati, yatha yushman’ pratarayituth na cakto bhavAmil.
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Ner. transl. To these the Great Wise One, the Lord, answered in the lordship of the highest (best) mind, [that is, if (or ‘since’) Gvahmana had arrived, asa guest, within his (or ‘thezr’) body]. (b) From Saharevara He an- swered [that is, He makes the distinction (or ‘he distinguishes himself’) from his office as teacher], through His Sanctity (or ‘through Dharma’) which (or ‘who’) was created*! good™! toward the well-inclined [if (or ‘since’) truly good conduct had arrived as a guest within His (or ‘their’) body], (c) and He said: I befriend the earth [or your perfect-mindedness (?)], and your highest (best) one; she is mine, [that 7s, she perfect-mindedness, has arrived as a guest within my body, so that I am incapable of deceiving you’]. *Not ‘truly acting’.
Parsi-persian Ms. [ ] (An = — ?] Oshan [Déwan] Hormuzd pah sardari 7 Vahoman (sic), [kiyash Vahoman (sic) pah tan mihm4n béd (sic)], (b) az Shaharéver* (sic) bih jawab guft, Sawab khib [j dést* nék kard [ [] [azash = ajoash**] pah tan mihman bid], (c) kt, Spendarmad shuma ra veh khwaham [az = min] [pur minishni], an 7 ma hast, [kt, ma pah tan mihman béd (sic)] % * Or ‘dist’. *? but = ‘afash’.
Alternative. But your kindred, all ye Devas! are aseed from the mind polluted, Who praise unto you most offers with the deed*! of the Lie deceiveth*’, And with deed** of the mind perverted; thus famed are ye in the earth. *1 = S(k)yaomam,aipi. *2 daibita, n. s. m. (na omitted as gl.) i zak® frifishn6®, [aighman Zaratishté! didd'°+1], mantand asrayishnih yeha- biinéd* pavan’? btim!? i!? VID? (haft). *Or ‘akharih (?)’ as in Comm. *See P. 2D. om. &DJ. *DJ. om. *D. shéda. *D, shédan. 7 DJ., D. ins. ya. *DJ. ins. i. ° DJ. friftar. 1°so DJ. ™D. ins. pavan btm, etc. %D. om.
Pahl. transl. Therefore, ye all who are Demons, your seed is from Akéman, [that is, your seed is from the other world; that is, from Akéman (the Evil Mind (ep. Y. 30, 5))]; (b) and he who worships you [O ye Demons] much is the more Drtj-like and the more insolent, (c) but ye are (or ‘he is’ ' (see the false gloss)) causing us to go after (or ‘from behind’ (?)) that deception, [that is, Zarattiisht (?) is bestowed upon us (?)], and ye give out (or ‘he gives (?) out’) your infamy in the sevenfold earth.
Ner.’s sansk. text. Evarhi yfiyarn Devah vicve ’pi nikrishtat manasah* stha bijam, (b) yagcha yushman? prakrishtarn* aradhayati, anritataro, gava-
manastaragcha*!+3 (sic) bhavati. (c) Pracharayati mayi pagchat* pratar- 12,
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andmh [-nath], ya (? yena) yushmakath anuktirh* datte bhisaptadvipayam. * C. om. from -sah to -taraccha. 2 J.3, J.4, P. mat. 3 J.3, J.4 gava°®; P. gapa°; J.* garva® (?). Ner. transl. Thus, ye Devas, ye are all of you even a seed from the degraded mind, (b) and he who so especially propitiates you is still more unholy, and more insulting. (c) And she (2?) who*! is producing your infamy
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Vakhshenité Daév6-zusta, | Vanhéus sizhdyamna Mananhé, Mazdao Ahurahya khratéus nasyaité Ashaad(t)cha!
Verbatim transl. Quare vos ea [eas res (vel eo (?))| praeparatis*? quae [quas res (vel quo = ut)] homines [res*?] pessima [-mas] constituentes (vel facientes) (b) loquuntur*s (vel -quentur) [a] deorum-falsorum-cultoribus-dilecti*4 [prophetae (vide v. 1, c), sed] Bonae [-na] exclusi*® [vel rejecti*®] Mentis [-nte] (c) Mazdae Ahurae [ab] intelligentiae [-tia] pereuntes [i. e. exerrantes*] a-Sanctitateque. * Vel vos (nos) pervertistis (mématha, 204 pl. perf.). *2 vel homines perversi. ** yel vocati sunt. **vel res dilectas. *5 vel res rejectas (?).
