Ner. transl. Thus he*(?) answered him: I am Jarathustra, and as the first thing (b) I declare that as much as accords with desire (i.e. as much as I* desire) so much am I manifestly a tormentor of the wicked, [that is, I am spontaneously and openly an oppressor of Aharmana and of the base] ; (c) and so also to the holy of heart* am I a producer of joy from the ‘most mighty one, [that is, I will eftect Joy for* (sic) the holy* Hormijda (sic) through Gustagpa, that is, by means of (or ‘on account of’) a benefit I am advancing to the Lords], (d) for he (Gustagpa (or ‘Hormijda’ (?)) will be the bestower of the kingdom with (or ‘which is with’) spontaneity, [that is, he will bestow the kingdom in the future body through (or ‘as’) his own desired thing]; (e) and thus, 0 Great Wise One, Thou art truly to be praised, and to be treated as one’s own* (? or ‘as absolute*’), [that is, Thou art to be made one’s own (or ‘absolute* VE
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Verbatim trl., etc. Benignum-|et (bene-)largientem, vel ‘sanctum*(?)’] sic Te, O Mazda, existimavi! (b) quum me Bona circumibat Mente [Oboe- dientia*, i.e. ad me accedebat*! servus Tuus devotus oboedientiam inter cives confirmans], (c) ejus [vel ‘sua’] interrogatio|-tione hac]: ‘cui [i.e. quid] ob- tinere (vel ‘intelligere’) vis? (d) Sic (ad) [respondi]. Tuo igni oblationem se*-humiliantis*-laudis (e) [et] Sanctitatis me [mecum mediter™] quantum, [i. e. usque adeo donec eam oblationem mente-|-comprehendam (vel ‘potestate-mea- possideam’), i. e. usque adeo quoad opes ad eam perficiendam sufficientes adipiscar, talem oblationem] (mecum-mediter*!), [i.e. cum* summa diligentia in mente agitabo]. *! Vel ‘-tabor’.
Pahl. text translit. ‘Afzinik am? aétiind? Lak minid hémanih*, Adhar- mazd, (b) amat avé li Vohtiman bard madé. (c) Valman i Atharmazd li ptr- sidé aigh: zakaté5 (vel zité®) mtin® 4kds-dahishnéth kamak, [aighat pahréj7 main avdyad, aigh® khayittinih®]; (d) 1°aétind avd hana i Lak Atash rad hémanam‘t pavan niydyishn (e) Aharayih, chand li khvastar homanam*+12,, minam!3.
* DJ. ins: aétine. * DJ., D., P. add am; MM, K° om. *)DJ. iss am. “Jo (e)e M. °ih, or °4é; D. °nanth. " DJ., D. zakato. 2° Dio mau. ° DY ms is82 Bo oes. danako. 7° line d only in D. and P. “D. *nanam. 1?DJ. °ém(?). 1%see P. throughout.
Pahl. transl. Thus Thou wert* thought bountiful by me, O Atitharmazd, (b) when Vohiman came to me, (c) for then that* one who is Atharmazd
; Verbatim trl. (with paraphrase). Sic Tu mihi monstres [vel ‘provideas, 1. €. Monstra, provide’) Sanctitatem [Tuae legis et gratiae, i. e. instrue animam meam omnibus virtutibus] quoniam mihi [eam §.] studiose-invoco
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Free tr. Do Thou Thy Holiness revealing teach me,
Since with Devotion joined I seek perfection* ;
Ask Thou us questions such that Thou may’st* search* us
For question Thine is ever of the mighty
When e’er his searching* word* Thy ruler speaks. (b) Devotione[-nem] comitatus [eam sequens ut eam Sanctitatem omni spe et opera enisus obtineam|]. (c) Rogaque [etiam] nos qua*!, [i. e. ‘ut (ya=yéna) Tui, [i.e. a Te] simus*! (ehma = adsma*(?)) [penitus] rogati* [de nostris necessitatibus (omnino ut iis succurras)|; (d) quaestio enim a Te [posita est] talis qualis hoc [ea] potentium (e) quum Tuus regnans-princeps optationem [i.e. voluntatem
suam de scientia rerum spiritalium, i.e. quaestionem suam de salute] ponat
170 XLII. 10, 11.
fi. e. enuntiet] potentem. *1 Vel fortasse (c): ‘Roga nos [eas interrogationes quae] Tibi (vel ‘Tui [Tuae]’) a (sic) nobis (= éhma*(?)) [a* Te*] rogatae, [i. e. quae in tempore futuro praeponendae sint], (d) interrogatio enim Tua [in nos* inspirata* est interrogatio] potentium, [dominorum nostrorum] (c) quum Tuus regnans [-princeps] optationem**, [i. e. voluntatem suam pet interrogationes de rebus vere optabilibus} reddat potentem, [i. e.
