Ner. trl., etc. When shal/ I desire (or ‘pray for’) Thy Kingdom, that of the most exalted (or ‘best’) Lord? [that is, when zs the greater kingdom coming, that development (or ‘increase’) of Thine]? (b) When does 7t* come* to* Thy*! religious devotees who are - - -*, O Lord? [when do my disciples arrive expeditiously at theirreward?] (c) When shall I seek* for* Thy bounty so illustriously* (Asha° recalling the fire) revealed, [which* means* (aigh) the bounty which Thou rececvest, when shall it be manifest? ([or. ‘this liberal one of Thine, when shall he appear’?|) (d) when they shall acquire the pos- session of Bahmana’s action through good conduct, [when it shall be pos-
sible to do thus of one’s own power*?]. *!Manonyan, or manyony? (so) here trans- lates manikénd simply as—=‘mine’; see me cishyéh; but man=‘to think’ may possibly have been seen, as in y, 8.
Parsi-persian Ms, Kudam Tf, Hormuzd, an ¢ veh khwahishn 7 khudai, [kt, khudai
7 veh 7 Tit ash afzti (? lege -tin) az chih? [Ma-ré bih — = am bana jamntin*]] * (b) Ku- dam in ¢ Ti bandagi kih az TA mayan, Hormuzd, [ka, shigirdan 7 man ashin muzd padash rasad]? s (c) Kudam Tt Th(S)awab* + buland [= Ashavahisht] zahir sakhawat khwahishn, [ki, sakhawat(i) {] ¢ Ta [4n= zak] zahir kadar (sic)], (d) kih pah Bahman kunishn dashtari, [ki, pah nék[-i = -7] dashtari 4n khwésh shayad kardan] ? »
Freetr. When shall I know if aught for me Ye govern,
O Lord, through Holiness o’er griefs* and fears
Aright for joy to me show* Good Mind’s favour;
Let Thy true** prophet find how grace is his!
Verbatim trl., etc. Quando (vel ‘Nonne’) scivi [scio, vel ‘sciam’”] si cujus-
quam* (i. e. aliquid] regatis? (b) O Mazda, Sanctitate cujus, [id a si in eam
298 XLVIII. 9, 10.
dominamini quae sit] mea oppressio*! [et mea] dubitatio, [i e. si dominamini in meum dubium ut oppressionem illam tollas et hoc dubium resolvas]* ? (c) Recte mei [vel mihi, i.e. (pro me)] (Jegitimum-)gaudium*? Bonae eratiam- suavem-et-mirabilem Mentis (d) inveniat [(vel illud gaudium plene intelligat*)} Propheta [nobis profuturus (sic ad verbum)] ut (vel ‘{etiam inventurus] quo modo’) sibi-ipsi beatitudo [propria, i. e. praemium-gratiae proprium] sit. ** Vel e contrario ‘si in ea* regnetis quae est mea res-certe-cognita*, et si etiam valeatis in meum dubium’. **veletiam ‘utinam mea recte fruar(prim. sg. conj.) -- gratia’; vel(semel iterum) ‘recte mihi dicat (fichim = °tam III sg. perf. imper. vach.) vel mihi dicatur (med. loco pass.)’.
Pahl. trl., etc. When shall I become acquainted with that dispensation during which sovereignty, [i.e. happiness (?) (or ‘welfare’)] shall be fully established (or ‘ bestowed’) by (or ‘upon’™*) [You] in every particular, [that is, when is that time coming], (b) O Atharmazd and Ashavahisht, when, in that time that*t which*t was my disciple’s perplexity™ shall become manifest, that*t which*t was in doubt? (c) Righteous to me in my just living is that which is the destruction effected by Vohtiman, [that is, since (or ‘if’) I live in piety, it becomes possible to me to destroy the stench (or (read gimAanik, ‘m’ restored) ‘the doubt’) of the wicked]. (d) Let the beneficial man (the bene- factor), wnderstand how reverence toward*2 them*2 [the Yazads] is increased.