Pahl. transl. When one (or ‘ Who’) is of this alliance (or ‘agitation (ayti- zishnd)’), [that of piety for both the interests, that which 7s spiritual, and that which zs of the world], then ye are (or ‘it is’) turning és thoughts, [that is, ye will deceive him, and also turn his thoughts to the commission of sin]. That* man is producing the worst [the Religion of the one evil in his in- telligence]. (b) They who announce what the Demons have loved, [that is, announce a thing in accordance with the desire of the Demons], by them
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in the seven Dvipas of the earth, even she*2 ig causing the deceit to go forth after me. * Or read yena = “by which he’. *%or ‘he? (if yena is read).
Parsi-persian Ms. Edin shuma [] harvist* kih Déw hastid, tan [] Akéman hast tukhm, |ki, tan tukhm az anja, ki Akéman [] ] (b) Kih ich (sie pro ham) shuma [Déwan] bisyar yazad, Drujtar* (sic) [] [bisyar = kabed] awarminishn + bisyar bAshad (c) raftan (?) man az pas an (sic) frifishn, [kfi, man Zaratusht [ki = dgh (sic)} dehad] {] [pah zamin haft, ki = pavan bin haft, dgh] bi-guftan dehad [] x
Free tr. For ye have devised that men who bring worst deeds to perfection Speak loved of the Demon Gods, cast out by the Good Mind and spirit ; And they fall from the thought of the Lord, from Righteousness utterly perish !
is Vohtiman left, [that is, he is far off from them], (c) for they are destroy- ing Atharmazd’s wisdom and his sanctity also, [that is, they will also render it utterly void (lit. spoiled)],
Ner.’s sansk. text. Yat dvitaydd Aste prakrishtarn* manah [dvitayat vastunah* paralokiyat! ihalokiyachcha?] mathnati yo manushyah nikrishtajiani bhavati, [kila, vipratarayati] (b) vadatai Devamitratvam’, Uttamam sidayati4 (sic?) Manah, [kila, ye kimchit samthitena Devanadm‘ vadanti tesharn dehat Gvahmanah dire Aste], (c) Mahajiianinah® Svamino buddhir nacayatath Dhar- magcha, [kila, ye Avistartham nacayanti, te karyari punyaricha® vinacayanti®].
Ner. transl. When from the two things (sic = dste for iti) [from the interest (or ‘wealth’*!) which appertains to the world beyond and that which is of this world] the man who is of base mind is turning the mind away, [that is, when he deceives it (or ‘betrays it’)], (b) then from those who are declaring a friendship for the Devas the best mind perishes, [that is, Gvah- mana is far from the body of those who proclaim anything from friendship toward the Devas], (c) and from those who are destroying the wisdom of the Great Wise One, the Lord; and his Sanctity zs also far"? from them; [that is, they who are destroying the Avista-interpretation are destroying duty and Sanctity]. *! So Burn, *?or ‘they are also destroying Sanctity’ (read dharmam).
Parsi-persian Ms. Kih az [] kushishn [an ¢ néki éstéd pah an 7 har di [] mint u géti] ash fraz minidan gardanad, [kitsh bih frifi-dehad ajash (? sic) minishn bih an wanah* kardan gardanad], mardum badtar, [khirad = dénishn] bashad [ [] bad-agah] x (b) Kih gfiyad 4n ¢ Déwan khwahéd (so), [ki, chiz pah laik*! 7 Dewan gtiyad], ashan Bahman sez* (?) + ya‘ni+ dar, [kfishan [u= va] az dir] x (c) An 7 Hérmuzd khirad nesa- (vel nést-) kunad, wa Sawab ham, [kf, [] tabah bih kunand (?)], ({kfi, Zand Awesta tabah kunad, wi’n ¢ kar u kirfah tabah kunad = agh Zand Avestak tapah vagind*?, va zak ¢ kar va kirfah tapah vagind*?]. % * Or ‘layik’. *2 perhaps ‘vagtinad’.
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& Dosaeody Trlit. TA debnaoté mashim [= °iyem] _ hujyatdis [°jivat?], Ameretatascha, Hyad(t) vao, Ak& Mananha, yehig Daéverig akascha mainyus Aka S(k)yaothnem vachanha, ya frachinas dregvafitem khshayé.
