holders, perform inthe house, they who are thus the lords of their own. [Let that pious Jamaspa come, for he protects that body, or person, the pious ones’ gift] (c); and do thou, endowed with the Highest, or Good, Mind, perform likewise for him* that which is one’s own good work for one’s own fields. Afford {him *| good nourishment. [Grant [him*] complete food and clothing, and that reward which is full of grace] [and give him *] the spiritual-mastership as exercised for, or over, thee, and intelligence [which is true learning through its goodness, or joy] (d); and grant, O Great Wise One! the Din, the highest, [i. e. the best] as much as *2 unto all [that is, the
webu)e -basysaung | bosjawpesa6al. -w}eeouuas 5. Text
“696 Dy tee oi ¢ | yg npn pee
| pO Gaer seem af | Hy syr}uoag 699 bapouls
= U34}496. so¢uneb
| ogy =) Bay -pesunpraly cep. basa. fara
Verbatim transl. Monitiones (?) [in matrimonium] ducendis; [i. e. nuptum-ituris] virginibus dico (b) vobis [ego-] sapiens. [Ad] me (m&am*) que (ad) ea [de * eis] animos-advertite [vel animum*? (? aegre) ad ea advertite (?)]. (c) Scite [i. e. discite per] praeceptis-religiosis [-praecepta religiosa]; nite- mini ad? [eam] vitam qui [quae] Bonae Mentis [vita est]. (d) Sanctitate- que vestrum [duorum] alter alteri faveto * [id est, maritus et uxor sibi in- vicem favento, alter erga alterum fidelis maneto] hoc enim ei [id est, cuicui vestrum] amoenitas (?) [id est, felicitas in vita conjugali] sit!
** leo. méiiché i dazdim 2 Vel abyascha = hisque; vel etiam devotae. ;
Pahl. text translit. Zak i! sakhundnd? vazishné? pavan kanikand+4 gobishnd ; {aigh Dino ribakih® pavan Hitésh]. (b) Zakich i1 lektim akasih zitan® dén demand” [danakih, zitané® dén taniit ach * (sic) pavan ras] i?
Nae * ; oe :
Die. 4, 5. 381
Din’s place is, or is known, as* highest above all these others], | %* + not ‘of a woman’; see the Pahl. *** Usually yavat means ‘as long as until’ with Ner.
Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Chih t an @ Shuma nék-minishn du(6)shéd + khwéhish- kunad, [wa = va] Din; azash (?) an [awar = madam] pidar bih dahishn; [tan pah [] [khwéshi = napashmani] an [ham = ich] «i Pirtchist] % (b) Azash (?) ft ham [ ] {in = aé] ra [] [vastryésh = -dsh] kar ¢ [ki = dgh] kadah-khudai ra; wa aédin ham fn khwéshan (?) [ash tan pah [] [khwéshi (?) = napashmani| bib dadan (?) ashd Pi- riichist fn ft ¢ ashO Jamasp [deh = ddbin] %* (c) Pah fn ¢ Bahman khwésh{? = — 7}, [nék khwéshi ra] an ash hast siri pur [khirishn wa wastar, [wa = va] muzd pa- dah (?)-dahishn {] htish wa dana hish s (d) Ormuzd dahishn pah Din i veh hama ta [ | {an = zak] tamam; [an istad pah Din 7 veh ra] %
Free tr. Monitions of marriage I speak to the maidens,
To you, I who know them; then heed ye my sayings. By these laws which I utter strive and obtain ye
the life of the Good Mind!
Let each one the other in truth ever cherish,
so the home shall be blesséd!
