entia in memoria-habens Ahura, optima nosti [agnovisti et revelavisti Mente] (c) et [eas Tuas veritates] in-Tuo [Regno] pro-Vobis, Mazda, (Regno), Sancti- tateque [ut] laudis-doctrinas statuam [vel deponam, vel etiam fortasse discam(?)].
94 XXXII. 6, 7.
dakhshahih bindak bara yehevind??, kola aish’? pavan fraranih akds bara yehe-
vinéd]. +See P. *D. padéf. * DJ., D. asar. *DJ. ins. i. ®DJ.ghal. ®allseem aim®. 7DJ. om. *D. “and. °D. hana; Mf ano, oravo. *°D. ‘dayyan. 4 DJ. °tuni®. +? DJ., D. anéd. 8DJ.,D. om. I.
Pahl. transl. Hatred is desired for these much-hating ones, [that is, they would execute chastisement upon the sinners], of which it is related, [and of which it is said] that ¢¢ wil take place when they are eternal; (? or, ‘when’, i.e. ‘if’ ‘theirs it is there’ (hasdr (not asér) = hathra = the usual tamman = ‘beyond in the other world’)), [that is, they shall make the punish- ment complete at that time when they give back the soul to the body]. (b) An*! enumerator of what is manifestly real (or ‘an open (?) enumerator ’) ast Atharmazd™, [that is, they*! must! give*! account of sins, and good works]; and he**is*? aware of that which is best, which s through a good mind, fhe understands the reward, that is, he understands to whom it is necessary (or ‘fitting’) to give it]. (c) In this Thy kingdom*, O Atharmazd, Your** Aharayih’s teaching will be (or ‘is thoroughly’) known, |thaé is, when Your sovereignty shall have become complete, every individual will become intelligent through piety]. ** Or: ‘O enumerator, Atharmazd,-- do Thou give’. *? or ‘Thou - knowest’. *% or ‘which is Yours’.
Ner.’s sansk. text. Prachurath dveshinaiit dveshah! AkAnkshate yah ukto ‘sti, yadi?, [kila chet pipakarminath nigrahah kriyate®, nigrahaccha tasmin kale samhpirnah kriyate yada Atmanah punas tanau samyunjanti]. (b) Tan tatah* prakatarn kalayati* Svami, [kila, papena punyenacha sath-
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Trlit. Aéshim aénanham naéchid(t) vidvao aojéi (vel ajoi) hadréya
Ya joya seighaité, yaiS sravi vaéna [= huv°] ayanha,
—
Yaéshim Ta, Ahura, (i)rikhtem, Mazda, vaédist6 ahi!
Verb. trl. Horum [hominum] injuriosorum [Ex his injuriosis] nihil sciens est [princeps eorum] dicere [i.e. designare, describere] vires-suas-in-possessi- one-praesentes [quam magnae sint], ([vel, leg. 4j6i, Ex his injuriosis nihil sciens [est iniquus suas-vires] ictui [i, e. ad-ictum destinatas esse] vires-suas-in-poss- essione-praesentes]), (b) quae ut ad-victoriam-reportandam (vel impertiendam)- aptae nuntiatur [-iantur], quibus auditus-est, [i. e. famosus factus est eorum princeps] micanti [suo] ferro*!, (c) quorum [tamen] Tu, O Ahura, [nihilo-minus] exitium [-tii], Mazda, scientissimus es. * Gladio.
Pahl. text translit. ‘Valmanshan kinikand* 14 mindavam! 4kAs homand, zak i? zanishno 1% réshand, [aigh!, padafrast pavan ruband, maman chand 14
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khyam kurute], utkrishtatvaricha® vetti yat Gvahmanena, [kila, prasadarhcha janati, yat, yasmai yujyate datum’). (c) Tvaya Yushmakarhcha, Mahajiianin, rajye punyasya giksha parijiiayate, [yadi Yushmakath rajyamh sarnptrnath jayate,
tatah sarvah ko ’pi sadvyaparatayd vetté bhavati]. * J.‘ om. from dyeshi- to -h. * J om, yadi. 3 J.* om. from kriyate (sic) to yada. £ J om. 5 J,* prakri°. ;
Ner. transl. Much does he desire the hate of the haters (or ‘He desires hate for these much-hating ones’) who is declared, if. ., [that is, if the punish- ment* of the malefactors is effected, it w7l? be completed in that time when
<—— they unite the souls again with the bodies]. (b) The Lord therefore enumer- ates“! them manifestly and truly, [that is, He takes account as regards sin and righteousness], and He recognizes the excellence which exists through Gvahmana, [that is, He understands the reward, which is*? (2) he understands to whom it is necessary (or ‘fitting’,) to give it]. (c) By Thee, O Great Wise One,7 the doctrine of sanctity is made known in Your kingdom, [thaé is, if Your kingdom becomes completely established then, from that cause, every man will* become* intelligent through good conduct]. *1 See Burnouf. *see aigh. Parsi-persian Ms. Bisyar kinah-varzandah kinah khwahad, [kf&[{sh = -sh] wanah*-karan padafrah kinéd* (?)] kih guft + srtid éstéd*, [kih guft éstéd*], kt, kih dshan bi-shumar [ki, padafrah pak an zaman tamam bih kunand kih ruwan baz an tan dehad], % (b) zahir shumar-kunandah Hormuzd, [ki, pah wandh* u kirfah shumar-kunand], w’an 7 buland agah 7 pah Bahman, [muzd danad, ki, 4n kih bayad dadan] s (c) Pah an ¢ Ti ¢ Shuma, Hormuzd, khuda an ¢ Sawab amikhtan bih danéd (?vel danést) tuwdn* (sic videtur), [kih Shuma padishahi tamam bih béd + ya‘ni + bashad, har kas pah néki 4gah bih bashad] %
Fr. Of these wretches none may declare how great are their marshalled forces, And what as victorious they laud, thus famed through their glittering iron, But their utter ruin, O Lord, most clearly Thou seest, 0 Mazda.