Verbatim transl. Igitur [vel quoad haec-duo (?)| fraudetis [-abitis] ho- minem prosperitatis [-tate], Immortalitatisque [-tate], (b) quum vos, Mala Mente, quos [qui] Deorum falsorum cultores sint], malus(que) spiritus (Cc) malo [ad] actionem sermone [incitet, i. e. incitabit] quo, [etiam] in-ordinem- redigebat [vel rediget] (animositatemque*! ei impertiebat [-tiet]) scelestum [suus] moderator; [vel fortasse verti potest, ‘quo [sermone] scelestum-infidelem ad exitium(?) prorsus* designabat [-abit’*?]]. “i.e. animum. **ante constituebat [-uet}.
Pahl. text translit. 1Pavan? kol& do friféd anshfitaan, pavan hi-zivishn- th va amarg-rtibishnih, [aigh, avd anshitaan’+* yemalelinéd aigh?+1: amat zivastano shayad apagayéhé* 14 yeheviinéd pavan ras i lanman], (b) min lekim saritar minishnd, min Shédaant hémanéd, atano saritar minishné. (c) Aftand saritar kanishnd, va® gdbishnd, min fraz chashéd avd aishind, aigh, mint valman®+! darvand [Ganrak? Minavad] padakhshahih®. + See P. * D. ins zak. 8D, om. *D. da; M. “dayya. *DJ. om. * D. valman. 7 D. ganak. * M. shalitaih.
Pahl. transl. Ye are deceiving mankind as to both, as to prosperity,
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Hataé-marané Ahura, Vahista voista Mananha.
Thwahmi vé, Mazd&, Khshathréi Ashaécha sefighd vidam.
Verbatim transl. Multum-et-saeviter-injuriosus [vel multas [suas] saevas injurias] attigit {propositum suum ((vel etiam fortasse: Injurias vestras (?) adversus sanctos nacti-estis (? i. e. consilia crudelia vestra consummavistis]) iis-doctrinis falsis] quibus annuntiatur [suus, vel vester(?), progressus vel fama|; [sed] si his [sic res ei [vel vobis (?)] succedat], sic {etiam]) (b) [O Tu] re-vera-
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Free tr. Man therefore will ye beguile of Health, and the Life Immortal, Since you with his Evil Mind, the foul spirit rules, as his Daévas By speech unto deeds thus false, as his ruler rallies the wicked.
aud Immortality, [that is, ye declare to men thus: if (or ‘when’) it is desir- able (or ‘necessary’) to live, death is not in our path], (b) ye whose is the worst mind, who are Demons; for yours is indeed the worst mind. (c) Yours is also the worst deed and word, by which one teaches forth (or, ‘ye who teach forth’) to persons that sovereignty is from the wicked [Ganrak Minavad].
Ner.’s sansk. text. Tabhyar pratarayati! manushy4n sujivanan* (sic) amrityupravrittaucha, [kila, yat jiviturzh cakyate, amaratvath (? sic*) bhavati margena ‘smakarh|, (b) yat yushmakam, he? nikrishtamanasah! yat, he Deva nikrishtamanasah! (c) nikrishtam karmacha, vachaccha, yat prakrishtam* dsvadayati* (sic) durgatino* [Aharmanat] rajyai {kesharnchit].
Boag do Fe eines J. tare: 2 J.*) om: he;
Ner. trans]. J¢ is with regard to both of these that he (?) is deceiving mankind, in regard to prosperity*! and immortality, [that is, he says thus: ‘if it is possible to live at al/, immortality lies in our path’], (b) since yours, O ye base-minded!, O ye hase Devas! (c) zs the worst deed and speech; where- fore he* is proclaiming*? the sovereignty from the miscreant [from Aharmana| to (not ‘of’) certain persons (meaning ‘to every one’)|. * An adj. is not in- tended; Ner. elsewhere insists on jivani (sic). *? or ‘inculcating’.
Parsi-persian Ms. Pah har dt faribi-hed* (?) marduman, pah néki-zistan u bi-marg raftani, [ki, an [] gtiyad [] kih zistan shayad, [wa = va] bi-jan nah bashad pah rah7 maj, (b) kih shuma badtar minishn, kih Déw [], tan badtar andéshidan (sic) (c) Tan + ya‘ni + shuma badtar kunishn u gobishn, kih fraz — an kasan ka [] [kih = min] fi darwand [Gana Mint] padishahi x
Free tr. Much to do*harm has he striven by his faméd helps, if it be so,
But essential truths hast Thou known in Thy memory, Lord, through Vohtman; These in Thy Kingdom I place, for Asha Thy truths I establish.