Ner. transl. Therefore as this twofold interest [the matter beyond and that here] manifestly concerns both man and woman, [/et the best (or the most exalted) deed be written down * that it may become *! that of the base through his conversion (?)|. (b) The Druja, because he * has *? that which is the opportunity (the door) [of that which he, or one, may seize], may always be a watchman *, and through a gift of increase; [i.e. he may thus live powerful, afterwards committing sin. He has, or bears, the op- portunity, the door]. (¢) And yet, if any one (lit. who) desires the Druja; it may be his body’s death beforehand (so meaning), [that is, it may be lifelessness to him, an ‘apagaiahi’] (d), because the highest achievement [that of his own soul] may be a kind of vile food, as his glory; [they, or one, may give him vile food in this place; that is, there is no glorious joy for him here * (there)]. (e) The Dasturs of the wicked are complete for the smiting *° [which is that the teachers are fully * smitten with the smiting|, those who do not come [within the Din]; and it may accomplish their slaying, [that is, they (the wicked) are even destroying the place which is here (meaning there (?))].

%1 Poss. ‘and that which is that of the base’. *** not ‘he guards the door’; see further on; ‘has the opportunity’ suits better. %*% hardly ‘wounders’, with the Pahl.; see the gloss.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Aédfin, chfin pah an @ [] [Oi (?) = dn] [] [chiz 7 mini, wa géti] zahir [kunad = vdginand] [], mard zan, [pah veh (sic), aédin [pah = pavan] jeh wa rah-zan [wa = va] pah [] [badha + yani + badtaran = sarttaran) | % (b) [Pah = pavan] Druj [-an = -dn] [ri = rd] min (sic) an [] [baharah = baharah (sic)]; [kash khfirishn [] [kih = mn] i, kih [] hamishah pabaini pah [] [afztin-da- hishni kunand = fréd (sie) dahishni vagind]; [ktsh [khwésh tan = napashman tan| aédim tuwan [] [dashtan (?) = ddshtan], kih pah badi [] [an bih = an bana] pah

386 GIL. 6; 7.

(] [bib dar (?) dtr = bana ratk (?)] %* (c) Kih am Druj [-An = -dn] khw&had, [ka, an nazdiki 2 Druj khwahad] — *** a an [pah = pavan] tan htish [pah = pavan] pésh; [kiish bi-jén bashad] * (d) An [] (nék-dahishn = hét-dahishn] burand [ruwan i kwésh], [] bad-kharishn an jai; [ktish bri t bad dehadj; kt, nist éstéd [] Asani; (ka, chiz [] Asani anja nist] # (e) [U = Varman (sic)| darwand [ra = rd) Dasttir

Sbyalr.cecgays
Trlit. Adcha vé mizhdem anhad ahya Magahya.
Yavad Azhus zarzdist6 baindi hakhtyao

Para(cha) mraochas aoracha yathra mainyus dregvaté anasad para, Ivizayatha magem tem; ad ve ‘Vay’ anhaiti apemem vacho! Verbatim transl. Sed(?) vestrum praemium sit hujus negotii-magni*. (b) Quamdiu Azus [i. e. amor venereus (?), ut persona conceptus] in-cor- _ de-stans [id est, se habens, situs, vel corde-addictissimus] in fundo cruris vel pelvis * (si sic scribere licet) (c) ultraque deorsum -iens [illuc] deorsum- que [protendat] ubi spiritus mali attingat ultra (d) [tamdiu tamen vos, salva virtute ut filium] gignitis ducem-magnum *1 eum. Sic vestrum — |-tra in victoria dicta], O Vayu [-us(?)]!*? erit ultimum [-a] vox [i. e. sic vincentes dicetis]! #*+ sacram causam religionis sub forma personae. 2 vel vayoi = gaudio.(2). — Vel altera traductio: itaque vestrum erit praemium; i. e., supplicium, ejus ne- gotii-magni (b) quamdiu Azus** corde-addictissimus [vel in corde situs] in fundo pelvis —

(c) ultraque iens [illuc] deorsumque [protendat] ubi spiritus mali attingat ultra (d) : gignitis [illum vestrum] magnum [vel illud vestrum negotium magnum], sed vestra: O Vayu [-us?]! erit [in miseria dicta] ultima vox!

Pee ee

Liii. 6, 7, 387

zadar bundah [dehad = dabind (-iméd)]; [ki [] [pah pédaish = pavan dém]* Dastd- bar[i = -¢] bundah [wa = va] zad éstéd, nah-amadan ra; [kih bih 4n in Din nah- amadan (?)]; an @ [pavan (sic) = pavan] minuwan jihan kharab-kardan dehad (?) [= dab- tnd]; ki, gah 7? anja bih kharab-kunad] * #1 no trl; text ‘ash’ with ‘va vagina’ or with ‘frgond (= argond)’ above it.

Free tr. But yours be the recompense that of this Greatness.