quum sic voluntatem suam in re vera plene constituat]. *° Vel fortasse ‘precationem —
pronuntiet’ (?) = aéshem dyad(i). ** Sunt qui ut sequitur reddant: (a) Ahura dicit ‘invoco’ (?sic)...; (e) quoniam [vel ‘ut’] Te capax (= khshaydas) [aliquis] contentum (= aéshem) reddat potentem (ex eo est quaestio tua quaestio potentium),
Pahl. text translit. Aéttind Lak avd li yehabanait Aharayih amatat? hémanam? pavan karitiinishné? karittinam (b) pavan Bandak Minishnih avakih, amat zak i valman if biindak [minishnih® avé nafshman vaduniayén*(?)*; aigh zakich’ pavan dad ras aéttind avo nafshman shayad kardand, amat Aér- patistand bindak minishniha’ vadinyén. Yebevind mtn “Amikhtishnéd (sic)”
gift]. (c) Pirsaich®? min lanman min'? Lak"! pavan zak pirsishné*!? [Dind*} -
(d) maman pirsishnd Laké minat aétiind pavan zak i'® amAvandih, [pavan zak pursishnd] (e) amat avo!2 Lak padakhshahih'4, Atharmazd, pavan khvah- ishnd yehabinédé amavandih, [aigh, amat Diné* yemaleltinih, at amavandih yehevinéd'*]. +D. ‘ih i, *D. tan man, * DJ. ‘nih. ‘so DJ. ins. zak i aé; D. has zak i; M., K.5 zakai. © see P.; others om. © so all. 7 M. ins. 7, *® so DJ. ® D. °sihich. *'DJ., D. ins. min. *! D. ins. lak, 72 DJ; msi 2 DJvome 1, eee: bee shalita. + see P. throughout.
Pahl. transl. Mayest Thou therefore give me Sanctity since I invoke Thee with invocations (b) with the accompaniment (or ‘assistance (?)’) of the Perfect Thought, when [they shall make] that which és that perfect* [thought their own, that is, that also it is necessary to make one’s own in the way prescribed by the law (or ‘in the appointed way’), if they would carry out with a perfect mind the priestly assemblies (or ‘studies’); some have said that ‘the perfect doctrine’ was the correct rendering]. (c) Ask Thou of us also those questions which are Thine, and contained in that questioning [which ts the Religion?]; (d) for the questioning is Thine* which is thus
Verbatim trl., etc. [Bene]-largientem [vel ‘sanctum (?)’] sic Te, Mazda, existimavi*', Ahura (b) quum me [Oboedientia, i. e. servus Tuus oboediens
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Thine in power {in that questioning}, (e) since in Thy sovereignty, O Afthar- mazd, it gives forth power fin answer to prayer, [that is, when Thou de- clarest the Religion power is with Thee}. * Possibly ‘make Thou Thine own’.
Ner.’s sansk. text. Evari Tvati mahyari dehi punyam yad aharh prar- thanaya‘ (?) prarthaye (b) sarpirnamanasa Salimigrah? aparebhyac cha pari- pirnam, [kila, *tach cha yat sadachdrimarge evari svAdhinarn cakyate kartura chet adhyayanai saraptirnamanasa? kriyate]. (c) Prichchhach4’sman yaté Te* etasmin* pragne [Dinau] (d) pracno yatas Te yah evar tena utsdhena (e) yar tubhyarh raja Hormijdah abhipsaya® dadati utsdhari®, [kila, chet Dinith brite, tatas te utsdho’? bhavati]. + J.* *thana. *% J.4 sanmishté. * J,* om. from 3to manasa in sampurnam®. * J,3, J.4, J.* yat te tasmin. * J,4 °psyaya (sic). ® J. uchhaham (sic). 7 J.* diff.
Ner. transi. Do Thou therefore give me the sanctity which I desire with desire (b) accompanied by mental perfection and also fully by the rest, [that is, give me that which it is indeed possible to make one’s own in the way of good action, if study is applied to it with mental perfection]. (c, d) Do Thou also question us for Thine is a question in this questioning [in (or ‘concerning’) the Din], because Thine is the question which is thus asked with this vigour, (e) the questioning which Hormijdah the Monarch gives thee* through desire (on account of thy wish for it) as strength, [that is, if He utters the Din, thence is thy* strength].
Free tr. Thus I conceived Thee bounteous, Ahura Mazda,
When with the Good Mind’s help Obedience neared me,
And with Your words my soul I first instructed;
Woes that devoted one ’midst men forewarned me.
Yet will I that fulfil named by Thee best!
cum-interrogationibus (?)] Bona circumibat*, [i. e. ad me accedebat] Mente, (c) quum {verbis (hymnis) et mandatis] a-Vobis-dictis me-commoveo primum, (d) difficilia [et-res-aerumnas] mihi [me] hortans-docebat** (vel ‘mihi man- dabat**’) inter-homines cordi-addictus [Tuus nuntius, vel ‘cordis devotio*’}
172 XLUI. 11, 12.
(e) hoc facere*2 quod mihi dicebatis*! optimum. * Vel conjunct. *? sic ad yerbum, sed fortasse verti potest: (e) ‘sed tamen hoc faciam’ (inf. loco imper.), etc.
