pavan?®? ayéjaké1° shapirih!? rast61°+4]? + DJ. om. ? P. ins. kadar. * P. ins. va. 4 DJ. omn. *P. ins. min. ° P. trl -ih, 7’ P. frarfin. *° P. ims. aigh. ° DJ. and P. om. P. aigh. 1° P. om. ™ P. adds hast.
Pahl. transl. Which one is he, O Atharmazd! who is friendly toward that man Zarttisht, the Spitimdn? (b) Who is it that held converse with You *, O Aharayih? Who with Spendarmad? [That is, who held converse with truth, and with perfect thought]? (c) Who zs wise through that which is Your Good-mind; [that is, who understands the conclusion of the matter through fis piety], and 7s upright in the Magianship ; [that is, zs upright in the pure goodness]? % Or your A.!
Ner’s. sansk. text. Ko mitrah Spitama-jarathustrasya naranam* madhye, Svamin? (b) Kas Te punyara sarvarn aprichchhat'; [kila, yat satyataya] sampirnamanasa2 [sarvara aprichchhat‘']. (c) Ko Yushmakath uttama-
bees beoee-bpurreg | Lasgyoab sy ranpundy-cv seeps} 12. Text.
ess.eabs)a).ofe.pasy | GEoauorgn.G¢)ouyreean)n6
guSarb-aieuoaksaupaye)esbs | spasen)ap.co.seer-parrey
Trlit. Noid ti im khshnaéus vaépy6 Kevin6d peretd zemd
Zarathustrem Spitamem hyad ahmi urtiraost astd,
Hyad hoi im charatascha aodereschaé zoishenti vaza.
Verbatim. tr. Non eo hunc sibi-concilians [-avit] paedicator Kevinus in- ponte terrae (b) Zarathustram Spitamam quum in-hoc [ponte (?)]*1+ adole- vit [i. e. adultum fuit] corpus [ejus] (c) quum ad illum id fid est, de eo corpore| illi duo, [paedicator, et Kevinus] accurrunt, [et] uteri(que) *(?)? [amoris venerei] immundo robore.®
*? Fieri potest ‘in-hoc = hujus’. %*? vel manaveruntque. 3 Vide annotationes.
TAT uns, ke, (?) FD Ieeanes amis: DI om. ‘ P, shnasandah. * P. ins, * DJ. and P. Zend characters. 7 DJ. dimistén. * See P. ® DJ. poss. aish. P. ash. 2° DJ. and P. ins. “ P. ins. dayen, 1 P. ins. min, 1 P. vindinéd.
Li. 11, 12. 357
mana, nirvane, (nirvanasamaye kirachit? suvyapararm] janati?, yat uttamat- vena satyataya [nirmalatayaé janati]. +P. 2 ©. 3 So both.
Ner. transl. Who is the friend of Spitama-Jarathustra in the midst of men, O Lord? (b) Who was questioning Thine entire sanctity; [that is, when he questioned entirely with truth] and with a perfect mind? (c) Who, endowed with Your Good Mind, understands, in, or for*, the end ; [that is, who understands any good work in, or for, the time of the end], when [he understands] it with goodness and truth, [that is, with purity]?
Parsi-persian Ms, trit. Kudaém an kih & Spitaman Zartusht mard dést, [kudim = kadér], Ormuzd? (b) Kih pah an 4 Shuma Sawab hampursid? [Wa = Va] kih pah Spendarmad, (ki, pah rasti wa bundah (?) minishni hampursid]? * (c) [Az = Min] kih pah an 7 Shuma Bahman dana{i = -¢]; (ka, ‘akibat ¢ chiz pah [] [nék = frdrén] (danad; [ [] [ki = agh] pah khalist rast [] [hast = hast]] * |
Free tr. Ne’er paederast pleased him, nor the Kavi, earth’s ruin, Zarathushtra Spitaima, wher grown was his body, When they both to him hastened, with the bosom’s foul power!