khavittind| (b) man> zanishnd Amikhténd (sic), [zak? mindavam Amikhténd zakshan pavan riband zanishnd yeheviinéd] min sridd yekavimtinéd aigh pavan zak i khvaén®+1 asind! [ashdn gazéd]. (c) Man valmanshan Lak, Athar- mazd, valmanich i’ ristak (?)$ kas®+1 homanih, [aigh'°, valmanich"! i vinds-kardar padafras khavittinih]. +See P. ? DJ. ins. i. *D. ins. 1. 4D. paddf®. ®D.amat. *D. Zend
letters khvin (ep. Y. 30, 11), M. khvi. 7DJ. om. * DJ. r-i-p-k; M., K.® friftak; D. r-i-p-k. * DJ. akasiha. 1° DJ. ins. ich. ™ DJ. om.
Pahl. transl. They are not aware of the case of these avengers, nor of the smiting which they will clearly receive, [that is, They do not under- stand how great the punishment for the soul is], (b) which yet they inculcate as a smiting, [tha¢ is, they teach that thing which is to them a smiting for the soul], by which it is proclaimed that with the glittering iron [they (he) shall tear (lit. bite) them]. (c) Thou art aware, O Auharmazd, whose are those things, and for whom also that which is that deadly result is destined, [that is, Thou understandest the punishment of sinners].
96 XXXII. 7, 8.
Ner.’s sansk. text. Te dveshino na kithchit jananti apaghate*, yah parisphutatarah!, [kila, nigraho yah Atmanikah (*sic)?, kiyan iti na jananti| (b) ye vighatazn cikshyanti, [tat kivhchit cikshyantit yenai shah datmani? vighato bhavati], ya? ukto ’sti uttamalohena‘ (c) yesham Tvarh, Svamin?, krirakarmakritaih®, Mahajiidnin, vetta’si, [kila, tesharh ye papakaritara nigra- ham janasi]. 1 J.* (2), J.4 °pha®. ? all ins. *J.4. * J.4 uttamra® (or °na’); J-*%, C, uttamapralo°®, P. uttapra®. ° so J.3, J.4; J.*-kartta.
Ner. transl. But these hostile persons understand nothing concerning* the smiting, which is yet most* manifest, [that is, they do not know how great the soul’s punishment is], (b) they who yet are promulgating a smiting- asunder which has been announced as a smiting by means of the best
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Trlit. Aéshim aénanham Vivanhush6é sravi Yimaschid(t),
Ye mas(k)yefig [= °sh[i]yéfig] chikhshnushd ahmakéiig gdus bagd varemnd;
Aéshamchid(t) 4 ahmi Thwahmi, Mazda, vichithdi* aipi?
* Or ‘vichithrdi’; see also vichithrahya, J.°, J.4 at Y. 30,2; but I modify p. 478.
Verbatim transl. Horum injuriosorum [ex his injuriosis*t unus*] Vivangh- ides [esse] auditus-est [clarus-factus ((?) vel famatus) est] Yima-etiam, (b) qui, homines sibi-conciliare(vel docere)-desiderans nostros, Bovis partes edens [fuit, i. e. edit]. (c) Horum quicunque-sint [i. e. hos] apud (vel ab his) sum in-Tua, Mazda, discretione (in) [ut distinctus et sejunctus, i. e. ita judi- candus sim]. “* Sunt qui sie vertant: horum factorum injuriosorum reus (?).