*1 Or ‘he who is my disciple’. *2so with the gl.; otherwise ‘that which is their reverential recognition (reverence) toward them)’.
pore ba) yeh )(u)}ug , 1095 596 949) 105 Text:
SOA PE AV IIOP clogs Tfaye ee
Jero224g9)» bysey)ang rau sow) Qy gus SY MLS
eR) 2 Es 0) Faeody—syr goad AU A pay
Verbatim trl., ete. Quando [vel‘Nonne’] O Mazda, intelligentiae, {id est, intelligentia spiritali et (in defensionem Causae sacrae nostrae) scientia rei*
ee
Xlviii. 9, 10. 999
Ner.’s sansk. text. Kada asyah siddheh avabodhaii (verb.* f.* not meant) [-budhyamano(?)] bhavami, yat sarveshar kimchit [abhilashah (prob. a second trl. of chahya, thinking of chan!)], rajyarh [sundaratararn (°tara points to bara (?))} yat dcharah (= dad, K.5, as = ‘law’), [kila, aya kalah kadd prapyate |? (b) Svamin parisphutam asmin samaye kad& me gishyah* prakat& bhavish- yanti? [Asya samayasya me saridehah]. (c) Saralataya me yat [asmin samaye] satyena jivitazh bhavet, yat tat Uttamamanasah* vindganarh bhavati. [Yat suvyaparena jivitaih bhayet, sarve (am mistaken for ham*) nikrishtatara* balishtha bhavanti vindgayitur]. (d) Avabodho* (sic ?) -bhavami (reading Pahl. *ani) labhavataih manushyanam, yatha ete [svaminah] ye bhakticiléh santi. (Variations not important),
Ner. trl., etc. When shall I become aware*t (or ‘conscious*’) of this success, when the desire of all things, (sic, not ‘the desire of all ’, see the Pahl.) the [better] kingdom which the precept teaches, shall have been somewha realized, [that is, when does* this time approach*]? (b) When shall my disciples be revealed (that is, ‘appear ’) in a marked* manner* (like Asha, see the Pahl.) in this time, O Lord, [as to this time is my doubt]. (c) It is through my honour (or ‘justice’) when life may be passed [during this time] in rectitude, when that destruction takes place which is of (‘or through’) the Good Mind. [That is, when life is passed in good works all the most power- ful*? baser*? ones are to be*? destroyed*?], (d) for I am cognizant*! of the beneficial men, and I understand how these [lords**] who are religious, proceed.
*! Not ‘the awaking, or intelligence of’. *2 hardly ‘the baser are most powerful to destroy’ (?). *3 or ‘pious ones of the Lord’.
Free tr. When, Lord, shall come the men of mind’s perfection ?
When drive* they* hence* this soil* of drunkard’s rage,
Through whose foul zeal the murd’rous* Karps would plunder,
And by whose plottings tyrants reign. militaris(?)*) praediti-] viri veniunt? (b) Quando [vel‘Nonne umquam’] expellent maculationem [vel emittent* urinam* (sic ad verbum)] ejus ebrietatis [sceles- torum infidelium a potu somae suae (sibi falso sacrae) ebriatorum] (c) qua per- versa-strenuitate, [i. e, malitia] Karpani [hostes nostri veterrimi potu somae
300 XLVI 10, 11.
suae exsecrabilis accensi] praedentur*, (d) quaque [mala] intelligentia [dominen- tur] tyranni-malum-regimen-exercentes provinciarum? [a Daemone Mendacii - inspirati (?)].
khadai [homand] pavan Mata, ‘See P. *?DJ., D. om. i, * DJ. ayo li; D. valman 1 li; Sp., M. valman alone. *DJ., D. ins. i ° D. aimat. °DJ., D. ins. zak. 7D. om. i. @D. amat. ° D. °gannak or °rak. 1°DJ. homanand. ** DJ. maman for ich. * DJ., D. ins. t. 2% D, om. ** DJ., D.; Me °yén. *° DJ., D. ins. va.