Pahl. transl. Far from satisfying me is the Kik, the paederast, in regard to both of the two particulars, [food and clothing], on the path of winter (b), far from satisfying me who am Zarttisht, the Spitaman, with * whom he is; that is (or where,) he incites! me with his incitation (2)! in my bodily sensations; [that is, a person comes, and thus also they (or he) would do a to me]; (c) and this one who is doing [that to us], is also leading * us on, even in our progress* in the cold [of a winter] of accustomed sin. 1 exiles (?),
Ner’s. sansk. text. Na tat yat loke! dvayam jananti antardle cita- kalasya [khadyaii vastraticha]| (b) yat Jarathustra-spitamdno? "ham pra- mudito ’smi. (c) Ayath me jaticitakale! na? [mitratar?] pracharati‘.
*C. * J4. a compositum. * P. ins. * P. diff. and om. mitratam.
Ner. transl. They do not understand what the two essential necessities are in the world, on the bridge *1, or interval, of winter; [that 7s, food and clothing] (b) when, or through* which, I, Jarathustra Spitamana*, am rejoiced. (c) This one (their representative) is thus in his ignorance not *? advancing toward [friendship] with me, in the birth-cold time (that is, now when I am naked against the winter’s cold as a new-born child (?)).
**1 So usually. *? P. is clearly to be preferred here.
Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Nah am pah an i har df shnasandah [kér = kth] ghdlam- barah, ¢ andar rah ¢ jamistan (sic); [pah khfirishn wa wastar] (b), kib Zartusht 7 Spitaman
358 LI. 13, 14.
hastam, kih hast; [kfm [] randan ranad pah [] [bi-didi = addd (?)]; kt, [] [ash = ash] ayad [ma-ré = avam (?)], bih kunand] (c); kih [andar = dayen] man an, in pah
ge Poney-yranse) fants a 9 | opeaae)ag Reoamea ds aves 13. Text. * gsrg.u0.gargog) ga) bqoarroys | weragba)dy.suy).sussryoy9 GbGay guna y).wrr yay |wpoanrsseyagysujadbasrgugyatyares
Trlit. Ta dregvaté maredaiti Daéna erezaus haithim
Yéhya urva khraodaiti Chinvatd peretao akao
Vais Skyaothanais hizvascha Ashahya nasvao patho.
Verbatim. transl. Ea [eas res consummatas facinorosas] scelesti de- struit Religio justi vere (b) cujus[scelesti] anima irascitur *1 Judicis-in-Ponte felicem-accessum-dante [furens] **? (c) suis actionibus [sud] linguae [-gua]que Sanctitatis [sceleste] attingens vias [vel, ad delendum (nasvdo) eas attingere volens]. %*1 Vel (leg. khraozhdaiti) indurescit [i. e. in scelere dura (?) fit scelesti anima. *** vel (leg. 4k6) ‘cujus [justi] anima accessum-inveniens vel ‘obversa iens [est]’.
1 DJ. ins. i. * very uncertain. so P. trl) * P. ins. 14. 4 DJ. and P. ims. va. * so DJ. and P. $ DJ. ins., 7 Prins, ya,. © DI. and P. ispell dit 12°s J. e mee var 10 DJ. om. 7 DJ. ins. zak; 2 P. payan! 42 Py om:
Pahl. transl. These, both [the felon *, and the harlot **] of the wicked (or who are wicked), are proclaiming the Religion of the pure openly (b), and by this means, [when they recite the service of the Religion by pronouncing its condem-
Seay. yo}svcey-beg)s | ceegese-bures-ate-4no
Trlit. Noid urvathd datdibyascha Karapand vastrad arem
Gavoi ardis 4 seiida vais Skyaothandischa senhaischa, Ye i$ sénhd apémem Drijé demané a dad.
