Verbatim transl. Sic quae [facta virtutis ‘et officia ritus] perfecerim* [vel perficiam], [et] quae(que) de*! iis, [i. e. quae secundum ea] facta [porro in tempore futuro perfecta sint], (b) quae(que) [res vel actiones, per] Bona [-nam] [in] oculo*{-lis] nitebat{-ebunt, id est, revera ut dignae (?) visae- sint] Mente [-tem], (c) [sicut] lumina, [i. e. stellae], sol, dierum illustrans* [-tratrix* (sic)] aurora (d) [ad] Vestro[-tram], O Sanctitas, adorationi[-nem celebrandam], O Mazda, [haec omnia inter se conjungent]! #1 Vide Pahl. ‘ante’.
Pahl. trl. Thus, what I do, and that also which was done even before those things, (or ‘by those’) (b)which through* those* (or ‘to whom’) it shines, i. e. is clear, in the eyes of Vohtiman, [that is, it was made complete by (or ‘as’) a sign by, or
Oe 103 339 [kih = min] ma-ra padishahi [kfm padishahi = dgham pdétikhshdi|] [pah kamah hast] * (d) Aédin [an « = zak 7] 4n nék-dan& pah khwéhishn giriftar hend (?)
{muzd] +
Free. tr. Thus what I do, and what for these things further, And what to eye shines bright through Vohii Manah;
Stars, sun, auroras too, the day’s enlighteners
For praise of Yours are all, O Truth, and Lord!
to, them through piety], (¢) this all is as, or by, * the light of the sun in the shining of the day, the aurora in a dawn; [this also was fully made for a sign by, or to, them] (d); and Your worship and praise, O Atharmazd! [they also were made for, or as, a sign to them]. % Or ‘in’.
Ner’s. sansk. text. Evaih tat samacharami ptirvarh yat karma (b) yat! yasya! Bahmanasya lochane nirmale; [kila, svabhavena suvyaparena datim kuru]. (c) Nirmalah siryah antah divasasya chaitanyam ayaih samarachanam* karoti; [kila sarveshaih manushyanaih [-ndih] gighrarn datizn kurute]. (d) Tava bhaktigilé mannshyah prandmai kurvanti, Mahajianin! Svamin! [Tesham cighram datita kuru]. + So P., C. reverses.
Ner. transl. Thus am I doing the first thing that was an action done by me (sic) (b), and one which was done in the clear sight of him who ¢s * Bah- mana. [Do Thou therefore 7m return effect a gift for me through this my pious nature]. (c) This spotless Sun produces intelligence and embellishment, or or- der, within the day, [that is, it effects a gift for all men, and without delay]. (d) Thus as Thy pious men render worship, [do Thou], O Great Wise One! lafford them a gift at once (lit. quickly)]. %* Lit. I which of whom B’
Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Aédfn 4n 7 varzam, kih [] [péshanigan = péshan| éshan kard (b), kih -shan pah[{] Bahman chashm []; [] [kishin = dghshdn] ¢ pah néki, pah khaslat bih kard (c) pah roshant ¢[] khfrshéd, andar riz hfshhi(?) + wa + ya‘ni + hiishigan (?) (vel hfishhan (?)), An ¢ [khrés = khrishéd (sic)] andar bam + ya‘ni -+ bam- dad []; (hanah (sic) pah khaslat bih kard + ya‘ni(?) + hastam] % (d) An 7 Shuma bandagi [] niyayishn, Ormuzd! [ashan pah khaslat bih kard] %
Free. tr. Your praiser named am I, and truly.
While I ,O Righteousness, may have the power.
Who gives us life through Good Mind send us succour ! Make every deed through grace progressive still.
Verbatim. transl. Sic Vester laudator [laudes Vestras celebrans] dicar O Magni-donator!, simque (b) [et] quantum, O Sanctitas! possim (que), mihi- facultasque-sit. (c) Creator vitae adjuvet [per] Bond [-nam] Mente [-tem]
340 Li. -1.
Trlit. Ad Vé staota aojai, Mazd4! Aonhacha Yavad, Asha! tavacha isdicha. Data anheus aredad Vohi Mananha os Haithya varstim * hyad vasna frashétemem. (d) [quod per] vere-existente [-tem gratiam] [in] factorum **(?) [-tis] (quod per] gratia |-tiam ejus) [sit, id] maxime-progrediens [reddat. Sic valde Ile me adjuvet|! 2 Vel facito (2).
Pahl. transl. Your praise is strength to me; [that is, through prais- ing You I have strength] (b), and as much, O Aharayih! as lies in my capacity, so much am I a suppliant; [that 7s, I would seize upon that]. (c) Give me therefore in the worlds that perfect giving which is through Vohiiman (d), as is the evident [wish] of the workers whose desire is most progressive. [That is, their desire is beyond that which has as yet been accomplished *1, and to them therefore He (Atharmazd) #2 grants the recompense and the reward, and to me also who am Zarttisht. He * gives it to me also, who am likewise zealous (lit. quick) * 3],
**? Hardly ‘more than accomplished’. %2 Poss, ‘Do Ye give it’; but see the Zend, also Ner. after the Copenhagen Ms. *%? not ‘the priest’.
