fortune, which is the priority, or (possibly) the affluence (?) of the Spitaman; [that is, grant me the chieftainship of Vastaspa, the chieftain]. (c) And grant, O Great Wise One, and Lord! that which is righteousness as pro- sperity, and all else*1; grant all, as much as is the rice of all the fields; [that is, as long as until * the indestructibility. of the body grant that bles- sing (or the indestructibility (?)) of these other things]. (d) That in which that Aharmana deceives, and which he teaches, make Thou through action *2 the word of the highest Din! %+ or ‘all that is righteousness’ **? pos- sibly ‘through Thine action’; but see the Zend and Pahl.

Trlit. Ad(cha) hoi schafiti Mananha ukhdhais gkyaothanaischa

Khshnim Mazdai vahmai 4 fraored yasnascha
Kavacha, Vistaspé Zarathustris Spitamd,
Frashaostrascha,

Daonhé erezis pathd yam Daénim Ahurd

Saos(k)yafito, dadad.

Verbatim transl. Itaque illi conficiunto [et doctrina restituunto] mente, dictis, factisque (b) placationem Magni-donatori [ad] adorationi|-nem|] (ad) [ei] pie [afferendam], sacra-officiaque (c) Kavique* Vistaspa, Zarathustrius Spitama, Frashaostraque (d), dantes [suis discipulis] rectas vias (quam) [et eam] Religionem [quam] Dominus (vivus) [ut Religionem nobis] profuturi (si sic scribere licet) [Prophetae *] det [dabit].

Liz. 1, 2. 375

Parsi-persian Ms. trlt. Niyayishn [] shum4, GAth(h)a (sic) ¢ asho! * (a) Buland khwahishn sakhun « Zartusht [ki az an 7 6 khwahad |} {chiz[][] buland Awesta [wa = va] Zand] 3% (b) Spitéman [Zartusht = Zartusht] 4n am [] [a = valman] dehad ni‘mat (kim Vishtasp [] [mébadan mobadi = magépaddn magépadi] dehad, [kt, paighambari dehad = dgh pédambart ddbinéd)] * (c) Az Sawab madad Ormuzd am hamé ta an

Aa a

tamim [n. tr. pro hi-akhiinad (sic)] [ku(m) [= 4gham] ta tan 7 pasin hama [] [—= ¢ (?)] dili dehad] * (@) Kih an 7 & ham frébtar Ashmégh Amizandah (sic vid) Din 7 veh pah sakhun kunishn [kunad wa dobar guftan = vdgind va dop(?)ar

gavishn] 3

Free tr. Unto him may they render with mind, words and actions

Contentment to Mazda, pure rites to adore Him,
Kavi Vishtéspa, with Frashaoshtra, the Spitaéman,
Zartushtar’s true princes,

Straight paths they bestowing, and the Faith of the Prophet

which Ahura will give! “seek. DJa and P- ins. va. 7 DJ. ich; Sp. and P. om. §® DJ. -ishno; Sp. and P. -th. * DJ. om. i. 1 P. zihir (an oversight).

Pahl. transl. Thus also his is that teaching through the word and deed of Vohiiman; [before * this person himself do I declare it]. (b) His praise also, and homage, and worship are effective for the propitiation of Atharmazd. (c) To Kat Vishtasp, Zarttisht, the Spitaman, aud Frashdshtar also belongs (d) the bestowal of the pure way [and the path to the world beyond], for this Religion Attharmazd bestows upon the beneficial ones, [that is, he reveals his word to the good]. % or ‘beforehand to’.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Evar yat asau cishyApayati tvar uttamari! mano vakyam kuru [yat pfirvam? agre uktari|. (b) Sushtutyas(?)tvam? [tvam] janati 4, tasya Svaminah namaskritirh 4radhanadiicha |-anarncha] kuru. (c) Kai Vastaspasya, Jarathustraspitamanasya, Phiracaustrasyacha (d) dehi! Ayarh nirmalo margah? ayarh yatah® Svamino Dinih eteshdii labhamatéii, dehi! [kila, vakyari® idar uttamdndm Asvadayamil.

1P. ?C. J+ *% J* sushtatayé. * P. jananti. * both ‘yata’. ° P. vakim.

Ner. transl. Thus do thou cause the best thought which that one teaches to be uttered [that which was first spoken before men’s faces]. (b) Through acceptable *! praises he knows thee, therefore fulfil s¢#Z further the Lord’s worship and propitiation. (¢) And [grant Thou *?] . that thought to Kai Vastaspa, Jarathustra Spitamdna, and to Phiracaustra. (d) This as the pure way whence the Din of these, the Lord’s useful ones, 7s acquired: do thou therefore bestow it; [that is, this discourse which I am teaching ¢s that of the highest ones (that is, of the good)]. #1 Or sushthutaya, thoroughly. #* 2 from (d)

376 LIII. 2, 3.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Aédin ham ft ¢ amtkhtan pah Bahman sakhun kunishn [ {in = ana) kas [ra 1 = ré varman] an pésh guyam] % (b) Azash (sic) pah shinaékh- tan 4n an ¢ Ormuzd [] niyayishn-kardan [] [khwandan ham [= fravamishnich (? sic vid.; leg. franamishnich)] [wa = va] yazishn-kardan ham] * (c) Kai Vishtasp [wa

Trlit. Témcha, tii Pouruchista, Haéchad-aspana!
Spitamt yazvi dugedram Zarathustrahé
Vanhéus paityastém Mananhd Ashahya Mazdaoscha

taibyé dad sarem.
Atha hem-ferashva Thwa khrathwé, spénigta Ar(a)matois
hudanii* vareshva!

