Parsi-pers. Ms. trit, An ¢ az Tf pursam, rast an man go, Hérmuzd, (b) kai, kih t kih Savab [] [kardan = kardan] éstéd, ash an dast [dehand (?)] [] [avar = madam| Druj [¢ Ashmégh (?)], (c) kih bih [in = giiman] kharab-kunad kih in ¢ Tu Mansar amizénd, [Din burdéran bih kharab-kunand] (d) [kih = amat] hamavandi nist dehand [] [6 = 6 (?)] Persian indecipherable = Pahl. gand] i darvand [Gana Mint] » (e) An ¢ dshan farib [| [-dad = ddbind*] Hormuzd, [va pas danad kih: ‘farib istam ai kih na-Amadan hend, [ki, bih an in Din nah ayand*'] [] [khezinah = khodstah] ¢ [man = ra (li)\; [kt [kunand = vdgtinand*|] gobishn 7 kasin na-kar* kunand] +
*1 Possibly ‘amad’.
Free tr. This ask I Thee aright, Ahura, tell me,
If against foes* by Right Thou guardest o’er me
When in the deadly* shock hosts dread are meeting
For creeds which Thou as thine fain wouldest shelter,
Which of the two, and where, giv’st Thou the day? pavan pédakih padakhshah‘ yehevinih, [aighat dén zak daménd padakhshahih’ bindak yehevinéd], (c) amat® zak {7 sipah® hand’ avd yAmtanédds [aigh, raband lakhvar avé® tané* yehabtind], (d) valmanshan Afrinagénd'? min Lak, Atharmazd, pavan nikézishnd nikézid, [aigh, Dind* rfibakih btindak yehe- vinéd dén zak damané], (e) min min valmanshand [pAdafras vadtin(ialyén**], va‘t avo mon shapirih'? yehabini-ait'® [padakhshahih"4] ?
*D. ins. 7, ?DJ. ins. i, ?DJ. ins, another daman. ‘so DJ.; D. pad-°; K.5, M. shali®. * DJ. *all but K.® (Sp.) ham = hém = samagram; K.5(?) amat; P. and DJ. ham. 7D. om. i. *DJ. hana i; P. om.; see Comm. here. °DJ., D. ayo. 1° all but P. seem vaf?; P. prob. om. y. ™ P. om. so DJ.; M. °pir.; D. véh. 1% P. and DJ. -néd. * see P. throughout.
Pahl. transl. That which I ask from Thee declare to me aright, Athar- mazd; (b) if, in that time, Thou dost exercise sovereignty openly with the accompaniment (or ‘help’) of sanctity, [that 7s, if Thine authority becomes complete in that time], when that which is this host (or ‘army’) arrives, [that is, when they give back the souls to the bodies (sic!)], (d) and those benedictions which are Thine are observed with observation (or ‘expounded* with exposition*’) O Atiharmazd, [that is, the advance of the Religion wid/
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become complete in that time], (e) upon whom, that ts, wpon which of those [shall they* effect the retribution (or ‘shall the retribution be* effected*?’)]; and upon which shadd that good thing [which is the sovereignty] be bestowed*! ?
*1 Possibly an altern. trl. for vananam.
Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Parvoktavat jneyam. (b) Chet tada punyena pra- katatayad sathclishtah* parthivo ’si, [kila’ntas tasmin kale parthivah sampairno bhavasit] (c) yada samagrath sainyam anagvaram samagamishyati, [kila’- tmanah punah tanau bhavanti]; (d) teshu prasiddhih ya Tvaya, Mahajnanin, prarohinapraropita**!, [kila, Dineh pravrittih saihptirmat bhavishyati antah*? tasmin kale], (e) kasya nigrahaih?, kasmaicha parthivatvam dasyati?
1 9 J.3, J.* prarohinam (2)-. J.* prarohinamprara(?) pita. *? J.* late anta*(?); see the Pahl.
Ner. transl. (a) To be understood as before. (b) If then Thou art a king with open publicity (or ‘manifestly’) united with Sanctity, [that is, 7f in that time Thou art (or* shalt be’) a perfect king] (c) when the entire imperi-
Verbatim trl., etc. Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, O Ahura; (b) quis [vel lege ‘qui’] secundum-(sic)-victoriam-feriens|-ientes, i.e. victoriose ferientes hostem nostrum fundunt?; qui sic feriunt[-ient] qui etiam ad] Tuas [leges] protegendo|-ndas] hortationes-doctrinasque-enuntiatas (qui) [destinati et statuti] sunt? (c) Distincte mihi [magistrum cum Tua vera] potestate*?-mirabili*?-praedi- tum” pro vivis, [i.e. pro civibus nostris auxilium expetentibus] magistrum designa; (d) sic illi (-ipsi), [i. e. ad illum] Bona Oboedientia, |i. e. civis oboediens] ac- cedat Mente, (e)O Mazda huic*, cui* vis [velis], cuicumque [i.e. ad hunc queme. ].
