556 GRAY. 



' if then he bringeth \\ood to him, . . . thereafter the Fire 

 of Mazda Ahura blesseth him.' 



(cf vd. 18. 26, where the Apodosis has the Subjunctive 

 a/rJ?ial.) 



}i;. 6. 3 (^>'A\-. prose) : 



j'eidi rrJ Jivarj noil uziixsyciti aoa dacva vlspa nijrjncinti ya 

 Junti Jiaptd-karsvoJiva ; uara cis mainyava rasatci a))-}iava 

 ash'aiiiti paiti-drqni uoit paitistqni z'ldj)iti. 



' ii the sun does not arise, then all the demons which are in 

 the seven zones work destruction ; neither do an}- spiritual 

 angels in the material world find recourse or resistance.' 



vd. 8. 40-41 (^}"Av. prose) : 



zcLsta Jic paoiniii frasnadayjn ; dat yat he ::asta )idit frasndfa 

 dat vlspqin hvqni tatinin ayadhdata kjrjnaoiti . . . 



yezica apo viDni/ns barjsnfim vaybaiuni pounnn paiti-Jasaiti 

 kva acsqm acsa dntxs ya iiasus iipa-dvqsaiti. 



' first they shall wash liis hands ; for when his hands (^are) 

 not washed, he maketh all liis body in impurit}' . . . 



' if the good waters come first to the top of his head where 

 of these (places) doth this Druj, the Nasu, pounce.' 



The following parallels for this form of the conditional sentence 

 may be cited from the Rig-\'eda, the Old Persian inscriptions, 

 and the Greek. 



Rv. 8. 43. 28 : 



yad ague divijd dsy apsujd va saJiaskrta 

 id in tz'd glrbldr hard malic. 



' whether, Agni, thou art born in hea\en or in water, O thou 

 who wast made b}- might, we in\-oke thee with our hymns.' 



Bh. 1. 23-24: 



ya&ds\_dm /ialrd/nd a/%r/i y a:'a/^d alvDiaiyatd. 



' as it was said unto them by me, so was it done.' 

 Euripides Bellerophon. frag. 294, 7 (ed. Xauck) : 



