Ner.’s sansk. text. Evanicha Te vayath svadinah smah! ye idath akshayat- vath kurmahe bhuvane, (b) Mahajianinecha Svimine tat cacvat hafijamanaii*? (sic) kurvanah Dharmayacha, [kila, ye sadai ’va hanijamanath*? upari tanoh akshayatayaih vidhataro smah’]. (c) Yah &decamano*(?) bhavati, [kila manah adegena Svamino dhatte| tasya paraloke nirvadnajiidnam asti antar bhuvane, [kila, tanoh akshayatve sati# akhsamataydth saritishthati kshinasainyah®].
* All asmah (sic). 2 Parsi. * all ’smi. * J.4, J.* samti. 5 The most ‘sen®.
Ner. transl. And thus are we Thine own, we who are producing this state of indestructibility in the world, (b) forming the assembly always for the Great Wise One the Lord, and for Sanctity, [that is, we who are ever arrangers of an assembly concerning the indestructibility of the body]. (c) He who is well-ordered in his mind, [that is, who disposes his mind according to the order of the Lord] possesses that knowledge which concerns the end of things in the other world, [that 7s, when the indestructibility of the body has been realized
he whose host has been destroyed (or the host-destroyer) meets impotence].
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Trlit. Ada zi ava Drijé (avo) bavaiti skendé spayathrahya
Ad(t) asista yaozanté* a hushitdis Vanhéus Mananhd
Mazdao Ashahyacha yoi zazenté vanhau sravahi.
Verb. trl. Deinde enim desuper-in Drujae[-jam] (dein-super) est (i. e. cadit) discissura (sic, deletio) exercitus; (b) at velocissimi (i. e. citissime) festi- nant (vel yaoj® congrediuntur) ad [in] faustae [-tam]-habitationis [-ionem] Bonae Mentis, (c) Mazdae, Sanctitatisque qui progrediuntur (fortasse gig- nuntur (zan(?))) in bona fama [vel in sancta disciplina docti].
Pahl. text translit. + Aétind pavan zak dahishné+ [pavan tand* i pasing] valman i? Drij [i?+® Ganrak* (?)* Minavad] pavan fréd-biyishnih> [amatash*+4 mindavam bara avd’ uizarih yekaviminad6] tebrini-ait sipah, (b) aétand tizo aytizénd (or aytj°®) [avd mozd yansegiintan‘] zak i pavan hi-manishnih? ¢ Vohi- mando [amat pavan frartindih ketriinasto* (sic) yekavimtind!°+4]. (c) Avo Athar- mazd va? Ashavahishtoch! [ayizénd] mtn vakhdtnd* zak i shapir namikth, {aigh, zak’! aish vazlinéd avo mozd yansegintand$+2+4 mun hi-srdbd aitd].
‘See P. 2D. om. * DJ., D., om. 7 va. *DJ. ganakh (?). * M. yehevitnishnih. * DJ. ins. ash. 7DJ. ghal. *D. °tinand. ° Mf °min®. '°D, “Gnéd. “ DJ. ins. 2 #2 DJ.
Pahl. transl. Thus in that dispensation [in the later body] the Drij [who is Ganrak* Minavad] will be overthrown (in overthrow) when his affairs are in a state of meagreness, and his(?) host is shattered. (b) Thus they move* keenly on (or swiftly unite) to seize the reward which is attained in (or
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paren et Free tr. There on the host of the Lie the blow of destruction descendeth, >,» But swiftest in the abode of the Good Mind gather the righteous, With Mazda and Asha they dwell advancing in holier fame.
through) the good habitation (or abiding) of Vohiman, [when they shall have dwelt in piety]. (c) They who are seizing (or creating (vadind)) a good renown are thus moving on toward Attharmazd and Ashavahisht, [that is, the person who is of good repute goes forward to seize the reward].
Ner.’s sansk. text. Taya datya hi asau Devah adhasi (? adhas) bhaveta, krigatarapatakinikah* (b) evath cighraih prarohanti te sunivasatatayd (so, *tém) Uttamasya Manasah}, (c) Hormijdecha Dharmecha, [techa ye sadacha- rataya avasitih santi prasAdeshu gighrath prayati (-ydnti)], ye kurvanti* ut- tamanam? kirtith, * P. ins. pranati (for prayati). 2 P. uttamam no.
Ner. tr. For by means of this dispensation that Deva should be put in subjection (underneath), his host having become thinner. (b, c) So in view of this they who are producing the fame of the most exalted ones (the good) are arising quickly through (meaning ‘to’) the good lodging of the (their (?)) best mind to Hormijda and to Sanctity, [and they who are thus lodged there
because of good conduet advance quickly among the rewards].
