OF ASIATICK WORDS, ^C 



IV. 



As a fpecimen of the old Perfian language and charac- 

 ter, I fubjoinavery curious paflage from the Zend, 

 which was communicated to me by Bahman, the fon 

 of Bahra'm, a native of Yezd, and, as his name in- 

 dicates, a Pars} : he wrote the paffage from memory, 

 fince his books in Pahlavi and Deri are not yet 

 brought to Bengal. It is a fuppofed anfwer of I'zad, 

 or God, to Zera'htu^ht, who had afked by what 

 means mankind could obtain happinefs. 



Az pid u mad die ce pid u mad ne khojiintid bid har~ 

 giz bihijlit ne vz'nzd : be jay i cirfah bizah vtnid : mehdn 

 rd be dzarm nzc ddrid, cehdn ra he hack gin ah maydz- 

 ai\d : aj khzjlidvendi dervzjli nang meddrzd : dad u 

 venddd i khdliki yectd beh car ddrid : az rijldkhz zi ten 

 pajzn end i Jh eh ncmdyid : mabddd ce a /hit ten khz Jli 

 ra dvzakhz cumd, va dnche be khz jhten naflulhad be 

 cafdn mapafendzd va ma cumd : herchc be giti cunid be 

 mainu az aiteh pazirah dyed* 



A verbal Tranflation. 



" If you do that with which your father and mother 

 are not pleafcd, you fhall never fee heaven ; inftead of 

 good fpirits, you fhall fee evil beings. Behave with 

 honefty and with refpect to the great; and on no ac- 

 count injure the mean : hold not voiir poor relations a 

 reproach to you : imitate the jultice and goodnefs of 

 the Only Creator: meditate on the refurreclion of the 

 future body, left you make your fouls and bodies the 

 inhabitants of hell ; and whatever would be unpleafing 

 to yourfelves, think not that pleafin'; to others, and do 

 it not : whatever good you do on earth, for that you 

 fhall receive a retribution in heaven." 



* Plate VII. The tend Letters are in Plate IIL 



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