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Trlit. Tad vé né hazaoshdonhé vispéonhd daidyai say6,
Ashem Vohi Mananha ukhdha yai§ Ar(a)maitis,
Yazemnaonhé nemanha Mazdao rafedhrem chagedo.
Verbatim. transl. Id [eam rem] vestri [una cum] nostri [nobis] [unanimi-immortales-benigni] unanimiter-desiderantes [sunt] omnes dare uti- litatem, [id est, ad utilitatem vestris cultoribus afferendam]. (b) Sanctitas (per] Bona[-am] Mente[-em etiam] dicta [dicere vult], quibus [etiam] Pietas (prompta mens) [loquitur]; (c) venerantes [hi omnes Tui] laude [sunt], Tui Magni-donatoris gratiam-gaudium-dantem desiderantes.
Pahl. text. translit. Zak i lekim avd lanman pavan ham-déshishnih (? pavan ham-ayayastih 3] harvisp-gin+ dahishnd [i]> sidé* (b), Ashavahishté>! Vohimand! minténd milaya pavan bindak minishnib. (c) Avé7 Yazishn anamam *§, vat zak i Adharmazd® raminidarih 1° vadanani1+9 [mozd12].
* Possibly avamam, but see the Zend. Ner. and Per.
* DJ. and P. ayd. 2? DJ. and P. om. va. 3 P. and DJ. hamavayastih. 4 so DJ. 5 P. ins. va. ® P. ins. dehad (sic). 7 P. ins. rakim. * P. nfyayishn-am (sie vid.) DJ. anamam (or avamam); Sp. spells diff. * P. ins. pavan. *° DJ. and P. -ih, 1% DJ. -and (?); see P. © P. adds ra.
Pahl. transl. What is yours is also for us through mutual liking, [that is, through mutual desire] the giving of the advantage belongs to
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Trlit. Ar(a)matéis na spentd —_—hvo chisti_ukhdhaig skyaoth(a)na. Daéna Ashem spénvad Vohi Khshathrem Mananha Mazdio dadid Ahuré! Tém vanuhim yasa ashim! Verbatim. transl. Pietatis vir benignus [est] ille-ipse scientia, dictis, facto, (b) Religione [ei; id est, mihi] Sanctitatem bene-largientem *1 {det, et per] Bona[-nam] Regnum Mente[-tem] (c) Magni-donator det Dominus
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Alternative. This Your blessing to give us de*t Ye™ all of one feeling Asha grant us with Good Mind hymns sung by Devotion, As worshipped™ with praises they two*S seek Mazda’s grace.
*" Este understood (infin. for imper.) *2so more literally, ‘being sacrificed to’ (?). *$ chaged6 (dual 2). all and each of every rank (or ‘all ave giving the advantage ’)*4, (b) O Asha- yahisht and Vohiman, ye whose word is uttered with a perfect mind, (c) In worship I am bowing myself, and I will effect*? (or ‘ provide’) that which is the joy-producing act (or ‘gift’) of Adharmazd [as the reward].
“ Or once more (a) ‘That which is Yours, the blessed advantage of every kind és to be given to us with mutual liking, etc.’ *2or read yakhdtind® = ‘I will seize’.
» Ner.’s sansk. text. Yat Tvati maya saha mitratvam karoshi, [tat sar- vath abhipsitam Te] sarvarn dadaémi!, labhamicha (b) Punyath Uttamena Manasa yavat vachanam samptrnena? manasa [karaniyam|. (c) Yadi manasa namaskritiii Svaminah anandena pramodena kurute [tatah Svami karoti prasadam]. + So J.4, J.* 2 J; J.4 ene,
Ner. transl. Because Thou makest friendship with me [therefore] I deliver [every wished-for thing to Thee] and every beneficial acquisition, (b) 1 am delivering (or ‘offering’) sanctity to Thee through the Highest (Best) Mind as far as (or ‘as long as’) wn¢i? the word*! [is to be fulfilled (or ‘exe- cuted’) (?)] with a perfect mind. (c) If a person performs the worship of the Lord with thought, delight and pleasure [therefore for this the Lord effects (or ‘provides’) a reward]. ** Or, ‘Sanetity is to. be practised, ete.’ (2).