Pahl. text translit. Afztintk am! aétind? Lak minid hémanih?, Athar- mazd, (b) amat avd li Vohimand bara mado (c) amat Lektim milaya pavan nikézishné nikézidé fratiim, [Dino*], (d) va tang tand avé li guft dén ans- hfitaan rabak-dahishnih, [aightand hana gift, aigh Dind* ribak kardandé dish- khvar4]. (e) Aétfind varzishnd yehabinam, aightand> avo li guft pahlaim, [akharich® ghal vadtinam-é7]. + DJ., D. ins. am. * DJ. ins. am. * M. %th (or ‘ai”), D. °nanih. * DJ. dtish-khvar. * DJ., D. mfin®.. § DJ., D. om. 7. “so DJ.
Pahl. transl. Bountiful thus Thou wert** thought by me, O Athar- mazd, (b) when the Good Mind approached me, (c) and when he first ob- served with observation (or ‘expounded (?) with exposition (?)’ (not impossibly ‘when I first observed, etc.’ see ‘am’ in line a.)) Your word*!, [that is, Your Religion]; and Ye declared to me that its propagation* among mankind was difficult, [that is, this was said by You, that ¢t was difficult to make the Religion progressive]; (e) therefore I effect*! cts accomplishment™, for this Ye declared to me to de the best; [and afterwards also I would effect it}.
*1 Or, ‘so I do* the action’.
Ner.’s sansk. text. Mahattama[-mo*] mahyari evarh Tyarh Mahajianin, amaisthah Svamin, (b) yan? mahyarn Uttamath samagachchhat Manah, [Gvah- manahj, (¢) yaih Yayarh [lege Yushmakam] vanith prarohinapraropita*2 [(sic (?)]
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Spas 2449/9) wo byy aa -basysbyuu) 2 EO» wal AY C9 Verbatim trl., etc. Quoniam-que mihi [indicans et explicans| dicebas: ‘ad-Sanctitatem venias*1 ad cognoscendum, [i. e. ad-discendum proposita singula Meae disciplinae et voluntatis’], (b) igitur Tu mihi non [ne] inaudita*? impera*’, {hoc est, ne mihi doctrinas et mandata usque ad hue invito animo auditas promulgare impera], (c) {neve mihi impera] assurge** [vel ‘exire (i. e. assurge tu ad partes tuas sublimes, exi ad populum cum tuo nuntio salutis de caelo’| prius quam mihi [ad me] accedat[-det] (d) Oboedientia, [i. e: civis fidelis oboediens et oboedientiam in congregatione confirmans| cum*-sacro- praemio [et] cum*-magna gloria [vel ‘magna[-nis] ope[-pibus ad sacram Causam sustinendam’] comitata|-tatus (vel ‘iis praeditus’)]}*, (e) qua [vel ‘ut’ illa oboe-
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prathamam, [Dinimn], (d) vishamaihcha mayi avochat antar manushyeshu pravrittidataye, [kila, idara avochat yat Déniti pravartamandam kartur vish- amam*]. (e) Tad eva karmani daddémi yat mayi avochat utkrishtataraih ; [kila, tatha’pi karomi]. +J.3, 3.4, J.*, B., ©, yan. *J.3; J. separates “hina pra- ropita; J.* praro-na (so); at Y. 44, 15. d. J.? na praropita; J.* -hinam; J.* -hinam, (lege prarohina (?) prapropayatha, 2n4 pl., or “payita.)
Ner. trl. Thus Thou wert thought greatest*! to (or ‘by’) me, O Great Wise One the Lord, (b) when the best mind [Gvahmana] approached me (c) which word Ye* translate ((?) or ‘expound’ (reading °payatha) ‘with translation’ (lit. ‘transplant --’), ({or reading ‘Yushmdkam for Yuyam’ and “°payita’, ‘of which word J am an expounder’, or ‘he* expounded’)| first, [that 7s the Din], (d) and he declared to me that it was difficult for (ie. that there was a difficulty in) the production of progress among men, [that is, he said that it was difficult to make the Din current among men]. (e) In this manner do I produce in action that which he declared to* me to be most excellent, [that is, thus also do I perform it]. * Not ‘O greater one’.
Parsi-persian Ms. trit, Afztini-kunand (pro kunandah) édin Ti andéshid hasti, Hér- muzd*, (b) kih 4n man Bahman bih rasid (c) kih Shuma sakhun pah yaftan (sic vid.) bidar avval [ [pah = pavan] Din], (d) kahili-kunandahgan an man [Din = Din] guft andar Adamiyan (sic) rava-dahishn, [kfi, (4gh sic) tan in guft ki Din rava-kardan sakhti hast] * (e) Edan iktyar*-deham®* [] {kih = mén (?)] tan An man [Din = Din] guft buland, pas ham 6 (vel ‘fi’) kunam] *% *! So better.
Free tr. And since Thou saidest: ‘Come for light to Asha*’. Command me not the things ill-heard to herald,
Nor to go forth, e’er he that friend approach me,
Obedience hand -joined with weal and splendour
Whereby for striver’s help reward he gives.