Pahl. trl., etc. When shad/ that dispensation arrive, O Atharmazd, when there shall be a favourable approach toward me“ as a man*! (or ‘when there shall be acceptation for my man*’) among men*!, [that is, when is that time coming when the progress of my disciples shall have become complete]? (b) When is that dispensation coming in which those* persons shall have set in motion (expelled) that pollution (excrement) in that magianship which exists in (or ‘through’) that unalloyed* wickedness]? (c) They who are the evil, [that is, they who are smiters] and Karps, [that is, swch as are deaf and blind even in the things of God], these cause the moving on (or ‘expulsion’) of our protecting guardian, [that is, they will not /onger effect the protection of the creatures], (d) who [are] also in their mind bad rulers (tyrants*) within the province. *1 Reading ‘ma* (?) nareshu nar® (?)’,
Ner.’s sansk. text. Kad& ayath kAlah, Svamin, esharn manushyanam
+4(92400896(s9) a 6 AW oA 9 saghng rel 11. Text.
wxiqooas)ss )eoadan lp “st 028090? 41) Garpseady? 1 PUGIE y
HYCO Gas) cayoas) a ey soyegerees bg
* So J.* SoASIPDIP +-DQy3H1IG BG ry ayers au ‘UH
Verbatim trl., etc. Quando [vel ‘Nonne’], O Mazda, Sanctitate-cum Pietas (prompta mens sub specie personae animo concepta) (b) veniat[-iet per] Regno [-num spiritale Tuum] rem-domesticam-prosperam-habens [ad eam nobis affe-
rendam et- etiam] pascuis-praedita? [i. e. rem domesticam nostram. et rem
pecuariam prosperans?] (c) Qui [in*t casu*.] scelestis [-torum infidelium] crude--
libus [-ium nos -aggressorum et impugnantium] quietem-[salutis nobis] dent —
[dabunt]? (d) [Ad] quos (ad) Bonae veniat [-iet] Mentis sapientia, [i. e. in- genium acre ad tutamenta nostra contra hos hostes plene perficienda]?
TROY pt ae oe ae Tr 9 yo eb 2
Xlviii. 10, 11. ; 301
madhye manayah! pratikaranata*(?) bhavanti, [kila, asmin kale kada prap- nuyanti yat me cishydh prachalanaih* sathptirnarh bhavanti?]? (b) Kada uttha- payanti uttamandam ? [Kadé nirmalata* nikrishtatara bhavanti]? (c) Yat anya- yinah santi [yat nihantarah santi] acrotavah santi, kimnchit hanimn kartarah fadarcakah santi] rakshakah [yat rakshakarah* srishtinaim raksham na kur- vanti], (d) yat tat buddhih* dushtaparthivanaih [aste] yat nagareshu grameshu’.
1 J.4 -A4nim, but h over the line. * J.3, * J.*4 adds vah (sic).
Ner. tri., etc. When is this time, O Lord, when men*! become an accep- tation* (i.e. are accepted* (?), or ‘happily requited™’) in the midst of these men? {That is, when are they coming in this time when my disciples are a complete advance (or ‘success’ (sic)), (Lor ‘when the progress* of my disciples (cishyandm*) becomes (bhavati) complete ?’}) (b) When do they* arouse* those who belong*(2) to the good*?? [And when do the baser ones become purity (or ‘pure’)?] (c) For since they are lawless [and murderous], and deaf to appeals, and to some extent perpetrators of a desertion (or ‘riddance’) [they are blind] guardians, [because they do not as guardians effect the protection of the creations], (d) when** this* és the perverted* sagacity of evil monarchs in the cities and villages. *1Ner. does not accept the Pahl.’s ayo li = ma. *2 was this an intentional curtailment with an omission of mtitrishn? ** not‘ opposed’. **or ‘which’.
Parsi-persian Ms. Kai an dahishn, Hormuzd, kib & 7 [man = ra] mard andar mardan pazirah, [ki, an zaman kai rasad, kih shagirdén 7 man rawa tamam bashad]?, (b) [kai an dahishn, kishin khtthan (? or ‘khwa%*’ -kunand =jésinénd) [| kharabi [= Pahl. mitrishn] dshan pah An (no text) [an = zak] 2 khalisi, [pah an ¢ khalis [ki = dgh] badtari [af- ganad = ramininéd]? * (c) Kih bad hend, [ki, zadér hend] [] Karp hend, [kt, [] chiz i ia(a)dan kar u kér hend)] randan + ya‘ni + rawa-kunand pasbani, [kt pasbani 7
_ pédaishi* (or ‘paiday®’) nah kunand], (a) [] kih ham pah khirad bad-khuda [hend] pah Deh *
Free tr. When cometh, Lord, through Holiness Devotion?