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Trlit. Nem6 vé, Gathao ashoniS!
Vohti khshathrem vairim bagem aibi-bairigtem
Vidushemnai§ izhAchid . Asha aiitare-charaiti
Skyaoth(a)nais, Mazda! vahistem, tad ne nichid vareshiné,
Le 341
Ner.’s sansk. text. Evari Yushmakari staumi yad_balar astet, [kila, balamh tat stutith Te prachurari* dharayami]. (b) Yavan matrarh punyat tavan matram ¢aktita punyasya abhilashath karomi? [yat® grihndmi]. (c) Dadami (sic, reading °nam*(?)) antah** utkrishtabhuvane* saiparnadatith yat Uttamena® Manasa®, (d) Yatha prakatakarminaié yo *bhilashah prakrishtatarah? [yo ab- hilashah apépanaih prabhtitah, Svamin’, prasadam prasddaptritam dehi? pravahena. Jarathustro bhavami*. Bhavet*®. Yarn1® pravahe!® cighrati!° dehit; Jarathustro bhavami*]. ‘3.4, J.*%. ?J.4, J.* bhavami. *J.4, J.* om. here, not in a ([cor.Comm.) *J.? antah after bhuvane. * J. °masya. °J.4, J.* ins. yat. 73.3. ®so the most; Patan? Sond, but On Jes Jie dadyat. 1 C., J.4, J." add.; see the comm. 1! supplied.
Ner. tri.** --- (c) 1 am bestowing (sic, or read ‘dehi me — give me’)
"the full gift which 7s through the Best Mind in the excellent (or ‘perfected’) world. (d) As that which 7s the desire of the open workers is the better (or ‘more pronounced’) [which is the earnest* desire of the sinless, give me, O Lord, the reward - - (for read dadyat - - svaminah ‘therefore let one (let them)
bestow the reward of the Lord’]) the complete reward and continuously* (?,
or ‘at once’ (‘with rapidity*’)). Iam Jarathustra: ‘Let it be so. Which reward do Thou, (or ‘let him (them)’ = dadyat) give quickly (or ‘that reward which és quick*’ (sic). Iam J.]. (trl. curtailed to save space.)
Parsi-persian Ms. trit. An ma-ra Shuma stayishn buland hast (ki, [] buland pah stayishn ¢ Shuma daram] » (b) [] Chand Sawab chand pah tuwan khwastar hastam; [6 kunam] x (c) {] [Deham (?) =— (dih* am (?))] andar jihan pur [] [minishn = —] 7 pah Bahman s. (d) chtin zahir (?) khwahishn, kih kAmah fraztar, [kishan 14’tk bisyar, kt, kard shan (sic) muzd u badlah “dehad 4n man [] kih Zaratusht hastam; dehad an man [ ] kih z6ti (sic) hastam]
LI. The Anthem ‘Good Kingdom’.
Free tr. Righteous rule’s* to be chosen, lot of all most rewarding; Wiser* (?) deeds, holy, zealous, ’tis by these it is entered; Then that rule let me further best for us evry hour!
Verbat. trl. (Laus vobis, Gathae sacrae !) Bonum Regimen eligendum, |i. e. diligendum, excellens] sortem [nos] maxime-sustinentem [i. e. prosperantem (b) actionibus] sapientibus*! (part. perf. mid.* (?)) strenuo-studio-etiam [et] Sanctitate (instr. pro nom., i.e. sic vir sanctus id Regimen) init (c) {talibus | (actionibus), O Mazda; optimum | Regimen hoc] pro nobis nunc-etiam [vel nunc- omnino (quotidie)] efficiam, [i.e.* meis annisibus* constituere conabor].
‘ *1 Vel lege vidish® (vi + dha (aor)) ‘actionibus vere et penitus [id] constituentibus’ ;
_ vel fortasse (vi + dtish) actionibus nos affligentibus . . intercedit; i. e. iis se opponit [vir sanctus] (sed tum in hoe eventu esset bagem neutrum (?) nom.).
, Pahl. text translit. Niyayishnd avd Lekiim, Gasand i ahartbo! (a) Avém!
