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II.
ZEND FRAGMENTS IN THE ZEND
PAHLAVI FARHANG.
The oldest Zend dictionary in existence, the so-called ZendPahlavi Farhang or Oyum-yak Farhang ', contains a number of Zend sentences or fragments of sentences, which are adduced as instances of the Zend words. They amount to the number of seventy, of which forty-eight are new. We thought it necessary to give the translation of these forty-eight fragments only. The indications of pages refer to the printed edition.
I a (pp. 6–7). aêdha. The skin on the head.
There are two, one greater and one lesser, as it is said in the Nîkatum:
Which is the greater aêdha ?—That one which is on the posterior part of the skull.
Which is the lesser one ?- That one which is on the anterior part of the skull.
i b (p. 7). The head (vaghdhanem) of a man. One bone of the skull.
1 Haug-Hoshangji, An Old Zend-Pahlavi Glossary, Bombay, 1867.
2 The Nikâtûm is the fifteenth Nask, the first of the seven Legal Nasks. It contained thirty Fargards, the third of which, named Rêshistan (a treatise on the wounds), gave an enumeration of the divers members of the body, numbering seventy-six. The fragments 1a-1 b are very likely taken from that Fargard. For an analysis of the Nikâtâm, see Dînkart VIII, ch. 16-20 in West, Pahlavi Texts, IV).
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