Parsi-persian Ms. An 7 Shuma an ma pah ham-déshishni [pah [] {ham l@ik (or layik* (?)) = ham-avayasti] tamim dahishn [u= va] sid [dehad = dehad (sic)], (b) Ardi- bahisht [« = va] Bahman, kih tan sakhun pah pur minishni * (c) An [Shuma = Rakum* (sic)] Yazishn [] [mamaz-kunam = niydyishn-am (? sic vid.)], an i Hérmuzd [pah = pavan) ramishn[i = -7] kunand, [[pah = pavan] muzd [ra = rd] ] *
Free tr. Devotion’s friend’s bounteous in his deed, words, and wisdom; Through his faith the Law’s bounteous™, and the Kingdom through Good Mind; Mazda grant me* that blessing. For that grace I beseech.
* Or (b) Through his faith help* he* (conjunct.) Order, and this Kingdom through Good Mind, (c) Mazda grant me* this power; good reward will I seek,
(vivus) hune [Ahuram, i. e. ab eo*2] bonum precibus expetam praemium- gratiae. * Vel ‘sanctitatem augebat vel augeat’ (improp. conj.; comp. spanvaiiti), *2 vel (lege tam) ‘eam gratiam’.
Pahl. text translit. Zak it bindak minishné gabra? afzinik? farzanakd pavan milaya vat kinishné®, (b) valman Dind* i Aharayih afzdyinidar pavan zak i® Vohiman khidayih®. (c) Atharmazd? yehabiinds [mozd va*® pada- dahishnd} vat min® yalman bayihinam pavan zak i shapir tarsagaih® (sic, or
370 Li. 81, 22.
read ‘tarsakasih’).-' DJ. om. * DJ. ins. i. * DJ. om. mtn. 4 DJ. om. ya. © gee P, ins. vagtnéd (vadinéd). ° DJ. om. * P. ins. rak. * D., P. min. ® so D. (?). Pahl. transl. He who zs the man of a perfect disposition of mind 7s bountiful and wise doth in word and in deed, (b) that one, or ‘he’ és an increaser of the Religion of Sanctity through the sovereignty of Vohiman, (c) and for this Aiharmazd gave him [the recompense and the reward]; and from him I also desire (or ‘seek’) it for (or ‘as’) that which is the good revering* recognition* (or ‘ blessing’). * Or ‘the religion of Sanctity is the increaser’. Ner.’s sansk, text. Sarmpiirnena manasa naro gurutarah yo nirvana- jnah vachanarh kurute, (b) asau Dineh* Punyasya vriddhikarta. Asya ut- tamasya manasah rajyar [dehi], (c) Mahajiidnin, dehi, Svamin, [Te prasadam prasadaptritaih|. Samihe yat uttamarh punyath [bhaktigilam]. ;
Trlit. Yéhya méi Ashad hacha vahistem yésné paiti
Vaédai Mazdéo Ahuro. Yi aonharecha, heiiticha,
w’” 4
Ta yazai vaiS nameénis* pairicha jasai vamta.
Verbatim transl. [Eum virum sanctum] cujus mihi Sanctitate-ex optimum [donum] in officio-sancto [vel in veneratione] (ad*) [detur], (b) [eum] Mazda Ahura agnovit, [i.e. oblationem ejus ej favens accipiet}. [Eos igitur] qui fuere(que) suntque (¢) eos venerer|-abor] suis-propriis nominibus*, [eosque] circum(que) eam [ibo beneficia precibus-expetens] precator (sic) 2.
*1 Vide versum unum et vicesimum. 2 vel ‘cum laude-et-prece ’.
