CONTRIBUTIONS TO AVESTAN SYNTAX. . 579 



paroit pairi&njm anhvqin ava-hisidyat 

 aca paraca dvaraiti. 



' if indeed I should not have created, O Spitama Zarathushtra, 

 that star Tishtrya, . , . verily all the day and all the night this 

 Pairika Duzhyairya would seem (?) a bond (?) before the life 

 (?) of this material world, (as), she rusheth to and fro.'^ 



yt. 13. 12—13 (y^v. prose and verse) : 



yezdi si me noit daiolt upastqni uyrh asdiinqm fravasayo noit 

 me ida 



anhat3in pasinra 



yd sto sarjoaiiqui vahista 



dm jo aogary dnijo xsad-rjni 



drujo astvh anlius hw]idt_ . . . 



hazdydl . . . vaonydt . . . itpa-daydL 



'if indeed the awful Fravashis of the righteous should not 

 have given me aid, then I shall not have cattle or men, which 

 are the two best things of the kind ; the power will belong to 

 the Druj, the kingdom will belong to the Druj, the material 

 world will belong to the Druj, . . . would use violence, . . . 

 would conquer, . . . would yield.' 



(The interchange of the Optatives hdsdydt, vaonydt, and 2ipa- 

 daydt with the Perfect Subjunctives anhdl and dnhdtsin has 

 already been noted by Bartholomae Altiran. Verb. -189-190. 

 The general sense of the passage seems to be an Unfulfilled 

 rather than a Possible Condition. ) 



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



a. The Present tense in both Clauses. 

 I. The Protasis is introduced hy yeioi: 

 vd. 1. I (yAv. prose): 



yeibi zi azdvi noit daidyqjn spitama zara&ustra aso rdvio- 

 dditlni noit kiidat sditini vispo aiB^Jiits astvd airyan^ni vaej'o 

 frdsnvdt. 



' Professor Jackson suggests that hisi^ydt may be a reduplicated form of the 

 Av. -^ sad. Old P. -^f -^ad 'seem,' and \h2A.pairi^na may be from the y' tan ' stretch ' 

 ■\-paiti. The genitive ahhvam would then be governed by the preposition /ar^V. 



