Pahl. transl. Bountiful thus Thou art (wert*) thought by me, O Athar- mazd, (b) when first I saw what was Thy production in the world, (c) when Thou gavest a reward to those who have done deeds and with regard to what also zs with speech, (d) smiting for the smiter [was also established by Thee, and a good revering-recognition* for the good]. (e) Through this

Verbatim transl. In-quo [exitu] cum-benefico Tuo spiritu (exitu) venias — [vel ‘venies’], (b) O Mazda, cum-Regno [vel ‘cum-regali-imperio Tuo’) in-hoc [exitu] Bona Mente, (c) cujus actionibus, li. e. vi illarum actionum quae in mandatis Tuis (de ritu et de more) peragendis perfectae sint] coloniae [sacrae nostrae] Sanctitate promoventur*], (d) His leges [de facto et de ritu] docens- enuntiat Pietas (prompta mens gratia Tua in nos* inspirata), (e) Tuae In- telligentiae [leges], quam [quae] nemo facit-ut-ludatur[-dantur], [hoc est quam nemo fallere possit]. Vel ‘in nobis’.

Pahl. text translit. Pavan Lak1 afztnik minavad! vardishnd yamtinéd [min saritarih avo shapirih?] (b) pavan zak 1 Adharmazd khiidayih dén zak i8 Vohiman, (c)zmtin pavan zak #4 valman kfinishnd géhand 15 Aharayih fra-

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which ¢s Thy virtue (or ‘in accordance with this which js Thy capability (or ‘wisdom’)’) the last also of the creation turns thus in its ending.

Ner.’s sansk. text, Mahattama{-mo]! mahyati evar Tyari, Mahajiidnin, amarsthah, Svimin, (b) yat te bhuvane jananiri*2 dadarga “hari prathamam, (c) yat* adh karmakridbhyah* prasadam, yachcha yachasi, (d) vighatarn vighatakebhyah*, uttamdm*? vibhatir uttamebhyah. (e) Tava guneshu srishtih* paribhramati* nidane’, + 3.5, J.* tara. 2 J.* uttamanam, @ Py

Ner. transl. Thus Thou wert* thought greatest”! by me, O Great Wise One the Lord, (b) when I first saw Thy production in the world, (c) when Thou gavest grace (or ‘reward’) to those who labour with action and also what ¢s* with* (or ‘in’) speech; (d) and so likewise didst Thow send de- struction* upon the destroyers, but the highest (i. e. the good spiritual*- riches* (or ‘adyvantage’) to the good*; (e) for in and through Thy virtues is the creation turning (or ‘changing’) in the end. *' Not meaning ‘O greatest’.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit, Afztini + kunand(ah) ma-ra édfin Ta andéshid hasti, Hormuzd, (b) kih am an ¢ TA péda-, or (‘paida-’)-kard andar jihan vinandah (sic vel ‘vindah’ (sic)) avval; (c) kiyat dad an kunishnkaran (sic) + kar-kunandahgan muzd, va kih ham pah sakhun, (d) [va = va] zadan [] 7 [a = varman] ¢ zadar [Tu-ra dad] an 7 veh bandagt an fi ¢ veh * (e) Pah in ¢ Ta hinar pédaish*! [andar = dayen| akhir ham [Tai = Lak] gardid*? [pédaish*! = dém]] #*) *! Or ‘paiday®’. * or ‘paidayish ¢ Tu gardéd’ sees. 6.

Free tr. In which last changing Thou, a spirit bounteous,

Comest with Good Mind, and Thy Kingdom, Mazda

By deeds of whom the settlements in Right are furthered;

Laws unto these to teach Devotion* striveth,

Laws of Thy wisdom which no man deceives. dahishnih, (d) valmanshan min radd Amdzédé* bindak minishnih [Sdshans], (e) min hana? i Lak “khiradd padash 14 pavan mindavam bara, frifi-ait8,

*Mf, ins. f. ? DJ. *pir. *DJ., D. ins. i * DJ. ins. ©DJ. om. *P. om. 7 DJ. ad. * See P. throughout.

Pahl. trl. Through Thy bountiful spirit the changing comes (or ‘In* that changing:- (pavan to be applied to vardishnd), O Thou bountiful Spirit, Ye* come*’) [the change from wickedness to goodness] (b) through Adhar- mazd’s supremacy* in that which is a Good Mind, (c) through* whose* deeds there is a furtherance of the settlements of Sanctity (d) for* those (oblique by pos.; see also Ner.) to whom the Perfect Mind is teaching a regulation, (or (read ‘pavan’) ‘whom the master is teaching through the perfect mind’) [Séshans (cited)], (e) in*t regard*! to*! which*! this Thy wisdom is in no wise deceived. *Or ‘by which’.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Evath, mahattarat, Tvayi*, adricyamtrte?, paribhra-

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mata* pripnoti (nikrishtatvat* uttamatve*], (b) Mahajiidnino® rajyena antah*

164 XLII. 6, 7 uttame manasi, (c) yesharicha karmabhih bhivibhiteh* punyatmanyah* vrid- dhidatih* (d) taic¢cha ye gurucishyapitah* (?) samptirnamanasa, (Caogiosena], (e) Tvadiyam buddhism ye no kenachit pratarayanti.

