Ner. transl. (To be understood as above). (b) Declare thou also the gift to me which is this power of Thine, O Great Wise One, [that is, it is pos- sible to produce the.indestructibility of the body by means of it (or ‘through its power’], (c) and declare also what the questioning is which is made through the Best Mind and word, [that is, Z ask Thee, when shall the Din become progressive]? , (d) and declare also what is the completion of intelligence in the world among the holy (or ‘in the holy worlds’), {for* the free-souled (the righteous) and for* the evil]. (e) How does this which is my good joy in the soul approach for (or ‘in ”) both of these?; [that zs, I am effecting (striv- ing to effect) a certain result which 7s beneficial both here and beyond]. (
Parsi-persian Ms. trit. An ¢ az Tt pursam, rast an man gd*, Hormuzd * (b) An @ haft* (?) dadan, [ma-ra bih g0*] kih TA, Hormuzd, an didan [vinam = nikézém] (sic), [ki, tan 7 pasin pah 4n rah tuvan kardan], (¢) kih ham pah Bahman sakhun [] hampur- sishn, {ki, Din rava kih béd?], * (d) [va =a] kih ham pah Savab andar jihan buadah agahi*, [] chiz ¢ ashavan (sic) u dn i darvandan] * (e) Chim in ¢ man ruvan An 7 veh khosht + u + rémishni rasad pah ani har df, [kih chiz 7 ming u géti nék
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Verbatim transl. (with paraphrase). Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, Ahura; (b) quo-modo mihi [eam] quam [quae] (sacratione* (?)) Religionem|-io sit] [sacratione etiam ampliori sacratam] reddam, fi. e. sacrabo?, (c) eam] Religionem| quam bene-largientis [vel ‘beati’ Regni] dominus hortans-doceat Regni [nostri sancti], (d) [et cujus (Religionis) instituta-principia per Tuum] elato[-tum, vel recto[-tum]] Regno[-num, ¢d est, Tua recta regali auctoritate] Tui-similis [nos doceat* ut] leges [revelatas*, patefactas et enuntiatas], O Mazda, (e)in communi-domicilio[una cum] Sanctitate Bondque habitans Mente? “Td est, ‘Tu ipse doceas’; si persona humana magis indicetur, tum ‘Tui-dignus et de- yotus servus doceat’ yertere possimus. *? Utrum ‘ereshya-khsh.’ compos. (voc. sg. sit necne?, -
*D. ins. i. ? DJ. om. ? DJ. ins. ayéjako i; D. onlyi. *D. ins. i. °D. “anamam*; Mf. ‘inam. ° DJ, padakhshahih; D. pAddkh®. "DJ., D. ins. dino; M., K.5 om. ®* Mf. om i. °M. °ikht, ?°D. ins. mtn late. 1 DJ., Mf. om. 17D. om. i. 1° D. tizth or "ash. 14 DJ. padakh®; D. padokh®, 1 DJ., D. ins. zakash. 1°DJ. ins. t. *7DJ. ins. va.
Pahl. transl., etc. That which I ask of Thee, tell me aright, Atharmazd; (b) how shall I further accomplish (or ‘maintain’) the sanctification of my sanctified [which 7s my pure] Religion?, [that is, how might I render this Religion progressive] (c) which he who is truly (or ‘beneficently’) wise has* taught™! again**2 and again**2 in the sovereignty ?, [he who has*® taught*® this Religion, the interest of the pious (or ‘the thing which is pious’), again**
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Xliyv. 9. 197
Free tr. This ask I Thee, aright, Ahura, tell me How with solemnities our Faith to hallow?
Faith of the kindly* Realm by master taught us,
Full truths by him like Thee in kingdom righteous,
Dwelling in holy home with Good Mind, Lord.
and again**]?, (d) he the one righteous in the sovereignty who 7s thine equal (or, ‘such as Thou art’) and who is such through the fleet (?) one of Athar- mazd [through the Religion* of A. (alternative* and correct* free* trl.), whose is the sovereignty, and he maintains it righteously]; (e) and on* this account* (sic, a trl. of the syllable ‘ha’) he dwells in the same dwelling (full trl. of hademdi, ‘ha’ twice translated) wth Ashavahisht and Vohiman, [thaé ds, in companionship with them]. *1 Later usage; possibly ‘by which he is taught’ (?) was meant. *** navak translates ‘naos’ of hudanaog (!). *° or ‘who is (?) taught’.
Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Pirvoktavat jiieyam. (b) Katharh idari ahari yat* Dinin pavitrataraim pavitrayami, [kila, Dinith katharh pravartamanam karomi ?| (c) Yah' Uttamajiiani navari navarh gishyapayati* parthivatayd, [kila, Dinir iyam navari navari kitichit* yat sadvyApari gikshapayati*]? (d) Satyo rajye Tvattulyah vikramataya Mahajiianinah, [Dinya Hormijdasya yo rajyaih satyarh dadhati] (¢) sahasthanatayé* Dharmasya Uttamasyacha nivasati Manasah, |**“sahasakhayataya (so)]. + J.¢ om.
Ner. transl. (a) To be understood as before. (b) How shall I purify this thing which is already Thy purer (or ‘most pure’) Din, [that is, how shall I make the Din progressive]? (c) He who is the Great Wise One is teaching at again and again through his sovereignty ?, [that is, this Din (?) inculcates again and again a certain thing which is beneficent]. (d) The one true in the kingdom, Thine equal (or ‘like Thee’) through the surpassing* energy* of the Great Wise One, [and who establishes (or ‘maintains ’) the kingdom justly through the Din of Hormijdal], (e) is dwelling in community with Rec- titude (or ‘Sanctity’) and the Good Mind, [that as, in friendship with them].
Verbatim transl. (with paraphrase). Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, Ahura, (b) [et] hane Religionem [explica] quae [rerum omnium] exsistentium optima [sit], (c) [et] quae mihi [i. e. meas] colonias Sanctitate proyehat (ad verbum ‘prodet**’ (sic)), [i. e. eas prosperas et felices reddat| [me, vel ‘Sanc- titatem ’] sequens** [vel mecum-consociata R. (d) Religio] Devotionis [et Pie- tatis per] verbis [verba hymnorum, mandatorum et promissorum a Te inspirata et a nobis promulgata illa Religio] actiones [nostrorum fidelium guum in caerimoniis tum in factis omnino honestis recte [perfectas] reddat. (e) [Utinam optationes, i. e. preces] meae cognitionis [a Te edoctae et illustratae] Te (optationes) desiderent**?, 0 Mazda! *1Vel fortasse ‘precibus-petens [ego] Te desi- derans [(°tis)sum] O M.’ Sunt qui usén neut. pl. ace. reddant, fortasse ‘conditiones vestras’.
* D, ins. i. ?DJ., D. om. *D. om. *D, %shniha. °DJ., D., Mf. minishniha. ° D. baram. 7DJ., D. ins, i: *D. avdich, ® P. and DJ., D. valman for Sp.’s ayo. 1° D., ete. fananam (sie). 11s0 D. 1% see P, throughout.
Pahl. transl., etc. That which I ask of Thee, tell me aright, Athar- mazd; (b) [tell me fully] what the Religion, the best of ad existing things as, (c) that which accompanies (or ‘helps on’) the*t promotion*! of my set- tlements with (or ‘through’ (see the Gatha)) righteousness, whose (the set- tlements’) wealth this Religion would produce from correct-piety]; (d) which Religion also produces just actions through the words of the Perfect Mind, [that is, it says a thing in a perfect-minded-manner, that*! they should so
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Xliy. 10, 199
Free tr. Thus ask I Thee aright, Ahura, tell me,
What is Thine Insight’s rule than all things better;
Give that our homes to bless with Right befriended,
Just deeds and rites to help with hymns devoted;
Thus would my wisdom’s prayer, entreat Thee, Lord!
fulfil 7¢], (e) He whose cs that which zs my lore, [i. e. who understands the end of the matter (the conclusion of things) through his correct-piety], his is the enjoyment of this which is Thy wealth (or ‘offering ”), [that is, the reward (?)*? which is for thee*’, O Zaratésht (so understood, see the last words) they give also to him]; and I am content, O Atiharmazd, [since to me they do not give the less]. *! Aside from the Gatha ‘through the furtherance’, *? hardly ‘do Thou perform it’, *§ not ‘for Afiharmazd’.
Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Parvoktavat jieyam. (b) Tam Dinish yd vidya- manebhyah utkyishtataré [me brdahi], (c) ya me bhivibhitiri* Dharmasya vriddhidatya agleshayati, [kila, Dinir iyarn lakshmim sadvyAparat kurute]. (d) 'Sathpirnamanasé vachamsi karmanicha satyani datte?, [kila, kirhchit saipirmamanasa brite, kurutecha], (e) me nirvdnajiianine Te lakshmit. [Yo nirvanajianaih kimnchit sadvyaparatayé vetti, tasmai prasddah yah tubhyarh (?) diyate, sa? diyate?]. Sartushto ‘smi, Mahdjiianin.
*J.* has line d in the margin from a later hand, *J.4, J.* dad-. °J.4, J.* om
Ner. trl., etc. (a) To be understood as aforesaid. (b) [Declare to me] the Din which is more excellent than al/ existing things, (c) and which husbands my landed*-property* through the promotion of Righteousness, [that is, this Din produces riches from good conduct]. (d) It also produces true words and action by means of the perfect mind, [that is, it says and does a thing with a perfect mind],* (e) and it grants Thy wealth to me as to the one wise concerning the end. [That is, he who knows the thing*! by means of good conduct, even*® a certain spiritual wisdom which concerns the end, to him that reward? is given which is given to* (? or ‘for’*®) thee*’] ; and I am content*4, O Great Wise One *! Mindavam. ** or adyerbially; ‘he who knows a thing* wisely* which concerns the end’. ** mere clumsiness; ‘the reward to the Mahaj?’ could not have been seriously meant. ** Z. was content, although a reward equal to his was given to another.
Parsi-persian Ms. trit, An 7 az Ta pursam rast 4n man gd, Hormuzd, (b) an 7 Din az hastan buland [am bih gé*], (c) kih an ¢ man jihan* pah Savab afztn-yari, [kih Din in khezanah az frérfin + néki kunand] (d) [] pah bundah minishni, va* sakhun u kunishn rast dehad (?), [kf, chiz bundah minishni (?) gfiyad, kunad]* (¢) Kih an 7 man danai, [kfi, anjam 7 chiz pah néki danam(?)], ash in 7 Ti khezanah baram (vel “bar am’), [ki, an 7 muzd 7 an Ti dad an ham (no tewt) fi dehand (?)] [], Hérmuzd, {kih man kam nah dehand] *
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Verbatim trl., etc. Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, Ahura ; (b) quo- modo [vel ‘nonne’ ad] hos (ad) vestros [cultores] accedat [vel ‘-det’] Pietas (mens Devotionis ad omne bonum opus prompta) (c) [ad eos] a-quibus, O Mazda, Tua** [vel ‘pro-Te | enuntiatur Religio? (d) Ego Tibi [ut Servus Tuus devotus], iis [feorum omnium*] primarius, vel ({sententia diversissima) ‘iis in- strumentis*? (ob eam causam) primarius {omnium’ (vel, lege °yé, ‘primum’)]) ante -(vel ‘prorsus-’)agnitus sum; (e) omnes alios spiritus [mei] aspicio odio!
*1 vel Thydi = thvé = thvaya, » = 4 = ya. * vel etiam ‘quod ad has res attinet’. ;
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Free tr. This ask I Thee, aright, Ahura, tell me
How unto these of Yours Devotion cometh
By whom for Thee, O Lord, Thy Faith is uttered; As Thine and first of these known* am I, Mazda,
Aliens from Thee my soul with hate beholds.
‘eoncerning’) these’), the proclamation of the good news, [that is, grant me happiness before* the Ameshdspends (or ‘first* from* the Ameshdspends’)]. (e) Against that which is the other spirit of all kinds* of persons* I keep my guard, I who am their hater (or ‘Against every other kind of spirit, which is, malevolent, I keep my guard’), [that is, from Ganrak Minavad and the Demons I am separate].
Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Parvoktavat jieyam. (b) Kada teshu sa sama- gamishyati sarapirnamanasata* ?, [kila, gishyandr me sarpirnamanasata* kada bhavishyati] (c) yet, Mahajianin, Tvadiyath samudgiranti Dini? (d) Mah- yam Tvam tebhyah prathamar sathpradanai* dehi, [kila, amarebhyo ma- hattarebhyah prathamarh cubhath Tvam dehi]. (e) Vigvebhyo anyebhyo adrig- yamurtibhyah prayatnayami* pidakarebhyah, [kila, Aharmanat Devebhyag cha vibhinno bhayami]! + J.* ins. purushahu* (? sic).