CONTRIBUTIONS TO AVESTAN SYNTAX. 569 



' if the Persian folk shall be protected, there shall descend upon 

 this house through the Lord that peace which shall be forever- 

 more.'^ 



Iliad 1. 324. 



sc OS xe p-Ti owv^acv, iyco oi xsp alirbz iAcofxac. 



b. Subjunctive in the Protasis and Indicative in the Apodosis. 



a. The Present tense in both Clauses. 



I. The Protasis is introduced by the general 

 relative ya — .• 



ys. 54.1 = 27.5 (GAv. verse) : 

 yd daend vahnm liandt mizddin 

 asahyd ydsd asim yqm isyqm almro masatd viazda. 



'what (= if any) faith shall merit the wished-for reward, that 

 desirable blessing of Asha I seek which Ahura Mazda is to 

 multiply.' 



ys. 62. 7 (yAv. verse) : 



vispaeibyo sastim baraiti 

 dtars inazda ahuraJie 

 yaeibyo aem hqm-pacdite 

 xsdfnimca sTiirlmca. 



' unto all doth the Fire of Mazda Ahura bear proclamation, 

 for whom he shall cook the evening and the morning meal ' (or 

 ' the repast and the banquet ' — see Darmesteter Etud. Iranienn. 

 ii 161— 162 as compared with Le Zend-Avesta i 389 n. 24). 



(Note the variant reading pacaiti Pt. 4. 1. Mf. 3. Pd. H. 1. 2. P 

 '6. F 1. J 9. K 7c. 15 for pacdite.) 



yt. 10. 9 (yAv. verse) : 



yatdra vd dim paiirvafrdyazditi 

 fraoratfraxsni avi inano 

 zarazddtoit aimihyat Jiaca 

 dtarad^ra fraorisyeiti 

 mid-ro yd voiiru-gaoy aoitis . 



1 For other renderings of this crux hyd diivais^ta^tii siydtis axstd see Oppert Le 

 ■peuple . . , des Medes 199 ; Bartholomae Ar. Forsch. ii 100-102, cf. Grundr. 

 •der iran. Philol. i 227 ; Spiegel Altpers. Keilinschr.2 114-115; Foy KZ. XXXV. 49. 

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