With pastures rich and pure* well-ordered homes?
Who peace from murd’rous infidel shall give us?
By whom shall Good Mind’s skill* be won?
*Vel si ‘dregvédebis khrarais’ in hoc sensu non accipiatur, tum directim loco ablativi (c): ‘Quia scelestis-infidelibus [i. e. in defensionem contra eos nobis] quietem [pacis] dent’; sed fortasse stet instr. loco dativi: ‘qui crudelibus quietem submissionis per victoriam nostram in deletionem eorum dent’.
Pahl. text translit. (a, b) ‘Aimat zak dahishné?, Attharmazd' amatt As- havahishté, levatman Btindak Minishnih! va Khshatraver, yamttnéd pavan hi-ménishnih! avé1 kar? (c) Mtin avé darvandan khrikih [résh‘], va* armésh- tiht+4 [akdrih] yehabtinéd? (d) *Avé' mdm zak i farzinaktht i” pavan® Vo- himant ydmtiinéd? +See P. ? DJ. ins. i.(?) *D. om. va. *so D. 5D, ins. va. °D. om. i. Pahl. transl. (a,b) When shall that dispensation arrive, O* Attharmazd
302 Xlviii. 11, 12
and Ashavahisht*, when he endowed* (or ‘accompanied’*) with the Perfect* Mind* and with* Khsh. shall come with home-prosperity (good-dwelling) for (or ‘into”) agriculture? (c) Who inflicts lameness, [that is, impotence (harm- lessness) on the cruelty, [i. e. the wounding] of the wicked? (d) To whom also does this wisdom which is acquired through the Good Mind come?
Ner.’s sansk. text. (a, b) Kad& iyam datih, Svamin, yat prakatam bha- vati* samaih sarptirnena*? manasa? karya3, kartd prapnoti sumanasa sukar- mana? (c) Kada durgatimatéizh amarshasya* chhedah[-aih] pangoh aksham- asya dadyat* (d) yat idath sarvarh nirvane Uttamamanasah prapnuvanti ?
* so C.; P. °vanti and °vamti. 2 so Jape abs S all “ya, or °ya, but read *ye (?, see the Pahl.). * J.® prad®.
Ao Le cola Deoguassaguyy bares “Jeera oee-ps 12, Text.
ORR EpHEY swynrs}ng uhh -ea}uod 3b yay
Aura Ae 6 +890559 6 AHI Ep NOS -aupstyar. ago} ob basa gat,
enc So UrNGEEL HOH ‘Pluesyosewy SNe 2) bee
Verbatim trl., etc. [Qui nobis pacem tali modo dabunt?] Ita illi [i. e. tales] sint {vel erunt nobis]-Profuturi* (sic ad verbum), [i. e. principes-Prophetae] provinciarum [nostrae patriae], (b) [ii], qui propitiationem*! [Tuam] Bona Mente sequantur [-entur], [id est, eam efficere nitentur] (c) actionibus [suis per] Sanctitate [-tem, i. e. per sanctam legem] Tuae, O Mazda, doctrinae [moti, vel adjuti]. (d) Illi enim dati [sunt ut] oppugnatores*? Furiae, [i. e. Daemonis incursionis inimicorum nostrorum cruentorum]. *! Vel fortasse ‘sapi- entiam-salutem-nobis-afferentem’; vide chistis in stropha undecima. ‘*2 yel lege [-stro] aéshemem ahyd: ‘oppugnatoris contra-furiam hujus’.
Pahl. trl., etc. These are therefore the benefactors (or ‘the beneficial ones’), those who are in the Province [the producers* of Completed Progress], (b) whose reverencing (or ‘enlightening = shnsinidarih’) és with (see Ner.) the Good Mind together, [that is, they are honouring (or ‘enlightening, shnas° ’) men with (or ‘through’) correct piety]. (c) In their actions [they are] just, gS ee ae