valman 1°+11 minishnéch!? avé zak [i] kolaé II (d6) minishnd dahishnih'; [amat‘* mindavam minavad va® stih khavitinéd, ach (sic) pavan ras i® val- man]. (c) Akas-dahishnih*? {9 pavan Dind pavan kol& II (do) ahvand 1 pavan Vohiiman [aigh, zak i kolé ahvéné rai avayad kardané, amat pavan dinakih bara yehevanéd, ach (sic) pavan ras i® valman] (d), !amat Ahar- dyih lekim zakii min valman i? zak4i pavan vindishnd'* vindéd; [aigh, kir- fak, 11 pavan did ras, aténd'° khadik min tanid madam'* ghal’ yatinédo, ach * pavan ras f valman]; mamman aétind valman?? hi-manishnih?® aité [valman*° {1 Hfitésh*, gis i tamman ash pavan zak ris ??],
1 DJ. ins. i. * P. has separate termin. ‘An’. * P. vajishn, * DJ. kinikéno. 5 P. ins. vagfinéd. ° DJ. zit; P. zak tan. 7 P. reads demfin, and ins. ‘mahmin vig- find’. *so DJ. P. ris zak tan (?). °® DJ. om. DJ. and P. valman. ‘ DJ. ins. ya (2). + P. ins. dabfinéd, % DJ. -ishnd, so P. % P. min. 1% P. ing. va. *° DJ. ins. dahishn. 17 P. seems and (?), so tr. % P. ing, din, %P. ins. dad. *° DJ. hi- ménishnih. *! P. ins, ré. * P, ins. yattinéd,
Pahl. transl. And words are to be spoken through, or by, the maidens of the marriage, [that is, the progress of the Din is to be furthered by Htitésh (the bride’s mother, as arranging the ceremonial)| (b), and that also which is your intelligence [which is yours] in your abode [the learning which is in your body, or self, is likewise in that way] which is even that thinking for the application of the mind to both things; [that is, when even one understands the matter of the spirit, as well as that of the world, it may be also in that way]. (c) And also that information which is for both
382 LIIl. 5, 6.
worlds, and which comes through the Din ctself, and which emists through Vohiman 7s in that way, [that is, that which one must do for both worlds, if it is to be done with thorough wisdom, 7s also in that way] (d) since one of you obtains Aharayih by an acquisition which comes from the other, or since ye obtain it one from the other; [that is, good works, which are practised in the way of the law, come to you each, to the one from the other; 7. ¢. from example; and this is also in that way] for thus is that good abiding, or abode; [that which is Hitésh’s. The place beyond * also becomes hers in that way]. * I cannot believe that ‘gas i tamman’ means other- wise than this here; it means thus universally elsewhere.
San Mclee eu cnrcy | gen One meer
Ner. transl. These words of the maidens who belong (?) to the lord’s spouse (hardly ‘who are the lord’s spouses’) are to be, or should be, uttered more distinctly (lit. visibly); [in fact, great is thedr sanctity for they declare, or
Sys geco ye) te-cqurs
Trilt. Ith ¢ haithy4 naré, atha jénayéd,
Drtijé hacha rathem6, yé mé spashutha fraidim,
Drijé dyésé hdis pitha tanvd (tanuvd) para.
Vayi-bered(u)by6 dustarethem nasad vathrem (huvathrem) *
Dregvddebyé (dé)jid-areta¢ibyd; anaig 4 manahim
ahim merengeduyé,
i ia nie. fei he We Sey Le
Bites, 6: 383
cause, the advancing * of the Din. And so let it be]. (b) Thou, a knower as thou art of that which és true science, [do thou grant me this]; that is, grant me the gift of both [worlds] to be apprehended by the mind [as all understand the world beyond and that here] (c); [and grant, best-minded as thou art,| that intelligence which is the gift of the Din, and which ap- pertains to both the worlds, [for all] understand [the wished-for deed that lies in that path] (d); therefore when one would acquire the acquisition of this Thy sanctity [and when also one would impart the gift of sanctity] let this be the one way, [that one should act righteously. The way of sanctity is this, when this way is bestowed with a good mind]. Great is the abiding or occasion, of sanctity.
Parsi-persian Ms. trit. An ¢@ sakhun [An = dn] 1 indecipherable [= vajishn (sic)] pah zanan gobishn; [kfii, Din rawé [kunad = vdginéd] pah Hfitosh] % (b) An ham 4 raktim agahi [] [an = zak] [-dn (sic) = tam] andar deman (? sic vid.) [= de- mtn] [mihman kunad = mahmdn vdginéd (sic)]] danai []} [rah = ras] 7 oshan (sic) [= zaktan] [andar tan hampah rah 7] [] [ti = varman] minishn (?) ham [dehad = dab- unéd) an an 2 har di minishn dahishni = -ishn] [ [] [kik = min] chiz 7 mini va géti danad, ach (sic) pah rah ¢ a] % (c) Agah-dahishn[i = -éshn] ¢ pah Din pah har du jihan i pah Bahman; [kti, an ¢ har dt jihan ra, layik kardan, kih pah danai bih bashad, ach (sic) pah rah 7} (d); [wa = va] kih Sawab shuma digar az t ¢ digar pah hasil-kardan hasil-kunad; [ki kirfah ¢ pah dad rah, [] [ana = ana (sic vid.)] ék az [di (sic) [= did (sic pro tanid)], awar [din = din] 6 [dad = ddd] Ayad, ach (sic) pah rah ¢ ti}, chih aédin {] [& 7 = varman] nék- [] [minishn = ménishni] hast, [ [ti =varman) « Hitésh (ra = ra (sic)] gah ¢ anja % Ash pah an rah [ayad = yatined]]
361 ‘ a ww” Meaning ‘sakhunan’.