Pahl. text translit. Valman man min Aharayih [avakih] pahlim, [aigh, min Yazadan zak pahlim li] Yazishnd madam. (b) Akfs Atharmazd, [mozd va+ padadahishné}]. Mtn yehevand hémand, va miinich yehevind?, (c) val- manshan yazam* pavan zak i nafshman shem?® [Ameshéspendan; afshan] madam yamtfinam avé aiyyarth.
*? DJ. om. 2 DJ. yehevind. 3 0 DJ. +4 DJ., D, om. * see P. throughout.
Pahl. transl. He whose [grace] is derived from Sanctity possesses the most excellent of things, [that is, from the Yazads that best thing ¢s mine] upon worshipping (or, ‘it is worship offered up’ (?)). (b) Well does Atharmazd
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Ner. transl. The greater, or more masterly*, man-who is wise concern- ing the end fulfils, or utters, his, or the, word with a perfect mind (b); and that one 7s an increaser of the Din of righteousness. [Bestow upon him there- Jore| the sovereignty of the highest mind. (c) Give us then, O Great Wise One, the Lord! [Thy reward so full of grace], for I desire that which is the highest (the good) sanctity [a religious nature]. Not ‘the greater teacher’.
Parsi-persian Ms. trit, An ¢ pur minishni mard 7@ afztmi kih danat (2?) pah sakhun [] kunishn [kunad = vdyénéd] (b) & Din ¢ Sawab afztini-kunandah pah an ¢ Bahman khudai [kunad = vdginéd] x (c) Ormuad [] [Ta = Kak] dehad (?) [muzd [wa = va] badal-dahishn] wa [] [kih = mun] t khwaham pah an 7 veh bandag(i)
Free tr. Him whose best gift from Asha is mine in the offering, Well Ahura doth know him. Who have lived, and live ever, By their names will I praise them, while I compass their altar!
understand [the recompense and the reward]. Those * who have ever been and who also stl exist (c) [the Ameshdspends] I worship by their own proper names, and I also approach them for friendship.
* Or ‘He knows them who’ etc.
Ner.’s sansk. text. Yo me punyasaricleshat! utkrishtatararm [bhuvan- an dehi] aradhand [-anarn] upari. (b) Vetta Tvarh [Tvar], Maha- jnanin', Svimin! yecha abhivan?2, yecha santi [sarveshaii Tvath jiata] (c); tan aradhaye nijair? ndmabhih [apardn AmicAspintan 3); upari prapnomi sthdyyamattaii? *, + ¢, 2 all abhfvan. * J*+* sthayyamattamam.
Ner. transl. [Grant Thou] the more excellent [world (i. e. heaven)], the worship which is celebrated above, Thou who dost offer it tome from my union with righteousness (?) *1 (or grant that which zs [yat] to me the more ex- cellent world etc.). (b) For Thou knowest *, O Lord! both those who have been, and those also who still exist, [of all Thou art cognizant *]. (c) The [other Amigéspintas| a/so I propitiate by their own names. To friendship with them I am approaching (lit. coming on, or up).
Parsi-persian Ms. trit. U kih az Sawab [madad + baki] buland; [kfi, az izadan an buland [man] yazishn awar] x (b) Agah Ormuzd {muzd wa badalah-dahishn] * kih badah hend (?) wa kih ham hend (c) éshan yezbahaminam pah an i khwésh naémah [az = min] Amshisfendin azshén (sic)] awar rasam an yari *
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LIM. 1.
Gatha Vahishtdishti(i).
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Nem6é yvé Gathao ashaonis'!
Trlit. Vahista istis sravt Zarathustrahé
Spitamahya yézi hoi dad ayapta
Ashad hacha Aburé Mazdao yavéi vispai 4,
hvanhvim (huanhuviyem),
Yaécha hdi daben saskacha Daénayéio vanhuydo
ukhdha skyaothanacha.
Verbatim transl. Optima optatio audita-est Zarathustrae (b) Spi- tdmae si [vel ut] ei det proposita-feliciter-attacta (c) Sanctitate-ex Dominus, Magni-donator, [et in-|durationi[-nem] omni [-nem] (ad) beatam-vitam [haec fuit optatio ejus] (d), [et etiam ei det Ahura eos] qui(que) ei [eum] falle- bant *! [nunc mutata mente, ut] discipulos(que) ** Religionis bonae in-dicto facto-que. 1 Vel, leg. daden, dent. ** 2 Vel discant, sasken. (?).
