574 GRAY. 



2. The Protasis is introduced by y ezi : 

 vd. 5. 14 (yAv. prose) : 



yezi noil aete niasdayas)ia act^ni kjlirpsm Jward-dardSim. 

 k^r^navqn ydrj-drajo avavantjni asavaynydi tqm ci&qm dacsayo. 



' if these Mazdayasnians shall not make this corpse beheld by 

 the sun for the length of a year, thou art to teach so great a 

 penalty as for the murder of a righteous man.' 



vd. 7. 12 (cf vd. 7. 13) (yAv. prose) : 



yezi aulial itpactjni vd aiwi-naptiin vd aiwi-iritim vd aiwi- 

 vantim vd actdoa he actc viazdayasna actd vastra fraca kdi'dntan 

 idea kanaydJi. 



' if it shall be stained with either semen, or matter, or ordure, or 

 vomit, then are these Mazdayasnians to tear up these garments, 

 and they should bury them.' 



(In this last example the use of the Optative kanayjji beside 

 the Injunctive kjrjutjn is noteworthy. On the other hand, the 

 lateness of the passage should warn us against pressing too 

 strongly the fundamental distinctions between the two moods.) 



As an example of the conditional sentence having the Sub- 

 junctive in the Protasis, and the Injunctive in the Apodosis in 

 the Rig- Veda we may cite Rv. 4. 30. 23 : 



utd niindin ycid iiidriydin karisyd indra paunsyani 

 adyd ndkis tad d ininat. 



' and now whatever heroic, manly deed thou shalt perform, 

 O Indra, that no one is to minish to-day.' 



e. Subjunctive in the Protasis and no finite form of the verb in the 



Apodosis. 



a. Present tense in the Protasis. 

 I. The Protasis is introduced by yezi: 

 vd. 5. 4 (similarly also vd. 5, 7, cf vd. 8. 34) (yAv. prose): 

 yeziea aete nasdvo . . . narjin dsttyeintJni dn/idl isaro-stditya 

 me vlspo anJins astva isasjinjit-asjni xraodat-nrva pjso-tanns. 



' and if these corpses . . . shall defile man, straightway (will 

 or would be) all my material world desiring the destruction of 

 righteousness, with hardened soul, and damned.' 