Free tr. Thus real are these things, ye men, and ye women!
Against the Drij, giving progress, I guard o’er my faithful; * Yea, the Drtj’s foul hatreds I pray from the body.
To those borne of Vayu her shame marreth honour To those deeply evil; and by these the life mental
ye conquer to ruin!
sor: Thus are ye clearly, ye men and ye women. (From the Drij, O ye twain! do ye thus view promotion?) * etc. One of these lines is probably interpolated.
Verbatim transl. Ita [ego] ea {eas res dans] vere-existentia [-ntes et manifestas], O [vos] viri! ita [etiam], O [vos] mulieres, (b) [ego] Drujis [-je] ex [vel ex occasione Drujis] dux benefaciens [sum], qui mei [id est, pro meis servis] custos *1 progressus adjuvans [custodiens sum] (¢); Drujis exoro fi. e. meis precibus deprecor et exorcizo * [Drujis|] indolis * (??) odia {ex] corporis [-ore] ultra. (d) [Quod ad eos] a-Vayt-latis [-tos attinet] infamia {leg. dush-vathrem, vel mala-esca (aegre)| attingebat [vel -gat|
384 LIII. 6.
honorem [eorum ad eum minuendum] (e) scelestis virtutem-vincentibus *2. Illis [rebus] (a) spiritualem vitam interficitis.
*1 Vel altera traductio: Ita ea [eae res] vere-existentia [-ntes sunt, O vos viri! ita [etiam, O vos}mulieres! ((b) [Num ex] Drujis [-je] (ex) [venit] donator-liberalis, [sic] 0 vos gemini; i. e. ambo! (leg. yéma) [sic] spectatis; i. e. existimatis (leg. spas- yatha (?)’ [venire] promotionem [et auctionem dantem donatorem]? (c) [E contrario ex] Drujis [-je] exoro ete.
* see P. * DJ. om. * DJ. and P. * so DJ.; Sp. -6d0. *® zend- characters; DJ. om, 34a, ° DJ. I for ich. 7 DJ. -ishn. * DJ. om. last n. ** West suggests hii-bédi.
Pahl. transl. Thus as the husband and wife are manifest, in their goodness, in respect to both [the affairs of the spirit and those of the world, so are the harlot and the felon in their wickedness]. (b) And the Drij is * from that portion (that of the harlot and the felon), [that is, his favour is from that] which always extended protection to him (the felon) in his pros- perity, [that is, he ts able to live thus when towards impropriety a good understanding is maintained (or is to be maintained (?)) by him in the house (hardly, when by him a perfume * is maintained by impropriety within . the house)]. (c) He who seeks after the Drdj, [that is, desires nearness of approach to the Driij], destruction falls upon his body beforehand [that is, it becomes his decease] (d); and such sinners will bring [their own souls] to destruction, and to that place of evil food; [that is, they give him (i. e. one) food there which is evil] and thus he is destroyed; that is, his comfort 7s destroyed; [that is, no one particular of comfort és reserved for him there in
the other world]. (e) The wicked is completely a smiter of the Dastur, [that is, the Dastur is thoroughly afflicted by him] on account of his avoidance; [that is, when they do not come fully to this Religion] they bring on the
Li. 6. 885
destruction of the world of the spirits, [that is, they utterly mar the Place which is beyond].
Ner.’s sansk. text. Evaih yatha yat etat dvayath [kimchit ihalokiyati paralokiyamh] prakatarn narasya naryagcha [uttamam karanaim lekhyakath * yat nikrishtasya bhavet]. (b) Driijah, yat tat dvaram [yasyat (?) labhet asau sadaiva vriddhidatya praharakarta bhavet [kila, evaih caktiman jivet, pagchat avyaparaih kurvan. Dvarath bibharti]. (c) Yot Drdjaii samihe [-ate], tasya tanoh puratah mrityur bhavet [apagaiahi? apajivatvah 1 bhavet}. (d) Yat susiddhath uttamart bhavet [Atmanah: sviyasya] nikrishtakhddyam, gubham [asmin sthane khadyam nikrishtath dadydt; kila, kimchit cubhapra- modo ’tra * na ’sti|. (e) Durgatimatah guravo! ghataya (?) [-taya] sampirna. [yat Acharyah sathpirna? hatah? santi, ye asya [-y4(h)] Diner antah] na *gachchhanti, teshith maranarh dadyat; [kila, sthdnath atra vindcayantil.