{"collection":"Zoroastrianism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/zor/ka_sbe.htm","path":"zor/ka_sbe.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/zor/ka_sbe.htm","text":"AVESTA: KHORDA AVESTA (Book of Common Prayer)\n Translation by James Darmesteter (From Sacred Books of the\n East, American Edition, 1898.)\nCONTENTS\nMiscellaneous short prayers:\n Ashem Vohu (invocation of Asha)\n Ahunwar (most sacred manthra of Zoroastrianism)\n Kem Na Mazda (exorcism)\n Padyab-Kusti (ablution and formula for tying the kusti)\n Baj before meals\n Baj when answering the call of nature\n Nirang-i Abezar\n The Gah dedications\n Srosh Baj\n Hoshbam \"hbsbe.html\" (prayer at dawn)\nGahs (prayers for each period of the day)\n Hawan - (sunrise to midday)\n Rapithwin - (midday to mid-afternoon)\n Uzerin - (mid-afternoon to sunset)\n Aiwisruthrem - (sunset to midnight)\n Ushahin - (midnight to dawn)\nNiyayeshes (litanies)\n Khwarshed Niyayesh (Sun Litany)\n Mihr Niyayesh (Litany to Mithra)\n Vispa Humata\n Nam Stayishn\n Namaz-i chahar nemag\n Mah Niyayesh (Moon Litany)\n Aban Niyayesh (Litany to Water)\n Atash Niyayesh (Litany to Fire)\nYashts (Hymns to Ahura Mazda, the Archangels, and the Angels)\n 1. Ohrmazd Yasht\n 2. Haft Amahraspand Yasht\n 3. Ardwahisht Yasht\n 4. Awerdad Yasht\n 5. Ardui Sur Bano Yasht\n 6. Khwarshed Yasht\n 7. Mah Yasht\n 8. Tishtar Yasht\n 9. Drvasp Yasht\n 10. Mihr Yasht\n 11. Srosh Yasht Hadokht\n 11a. Srosh Yasht\n 12. Rashn Yasht\n 13. Frawardin Yasht\n 14. Warharan Yasht\n 15. Ram Yasht\n 16. Den Yasht\n 17. Ard Yasht\n 18. Ashtad Yasht\n 19. Zam Yasht\n 20. Hom Yasht\n 21. Vanand Yasht\nSirozas (Dedications for the thirty days of the month)\n Siroza 1\n Siroza 2\nAfrinagans (prayers of blessing)\n Afrinagan-i Dahman\n Afrinagan-i Gatha\n Afrinagan-i Gahambar\n Afrinagan-i Rapithwin\n====================================================================\nMiscellaneous short prayers:\n----------------------------\n Ashem Vohu (invocation of Asha)\n ------------------------------\n Holiness (Asha) is the best of all good: it is also happiness.\n Happy the man who is holy with perfect holiness!\n Ahunwar (most sacred manthra of Zoroastrianism)\n -----------------------------------------------\n The will of the Lord is the law of righteousness.\n The gifts of Vohu-mano to the deeds done in this world for Mazda.\n He who relieves the poor makes Ahura king.\n Kem Na Mazda (exorcism)\n -----------------------\n What protector hast thou given unto me, O Mazda! while the\n hate of the wicked encompasses me? Whom but thy Atar and Vohu-mano,\n through whose work I keep on the world of righteousness? Reveal\n therefore to me thy Religion as thy rule!\n (Ke verethrem-ja:)\n Who is the victorious who will protect thy teaching? Make\n it clear that I am the guide for both worlds. May Sraosha come\n with Vohu-mano and help whomsoever thou pleasest, O Mazda!\n (Pata-no:)\n Keep us from our hater, O Mazda and Armaiti Spenta! Perish,\n O fiendish Druj! Perish, O brood of the fiend! Perish, O creation\n of the fiend! Perish, O world of the fiend! Perish away, O Druj!\n Rush away, O Druj! Perish away, O Druj! Perish away to the regions\n of the north, never more to give unto death the living world of\n Righteousness!\n Homage, with which (are combined) devotion and milk offerings.\n Padyab-Kusti (ablution and formula for tying the kusti)\n -------------------------------------------------------\n0. With satisfaction for Ahura Mazda. Ashem Vohu....\n Kem Na Mazda: What protector hast thou given ...\n Ohrmazd is Lord! Ahriman he keeps at bay, he holds him back.\n May Ahriman be struck and defeated, with devs and drujs, sorcerers\n and sinners, kayags and karbs, tyrants, wrongdoers and heretics,\n sinners, enemies and witches! May they (all) be struck and defeated!\n May evil rulers not exist, (or) be far away! May enemies be defeated!\n May enemies all not exist, (or) be far away!\n O Ohrmazd, Lord! I am contrite for all sins and I desist from\n them, from all bad thoughts, bad words and bad acts which I have\n thought, spoken or done in the world, or which have happened through\n me, or have originated with me. For those sins of thinking, speaking\n and acting, of body and soul, worldly or spiritual, O Ohrmazd!\n I am contrite, I renounce them. With three words I distance myself\n (from them).\n1. With satisfaction for Ahura Mazda, scorn for Angra Mainyu!\n The true achievement of what is most wonderful, according to wish!\n I praise Asha! Ashem Vohu....\n Yatha Ahu Vairyo...(2).\n Ashem Vohu....\n2. Come to my aid, O Mazda (3).