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Appendix. Corrections

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"Pahlavi Texts, Part Ii (sbe18)\", E.W. West, tr. [1882],

p. 478 p. 479

Corrections.

P. 66,
line 15; p. 67, l. 7; for 'Mitr,' read 'Mit"r".'

P. 198,
lines 1, 3, for 'the Supreme Being' and 'the Being' read 'God (ydat),' and cancel note 1.

P. 109,
note 2, add 'Malks has also been read Marks and traced to Av. mahrk"s" (see Fragment VIII, 2 in Westergaard's Zend-Avesta, p. 334), which appears to be the title of some demon, regarding whom very little can be ascertained from the text that mentions him.'

P. 143,
l. 12; 145, l. 6; 150, note 6; 252, l. 6; 289, note 2; 318, ll. 26, 27; 346, l. 24; for 'tr' and 'tr' read 't"r"' and 't"r".'

The following emendations depend upon the meaning to be attached to the word vspharak, or vspharak, which in Mkh. I, 7 was traced to Pers. b, 'with,' and sipihrah, 'sphere, world, universe,' and supposed to mean 'world-renowned,' being rendered by vikhytimat in Sanskrit. The objections to this etymology are that Pers. b is Pahl. a"v"k (not v), which is nearly always replaced by Huz. levatman, and that vsphar appears to be the correct form of the word vaspr, which explains the Huz. barbt, literally 'son of the house' in the Pahlavi Farhang (p. 9, ed. H.); the latter word having been the highest title of the Persian nobility, probably confined to the heads of seven families (see Nldeke's Geschichte der Perser and Araber zur Zeit der Sasaniden, pp. 71, 501). Such nobles are called barbtn in the H"g"bd inscription, line 6, and vspharakan in the Naq"s"-i Rustam inscription, line 6; they may perhaps be styled 'princes,' and their title, vsphar, may be traced to the ancient Persian equivalent of Av. vs puthra (Vend. Vii, 114), literally 'son of the village or borough.' It may be noted, however, that the word 'sphere' does really occur in a form very similar to this title, in the word aspiharaknkh, 'as regards the spheres,' in Dd. 88, 4.

P. 78,
ll. 11-13, read 'But those who are the more princely (vspharaknktar) producers of the renovation are said to be seven...'

P. 91,
ll. 11, 12, read '... and he made the princes (vspharaknh) contented.'

p. 480

P. 172,
ll. 26, 27, read '... a minder of the princes of the religion (dnvspharakn), the angels, and "with" pure thoughts...'

P. 262,
ll. 15, 16, read '... and its position is most princely (vspharaknktar).'

P. 282,
ll. 17, 18, read 'On account of the princeliness (vspharaknh) of the good "people" of Khvanras...'

P. 289,
ll. 14, 15, read '... I "am" more applauding the princes (vspharakn-zhtar) about the property of the profession...'

P. 306,
ll. 23, 24, read '... to keep in use the equal measure "which is" more "the custom" of his own superiors (naf"s"man vspharakntar).'
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