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Attested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: unknown (puça) · Achaemenid
puça HaxāmanišiyaOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: me, mine · grant · who · with good soldiers
manā frābara tya ukāramOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: land · hold · me, mine
dahyāum dārayāmiy māmOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: after · people · entire · unknown (hamiçiya) · be, become · unknown (hacā) · Cambyses II, king of Persia · to · that one
pasāva kāra haruva hamiçiya abava hacā Kabūjiyā abiy avamOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: after · magus, pretender to the throne · who · Magian/Magus · rob · Cambyses II, king of Persia · and · Persia · and
pasāva Gaumāta hya maguš adīnā Kabūjiyam utā Pārsam utāOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: plead · Ahuramazdā · support · carry · 7th month
patiyāvahyaiy Auramazdāmaiy upastām abara BāgayādaišOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: be · who · Nabonidus, king of Babylon · unknown (puça) · after · people · who · Babylonian
amiy hya Nabunaitahyā puça pasāva kāra hya BābiruviyaOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: people · who · Nidintu-Bel, Babylonian rebel, son of Ainaira · pointed · hold · there · set down · and
kāra hya Naditabairahyā Tigrām adāraya avadā aištatā utāOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: that one · I · send · Armenia · so · speak · set off · people
avam adam frāišayam Arminam avaθāšaiy aθaham paraidiy kāraOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: name · land · Armenian · there · fight · do
nāmā dahyāuš Arminiyaiy avadā hamaranam akunavaOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: last · to · so · fight · do · after · general of Darius I
jiyamnam patiy avaθāšām hamaranam kartam pasāva VaumisaOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: Babylon · move · Media · as · Media · arrive · Median city · name
Bābirauš ašiyavam Mādam yaθā Mādam parārasam Kuduruš nāmaOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: do · Ahuramazdā · support · carry · will · Ahuramazdā · people
akumā Auramazdāmaiy upastām abara vašnā Auramazdāha kāramOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: see · after · Ecbatana · (stake) planted upright? · do
avaina pasāvašim Hagmatānaiy uzmayāpatiy akunavamOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: as · that one · people · arrive · to · Hystaspes, father of Darius I
yaθā hauv kāra parārasa abiy VištāspamOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: name · place · Parthia · there · fight · do · (together) with
nāma vardanam Parθavaiy avadā hamaranam akunauš hadāOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: king · Margiana · name · land · that one · unknown (hamiçiyā) · be, become
xšāyaθiya Marguš nāmā dahyāuš hauvmaiy hamiçiyā abavaOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: support · carry · will · Ahuramazdā · people · who · me, mine · that one · people
upastām abara vašnā Auramazdāha kāra hya manā avam kāramOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: second · revolt · Persia · people · so
duvitīyam udapatatā Pārsaiy kārahyā avaθāOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: speak · I · younger brother of Cambyses II · be · who · Cyrus II, king of Persia · unknown (puça) · after
aθaha adam Bardiya amiy hya Kūrauš puça pasāvaOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: after · general of Darius I · (together) with · people · move · Persia
pasāva Artavardiya hadā kārā ašiyava PārsamOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment
Attested line fragment; literal gloss: that one · Yutiyian rebel · who · younger brother of Cambyses II · call onself · come, go
hauv Vahyazdāta hya Bardiya agaubatā āišOpen full entryAttested in Old PersianPhrase or text fragment