568 GRAY. 



c. A or is t tense in both Clauses. 



I. The Protasis is introduced by yezi: 



ys. 48. I (GAv. verse): 



yezi addis asd driijdni vdnnliaiti . . . 

 at toi savdis vaJunjm vaxsat ahnra. 



'if in time to come (? cf. the Pahlavi translation and gloss: 

 pavan zak dahisno \_pavan tano i pas'indY) Asha shall conquer 

 the Druj, . . . then because of thy mercies the prayer shall in- 

 crease for thee, O Ahura.' 



d. Aorist tense in the Protasis and Present tense in the Apodosis. 



I. The Protasis is introduced by the general 

 relative ya — .• 



ys. 45. 3 (GAv. verse) : 



yoi im v3 noil ^'^^ inqOrjin varjsjnti 



yad-d ini nijudicd vaocacd 



acibyo anhdus avoi aii-hat apdnvni. 



' whoso of you shall not do the Word even as I both think and 

 speak it, unto them shall the last day of the world be for the 

 destruction.' 



(Note the variant readings varjsantl C1.K11.02., varjsantc Jp 

 1 for varjsjnti. With avo here cf avaetds ys. 31. 20 and see Jack- 

 son A Hymn of Zoroaster 54. The tradition regards nujidi and 

 vaoca as locatives rather than as verbs, but cf Jackson A^^ 

 Gramm. § 651, Bartholomae Grundr. der iran. Philol. 210.) 



Here again we iind similar forms of the conditional sentence 

 with the Subjunctive in both clauses in Sanskrit, Old Persian, and 

 Greek. 



Rv. 2. 23. 4. 



yds titbhyani dasdn nci tdni di'iho asnavat. 



' whosoever shall serve thee, distress shall not \isit him.' 

 Dar. Pers. e. 22-24. 



yadiy kdra pdrsa pdta aliatiy hyd duvais[ta']!n siydtis axstd 

 Jiauvciy aura nirasdtiy abiy imam vid-am. 