Ner. transl. And so by* Thee, O Thou Greater spirit, the changing comes [from a state of degradation into the exalted condition (i.e. ‘to good- ness’)], (b) through the sovereignty of Thee the Great Wise One within the exalted (i. e, ‘the good’) mind, (c) through whose deeds zs the promotion of

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Verb. transl. Bene-largientem [vel ‘Sanctum’ (?)| sic Te, Mazda, existi- mayi**, Ahura, (b) quum me Bona circumibat*1, [i. e. ad me propius accede- bat] Mente [Obedientia (?), hoc est, sanctus oboediens devotus, et oboedien- tiam inter cives incitans et confirmans], (c) interrogabatque*t me: ‘Quis es? cujus[-que] es [i.e. ‘cujus patriae civis, vel cujus regis vel dei servus es’*?]; (d) quo-modo hodie significationes [de hac re] interrogando* [i. e. indicia ad responsa interrogationibus de rebus sacrae causae et nationis nostrae danda} monstrabo (e) in (vel ‘de’) Tuis coloniis sacris in [vel ‘de’] corporeque, [i.e. de te ipso]’? *1 Utrum hoe loco etiam conj. stet necne? ‘existimabo* .. circum- ibit® . . . interrogabit*. . .’.

Pahl. text transl. Afzinik am‘ aéttind Lak minid hémanih, Adharmazd, (b) amat avd li Vahoéman bara mad, (c) ptrsiddsh? min li, aigh: min hémanih; va? min main‘ hémanih? (d) Chigin zak i® yom dakhshak, [yém i] fraz avo hampérsakih numid yekavimtinéd, [aigh, dakhshak chigiin vadtinam-é® (e) i] madam hana i” lak} géhdnd tand* rai, (numidd yekavimtinéd ?)8.

* D. ins. am; DJ. i, *D, ch ash. ? D. om. va * M. ins. avd nafshman; D. ins. ayo (?). § DJ. ins. i. © DJ., M. °nam-é; D. ‘namam. 7 DJ. om. ® see P. throughout.

Pahl. transi. Thus I thought Thee bountiful, 0 Adharmazd, (b) when

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the holy landed*!-estate** (the country*) (d, e) through those who are taught by the master, and with a perfect mind, [through Caogiosa], and who in no- wise thereby deceive Thy wisdom. * See géhani.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Pah Ti, afztini-kunandah mint, [Hormuzd — Anhoma*), gar- didan rasad, [az badtari 4n vehi] (b) pah an ¢ Hérmuzd khudai andar an 7 Bahman, (c) kih pah 4n ¢ 0 kunishn jihan 7 Savab afzini-dehandah * (d) dshan kih rad Amtizéd bindab minishni [Séshyés*], (e) kih ana (sic) ¢ Tai khirad padash nah pah chiz bih fréft** (?) hed* #% *1 Vel ‘fariftah’.

Free tr. Thus I conceived Thee, bounteous, Ahura Mazda,
When with the Good Mind’s help Obedience* neared me,
And asked of me: ‘who art Thou?, whence’ thy coming?
How for their questions now: signs shall I show them?
Signs in thy settlements, and in thyself?

the Good Mind approached me, (c) and asked me* thus: ‘Who art thou, and from whom art thou, [i. e. from whom did’st thou come?], (d) and how is the sign given on* (or ‘ of”) [the day which] has been indicated (or ‘shown i) for the questioning or ‘conference’ (so also Ner., but in the earlier trans- lations yom may have merely repeated aydr(é) = ‘to day’), [that is, how may I produce the sign] (e) [which is shown] on (or ‘concerning this thy land (or ‘Thy (?) world’ (?)), and thy (or ‘Thy’) person?’

Ner.’s sansk. text. Mahattama{-mo*!] mahyarh evar Tvath, Mahajiidnin, amaristhah*, Svamin, (b) yat* mahyarh Uttamath samagachchhat* Manah, [Gvahmano ’marah], (c) aprichchhat* mam yat: ‘ko ’si??, kebhyo ’si? (d) Ka- thazh vasarasya chihnaih pragnakéritayai? nidarcitam Aste?, [kila, chihnarm katharh karomi] (e) upari tvadiyayah* bhivibhtiteh tanoccha’.. + Not voc. *? C,

Ner. transl. Thus thou wert* thought greatest to (or ‘by me, maya’), O Great Wise One the Lord, (b) when the best Mind approached me [Gvah- mana the Immortal], (c) and asked me: ‘Who, and from whom art thou, (d) and how is the sign of* the* day for the investigation declared, [that is, how shall [provide asign] (e) concerning thy landed* estate* (thy country) and thy person’ ?

