Redard Céline. The Srōš Drōn - Yasna 3 to 8. A Critical Edition with Ritual Commentaries and Glossary

Leiden — Boston: Brill, 2021. — xx + 543 pp. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia 32/3; Corpus Avesticum 3). — ISBN 978-90-04-47031-6. — ISBN 978-90-04-50047-1.This book is a multi-faceted study of the Srōš Drōn, comprising chapters 3 to 8 of the Yasna ceremony, the core ritual of the Zoroastrian religion. It provides a critical edition produced with the electronic tools of the project The Multimedia Yasna, and a study of the performative aspects of the Srōš Drōn both through the lens of the ritual directions and in comparison with the Drōn Yašt ceremony.
By analysing the Srōš Drōn both as a text attested in manuscripts and as a ritual performance, Céline Redard applies a new approach to unlock the meaning of these chapters of the Yasna.Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
The MUYA Project 1
The Editorial Process
Editorial Decisions
Variations Between Ceremonies
Indication of the ratu
haδa° as a Marker for the Ceremony of Intercalation
Dedication (xšnūman)
Avestan Calendar Date
The Editing Practice Adopted with Regard to the Ahuna Vairiia, Aṣ̌ǝm Vohū and Yeŋ́hē Hātąm Formulae
The Dialogic Ahuna Vairiia
The Edition of aṣ̌āunąm / aṣ̌aōnąm, gen. pl. of aṣ̌auuan- ‘righteous’
Manuscripts Collated for the Present Edition
Type of Manuscripts
Description of Manuscripts
Transcription Process
O T E – The Transcription Editor
Description of the Transcription
The Collation Process
The Collation Tool
Methodology of the Semi-automated Collation Process
None Rules
Orthographic Rules
Phonetic Rules
Orthographic-phonetic Rules
Reconstructed Rules
Abbreviation
Critical Apparatus
Arrangement of Variant Readings and Witnesses
Sigla and Abbreviations
Emended Form
The Ritual Directions
2 Yasna 3 to 8 – the Srōš Drōn
The Association with Sraōša
Structure of Yasna 3 to 8
The ‘drōn’ Text
The Srōš Drōn Compared to the Second Srōš Drōn and the Drōn Yašt
Adaptations to the Offerings
Adaptation to the Dedication
Possible Insertion of Y 23, 26 and 67
Adaptation to the List of ratus
Direct Address to the Fire
Substitution of the Yasna Haptaŋhāiti’s Quotation
Adaptation of the Dialogic Ahuna Vairiia
Recitation of Y 8.2
Adaptation of Y 8.9Selected Commentaries
The Sanskrit Exegetical Manuscripts
gąm baōiriiąm ‘the cow meat’ (Y 3.3, Y 7.3)
yąmca arštōiš yazatahe ‘that of the sacred being Aršti’ (Y 6.5)
The Formulae
Avestan Terms
vīspaiiā̊sca ‘and of all’ (Y 4.2)
aēsmą / aēsmi baōiδi ‘wood and incense’ (Y 3.2, Y 3.21, Y 7.2, Y 7.21)
mauuaiϑīm ‘worthy of someone like me’ (Y 7.24)
haŋhāna ‘have won’ (Y 8.2)
Ritual Directions
Y 3.1
Y 3.13
Y 3.14
Y 3.20
Y 3.21
Y 3.25
Y 4.1
Y 4.3
Y 4.16
Y 4.23
Y 5.1
Y 6.1
Y 6.10
Y 6.11
Y 6.17
Y 6.21
Y 7.1
Y 7.6
Y 7.13
Y 7.14
Y 7.21
Y 7.24
Y 7.25
Y 7.28
Y 8.1
Y 8.2
Y 8.3
Y 8.4
Y 8.5
Y 8.8
Y 8.9Part 1 Text and Translation
Yasna 3
Yasna 4
Yasna 5
Yasna 6
Yasna 7
Yasna 8
Part 2 Edition
Sigla and Abbreviations Used in the Critical Apparatus
Yasna 3
Yasna 4
Yasna 5
Yasna 6
Yasna 7
Yasna 8
Part 3 Glossaries
Avestan Glossary
Middle Persian Glossary
Part 4 Appendix
Variations of the Yasna in the Vīdēvdād and Vištāsp Yašt Ceremonies
Bibliography
Index of Words
Index of Passages