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shable host ‘shall assemble (or ‘arrive’), [that is, when the souls are brought again into the body (sic ?)|, (d) and when among these /s the celebrated (or ‘ pro- claimed’) doctrine, which, O Great Wise One, is (figuratively) transplanted** by Thee with transposition** (i. e. ‘is developed and promulgated fully’), [that is, the progress of the Din will be complete in this time], (e) whose (then) is the coercion (or ‘punishment’)?, and to whom will he (or ‘they’) give the sovereignty ?].
Parsi-persian Ms. trit. An < az Tai pursam rast an man gO" i Hormuzd; x (b) kih pah an ¢ i zaman, az Savab madad + u-+ baki, pah pédai (vel ‘paida®’) padishah buvi, [kit andar 4n zaman padishahi [] [bund (sic) = bund*] béd? » (c) [] [ham = ham| an 7 ‘askar (?) khanah + ya‘ni + vad + tan + baz (?) rasad, [ki ruvan baz 4n tan dehand], (d) éshan mashhiri* kih Ti, Hormuzd, pah didan [binand = nikézend], (ki, Din ravai bundah bashad andar an zaman], (e) [] az dshdn [pddafrah kunand**] [] [0 = 6] kih véh [] [dehad = débanéd* (?)] pAdishahi] ? *
Free tr. This ask I Thee aright, Ahura, tell me;
Who smite victorious guarding Thy doctrines?
Show me a folk-lord inspired with power;
Then come the obedient*! with Good Mind to him, * or ‘Obedience’.
*1 Or, ‘and that of another person’ (2). *? or reading zak am (?) valman [kamak: -,
‘that is, my desire for him, 0 A----, etc.’; see Ner.; (probably kadarchai before the gl. was added meant ‘whomsoever’). 97
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Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Parvoktavat jieyais. (b) Ke vijayataya* hantarah*t Tava rakshaya gikshaydh, [kila, ye santi Dinyé Te papakarminam**? nigra- ham ke kurvanti]? (c) Prakatatayd me srishtaye bhuvanadvaye ’pi gurutath asvadayita, [kila ihaloke® paralokecha’ gurutaya grihito smi]. (d) Evath tasya Uttamena Crogasya samagamanar Manasa, [kila, Crogasya (Gustaspasya) Uttamena Manasa Dinau samagamanam]. (e) Mahajianin, tasya me [kamah] yasya kamah kebhyagchit, [kila, me samdgamanarn Caociosasya rochate yasya kamah kebhyagchit sarvebhyah*, anydyo* (?) yasmat. viliyate].
** J.3 ram (go) with pata from later hand over, *2s0 J3. %J.3 ‘loke, °loke cha; P. *lokiye. P. is important in ¢ and d gl.; J.4, C. differ much.
Ner. transl. (a) To be understood as aforesaid. (b) Who are they who smite with victoriousness and with the protection afforded* by* (or ‘in the protection of’) Thy doctrine, [that is, who are they who effect the punishment (or ‘the coercion’) of* the sinner through Thy Din] (c) He (that is, such an one) és*4 manifestly a teacher of* the spiritual mastership to me, for the creation even in the two worlds?, [that is, I am seized (or ‘appropriated’)
Verbatim transl., etc. Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, O Ahura; (b) quo-modo, Mazda, [vel ‘nonne’} {ad illam] pactionem [vel ‘consultationem’), accedam [hoc est, appropinquabo} cum Vobis [consummandam], (c) ad [eam] operationem™ Vestram, [i. e. ‘quo modo obviam ibo ad nixum Vestrum in auxilium nostrum tam efficacem recipiendum et ad eo fruendum’] quumque* mihi sit prospera**-prex* [vel quumque mihi [absolutum] sit [meae-]-vocis-desi- derium [dictum’, (d) desiderium Salubritatem et Immortalitatem] in prin- cipatu*?-protegenti*? futuras-esse*2 (Salubritates-duas et Immortalitates*?-duas) (e) illo-Sacro-rationis-verbo, [i. e. causa ejus verbi et secundum admonitiones ejus] qui [quod] dux**-infallibilis [ex] Sanctitate (ex) [sit] ?
*1 Vel, lege Askaitim, ‘ad Vestrum comitatum’; vel lege askitim, [ut hoc verbum] ad habitaculum-Vestrum -+ [attingat] - -]. *? vel ‘{me] in domicilio frui Salub. et Immort.’ vel ‘qui secundum-ductum-[ejus-Verbi] ex Sanctitate [se-gerat] ’.
Pahl. text transl. Zaki ¢ min Lak* pirsém!, rastd avd li yemalelinai, Atharmazd; (b) aimat, Adharmazd, damand kardarth i? Lekiim [aigh, damano? i tand* f pasind, aimatd yehevanéd ?] (©) 4Zakd i> kardarth 1 Lekim [Saigh,
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by“! the spiritual mastership in the world here and for* that beyond, éut who does this?|. (d) Thus through the Good Mind ¢s the approach of Croga, [that is, the approach of Croga (i. e. of Gustaspa*(?)) within (or ‘to’) the Din és through the Good Mind]. (e) O Great Wise One, for him ds my desire who is desired by any one (meaning ‘every one’), [that as, the approach of Croga, who is desired by any persons (meaning ‘by every one ’) pleases me, from whom the lawless** vanishes*, (or read anyayoh(r), see the Pahl. and Gatha, ‘from whom the desire of any other* two* than they, (i.e. than roca
and Gustaspa(?)) vanishes ’)]. ** Or not impossibly ‘I as teacher of the spiritual chief- tainship --- for my creation --., etc.’, [i. e. I am seized by" the spiritual-chieftainship as its teacher** .., ete.].