Verbatim transl. Eumque, O tu Pouruchista! O Haéchadaspdna (b) Spitami natu-minima filiarum Zarathustrae! (c) Bonae [ut] auxilium- afferentem Mentis, Sanctitatis, Magni-donatorisque, tibi det [ille Dominus (vivus) ut] principem [vel tutelam] (d); ita consule [per] te [tuam] intelli- gentia [-iam] beneficentissimé [-mam] (c) [tuae] Pietatis; [res] de-bono- sapientia [-ientes] fac (vel facta bona sapienter perficiens (?)).

Pahl. text translit. Zakich valman 11 lak Pordchistd min Haéchad- aspan? (b) Spitaman [hdmanih] min? zAk8 bantman® min 4 Zartiisht homanih (c) pavan zak i Vohtiman pavan yekaviminishnih * [fraraind patih zit® aitd). Pavan Aharayih, va® dinakih zish aité ash avd lak} dabishnd sardarth (d), [afash] aétind av’ ham? hamptrsishnd*® pavan hand f lak khiradé [pavan dind t lak]; afash pavan afzinikth bindak minishnih zak ¢ hd-danaktha [dind ® déshishnd]. + DJ- om. * P. aspan. ins. tokhm. * P. ins. at. 4 see P.

* DJ.; see P. © DJ. ins. 7 P. ich. * DJ. spells diff. and ins. va. ° DJ. and P. om. va.

Pahl. transl. That one also he gave thee, O Portichist! who art of the Haéchadaspae (b), of the Spitamae, thou who [wast *] born Zartisht’s daughter (c), and for a steadfast abiding in that which is a good mind

Lit. 2, 3. 377

= va) Zartusht ¢ Spitaman wa Frashéshtar (d) dahishni an « Knalis rah [] rah 2° an anja, kih Din Ormuzd 4n stfid-mandan dehad, [ki []} [zdhir = zdlur (sic)] an vehan chashad] %

Free tr. Him to thee, Paouruchista! Haéchad-aspian maiden!
Zarathushtra’s own daughter, a Spitama honoured,
Him the friend of the Good Mind, . of Asha and Mazda,
may He, as help, give thee.

Counsel well with thy wisdom with piety bounteous,

of prudence wise worker!

[is that authority which is thine, or for thee, correct * ‘|. Through Ahardyih and the wisdom which is his, with him also is his bestowal of guardianship upon thee. (d) And thus also it is his for conference together with this thy wis- dom [with thy religion]. Also [his] with, or through, its increase 7s the per- fect thinking, or devotion, of the wise; [his religion is to be loved (or to love (loving) is his religion)]. %* Possibly an alternative translation; if so, then render ‘or pious is the sovereignty which is through Thee’.

Ner.’s sansk. text. (a, b) Yat tvaih saipirnari Haichad-aspa-spita- maz |? -ma], [aste**], chet ajijanat [? leg. ajanishta( )] duhité 1 Jarathustrena. (c) Uttamasya Manasah? sthaturh [suvyAparar]; evarh Aste punyasya jianam. Evamh yat! tvarn * datim1 dehi adhipatitvam. (d) Yat* evar sarvarh prac- nam te buddhizn [dinis|-nitn] te], mahattara [svamin!] saiptirnamanasa sujanam datim dehi. + 34 2 0,

Ner. transl. (a, b) Because thou art truly * Haichadaspa, the Spitama [it, or she, is thus*1], if indeed she was born *? a daughter of * Jara- thustra. (c) To stand steadfast for * the best mind [7s the good work], and thus is the intelligence of sanctity; wherefore do thou thus bestow «pon thy lord the gift of authority. (d) And therefore do thou for thy part, O greater lord *3! render every question which she asks (or thow askest) as thy wisdom |as thy din dy means of the wise answers]. Through a perfect mind do thou bestow good intelligence as thy gift!

