Fr. tr. To You cried the Kine’s soul: for what did Ye form? who made me? On me come Wrath and the blow, the murder’s shock, contempt’s defiance, Than You none other have I, then prosper, O guardian, my tillage.
a tearer again he 7s, [that is, they will commit murder on me], and a plun- derer also, [that is, he will rob me], (c) I have no nourisher? (or favourer) save You, |that is, I know none from whom my welfare? so comes as from You], therefore prepare Ye for‘ me that which is a good pasture.
(The flexible Pahl. should be read throughout as a trl., not as an independent document).
Ner.’s sansk. text. Yushmasu gopactinain Atma krandati: [he susva- minah]|, kasmai avinirmito ’smi, [‘khaditurzh? dhartwicha]? kasmai ghatito* *smit, [kila, kasmai pradatto ’smi|? (b) Sa math kopaluh (sic), [yah krodhena nihanti| hathicha, [yo hathat harati], irshyaluh, [yah apramanaih vadhyati$, (‘abadhayati’ sarvatra jneyarh)| darayitacha stenaccha, [yo me jivavighatam kurute, yagcha mam chorayati|. (c) Na mam palayita Yushmat anyah, evai madartham sarimarjayati uttamar gopacukarma‘, [api> na® jane yasmat cubharh evaih yatha bhavadbhyah]. * J* om. from khaditum to ’smi inclus, * C. evaditume 6 Soldia, Jes, Ja, butC.. Py badhy®. 4J.°, J.4, J.* “kam, C. “karma. * so J.%, but C. yena, P. yina. (Trivial variations and obvious corrections are not always mentioned. Kopaluh is for kupayuh accidentally (?) altered on account of irshyaluh).
Ner. transl Among You the Soul of the herds complained, [O good Lords], for whom am I not (sic) patterned, [to eat (?) and to keep]? For whom am I formed*? [that is, to whom am I given over]? (b) He is angry with me, [who destroys me with anger], and a murderer he is, |who seizes me with violence], the envious one [who slays without limit. The words ‘he tor- ments’ are everywhere (see ‘without limit (?)’) to be understood] and he is a cleaver and a thief [who commits life-smiting upon me, and robs me}. (¢) There is no other protector for me save You, so that one prepares* for me the best cattle-culture (not ‘sacrifice’), [I know not also from whom good so comes as it does from You]. (Many Sansk. words throughout express unusual meanings).
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Trlit. Ada tasha Geus peresad(t) Ashem: katha t6i Gavdéi ratus Hyad(t) him data, khshayafité, hada vastra, gaodayé, thwakhsh6? Kem hoi usta. ahurem ye dregvod(e)bis aésh(e)mem vadaydid(t) ?
Verb. trl. Deinde creator Bovis interrogavit, Sanctitatem: quomodo [vel nonne] tibi Bovi magister [{fuit], (b) quum eam creabatis dominantes [vel potentes]? simul-cum pabulo [quomodo tibi magister fuit] in-re-pecuaria- aptus efficax [que]? (c) Quem illi [Bovi] volebatis, i. e. statuebatis dominum, qui a-sceleratis [emissam] saevitiam repercutiat ?
Pahl. tr. So the herd’s Creator asked thus: Ashavahisht, by what means (or who (?)) was there a master of the herd for thee, [that is, what is this thy opinion, by what means (or who) was there a herds’ chieftain
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How had’st thou for kine a chieftain? thus the Cow’s maker asked of Asha;
When, ruling ones, ye made her, with the field, kine-breeding, zealous? Whom gave ye her life’s master, wrath from the wicked ones smiting?
for thee], (b) when (or whom °) ye (or he) did as ruling* create (or appoint) this one (the herd (?)) [to feed and to keep] by whom (or whose) it is that one gives (or ye give) them pasture, and also that one is diligent as to the giving, or producing of the herds, [that is, one gives, (or ye give) it pasture, and also one makes (or ye make) a cattle-guardian manifest from that who will increase the herd]. (c) Whom did ye appoint as a ruler with a benefit [a ruler to feed it when they would provide no nourishment for it, and who gives this answer] to the wicked: ‘The fury [of the Non-iranian is] to be smitten’, [that is, ‘they shall (or do thou) render him stupefied *}. ~ Ner.’s sansk. text. Evan! ghatayita gopacinari2 Hormijda aprichchhat? Dharmai: kas te gopactinam guruh, (b) yas tebhyo data svimi saha gocha- rena*5 gosrishtivyavaséyinath, [kila, gocharati® dadati tebhyah pacupata- raiicha dadati, yo pagan pravardhayati|? (c) Kas teshaih cubhasya svami, yo durgatimatam dmarshasya* talanar (sic) datte, [kila, yo durgatimatazh anyayath nihanti? Sa eva rajidm raja teshari, gubhari khadituih svami]. * J.* ins. go. 2 J. om. go. 3 J.* abravit. * J.4 (?), C., P. gov? (2). ©® P. goch?. 'Ner. tr. So Hormijda, the herds’ former, asked of Sanctity: ‘Who is thy herd-master, (b) who is thy lord giving them, together with pasture*, a clever cattle-breeder ?, [that is, who gives them pasture, and a herdsman who increases the herds]? (c) Who és the lord for* their benefit, who delivers a blow! upon the rage* of the wicked, [that is, who smites their disorder ? He is thus a king of these kings, a lord to devour their good)’. 1Cp. Y.1,19; 9,68. Parsi-persian Ms. Edin An 7 gosfend tashidar [Hérmuzd] pursid ka: Ardibahisht kih tii gésfend rad, [kit in hukm chin [] rad ¢ gésfend kih], (b) [wa va] kih An dehad laik* [khfirdan u dashtan] kiyash hast i dehad kah, wa An ham gdsfendin dadan ku- shishn, [kt, [] kah dehad, azash pasash(h)tiran (sic) az an zahir, kih gosfend bih afzayad] ? (c) kih tt (?) pah néki khuda [kiyash parwarishn nab kunand ham, laik* khurdan(?)], kih 6 dar- wand: kheshm ¢ anér khirishn (? sic vid.), dehad in (?) jawab, [kfish — (?) kunand] (?). *layik.