For while the fierce passion from the body enflaméd

There before creepeth downwards where the spirit of evil reaches to ruin,

Still ye bring forth the Great One! Thus your last word is ‘Vayu’;

Ye cry it in triumph *!

iminéd (!)]. (c) Afash parindch mrichinéd (vel marenchinéd(?)) va hérin- 6ch1; [aighasht hamai pavan tani dén vazltinyén| bard! yatinéd va’ min zak i? tamman minavad i? darvanddn aydmttinishn® bard; (d) afash madam vadinand® vyalman, pavan zak magih; [pavan zak? 7 avéjak! saritarth aéttiné [mindavam '+8 pavan zak jindk|, pavan dishahiit [adshishn‘4] aité vad zak i afdim, pavan gobishné. + See variations in P. * DJ. ins. * DJ. and FP. ims. * zend characters. ° so DJ. * DJ. -4id; Sp. -d. 7 DJ. om. * DJ. and P. chish (? chiz).

Pahl. transl. Thus also there is a reward for her [for the woman] in your [place] in the Magianship * [in her unalloyed* (?) wickedness; i.e. they shall execute chastisement upon her] (b); when the violent desire * (?) comes into the lower part of the pelvis *; [that is, 7¢ 7s thus with a woman when they would perform the Yasna, and she holds aloof (c) And they come (lit. one comes’, or brings others *+), and approach her on that side, and on this side; [that.is, they would be continually entering her body], and from beyond, from the spirit of the wicked ones is her avoi- dance *2 (or non-approach). (d) And they will even inflict this upon her in the Magianship [in her unalloyed * (?) wickedness}, and so [the matter is carried on in that place] in Hell [in destruction] * until the end through words. *+ Denom. or causative; possibly ‘she slays’, marenchinéd, so Ner., but see the Gatha and gloss. ** this seems most probable in view of ‘lakhvar yekay- imtméd’; ‘and from the not-coming-on of the spirit of the wicked ones’ affords no sense.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Evaii' kiihchit te prasadasya |sthanam] aste, yat iyarn (stri] nirmald, dehi; [kila, nikrisht&yah nigrahari kuryat]. (b) Sarve lobhena tat pracharet [-eyuh] sariptirnena yat striyah?. (c) Tatra pracharet {mrityurm] yatra adrishto durgatimin prépnoti*; [kila, sarveshash yat tanor antar bhavati durgatiman mrityum prapnoti‘]. (d) Yat upari karaniyar tat

388 Lid. 7,'8.

ayain [idarn] mahattararh dvitayari’ [nirmalam nikrishtarhcha] aste; mitra- tvata sukhatarar nidine vachasd. + J* ? P. °C.

Ner. transl. Thus a [position, or occasion], appertains to thy reward, do thou grant it therefore, since this woman is pure; [it is, that she may accomplish the defeat, or effect the punishment, of the degraded one]. (b) May both of them; i. e. may each of them, proceed with full desire to that which appertains to woman*!, (c) But there may she, the degraded one, advance *? [to death] where the invisible (spiritual) wretch is reaching; [that is, the wicked one obtains the death of all when he is within their body]. (d) And what is to be done concerning it, for its relief, that this oreater pair, [both pure and base] will do, [that is, in destruction (or in the end itself) friendship becomes more joyous in their reconciliation (?) through speech (sic (?))|. #1 Or possibly ‘may that proceed to (?) both with

arqete’-99}40909 | Bepsa}ags arrears sty 240} 8. Text.
19g cyeeoguen daedy | Dengagagl.apassswa,
13{y 240.30 6 Ga) | peg ald eg Dagrcty ra )Gxyodre

[ews] boypdoel Rasjoenyossgiy |
Leos 6rgnayranrache gens gh borer bypdang.aye-geea)e
Rgens.wprywd¢

Trlit. Andis & duzhvarsnanhd dafshnyé heiitt Zavyacha vispaonho ; khraosentam upd ,

Misti ses

Iratti i$ dvafshd hyvé derezi merethyaus mazistd,

moshucha astt!

Verbatim transl. [Ab] illis (a) malefactores fallendi [i. e. circum- veniendi *| sunto (b) extinguendique*, [i. e. ad exitium destinati sunt] om- nes; crudeliter-clamanto supra.. (c) [Per] bonis [-nos] regentibus [-ntes] illam * ! (sic) -ferientem crudelemque [nobis] quietem (?) [duram subjectionis dantem-|-que, [per] iis [eos regentes] dato [ille noster tutor vinctam*?] habi- tationibus vicis [-que] (d); aggreditor [i. e. fundito hic noster victor] illos [malefactores in] fallaciam [-ia eorum] ille [per] vinculo [-um] mortis maxi- mus. Moxque [hoc] esto! #1 Vel illum. #2? Vel vinctum.