*1 Possibly Ner’s. expression for ‘iti’. *** hardly ‘she produced’. *** or it may be that Ner. understgod Ahura as the ‘Lord’ here addressed.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. An ham fi @ tf, Ptrfchist! kih Héchad Aspah [tukhm = tokhm) (b) «4 Spitiman hasti [] [kat (sic) = ménat] péda-kardan dukhtar [] [kih = min] 4 Zartusht hasti # (c) Pah an i Bahman pah [] [kaim-mind! = astishni] [nék {] [azash = —] anat [] ] % Pah Sawab danai anash hast ash an tfi dahishn sardari (d); azash aédtm 4n [] [ham = ich] hampursid 7 pah in 7 tf khirad [pah din 7 ti];

azash (sic) pah afzitni pur minishni an i nék-danaiha [din [] khwahish-kunad] %* *ménad(?)

ty 48

378 LI. 4.

eugeb begun | ojw)ab-gjwoeleya glo. “ogee 4. Text
jombapyoaunap ys | bas 249s) essubspyrnsrdoay
[earjew argon buratuc | Rasjsmraeps « yopagios
OB gy feA OY?
wo dyyaryay | sau ssqynpanly-saussa}yeoasg | Prep aang ao cuahang

yavoi vispai a.

Verbatim transl. Hunc enim vestrum *1 aemuler eligamque [id est, amabo]; quo [id est, quum vel quoniam] patris [id est, a patre donante] me obtineat [ille vester princeps]. (b) Domino(que), agricolis sic-etiam cognato-domino (c), probo [et] probis [omnibus] Bonae Mentis [sit] nitens beatitudo; mihi [sit] vere [vel, leg. bavad, sit] mentis-lux! (d) [Et eam] Magni-donator det Dominus (vivus) pro Religioni- [-ione] bonae [-na in] durationi [-nem] omni {-nem] (ad)! #1 vos?

* DJ. avo; Sp. and P. valman. ? DJ. ins. i; P. ins. va. *® P. ins. madam. * DJ. -ih Sp. and P. -dar. ® P. ins. ham. ® so P. reads; Sp. avoch 7 abti; DJ. avoch abti; see P. 7 DJ. and P. -dsh; Sp. and Gathé -And. *® DJ. ins. °® so DJ.; Sp. and P. khwéshan. * P. napashmani. 1 P. ins. dabfin. see P. 1% DJ. and P. bimdak; Sp. -th, “DJ. om. i. © P, ins. ya. 18 P. om, 7 PR. -<ak. 2° P and DJ, -no, Sp; -uih, «72 Oge -ik, 9° P, zak, ™ DJ. ins. f.

Tea hee ee ee 1 Se

Lill. 4 379

Free tr. I will love and vie with him when from father he gains me. For the master and tiller, and more for lord-owner,

For the pure and the pure ones be the Good Mind’s bright blessing, and mine be the insight ;

May Ahura bestow it for the good Faith’s advancing,

for time everlasting!

Pahl. trans}. For his, or that, ¢s your well subjected (2) affection [your Religion], and to him [a body] is to be given up for fatherhood (or to the father ((abidar); so Sp. and Pers.) [in wifehood [that is, that Pordchist isto be thus given]. (b) Also by her* this is to be done for him on account of, or for, this father *?, and the husbandmen [and on account of the duties due* to the householder which she undertakes]; and so also to her own relations [her body is to be given up in possession or relationship (or pos- sibly by her relationship)] (c), the righteous [Porichist] to the righteous [Jamasp] and this is to be according to Vohtiman’s ownership [according to that pious ownership which is his *1]; and a repletion; [that 7s, a complete provision of food and clothing is to be hers *1 as the recompense and the reward], and the understanding of a magnifier, or glorifier **, [the under- standing of wisdom]. (d) It is the gift of Atiharmazd in the good Religion for ever unto all duration [and may she abide in the Religion, for it (lit. which) is the property of the good].

*** One would say more naturally ‘by him’; it is impossible to determine the gender here with certainty. **? alternative translation, or gloss, by the Pahlavi writer, freely for paithyaécha (?). ** mistaking mé béed for moibad (?; hardly).

Ner.’s sansk. text. Yat tvarh cobhanath pariptirnaim danari dehi [yat Dineh*] anena pitra daitim * datta [-taimh| [tanuin striyah* sarnpraptarh [-tarh]}] (b); yat karyar kartérah kutumbinah karyat grihe svamina? evar sviyanam [yat tanuth palayati, dati muktdtmandm, prapnotu asau mukt- atma Jamaspah*] (c), yat uttamamana sviyai [suvyéparai sviyagotrinar 2 upari aste, tasya] susvadu! [sampfirnakhadyaih vastrarichat prasddarh prasadapiritam| gurukaéryarh chaitanyarh [jiidnatvarh sukhena dehi], (d) Maha- jnanin! dehi, Svamin! Dini uttamarn sarvarh yavat [kila, eteshdr sarvesh- ath apareshdiuh Dineh uttamaya+ upari sthitir vidyate].

Soa des (7 J '* poth Jamaspa: .* JA.

Ner. transl. Give thy brilliant, or good, and complete gift, [which 7s that given throuyh that gift of the Din] a gift given through this father [viz, a body obtained fort * a wife (or possibly, begotten from his wife)]. (b) And do thou discharge that duty which the active ones *, the house-

380 LI. 4,5.