Pahl. transl. Of (i. e. among) these [Demons] Yima of the Vivanhanas is famed to have been a hating sinner, (b) who taught men thus: ‘O ye of ours, eat ye flesh in pieces [O ye men ever just as greedy, eat 7t in pieces according to the size of the breast (the stomach), and the length of the arm (as much as stomach can hold, or hand take)\’. (c) From among these [on account of my thorough ‘love of the Gathic doctrine of the Gathis I am
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steel, [that is, they are teaching something through which their smiting in the soul 7s effected], (c) concerning which cruel malefactors* Thou, O Great Wise One, knowest, [that is, Thou knowest the punishment of those who are malefactors]. * Or, reading °kritam, ‘the result of whose cruel action - ». Parsi-persian Ms. Oshan kini (sic) nah [] [ti = varman (sic)] agah hend, an 7 zadan rishan, [[] [pah = pavan] padafrah pah ruwan*, chih chand, nah danénd (so)], (b) kih zadan amtzad, [an 7 chiz Amfizad an-shan, pah ruwan zadan bashad], kih euft + sriid éstéd (so) + hast, ki, pah an 7 [] [khaindah, vel khayandah (?) = khdén] ahanin (sic) [[wa shawad = (va) vazrinéd pro vazliinéd] oshan [] [shtirad (? perhaps khtirad™) = vazand)] sz (c) kih éshén, Ti, Hormuzd, i ham 7 farib*?-dehandah (?), agah hend (?) {ki, i ham ¢ wanah (?)-kartar padafrah dani] * Hardly shtrid (?); see vazand pro- bably for gazand; see the Pahl. **Formerly fréb was preferred; ep. Parsi fréy.
Free tr. Among wretched sinners like these Yima was famed, Vivanghusha, The same our men to content flesh of kine in its pieces was eating; From all and like guilt may I stand in Thy searching view apart.
chosen out by Thee, O Attharmazd, hereafter, [that is, even by Thee I am considered as good (or poss. ‘maintained in welfare’ (?))].
Ner.’s sansk. text. Tan dveshinah pdpinah Vivanghanasya*! putrah? proktavain Yamagedah** (b) yo manushyebhyah samasvadayati* asmakari pa- giinath dakshinaya* khadanar*, [sinahmasdyatay4** bajayamasdyatayé**], (c) taticha tatra “hari Tvaricha, Mahajidnin, vivejayam* asa pacchats, [kila, _antar Gathasu cuddhataya dhritah’}.
* J. (?), J.* yivangh®; J.* vuvam®. 2? C. om, *° J.‘ Jamainshéd®, ¢ corr. from dakshan®. * all ins. ®P. ta; C. °to.
Ner. transl. These hateful sinners Yameceda Vivanghina’s son has declared forth (4y his example?), (b) he who taught men to eat the food of our herds with (or ‘for’) a perquisite, [and in pieces with the width of a breast (or ‘which would fill the breast’), and with the length of an arm]. (c) And these I (?) have (?) been discerning later there, and Thou also -hast been discerning, O Great Wise One the Lord, [that is, they are estimated with clearness (or ‘favourably’) in the Gathas].
Parsi-persian Ms. [Kih = Min] dshin Déwan kinah wandhkar* an 7 Vivanganan Jamshid guft, (b) kih [éshan = varmanshdn] {] marduman chashand (so) kfi: mayan gisht pah hissah khirid [ {] no tr. for ama (sic) mardum pah sinah + vashhin (? pro (?)) (] [andazah = mas] & bazti{] {andazah = mas]] % (c) Oshanich (sic) andar, [an 7 [] [pé- daish = dahishn] man pah Gaséni bih khwahish-kardan], Ta, Hormuzd, bih — [] [kun = vdgiin (sic)} [], [ki, Ta ham pah khitb dashtan] s¢
98 XXXIL 9, 10.
Apo ma istim (apa)yarta berekhdham haitim [°tyam] Vanhéus Mananhé; Ta ukhda mainy eus mahya, Mazda, , Ashaicha Yushmaibya gerezé.
Verbatim transl. Doctrinam- nels -promulgans verba ae Rekeane nostrae destruebat {(?) vel -uet] ille vitae [nostrae suis] hortationibus consilium [destruens]; (b) de me* opulentiam deripiens [est] beatam vere-bonam [vel re vera exsistentem (?)] opulentiam] Bonae Mentis. (c) Hoc dicto spiritus mei, O Mazda, Sanctitatique Vobis planctibus-supplico. *! Vel ‘meam’.
Pahl. text translit. Pavan diish-’mézishnih i? srébé ashan marenchinéd, [Shédaan]*, valman min zak i zivishn-homand‘ khiradd Amakhté [avd aishand. Ait min aétind yemaleliinéd, aé? srébd ashdn® marenchinéd ? valman.| (b) Manshan bara® zak j li ishti? avortd, [padmand* kard® dashtend, khvastak ? pavan Dastobar i li avayad dashtand, i amat shdyad dashtand, pavan zak ras shayad dashtan6],:i arziké aitd? pavan Vohtimand, [aigh, amat pavan! frdrdndih yakh- senund aydyishnik}. (¢) Pavan valmanshan milaya ? minavadiha, Atharmazd, i Ashavahishté avé Lekim garzid, [aigham Gasanikih’® 14 rabak, lich garzam |.
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Fr. tr. The Herald of creeds that are false, he mars our life’s aim by his teaching. Seizing away my wealth, the blest and real* wealth of Thy Good Mind With the voice of my spirit I cry to the Right and to You to deliver,