Li, 13, 14. 359
ham 4n 2 sardi(?) 2 ganah-ayin (Ayin) (az = min] jamistan, (sic) pah raftan [ | [hasil-kunad = vindined| *
Free. tr. For the righteous man’s worship slays the evil man truly, While his soul rages *1 fiercely on the Judge’s Bridge open, Paths of Right to harm striving by his words and his actions!
nations}, they give forth cruel (?) cries to the soul (or souls (?)) openly upon the Chandor * Bridge (c); and thus, with the tongue of their own ac- tions they destroy the pathway of Aharayih; [that is, they will destroy the path of the pious].
Ner’s. sansk. text. Ubhayor [bhuvanayor!] lekhyakamn* durgatigaminah gananam [-nam ]|* aste. Diner? nirmalata? prakatata [bhavishyati‘]. (b) Etesham® atma* bumbaém (?) * karoti [patayati®] Chinuadandmasetau ** parisphutam (c), yat eteshaih sviyat karmanah * jihva‘ vinaclalyate punyasya panthanar °® suvyaparaccha vindcitah]. +4 So both. ? both Dine. * C. * P. * J& ® both diff.
Ner. transl. The written reckoning of him who walks in wickedness is made up for both worlds, that is, the purity of the law [shall be] one day manifest. (b) And their souls are * [speaking and] uttering a cry openly upon the Bridge called Chinuad (c), because their tongue is destroying the path of righteousness from their own action, [and good-works are destroyed].
Parsi-persian Ms. trit. An ¢ har dti[rah-zan wa [jeh = gété(?)]]¢darwand [nah = 14] shumurdan Din 7 khalis [wa = va] zahir (b); kih pah an 7[] [& =—]; [kih an 7 Din [nah = 74] shumurad 4n ruwan], khrfishéd [wa = va] dehad pah Chinvad Pul zahir % (c) Pah 4n ¢ khwésh kunishn zaban kharab + kunad [] [pah = pavan] [] Sawab rah; [kai, [] nék bih kharab-kunad] +
Free. tr. Never friendly to creatures is * the Karpan. Fields fertile Never gives he to kine by his deeds, or his doctrine , Them* at last in his teaching to the Falsehood’s home bringing !
Verbatim. transl. Non amici creatis-animantibus [sunt] Karapani a- prato praeparationem - perfectam! (b) Bovi promptae-(-mptam]-perfectionis {-nem] apud [vel juxta hanc praeparationem non] inculcantes? [vel largientes] propriis actionibus, doctrinisque. (c) Qui [ex numero horum est, is] eos ** [per] doctrina {-am] ad-ultimum, Mendacii-daemonis [in] habitatione [vel-nem] (in) det [reddet]. *Vel abundantiam. 2Fieri potest ‘njuria afficientes’, ** creatos,
360 LI. 14, 15,
‘8. DJ. and P. 2 DJ. abindakih. * DJ. and P. om. #4 DJ. ins. * DJ. ins. see P. ° P. mim. 7 DJ. om. * P. cor. vadman (?)
Pahl. transl. And they who are the Karaps are exercising no friendly interest toward duty pertectly fulfilled; [that is, they will not bring fully forward that which is necessary to further the interests of the pious]. (b) They teach the imperfection of the herds and inculcate [their immod- erate castigation**] through their own actions as well as teachings, [and thus - they will effect some impious result; and by him *2 who is impious it has been already inculcated], (c) who are delivering those teachings [those persons] even until the Driij’s last abode [that is, their own gouls are delivering them]. %1 Perhaps not gloss. 2 not ‘as that which is impious’.
Ner’s. sansk. text. Na mitrasya dattara acrotaras ya* [yat] karyah, sarn-
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Trlit. Hyad mizhdem Zarathustro magavaby6d chéist para, Gard demané Ahur6 Mazdao jasad pouruyd, Ta vé Vohii Mananha Ashaicha savaig chivishi. oa Verbatim. transl. Quod praemium Zarathustra magnitudine (?) -prae- ditis, [vel eis de rebus spiritualibus divitibus] assignavit [-naverit] antea * [sic vere erit]. (b) Sublimitatis [-vel Cantus] in habitatione [-nem] Domi- nus (vivus) Magni - donator veniat [-iet] prior; (c) ea [eaeque res pro- missae, ut hoc praemium] vobis [audientibus nostris per] Bona [-nam] Mente [-ntem] Sanctitatique; [id est, ad vestram sanctitatem augendam] bene- ficiis-utilibus impertitum [-tae] est [sunt; i. e. erunt]. * Vel: praemium prius quam (?) veniat Ahura (?): aegre.