Free tr. Asha to him made answer: ‘No chief driving grief can be offered. Of these things that is hidden how the lofty move their plans. Of beings He is mightiest whom I near with earnest calls’.
Verb. irl. Huic Sanctitate [vel °tas, lege Ashem]: Non est magister expers-vexationum [i.e. vexationes procul prohibens] Bovi [pro Bove], respon- dit. (b) Ex illarum-rerum non ad-sciendum [est illa res] qua accedat |-dant] ad (vel promoveat [-veant]) fines-propositas-suas spiritus-elati*+. (c) (Fortasse Bos(?) loquitur). Exsistentium ille potentissimus cui [i. e. ad quem] invocationes [dirigens] adeam* 2 [adibo] dirigens-strenuitate. ** vel ab illis non ad scien-
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Trlit. Ahmai Asha ndid(t) sar(e)ja advaéshé Gavéi paiti-mravad(t) Avaésham ndid(t) viduyé [=°dvé] ya Shavaité Adreng ereshvaonho ; Hatam H{ulvo aojisto yahmai zaveng jima keredusha.
dum [est ea res] qua promoveat ignes sublimes. *? vel ad officia-oblationis ad-
euntes [sunt] celebrantes. (Yahmai dat. of goal; cp. dat. with 4; otherwise for gen.).
[valmanshan darvand padafras, i® pavan raband, maman chand vadtinand, la
khavitinand’| (c) Min aitané® zak adj-homandtar, [aigh, a0j° i zak* i* valman
pavan kartar], man avo1° zak pavan karitinishnd yamtinéd avé kardarih, faigh, amatash karittind aigh: kar va kirfaké vadin, vadtnyén]. 1 DJ., D. ins. i. 2D. om. ash. 8 M. vadinyén. * D. om. ® DJ., D. om. va, ins. i.
6 DJ. om. 7. 7 DJ. nd. * so DJs, others aitoand. ° D. ayo, or ano. 1° DJ. valman.
Pahl. tr. He (or To him) Ashavahisht thus made answer: ‘He whose is the authority over the body of the herds zs not in a condition without distress [for he is in distress; that is, that they shall execute chastisement upon him]. (b) They (or of these things (gen. by pos.) they) are not knowing the peace nor the light which is righteous, [nor shall they know what the chastisement of the wicked in the soul is, nor how great they shall make it]. (c) Of beings He is the mightier (-tiest), [that is, his strength is more
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Trlit. Mazdao sa¥ar(é) mairist6 ya zi vaverez0i pairi-chithid(t)
DaévaiScha mas(k)yaischa* yacha var(e)shaité aipi-chithid(t)(* K.5, J.2°shy®.) Hvo vichiré Ahuré atha ne anhad(t) yatha Hvo vasad(t).
Verb. tr. M. verba |-orum-mandatorum-et-decretorum] maxime-memor fest, et eorum] quae enim perfecta sunt [sint] antea [ante hoc tempus], (b) Daevis- daemonibus [i. e. cultoribus eorum| hominibusque [nostrae-religioni - devotis] fet] quae(que) perfectura-sint postea [abhinc]. (c) Ille arbiter-decernens A., ita nobis sit [i. e. erit] sicut ille velit [volet]. (Dictio consulto obscura).
Pahl. text translit. ‘Adharmazd sakhiinan Amarinidar?, [aigh, pavan vinds va kirfak amar? vadtinyén], (b) mtnshan varzid péshich Shédaan va anshtitaant va? manich® varzénd akhar. (c) Zak bara vijidar, khudai, [aigh, kar va dind® bara vijinéd], aétfind lanman homaném, chigin Valman7 kamak, [aigh, lanmanich avayast® zak i9 Valman’].
1See P. ?M. amar°(?). *DJ., D. ins. *D. mardiman. 5 DJ. ins. i. °D. dadistano. 7 so DJ.; M. and others and, or avd. * so DJ.; Sp. avayéd. * Sp. ins. ayo.
