572 GRAY. 



' if men shall worship Victory created by Ahura (cf. Jackson 

 Av. Gramm. § 926 n.) , . . . here upon the Aryan lands should 

 come neither horde nor plague.' 



(Note the Optatives akuisacydns dj\dfrqshydtm both Clauses 

 of the similar sentence yt. 8. 56.) 



2. The Protasis is introduced by yeoi, yezi: 

 vd. 16. 7 (yAv. prose) : 



yezi apdrjndyuko frdsnavdt zasta he paoirivifrasjidoaym, 

 ' if an infant shall touch her, they should wash his hands first.' 

 vd. 8. 3 (yAv. prose) ; 

 ■yezi aet3ni nmdnjm iipd-bjra&ivotarsni ava-zanqn ava aetdm 

 nmdndin barayd?i ava&a iristjin hjrjzayjit tipa aetdni nmdndin 

 baodayqn. 



' if they shall perceive this house more portable, they should 

 bear this house away ; they should leave the corpse there : they 

 shall perfume this house.' 



(The Subjunctive bdooayqu seems to express a command valid in 

 any case, whether the corpse be brought to the dakhma, or the 

 dakhma be built around the corpse.) 



vd. 16. 8 (yAv. prose) : 



yezi ndirika voliiinis diivi-vdeiidl yai he i%-dyd xsafna sacdnte 

 airinie gdtuni lie nisliiodetd. 



' if the woman shall see blood when her three nights shall have 

 elapsed, she should sit in her place of isolation.' 



(Note the variant readings Subjunctive for Optative nishidditi 

 Mf. 2. nisJiaoditd Jp. 1. and Indicative for Optative uishdoditi 

 Kla. Jiishaoditd L 4.) 



b. Present tense in the Protdsis dnd Aorist tense in the Apodosis. 



I. The Protasis is introduced by the general 

 relative J' cr — .• 



ys. 68. 10-12 (yAv. prose) : 



yd vd dpo vdiniliis ydzdite . . . dlimdi va/iistjvt dhilni dsaonqm 

 rdocanJij^n vlspo-x'dd-rjvi ddydtd vdwih'is dpo. 