Pahl. text. translit. *Mozd, mtn Zartisht} homanam , avo? minava- { din? chisham pésh [pavan4 havand kirfakih] (b) aigh, avd Garddmané+4
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purnam kritara, [kila kithchit suvydpararh abhipsitath!, samptrnarh na kri- tam]. (b) Gavaih paginarh sarapirnamanasa cikshapayanti*; [nirvane nihanti| yat? sviyat karmanah cikshapayanti * [pacchat avyaparaib kurvanti]. (c) Yat te cishyapayanti* tesham nirvane Drujasya samasannata *; dadati [atmanath sviyam|. 1 0. 2 So both and J% J*
Ner. transl. Not the gift of a friend do the deaf bestow**; that 7s, it zs not an action fully accomplished. [That is, theirs 7s some good work which is desired merely, and not fully completed]. (b) They are teaching, and with a mind apparently perfect toward the cattle and herds; du¢ [in the end he is (or they are) * smiting] and this is (lit. which is) from their own action they teach, [and afterwards they work iniquity] (c), because what they are teaching zs the neighbourly fraternity with the Druja in their end; and it delivers [their own souls].
Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Nah dosti dehad (?), kih kér hend, an kar pur; (ka, [] [an = —] chiz 7 nék, layik pur nah burand] * (b) [Wa = va] an ¢ gdsfendan nah - puri mi-dmfizad (sic vid), [bi-zandizah kushtan], pah 4n 7 khwésh kunishn wa amtkhtan; [[] chiz ¢ bad kunad(?) [wa pah an 2 bad amikht + mi-Aamtizad éstéd — va pavan zak t avarin admukht jakniminéed| * (c) [| [Kih= mun] Oshan amikhtan, oshan[] an an @ akhir Druj -dman (? sic) + ya‘ni + khanah dehad [ruwan 7 khwésh]
Free. tr. Since Zarathushtra reward first to true ones * appointed; In the home the sublimest cometh Mazda the foremost, Yours for Right, and, with Good Mind these blessings imparting!
Atharmazd yAmttinand® [vel-dni] pésh7. (c) Zak i Lektim Vohtimandé pavan Aharayih stidé chashéd; [aigh, sidé pavan frardndih vadinyén}.
1 P. ins. min. ? P. ins’ pavan. * P. ins. maddnad (minavad) Din. * DJ. om. 5 P. ins. kardan. ° DJ. -and. ™ DJ. and P. (?) pésh.
Pahl. transl. I, who am Zartisht, am revealing a reward to the spirits beforehand, or before them, [¢hat és, for similar good works, or for good works which correspond to it] (b), so that they (or I) may come to Thy Garddman, O Atiharmazd! before ali others**. (c) For Your * Vo- himan, is teaching that which is the benefit by means of Ahardayih {that is, they will (or do Thou) realize the advantage through piety].
*1' According to the gloss ‘pésh’ may have been understood in the sense of ‘in presence of the spirits’; hence ‘for similar good works’. *?* possibly, ‘in anticipation’.
Ner’s. sansk. text.. Yat prasAidam kuru. Jarathustro “ham bhavami. Svargalokatit AsvAdayAmi agre [tulyara punyar] (b) yat Garothmane, Sva- min, Mahdjidnin! prapnomi pirvam. (c) Yat Te Uttamasya Manasah pun- yasya labhati Asvadaydmi; [kila, lAbhazh yat suvyéparam kuru]. * C.
362 Tt. 15, i.