Pahl. text translit. Niyayishnd avd Lekim Gasénd ¢ aharfbd+! Pablim khvahishno 2+ sribé i Zartfisht [aigh, min zak i avé bavihtind mindavam ? denman‘ pahltim Avestak® Zand]. (b) Spitaéman6 +1 zim(?)* valman” yehabinad avadih [aigham Vishtaspd Magdpatand® Magdpatih® yehabtinad®]. (c) Min Aharayith avakih Atharmazd am? hamai vad avo! vispé hd-ahfiindd; [aigh- am vad tanfi i pasind’ hamai tag4t-libbemmanih yehabinad]. (d) Mtn zak {12 vyalmanich! friftar [Aharmék] amikhtishné (sic) 1 Dind i shapir pavan milaya ktinishnd 2.
DJ. ins. t., 7? Sp. -th “DJ Pand PA sPaome o> seek, ans) Dd aseemaezim: 7 DJ. valman; so P.; Sp. avo. * so DJ. and P. ® DJ. seems ‘m’, 1° DJ. ghal. ™ so DJ.; Sp. tang. P. impf. ” DJ. om. 1% see P. addition.
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LUI. 1. The Anthem ‘the best wish’.
Praise to you, O sacred Gathas!
Free tr. His best wish has been heard, the prayer of Zartushtar;
That Ahura might grant him, from Righteousness moved
The attainments of effort, and life which is blessing,
to him the great Spitima,
Grant him them who deceived him, as the Good Faith’s true learners
in word and in action!
Pahl. transl. Praise to you, O sacred Gathis! (a) The best wish was, or as, the word of Zartisht*; [that is, of that which they ask for this thing is the best, the Avesta and Zand]. (b) That possession of the Spitaman, even his, may he, or one, grant which [is also for me], that prosperity; [that is, may Vishtasp grant me the mobadship of the Mobads*+], (c) By the help of righteous- ness may Atharmazd cause me to live aright, or prosperously, for ever unto all duration; |that is, may he ever give me stoutness-of-heart until the final body}. Even he who 7s*? that deceiver [Aharmdk] is to be in- structed 7m the word and deed of the good Religion. * So according to the gloss. *** This gloss is probably from a later hand, as it seems to mistake avadih for azadih (= nobility, possibly dignity) written with the same characters. Avadih, = ayapta, could not directly represent ‘authority’. Ner. gives a second and alternative translation of avadih by adyatam, and renders it thus also elsewhere as his first suggestion. ** in ordinary Pahlavi ‘whose is the teaching’; but see the Gathic.
Ner.’s sansk. text. Namo yushmabhyam, he Gathah punyitmanyah! (a) Atah param bhuvanaii samihe, vachanarh Jarathustrasya [kila, yat idar varichh- aye kithchit etat atah1 parath bhuvanari Avistdjandaricha]. (b) Spita- manasya evar idarh [leg. imarh] dehi sampattith, Adyataim?, [kila, Vastasp- asya* grihapateh grihapatitvam dehi]. (c) Yat punyaii? saripattin, Svamin, Mahajiianin! sarvati dehi [sarvaii‘] ydvat dhanyati sarveshar gotrinarm dehi [kila, yavat tanoh akshayatvam etesham apardndm dehi]. (d) Tat yat asau vipratarayati® Aharmanah® cishydpayati, Dineh uttamdyah vachanazi kuru karmana.
1p. * J4 C. aghatam (?) P. aghatam (?), * J* has-ya. * C. ° P.
Ner. transl. Praise to you, O sacred Gathas! I desire the world which is beyond and the word of Jarathustra which leads to it, {that is, this which I desire is this something which 7s hence, the world which is beyond, and the Avista and Jand]. (b) And therefore do Thou grant me this good
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