Pahl. text. translit. Min anaydtinishnd hdmand; [aigh, bara avo

Bin, 4 8 389

full desire which is a woman’s’. (c) There may death attain etc. *%*? translating

mrfichinéd pracharet and marenchinéd mrityum; i. e. he offers an alternative tr.

Parsi-persian Ms. trit. Aédtinich (sic) ash pah an @ shuma [jai] muzd hast, [] [f az = varman min] zanan?] [pah [an = zak] ¢ khalist, (pah [] [Din = Din] 7 khalis [an = zak] [] [badtaran] [6 = 6]; ktish padafrah [bih = band] kunand] * (b) [] {kiyash = amatash] [] [ri — (?) = ztzag (so West, conjecturing)| rawad pah [] [pur = bundah (sic)] jih-zan, [zan kih Yazishn bih kunand, wa awaj (sic) éstéd] #% (c) Azash (?) pésh ham kharab-kunad [] [pas ham = afdwmich] ki [] hama pah tan andar shawad], bih [rah = rds] Ayad, [] az zak 7 anja mint 7 darwandan, nah amadan bih [i it = 7@ varman] (d); azash (?) awar kunad fi, pah an khalis [pah an ¢ khalis [dini pah = din? pavan] badtari]; aédtin [] [chish = chish], pah an jai] pah [] [Dizakh = Dishdn] [an dahish + nabfidagi **+ [= an dahishn] hast ta an 7 akhir, pah goébishn

3* 1 aiternative translation in case that his 4n-dahishn (2) should be read as standing for adshishn (?).

Free tr. To be foiled are the miscreants in their dishonour;

To be crushed are they ever shrieking in anger!

Through good rule, the slayer to settlements cruel

let our champion deliver!

Let him rout those deceivers, through death’s chain the greatest ;

and swift be the issue!

1 See variations in P. * DJ. om. din. * DJ. om. -hdmand. * DJ. harvist. * so DJ. Sp. val. ® DJ. deh. 7 DJ. om. va. * P.; Sp. and DJ. minishn. * so DJ. see P. 10 DJ. and P. yatfinéd. 14 DJ. ins. i. % Zend characters.

Pahl. transl. From their estrangement [that is, Jecause they do not fully come to this Religion], they are malefactors; [that is, they will do an impious thing], and they are also deceitful*!, (b) They are personally violent*?, and keep shrieking on at all times. “(c) But he who is the good sovereign is in the act of coming and inflicting wounds, lameness, and impotence upon that harlot and that felon of violence, when [they approach] the dwelling and the village. (d) And they fail of the reward, and are deceived. Theirs is the awful * death, [cruel] and greatest, and more swift than [other tor- ments]; [that is, theirs is the decease]. #1 Or to be deceived. *? to be smitten(?).

390 LIL. 8, 9.

Ner.’s sansk. text. Asau Dineh anaganta asti, dushtasamacharanaih [avyapdrath kivhchit kuryat] chhadmako bhavet (b) nihanta [bhavet] sarvarh kAlath samarachandm?! upari* 2 (perhaps samarachananam + upari). (¢) Su- syaminah etat chihnar lekhyakath aste anandasya agamanena chhedakartari? ajangamasya akshamasya dadati, yadi aya nivasah prabhito ** [bhavet]. (d) Patanti te [yat prasadah] chhadmena bhavet. Ye [leg. ya] idata ghor- Andhakararh mrityurn prabhitataram mahattaraih [dadyat aparath, Svamin!} sa * cighrataro ’sti [te [leg. tebhyo’]; apagaiahi bhavet; apajivitarn kuryat].

*1 J*, 2 mistaking khrushishn for arastishn. * C. 4 probably reading vésh.

Ner. transi. That one is an avoider of the Din, following evil courses [and Jet him do, or he may be doing (i. e. he may be capable of doing) something unrighteous|, he may be a deceiver (b); he may be a smiter, or a contender at all times, against, or concerning, the arrangements, or embel- lishments, of the service. (c) This written sign of the good Lord is accom- panied with an approach of joy; and he gives it to* the smiter of that lame and impotent one, ¢f perchance this abode here [may become] super-

apere)syeada}oey | venue) bee youl st 2un}e)arderg 9. Text.
byyarge-bayoce | wed-porngy wae ye
| para dacger-ay¢eoaorydtre-(Md | B)yrwsurspyaag
Be eos
| wersig bao cele guy | ce) appre surraee.soyhang. pa
Seryabynbacos)s

vase-itdischa ?
Ad, Mazda! Tava Khshathrem ya erezhejyéi dahi
drigaové vahyé!

Verbatim transl. [Per] male-credentibus [malas religiones sequentes] vexatio |i. e. adflictor] reddit Tui [Tuos cultores] viros-[hoc est, prophe- tas|,-nutrientes [i. e. eis prophetis subyenientes] repudiatores (?) * (viji8) (vel razhis (?) —) (b) [per illud] desiderio[-ium] virtutem - vin-

centi [-ens *] corpus-expulsum**! - habentis [i. e. per consortem culpae

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