Parsi-persian Ms. Edn pah an [] [pah tan 7 pasin] fi ¢ Druj [¢ Gana Mini] pah — — [kiyash (kih ash) chiztbih 4n nizari istad] shikastah sipah * (b) edtin tiz (no tr. for Pahl. ayfizénd) [an muzd sitadan]* an 7 pah nék [] [minishni* = méinishn (so)] 7 Vahoman (sic), [kih pah néki mandah (?) istad] % (c) An Hormuzd u Ardibahisht [] [no tr. for indecipherable Pahl.] kih [] [kunad = vagtnéd| an i veh nami (?), [kf, an kas shawéd* (-wad) an muzd* sitadan kih — hast] #
Free tr. When then these doctrines ye learn which Ahura gave, O ye mortals, For our welfare and in grace, when long is the wound for the wicked, And blessings the lot of the pure, upon this shall there be salvation. Verbatim. Quum [vel quod] has doctrinas discite quas Mazda dabat, {i. e. revelavit, O yos] homines, (b) [quas] sua-sponte (vel, [ad] prosperitati [-tem augendam) inspirat(?) [vel strenuitate-promovet (?)], quodque [quumque] [revelavit etiam] longinquam [adversus] scelestis [-tos] sauciationem, beneficia {emolumentaque pro hominibus] probis, tum in [post (?)] his [haec] erit salus! Pahl. text tr. ‘Zak i? kola II afrinagdnih*! amiikhtishné (sic) min? Ad- harmazd dadé¢ ayd anshitaand (b) ‘minich® khyad(?) [nahin(h)(?)] (or khvaén*?
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Pahl. trl. Both those blessed revelations are doctrines which A. gave to men (b) by whose self(?) also [with no violence (?) (mercifully)| (or, ‘with whom also glittering (?) (iron(?)’) is that subject of teaching, [that is, while, or in case that, the service may not have been completed for me], and what also is the long wounding for the wicked [from that evi! celebration], (c) and those revelations are also advantageous to the righteous, [that is, when pro- duced as it is fitting to produce them], and so after these things, there is felicity [when that benefit shall have fully arrived].
Ner.’s sansk. text. Yas tau prasiddhau cikshati [Avistavaniih vyakh- yAnathcha] yaut Mahajhani dadau manushyebhyah (b) abhilashukagcha
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Verb. trl. Haec Vestrum [vestras] doctrinas memorantes huc usque-in- audita (vel sine-obedientia-audita) verba pronuntiemus (b) his qui doctrinis Mendacii-daemonis Sanctitatis [viros-| colonias [-habitantes] interficiant [-ient] (vel eas colonias vastabunt), (c) at-quidem [verba] his optima qui corde- addicti. sint Mazdae.
Pahl. text translit. *Zak 2 kolA d6 Afrinaganith* i? avd? Lektim hdsh- miroém! [Avesték va> Zand] valmanich® i anydkhshidar? [Aharmdk] pavan gobishnd Amiizém®, [dén varhomandih’® 12°, si bar avé+! gobishnd, va* amat Aévar* (2 cp. évar) khavittinéds, aigh 14 Amaikht-éd"? (sic) si bar]. (b) Valmanshan mtin!? pavan afrinaganih* i Drij4 zak i Aharayih géhan bara marenchinénd, [amat Draj? pavan Afrinagand yakhsenund], (c) adindch i? valmanshan pahlam
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Free tr. These your doctrines reciting, words unheeded yet let us utter By those unheard who our farms through the creeds of the lie are destroying, But words of the best unto those who to Mazda are heartily faithful.
homanai, amat ribak dahishnd hémanand pavan zak i? Adharmazd, [aigh, valmanshanich +16 Aharmékand mindavam 117 denman pahlim hémanai'® amat?® Diné i Atharmazd rabik vadtinaiid].
Pahl. tr. Both these blessed revelations which I recite for You (or as Yours; om. avo) [the Avesta and Zand] we are teaching by word to him who is no hearer, [to the Destroyer-of-Sanctity or Persecutor. In a doubtful matter we teach him three times by word, and if he knows without doubting, then he is not thus taught three times], (b) to those who utterly slay the settle- ments ofSanctity through the benedictions of the Draj, [when they maintain the Drtj by false benedictions|, (c) then to those this might be the best thing, when they would cause progress in what belongs to Auharmazd, [that is, to those persecuting* heretics* even it would be a best thing if they should make the Religion of Aiharmazd progressive].