349 7 Die
Pahl. tri. Praise to you, 0 sacred Gathas! (a) To me that desire for a good king zs a lot which is a bringing-on, (or, ‘which shall be brought to pass’), [that is, I grant his portion to that person who desires a king who is good]. (b) By a thorough (bard = vi) bestowal they will (or ‘do thou’) work increase and righteousness inwardly (or ‘in the midst of ws’). [That is, that man will bestow (or ‘bestow ye upon that man’) the gift righteously who desires a king who is good]; (c) and that is the best deed, O Atharmazd, for us to do even now [since the Religion has become progressive]
Ner.’s sansk. text. Namo yushmabhyam, he Gathah pupyatmanyah! Utta- masvamikaminita! vibhtitin upari varshami, [kila, vibhtitizn tasmai dadami yo rajiiah cubhath vafichhayet] (b) vat datimn vriddhim satyena antarale ka- romi, [kila, dativn; satyataya diyate, yat manushyah svaminah cubham abh-
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Verbatim trl. Eas [res, vel fortasse eas res duas* (? Regimen sacrum (2?) et sortem beatam (?))} Vestras, O Mazda, primum, Ahura, [mihi des], et quae (que)*?-duae-res (b) Tibique [sint propriae ut dona nobis tribuenda|, O Pietas (Prompta Mens), des** (ad)* mihi rerum-optatarum-possessionis* Re- gimen (c) Vestrum Bona Mente adorationi, {i.e. ad adorationem Tuam plene perficiendam] da-Tu [mihi] res-utiles, [i. e. auxilia efficacia et gratiam ad omne officium sacrum perficiendum.| *! Vel ‘ta=eo (?)’. ** vel fortasse legendum est yéchaé = exorem [-rabo] (?) eas res. ** vel lege ddisha, 224 so. imper. aor. dis =monstra.
lpm, ae! Sa eR et ee
Li. 1, 2. 343
ipsayet]. (c) Karmana, Svamin! atah pararh bhuvanarh nitdntaria asmakath prabodhar kuru; [tat aste Dinish pravartamanaih karomi]. 1 P.
Ner. transl. Praise to you, O sacred Gathas! (a) I bestow those riches which appertain to one who desires the best, or a good, king; [that is, I bestow riches upon him who desires the welfare of the king] (b) when I effect the gift which brings prosperity within* through right- eousness; [that is, I effect this gift, and it is given with, or for, his truthfulness, and because * a man desires * the welfare of the lord]. (c) Through our action, or activity, O Lord! do Thou make the world which is beyond, or the heavenly world, to a great degree*+ our vigilance *, or the actual * object of our attention; [therefore it is that I render Thy Din (which secures that other world for us) progressive]. %* possibly a gloss. ‘the world [far] beyond’,
Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Niyayishn an shumé, Gasin ¢ ash6! An ma-ra [= anam] i 7 veh [{khudé = khuddé (?)] kamah, baharah awar [] [baharah = bahar] burishn + burdan; {ka, baharah [] & kas deham[], kih khuda 7 nék bayad] % (b) Pah [] bih dahishn + didan afzini rast{i =~?) andar kunand [kf, dahishn rastiha (sic vid) = rdstshdn(?)| bih [guyad = jamninéd}; dehad an mard kih khudai ¢ nék[t=-é} ldyik] * (c) Kunishn, Ormuzd! ¢ buland 4n ma akninm ham, [kih Din rawa bih bid] varzishn sx
Free. tr. These Your favours first ask I Thou, Ahura! and Asha! Grant too thine, Aramaiti! as Your Rule o’er my welfare. And with Good Mind vouchsafe us gifts for praises most helpful!
Pahl. transl. That which is the first thing to You, O Atharmazd! the Gathic duty, that also do J perform through righteousness (b), and through*! thee also, O Spendarmad! [that is, I shall do ¢t/or You*? through piety, ?.¢.a*3 perfect mind]; let them therefore give me wealth through the sovereignty ; [for it is quite necessary thus to grant it fo me]. (c) Bestow Your Vo- himan’s praise and also profit; [that 7s, make Thou a mediation, or legal pleading (?), and effect the benefit].
“+ Or ‘for’ (2), %? or ‘thee’. %% or ‘0’.
Ner. transl. Produce for me, O Lord! that which is the righteousness. of Thy first creation, (b) for|I am performing] Thy [good work on the earth with a perfect spirit]; grant me therefore the kingdom which is desired by me. (c) And grant me the acquisition of Bahmana, [the best mind; that is, effect the propitiation. Let Thy worshipper seize upon the useful ac- quisition |!
344 LI. 3, 4.
Parsi-persian Ms. trit, An 7 shuma, Ormuzd! awwal Gasdni pah Sawab, an ham (b) pah ham [ ] [an = zak]; Spendarmad! — néki, bundah minishni [] [ki dgh] kunam 3] dehad an [] khezinah pah klmdai bih layik [] [dehad =-ndd] (?) % (c) Pah= Pawan!)
say rasp dbarsogae-cl.2 bp | Hoegessrcger-auior¢e-¢b.as 3. . Text.
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Trlit. A Vé géushi? héemyaité yoi Ve Skyaothanaig sirenté
Ahura! * Asha! hizva ukhdhai$ Vanhéus Mananhd,
Yaéshiam ti paouruy6, Mazda! fradakhsta ahi!
Verbatim. transl. Ad Vestrum [Vos] audiendo * {auscultandos] con- veniunt {ii] qui [per] Vestris[-tra] factis [-ta] protezuntur * * (b), O Domine (vive)! O Sanctitas! [per] lingua [-am] [et] dictis [-ta] Bonae Mentis, (c) quorum Tu prior, O Magni-donator! significator* [-cans doctor] es! #1 Vel ‘regnant’,