Verbatim. transl. Da mihi [O Tu] qui Bovem formabas [creavistil, aquasque, arbores-herbasque (b), Immortalitates -duas Salubritates-[has]- duas, O beneficentissime Spiritus, Magni-donator! (c) vires-duas continuas* -duas [et per] Mente [-em] Bona [{-am] in-sacra-[Tué] - doctrina [has
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duas da]! # Vel aeternas.
* DJ. and P. ins. 2? DJ. and P. and P. ins. Lak. ? P.. ins. va. DJ. om. ich. * P. ins. ich, * DJ. om. © DJ. om. i. DJ. and P. ins. ich. 7 DJ. diff. letters. ® P. om. ° P. ins. va. *° Sp. and P., ‘ch. ™ DJ. kardé; Sp. and P. as above.
Pahl. transl. Give me [the recompense, and the reward], Thou who |art] the Herd’s maker! [and who art also the creator] of the water and the plants! (b) Amerddad’s and Haurvadad’s maker also [Thou art], O bountiful Spirit, Atharmazd! (c) Of powerful labour [Thou art also the originator ],
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Trlit. Ad zi Tdi vakhshya, Mazda! vidushé zi n& mruyad!
Yyad akoya dregvaité; usta ye Ashem dadré. Hyd zi Mathra skyaté ye vidushé mravaiti.
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& padafrah [] [kunand = -] (c); kih 4n& [] [ra = rd] bih [nah = 14] [khwihad = ddbi- mishn] t&é an an ¢ ahir jihaén [] gardishn; [kfish ta tan 7 pasin padafrah buna‘ (sic vid, vel bunda‘) bih [] kunand: [gardishn (?) = vardishn]]
Free. tr. Give me Thou who art maker of kine, plants, and waters Immortality , Mazda! give too Health, Spirit bounteous! Give me both lasting powers through the Good Mind in doctrine!
whose teaching is through Vohtiman; [that is, when anything has been taught in piety, it is also necessary to make it one’s own, or to fulfil it of, or for, one’s self (that is, with energetic labour, and of one’s own good mind).|
Ner’s. sansk. text. Dehi mahyarh [prasddarh prasadaptritam] yat gavam ghatayita ’si, aparicha vanaspatinaii! [ghatayita ’si], (b) Amirddda-[vanaspati- pateh * 2] Amirdada-[aparn *2 pateh anayogcha ghatayita ’si], adricyamarte}, Mahajnanin! (c) Adhyavasayagcha [-asya] [ghatayita ’si] caktimatah1; [ghata- yita ’si 3] Manasa ’pi Uttamena cikhshamh; [kila yat tat sadvydparinyd 4 gikshaya aste yat svidhinarh gakyate kartui]. 1 C. %*? So meaning, *P. #J.%
Ner. transl. Give me [the reward that is full of grace] for Thou art the maker of cattle, [and Thou art also the maker] of.the waters and trees. (b) [Give me the reward of Amirdada [the tree, or the Lord of the tree, | and of Amirdada [lord of waters, for Thou art the maker of these both], O Spirit! the Great Wise One, the Lord! (c) [Thou art also the institutor (?)| of capable and studious zeal. [Thow didst create likewise] the doctrine by means of the Good Mind, [that is, when that which it is possible *1 to make one’s own, or do of one’s self,*? is produced through commendably zealous study].
** > Meaning ‘necessary’. *2 not ‘to make one’s own’.
Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Dehi an man [muzd [wa = va] badlah + dahishn], kih gosfend péda-kunandah [Ta [hasti] [wa = —] &4w wa urwar [ham = ich] [tashidar hasti] 4 (b) Amerdid wa Khérdad [ham = ich] [péda-kunandah hasti], * afatni Mini 7 Ormuzd! (ce) [] kushishn [wa = va] tuwanihé ham [= aj (? ach)] [péda-kunandah hasti], kih pah Bahman 4mikhtan; (ki, kih pah néki Aamikht éstéd, an khwésh shayad kardan] +
Free. tr. For Thee, Lord! will I speak, to the wise let men tell it:
For the wicked are sorrows; but for Truth’s friend is glory. In Thy Word he rejoiceth, he who speaks to the wiser.
Verbatim. transl. Ergo [eam doctrinam] enim [pro] Tibi [Te] loquar, O Magni-donator! [Viro] scienti enim vir [id] dicat (b) quod [quae] res-noxiae * [sint] scelesto, [sed quod] salus [sit ei] qui Sanctitatem sustinuit (c), ille (ipse) enim [per] Sacrum-rationis-verbo [-um] gaudio-affectus-est *? qui [id viro-] scienti dicit. #1 Potest verti ‘cum-noxi@’ (?). %? delectans fuit.
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Pahl. text. translit. Maman aétinéd hana i Lak gobishnd, Atharmazd! [Diné i Lak] amatash zak it akas gabra yemaleltned? [i* danak+] (b) Zadar ¢ darvandan 5, va pavan nadikih® Aharayih darishn, [yehevinéd, pavan avi- bimih] (c), maman zak? Mansar® asanih, amatash zak akas yemaleltnéd [danak*]. +P. ins. danak. * P. ins. min. * DJ. ins. * P. -kih. * DJ. darvand. 6 DJ. and P. om. va. * DJ. om. i. ® P. ims. riban min.