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energetic] to whom in invocation that one comes for, or in energy, [that is, when they call upon him thus: ‘Do duty and good works’ he(?) would do them]. Ner.’s sansk. text. Tasmai Dharmo: na svamine aduhkhakartritayA 1 gopaginam*, pratyuttaram abravit,|Iila, yo gopactinamn™ duhkhakartritaya? svami tasya nigrahash kurute]. (b) Tesham na vetta ’si ye andnandah3 parisphutaccha satyagcha, [kila, nigraho yah atmanikah kiyan iti na jandsi]. (c) Satam sa bala- vattamah, yah akaranena* prapnoti kartritve*, [kinnchit AkArayanti* yat: karyaih punyam kuru, karoticha]. + So J.3, J. 280 J.4, J.4, P. % so all. * special use. Ner. transl. To him Sanctity answered: ‘Jf 7s(?) not for this lord (or ‘to this one as a lord’(?)) without the harming of the herds, [i. e. who as lord effects the hindrance (or punishment) of it, the herd, by causing it pain. (b) Of these thou art not cognizant who are manifest and true as the joyless ones®, [that is, Thou dost not know how great the soul’s oppression (punishment) is]. (c) He is the mightiest of beings, who comes into activity through an appeal, [that is they make an appeal for a thing thus: ‘Do a good work’, and he does it]. Parsi-persian Ms. U kih An 7 gésfendan tan sardari: nah pah na-azar [chih fi pah —] Ardibahisht jawab guft, {kfish pidahfrah kunand] %, (b) Oshan nah agah hend an 7 ashti -ya‘ni- dosti [ |] riishan ¢ rast, [dshan darwan dpadahfrah ¢ pah ruwan chih chand dm kunand, nah danad] *% (c) Az hastin an buland(i)mandtar, [ki, [] an 7 @ pah kartar], [kih an an pah khwanishn rasad an —, [kt, kiyash khwanad kit: kar [] kirfah kun; (wa) kunand] *%
Fr. tr. God is of decrees most mindful, deeds beforehand done remembering, By infidels done, and by us, and what both may do hereafter. The Lord shall a// things discern; To us shall it be as He willeth.
Ner.’s sansk. text. Mahajiianindi vachasirh gananakarah”*, [kila, papena! punyenacha samkhyar kurute]. (b) Yanicha acharitani* ptirvarnchit devaigcha manushyaigcha, yanicha acharishyanti* pacchat, [ete Devah manushya? ye? ni- krishtari sarnkhyah]. (c) Asya vivektuh*$ Svaminah, [Svami yah karyaih punyath vivinakti*]. Evaih vayarh smaht, yatha asya kamah, [{kila, asmakam api samihitam tat yad asya]. *So J.4; J*. pape; C., J.t om. cha. 2 so J.%, J.4; J." °yah ye; C., P. °yar (so) ye, Sp. manushyarthe. *soJ.*. ‘all asmah (sic). * special use.
Ner. trl. He is an enumerator of the words of Great Wise Ones’, [that is, he makes a reckoning concerning righteousness and sin]. (b) And he nwmbers the
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things done at first by Devas and by men, and what they shall do hereafter. ° [These Devas are men who are to be regarded as a degraded thing (or for the sake of, as representing men (manushyarthe (?)), they are to be looked down upon.)] (c) Thds ts this discerning Lord’s [the Lord who discerns holy action]; (c) so we are, as is His desire, [that is, even our desired object is that which is His].
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Trlit. Ad(t) vao ustanais ahva zastaiS frinemna Ahurai a
Me (U)r[u]va Geuscha azyao hyad(t) Mazdam dvaidi f(e)rasaby6
Noid(t) erezh(e)jyéi frajyaitis[°jiv°] noid(t) fshuyafité dregvasti pairi.
Verb. ir. At vobis* erectis nos-duo-simus (erimus) [vel vitarum-duarum (ahvao)| manidus, [nos- duo-|precibus-expetentes [ab] Ahurae [-a] ad (ab), (b) mea anima, Bovisque genetricis [anima] quum Mazdam [precabimur| in dubio (vel quum nos-duo M. urgemus (duvaidi)) quaestionibus. (c) Non [sit] recte- viventi exitium, non-diligenti-agricolae scelestos inter. *Orva=vere.
Pahl. tr. Thus more than (or from) You, O Ye Ameshéspends, I diligent- ly bow myself before Aiharmazd, with a lifting up [a spiritual lifting up} of hands, [that is, I worship Atharmazd more in the matter than the.
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Parsi-persian Ms. Hormuzd sukhan (sic) shumar-kunandah, [kti, pah wanah u kirfah shumar-kunand], (b) kishan varzid pésh [] Déwain w marduman, u kih ham varzinand (sic) pas ham % (e) An bih defaced khudaé, (ki, kar w dadistan bana (sic) v no tr. for Pahl. vajinénd (?)] % Hdtin ma hastam (?) chin U kamah, [ki m4 ham — an i U, [— vajiném (?)]] %
Free tr. Thus we two beseeching, with hands outstretched to Ahura, I, and the mother Cow, with questions in doubt press Mazda. Not on the diligent saint let destruction fall with the faithless.