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Ner.’s sansk. text. Taucha prasiddhau manydmahe, [kila, janimah Avista- vanitn arthamcha] acrotrindm (?) [Asmogéndin! (?)] vachasa2 cikshapayamah [antah sarngayatve? trin varan*, chet jénati pratikaroticha, sadai’va, chet janati, na pratikaroti, ekavararn*] (b) teshdmh ye prakacanti Drijasya, [kila, ye Drijam prasiddharh dadhati, Drftjath Asmogatvarn kapatachihnam], ye pun- yani* jagatyah vilumpanti, (c) evarn tebhyah utkrishtatarandm (?) [tebhyah Asmogebhyah] ye pravrittidah santi Mahajianibhyah, [kila, ye Diniz Ma- hajnaninah pravartamanam kurvanti*|.
*C., P. ?C., P. and J.* diff. *C. “tvena. *J.3, J.*. (Sansk. of every period ig used throughout, and Sandhi is intermittingly applied).
Ner. transl. And to these two revelations we pay attention, [that is, we understand the Avista-word and the interpretation], and we teach them by word even to those who stop the ears, [that is, even to the Asmogas, in doubt three times; if the person understands it and resists, always; if he understands and does not resist, once]; (b) and we also teach them to those
Trlit. Yezi ais ndid(t) (w)rvané [=ruv°] advao aibi-deresta vah|i]yao,
Ad(t) yao vispénig dyoi, yatha ratim Ahuré vaeda Mazdao aydo asaydo, ya Ashad(t) hacha j[ijvamahi.
Verbatim trl. Si iis non animae non-ambigua (i. e. doctrinas sine ullo dubio (cp. Y. XXX, 1 etc.)) apprehensae [sén¢] meliores (vel si melior via (leg. adva) non in-conspectu (?) sé), (b) tum ad vos omnes adeo [adibo ut eas doctrinas veras promulgem] sicut regulam [-suam] Ahura agnovit (c) Mazda harum-duarum-partium [vel portionum (?)] qua [vel ut] Sanctitate (ex) vivamus.
Pahl. text translit. 1Man* pavan nikirishné 14 hémnunédd, ash pavan zak i? agimanikih, [amat pavan mindavam i® Yazad4nd? lich gtimani}, aigh, ait madam nikézishnih* shapir [amatash pavan anddzako! i stih bard numayend]. (b) Aéttind® avo lekim harvispé? yatind, [aigh, kold aish bara avd khvéshih i Lektim yatind®], amat aétind radih i Atharmazd Akds yehevind, [aigh, afdih i Atiharmazd bara khavitind]. (c) Min Adharmazd, min valmanshan zak yamtinishnd amat min Aharayih avakih zivam, [min Ameshéspendan am’ den- man nadtkih*, mint Aiharmazd, amat levatman kar va kirfakd zim aitd ghal zivam‘+§], +See P. * DJ. * D. * DJ. 1 yazishnih. * so D.; DJ. li (N.B.) avo, M., K.® val i. ® so Mf. etc.; D. yakhsentind. 7 DJ. min am. * Mf. zim (?).
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who reveal (so, or ‘increase’ (so kde with Ner. often)) the Druja’s doctrine (or who appear to be the Druja’s adherents), [that is, who establish, or regard, the Drija as a revelation, the Drija, the Asmoga-characteristic who has the sign of deceit], and who afflict the sacred things of the earth, (c) And thus a/so we teach it to those more exalted (better) than these [these Asmoha devotees], that is, to those who bestow propagation upon the Great Wise Ones, [that is, who render the Din of the Great Wise One progressive].
. Parsi-persian Ms. An ¢ har di mashhtri* 7 [] shuma [] [shumtraa* — hoshmird] [Avesta u Zand], wa ti ham 7 bi-shinidar (sic) [Ashmégh] pavan gébishn amuzain, [andar shakmandi* sih + III bar, [] gobishn, wa kih bi-guman danad, ki nah amikht sih bar] (b) Oshan kih pah (space) ¢ Druj 4n ¢ Sawab jihan* bih kharab-kunand [kih Druj pah (space, no tr. or text) darad], (c) agin ham (sic vid.) 7 éshan* buland hasti, kih rawa-dahishn hend pah an ¢ Hormuzd, [kfi7 éshin ham Ashmégh chiz in buland hasti (?), kih awa (? It may be rawa slipped in from above or possibly andar (?)) = Pahl. dén for Din) 7 Hérmuzd rawa-kunand] sz