Pahl.transl. For thus¢s this Thy word, O Atharmazd! [Thy Religion], when the intelligent [and learned] man speaks it, or by it. (b) And thus [he becomes] a smiter of the wicked and a maintainer * (or a possessing (sic) ) of righteous- ness undisturbed in**+ his happiness [through his fearlessness] (c) ; for that Man- thra és **? a gratification, when he who is versed in it speaks z¢ | with learning].
#1 Hardly ‘through goodness’. *** not necessarily genitive here.
Ner’s. sansk. text. Yat evar Tava! vachanani, Mahajnanin! [Dinih Te,| yasya suprabuddheh manushyasya vaktavyam [jfaninah] (b); yo nihanta
Trlit. Yam khshnitem randibyé dao Thwa athra sukhra, Mazda!
Ayanha khshusta aibi ahvaht dakhstem davoi
Rashayanhé dregvaiitem savayO ashayanem.
Verbatim. transl. Quam [quod] acumen*[mentis] certantibus * -duobus (?) dedisti Tuo Igne splendido [et nitenti],O Magni-donator! (b) [per] ferro [-rum] fuso [-sum] in mundis [ad] telum, [vel signum] dationi [dandum]; (c) [ad *] vul- nerare |-randum]scelestum [viro sancto] benefacias (sanctum). %* satisfactionem (?).
Pahl. text. translit. Man shnakhtartht ay’ patkardaran’ yehabinéd; —
[aigh, bikht i airid? * pédik vadfinyén yehabtnéd] hana i Lak Atdsh 79 stkhar, Atharmazd! (b) asind #3 vadikht# madam® kola II (d6) ahvané, yez- bekhtinishnd yehabinéd; [zak i pasdkhté® pavan tanti i pasind]. (c) Résh- inéd darvandan, stidinéd ahariband.
* DJ. and P. -rih. * DJ. airikht (W). ? DJ. ins. 7, * DJ. and P. vadakht. |
° P. ins. payan. ® so P.DJ. diff. pavan saikht (2)
Pahl. transl. He who gives intelligence to the combatants [they, that is, — such persons shall make the secure and the undefiled (2 or the defiled) evi-
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durgatimatam , yat gubharh punyar dharayet, [bhavet; yat nirbhayena| (c); yat ayath+ Manthri-avistavanith samadhanayet? suprabuddheh manush- yasya, vadet, jidninah3! + 0, 2 both diff. slightly. * so J.+
Ner. transl. For so are Thy words, O Great Wise One! [Thy Din], to which the discourse of the man of superior knowledge [of the wise man] appertains (b); who [may be] a/so a smiter of the evil since he maintains, or possesses, that happiness which 7s righteousness [which is, that he may smite them through a fearless one *| (c); and because this one benefits, or meditates piously * (?) upon, the Manthra-avista-word, that of the wise man of superior knowledge, therefore, let him speak! * Meaning ‘propitiates’ (2).
Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Chih aédtin in ¢ Ti gébishn, Ormuzd! [Din 7 Tt), kiyash an ¢ [dana = dandak] agaih mard guyad, [ [az = min] danai] * (b) Zadar 7 darwandan [ ] pah néki, [] Sawab darishn béd, [pah bi-tars] (c); maman (sic) 4n Ménsar, [rtiban (sic) az = rubdn minj, asani, kiyash 4n 7 Agah guyad [dana[i = 7] *
Free. tr. To both strivers* what keenness hath Thy glowing flame given, For both lives skill bestowing with the forged blade of iron; For the wound of the wicked, may’st Thou prosper the righteous.
dent to them] [gives] this which is Thy clear Fire, O Atharmazd! (b) and he gives the melted, or cast, iron as an offering for both lives; [arranged for the later body]. (c) And with this he wounds the wicked, and therefore benefits the just. ‘
Ner’s. sansk. text. Yat prabodham sathvadakaranarh dadyét ayam Te vahnih jyotishmain! dadyat, Mahajianin! (b) anupakarinarh nigchayena upari ubhayor bhuvanayoh Aradhanazn [-narh| dehi [yat tat gddharh tanoh akshayata] (c) chhedayet durgatimataim labharn, kury4t punydtmandm! + both diff.
Ner. transl. Let this Thy fire-bearer, the resplendent one, O Great Wise One! grant that which 7s the needed intelligence [-ah] to * those who are holding the colloquy (or controversy) (b); and in consideration, or by means of the decree of (i. e. upon) the delinquents concerning both worlds do Thou grant ws reverence; that is, sincere and deep piety, [because the indestructibility of the body is justly severe, or difficult] (c); let it, or one, there- fore impair the acquisitions of the evil men, and further those of the good.
