Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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YASNA XXIX.
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or undertake my toil.) Do ye now therefore assign unto us your aid and in abundance for our great cause. May we be (partakers) of the bountiful grace of these your equals 2 (your counsellors and servants) 8!
· The Pahlavi has kabed. For the fundamental idea compare priksh + suffix.
• The Ameshồspends just mentioned, together with whom Ahura governs and blesses His people. Ahmâ (so conjecturing with Barth.), is also quite sufficiently indicated by the lanman of the Pahlavi. Whether an instrumental ehmå can be accepted is doubtful. The form should be altered.
If ehmå stands, istem must be understood, or the instrumental taken in a possessive sense.
Ahmâ has no authority from MSS., but is better than anghâmâ, as being nearer the MSS.
8 As an impartial specimen I render Ner. thus : Whence will that gift come to me, (the gift which is) Asavahista, Gvahmana, and Saharevara, (that is, sanctity, the highest (best) mind, and the sovereignty, where is the place of the reward which will thus come to me?). (Here the translation falls into confusion from an error which is most interesting and instructive, because it is corrected by Ner. in an alternative rendering in the gloss. As has been seldom noticed his original was the Pahlavi word pâdadahisnînêd, rather than the Gathic paitî-zânatâ. This Pahlavi form he could not at first believe to be a second plural. Indeed the Pahlavi glossist may have taken it as a third sg. Neryosangh therefore abortively renders word-for-word as follows: You, O Great Wise One! it offers or presents more excellently through the greatest exaltation' (the holy cause). But he recovers himself in the gloss by reading the Pahlavi padadahisnõ vâdânyên as an imperative : [Provide a reward through that spotless exaltation (the irreproachable cause)] continuing : Here, O Lord! is the gift (which is) ours, and (which comes) to us from Thee.)
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