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. (a) No tr. for ‘a’; teat as in my Pahl., (b) kih 4n man Bah- man bih rasid (¢) [] [—? = —?]] az man kfi: ‘Kih hasti, [] az kih hasti? (d) Chin an riz khaslat*, [ki dgh] [riz 7] fraz an hampursagi []? [kf rfiz7 TQ marg ¢ aknin nist = dgh yom t Rak marg (a) kniin (sic) rott (= 1éit)}, (ki, khaslat chfin kunam]?' (e) ¢ avar in ¢Tt jihin tan r&é [numfid éstéd?, [ki TA kih hasti? = dgh Rak, min homini*?’]} x

166—SCyj XLII. 8.

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Verbatim transl. Tum huic dixi*! Zarathustra primum: re-vera-prae- sens vexator*? quoniam potens* (lege isdva*) [sim] contra scelesto[-tum ]-in- fidelem, (vel ‘ potens-sim (iséya denom. verbi ¢s’), i. e. quoniam potestate mea scelestum infidelem opprimam) (c) igitur probo {in gratiam probi] auxilium- gaudium-(-afferens) sim validum* (d) dum ad curas-diligentes*3 [pro Regno Tuo] secundum-judicium-voluntatis-Tuae-constituto-(Regni[-no]) me-donem] (e) quantum [et quam-diu] (ad) Te, O Mazda, adoro[-rem], {et Tibi] hymnum- meum texo (que) [vel ‘texam’]! *' Utrum aoji ut conjunct. intelligi possit, necne ? ** vel neutrum pl. accentu mutato: ‘quoniam [infideli] vexationes*?... optem (sic tra- ditio), i.e. vehementer imprecer*. ** yel ‘oblectationes*. . ex Tuo. . Regimine capiam’.

Pahl. text translit. Aétintsh avo valman’ gift aigh Zaratisht homanam fratim, (b) ashkarak béshidar, [aigh, saritaran Ashkarak ghal béshém]; va chand khvastar hdmanam kininam valman ¢ darvand [Ganrak** Minavad], (c)? aétfind avo ahartibd min? valman i adj-hémandé aité; aighash raminam; laighash pavan nadikih* (so for névakih) fraz avd khtdath dedrinam-é| (d) Amat zak yeheviinéd nadtkih, [aigh tand* i pasind yehevinéd] pavan kamak khidayih® yehabini-aits, [aigh paddakhshahih? pavan avayast ghal yehabini-ait], (e) aétind Lak Adharmazd stayishné hémanih, khvéshinishnd hdmanih, [aigh, pavan nafshman darishnd homanih. Yeheviind min: avd nafshman ktinishnd®: yemalelindd]. +DJ., D., P. valman; M., K.® ayé li. ? D. ins, va. *so DJ., M., K.° valman i. *DJ. 6 or va. ®DJ., M. *nam-é; D,°namam. ° D. khidayih(?). 7 DJ. pad°, M. shalitéth, * DJ., D. °nth; see P. throughout.

Pahl. transl. Therefore spake I* first to him thus, I* Zarattisht, (or ‘I am Z.’, but h6manam** = ego): (b) ‘a manifestly-real-tormentor am J, [that is, I openly torment the wicked]; and as much as I am desirous (possibly ‘as much as I am a beseeching-supplicant’), so much do I hate him who is the wicked [Ganrak* Minavad]; (c) so also a benefit is for the holy from him who is strong, that is, I am rejoicing him, [that is, I would bear him forth to the sovereignty for (or ‘as’) a benefit]; (d) and when this benefit comes* to* pass*, [that is, when the future body is produced), then the Sovereignty of (or ‘according to ’) desire is given (or ‘established’), [that is, sovereignty is given (or ‘established ”) as to what is desired (or ‘requisite’)], eee eee

Xlii. 8, 167

Free tr. To him I Zarathushtra (then) answered foremost: Torments in very deed the wicked send i,

But to the just would be a joyous power,

While with full care I toil Thy Realm awaiting,

Long as to Thee I may praise and weave song.

(e) and thus, O Atharmazd, art Thou to be praised; and thus Thou art to be appropriated* (or possibly ‘Thou art appropriating*2’ (sic)), [that is, Thou art to be kept* for one’s self (or ‘Thou art keeping*?(?)-- for Thyself*’ (?). Some say that the rendering should be: ‘Thou art to be made one’s own].

* Or reading ‘ayo li’, ‘then he spake to me first’. *?so forms in ‘ishn’ at times.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Evyarh tara pratyavochat* yat*: Jarathuctro ’smi, prathamam, (b) parisphutath pidayita yavad ichchhaya durgatinah, [Ahar- manasya nikrishtanari cha yadrichchhaya* prakatarh pidayita ’smi]. (c) Evarh punyatmanah* pramodayita ’smi balishthatamat *(sic) [Gustacpat* punyatmano Hormijdasya pramodaii karomi, kila, cubhena svamibhyah pracharami], (d) yo ’sau bhavishyati svechchhayA rajyasya data, {kila, vapushi pacchatye rajyaim samihitena dasyati]. (e) Evam satyath, Mahajiianin, stotavyo ’si, svadhinayi- tavyo™ ’si, [kila, svadhinac cha karyo ’si]. + J.* yadri°.