Parsi-persian Ms, trit, Kih shnakhtar[i = -¢] + shnaktan an dalil-kunandahgan de- had; [kf&, khalisi na-khalist zihir kunand] dehad in i Ta Atash ¢ rfishan, Ormuzd! % (b) Ahan ¢ [] [gudakht = vadékht] awar [pah = pavan] har da jihan, yashtan dehad; [an ¢ [] [pasakht = pasdkht] pah tan 7% pasin] #* (c) Zakhmi-kunad darwandin, wa shiid (sic, sfid) ashawan +
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Trlit. Ad yé ma na marekhshaité anyatha ahmad, Mazda!
Hy6é damdéis Drijé hunus ta duzhdao yoi henti;
Maibyé zbaya Ashem vanhuya ashi gad Té!
Verbatim. transl. Sic qui me vir interficere-studet aliter hoc |i. e. aliter atque secundum hanc regulam facere debet; i. e. impie], O Magni- donator! (b) ille-ipse mundi Mendacii filius * [est,] eo [igitur unus illorum] male-volentes qui sunt (c), [sed] mihi invoco Sanctitatem [pro] bono beneficio valde (veniat (?)) Tui [Tua[-am]|! * Fortasse nomen proprium.
Pahl. text. translit. Aéttind zak gabra min li marenchinéd zakai+ khadtinak? min zak i Atharmazd; [ham bara vadinyén. Stih hémanam, afam minavad bara vadtinyén] (b); zak i dim Driji Hundshak6? zak i+ dish-dinak min hémand®; [aigh, pavan anakih pavan damand i Atharmazd kardané havand® avd7 Hunéshak*® i? Ganrdk® Minavad® hémand]. (c) Li karittimam Aharayih [i] shapir aigh: Ashavahishto! yamttin® lak!
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Pahl. transl. Therefore the man who slays me does this same thing in another way from that way in which Attharmazd proceeds; [that 7s, they will do the same thing; I am of earth, they will even make me a spirit, © that is, of heaven]. (b)He* who is the Hundéshak of the Drij’s creation,
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Trlit. Ke urvathé Spitamai Zarathustrai na, Mazda ? Ke va Asha Afrasta? Ka sperita Ar(a)maitis? Ke va Vanheus Mananhd achisté Magai eréshvo? a Verbatim. transl. Quis [est] amicus Spitamae Zarathustrae, [amicus] vir, O Magni-donator? (b) Quis vel [cum] Sanctitate collocutus est *+_ [i. e. eam consuluit]? [Cum] quo [eollocuta est] benigna Pietas
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Free. tr. Who against that pure Manthra, Lord! to slay me hath striven
Of the Falsehood’s home is he, of the wicked ill-minded.
But for me, I call Asha, yea for blessings Thine Asha!
they who are the evil-minded do thus; [that is, in acting toward* the creation of Atharmazd with vileness they are like that Hunédshak who is Ganrak Mina- vad] (c), but as for me I will invoke Ahardyih the good, and thus: Ashava- hisht! do thou come to me!
Ner’s. sansk. text. vari ete me manushyd! mriyante evaii; pra- karan kuru. [Ye prithivydh? santi, teshaih sarveshaih paralokarh kuru. (b) Asyah srishteh Dréjah Hunogah asau dushtajiiani? yo Aste | prati- pakshami® syishtindti Svaminah karoti. Tulyaté Hunastah (sic) Aharmanasya® vidyate]. (c) Madiyarh Akaraydmi punyath uttamam parisphutari: Prapnomi te. 1 so J‘. 2 C. * both diff. slightly. * so P. corr. so J% seems.
Ner. transl. Thus these my men are dying; do Thou even after this manner. {Produce Thou the other life, or world, for all those who are of the earth]. (b) The Druja of the creation, Hunoca, he (sic*) is the one who és malignantly sagacious; [that is, he is producing one who is an oppo- ser (?) of the creatures of the Lord. And this Hunasta (sic) is * the mate (the equality) of Aharmana]. (c) For this reason amI invoking my sanctity, the highest, openly (or the manifest one) thus: I am coming, O Sanctity! to thee! % See yo.
Parsi-persian Ms, trit. Aédfin 4n mard, kih man kharab-kunad [] [digar = zaka
(sic)] &yin az an 7 Ormuzd ; [{] [am = am] bih kunand « Géti hastam, ma-ra minti bih kunand] + (b) An i dam Druj Htinishak, an 7 bad-dana kih [] [hast = —]; [ky pah ranj pah pédaish ¢ Ormuzd kardan, [khwahad = madammiunéd] barabar [an = —] ¢@
Hinfishaknam (sic) Gana Minti hend (?)] * (c) Man khwinam Sawab ¢ veh ki: Ardi- bahisht [] [rasam = (y)démtinam, vel ydtinam| ti! x
Free. tr. Who is friend for the Spitama, for Zartushtar, O Mazda? Who is, Asha! Thy questioner? whose art Thou, kind Devotion? Or yet who for the Good Mind’s great cause careth righteous?
(prompta mens)? (c) Quis vel Bonae Mentis curavit *? magnitudini [-nem *| nobilis [vel integer]? %*+ vel consultor. *2 vel designatus est; vel etiam curator.
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