Parsi-persian Ms. trit. An ¢ az Ta pursam rast an man gd*, Hormuzd; (b) az min| kih pah fathmandi, zish(?) hast zadar 7 [vanahgaran*] [] padafrah [] kih kn- nand ? * (c) Pa-[-t = at] pédai*! an man pédaish** andar har df jihan*, radi chashed zahir, [ki, va injé va’nja*, pah Dastir dar* (?) hastam] * (d) Edin [] (Tt = Lak] veh
- Srésh | [] Vishtasp] ash(?) ras(ad ?) pah Bahman [ki pah Bahman [] an Din rasad (de- faced) = -néd % (e) Hérmuzd 4n am & kamah, [kt’m rasidan 7 Séshyés bayad], kih [ ] t kamah har-kidam, [ki, harkas ti bayad] * * Or ‘paiday°’.
Free tr. This ask I Thee aright, Ahura, tell me,
How to Thy meeting, Lord, now shall I hasten?
That consummation Thine which grants my longing
That for the chief* should be Immortal Welfare
Pahl. transl. That which I ask of Thee tell me aright, Atharmazd; (b) when, O Adharmazd, is your appointment of the time, [that is, when shall the time of the future existence arrive?]; (c) and when shall they make] Your efficiency (or ‘efficiency towards You’), |that is, Your duty and law complete]?; and when shall also the suppliants* for my words appear? ({or not impossibly ‘when shad/ that which is my spoken or ‘worded’ (gdbishn- hémand) supplicator* (i. e. ‘supplicating* prayer*-in-words’}) be heard?’); that is, when does (or ‘shall’) the progress of the Religion become complete], (d) and when shall the coming-on (or ‘existence’) of a chief for Héurvadad and Amerédad be realized, (e) thus according to the Manthra?, [that is, thus they are bestowing the reward as it és revealed through the Manthra|,
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whose portion 7s secwred through [the accompanying-help of Righteousness (or ‘Sanctity’).
Ner.’s sansk. text. (a) Pirvoktavat jineyam. (b) Kada!, Mahajiianin, sa- mayakartritvaih* Yushmakam, [kila, kalo yah pacchatyasya kada prapsyati]? (¢) sé vikramataé ya Yushmakam? [kila, karyani nyayanaih Yashmakam kada sampirnani karishyanti] yecha me bhavanti vachasam ihayitarah* [kila Dineh pravrittih sarhptirna kada bhavishyati], (d) svamino bhavishyanti upari Avir- dade Amirdade?, (e) evarn Manthravanyah, ye danam Dharmasarhmicram ?, [kila, prasadam evar dadanti*? yathé Manthravanyah prakatam].
*1 So P, marg.; J.4 om.; J.* kathaih, but has kada& praps®. * J.® dadati.
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Verbatim transl., etc. Hoc Te interrogo, recte mihi dic, O Ahura; (b) quo-modo Sanctitate hance praedam-ut-praemium merito-consequar*!, (c) decem equas masculinis-junctas [vel ‘und cum equo*? "|, camelum-que?; (d) [hoc Te interrogo] quia mihi, O Mazda, (nuntiatum*-est) Salubritate, (e) [et] Immortalitate, [i.e. causa meae (vel ‘nostrae’) Salubritatis et meae Immor- talitatis] [nuntiatum-est] ut [vel ‘quo-modo’] has-duas [haec duo dona [i. e. equas -- et camelum in sacrificium*] Tibi*? dem [dabo]. * Vel lege hanani ‘quo modo dem*, [i.e. quo modo obtinebo hoc praemium ut id Tibi offeram’, vel ‘ut id Tuis* devotis dem*’], **yel ‘gravidas’, aegre. * vel lege taéibyé ‘his [meis discipulis ut donum honoris causa des* [dabis*, vel dem (dabo)]’.
Pahl. text translit. Zakd i min Lak pirsem!, rdst® avo li yemalelinai, Adharmazd; (b) chigtind rastiha? pavan zak mozd arjanik® yeheviinam, [aig- hamé afriftariha® nafshman yeheviinéd], (c) X (dah) siisya® i® gishand va7 gamla? (d) Amat homan’, Atharmazd, dén khavitinam Haurvadad? Ame- rodad®, (e) aéttind zak 71° kolA dé Lak yehabtinds!
*D. ins. i. * DJ. rast. *Mf. °kih, or “kash. ‘DJ. ins. am. *Mf. rth, °D. aspo i. 7 D. ins. .va. * D. va add ‘m’ late, so homanam*. ® D. ins. va.. 7° D. om, i.
Pahl. transl. That which I ask of Thee, tell me aright, Adharmazd; (b) by what means may I become justly deserving of that reward?, [that is, a a