\n I profess myself a Mazda-worshipper, a Zoroastrian, having\n vowed it and professed it. I pledge myself to the well-thought\n thought, I pledge myself to the well-spoken word, I pledge myself\n to the well-done action.\n I pledge myself to the Mazdayasnian religion, which causes\n the attack to be put off and weapons put down; which upholds khvaetvadatha\n (kin-marriage), which possesses Asha; which of all religions that\n exist or shall be, is the greatest, the best, and the most beautiful:\n Ahuric, Zoroastrian. I ascribe all good to Ahura Mazda. This is\n the creed of the Mazdayasnian religion.\n Ashem Vohu...!!\n Baj before meals\n ----------------\n Thus therefore do we worship Ahura Mazda,\n who made the Kine (the living creation), and the\n (embodied) Righteousness (which is incarnate in the\n clean), and the waters, and the wholesome plants,\n the stars, and the earth, and all (existing) objects\n that are good.\n (after meal:)\n Ashem vohu...(4).\n Yatha Ahu Vairyo...(2).\n To him splendor...\n Baj when answering the call of nature\n -------------------------------------\n (Modi 374. This prayer is also known as \"Pishab ni Baj\".)\n May wrong actions be done away with a hundred-thousand times.\n Yatha Ahu Vairyo...\n (here perform the natural function)\n Ashem vohu...(3).\n >>We are praisers of good thoughts, of good\n words, and of good actions, of those now and those\n hereafter [(Pazand) of those being done; and of those\n completed]. We implant (?) them (with our homage,\n and we do this) the more, and yet the more since we\n are (praisers) of the good (from whom they spring).\n (y35.2)<<(2).\n >>To the best of good rulers (is) verily the Kingdom,\n because we render and ascribe it to Him, and\n make it thoroughly His own (?), to Mazda Ahura\n do we ascribe it, and to Righteousness the Best.\n (y35.5)<<(3).\n Yatha ahu Vairyo...(4).\n Ashem vohu...(3).\n We worship the Ahunwar.\n We worship Best Asha, the most beautiful Amesha Spenta.\n Yenghe... (Y18.9).\n Nirang-i Abezar\n ---------------\n >>Broken, broken be Satan Ahriman. .... not reach me.\n May the thirty-three Ameshaspands and the creator Ormazd be victorious.\n I praise Asha. Ashem vohu....<<(3)\n The Gah dedications\n -------------------\n (Hawan Gah)\n To Hawan, Ashavan, the master of Asha, for worship, adoration,\n propitiation and praise. To Savanghi and Visya, Ashavan, the\n master(s) of Asha, for worship, adoration, propitiation and praise.\n (Rapithwin Gah)\n To Rapithwin, Ashavan, the master of Asha, for worship,\n adoration, propitiation and praise. To Fradat-Fshu and\n Zangtuma, Ashavan, the master(s) of Asha, for worship,\n adoration, propitiation and praise.\n (Uzerin Gah)\n To Uzerin, Ashavan, the master of Asha, for worship,\n adoration, propitiation and praise. To Fradat-Vira\n and Dakhyuma, Ashavan, the master(s) of Asha, for worship,\n adoration, propitiation and praise.\n (Aiwisruthrem Gah)\n To Aiwisruthrem that furthers life, Ashavan, the master\n of Asha, for worship, adoration, propitiation and praise.\n To Fradat-vispam-hujyaiti and Zarathushtrotema, Ashavan,\n the master(s) of Asha, for worship, adoration, propitiation\n and praise.\n (Ushahin Gah)\n To Ushahin that furthers life, Ashavan, the master of\n Asha, for worship, adoration, propitiation and praise.\n To Berejya and Nmanya, Ashavan, the master(s) of Asha,\n for worship, adoration, propitiation and praise.\n Srosh Baj\n ---------\n0. In the name of God , May the bounteous miraculous power and\n glory of Ohrmazd the lord increase. May it (i.e. the prayer) reach\n Srosh, the righteous, the vigorous, whose body is the command,\n having a hard weapon, powerful of weapon, the lord of the creations\n of Ohrmazd. I am contrite for all sins and I desist from them,\n from all bad thoughts, bad words and bad acts which I have thought,\n spoken or done in the world, or which have happened through me,\n or have originated with me. For those sins of thinking, speaking\n and acting, of body and soul, worldly or spiritual, o Ohrmazd!\n I am contrite, I renounce them. With three words I distance myself\n (from them).\n1. Yatha Ahu Vairyo...(5).\n Ashem Vohu...(3).\n I profess myself a Mazda-worshipper, a follower of Zarathushtra,\n opposing the Daevas, accepting the Ahuric doctrine.\n (Here recite the appropriate Gah dedication.)\n With propitiation of Sraosha, companion of Ashi , the brave, who\n has the Manthra for body, with bold club, the ahurian, for worship,\n adoration, propitiation, and praise.\n 'Yatha Ahu Vairyo', the zaotar should say to me\n 'Atha ratush ashatchit hacha', the Asha-sanctified knowing one\n should say.\n2. We worship Sraosha, companion of Ashi, fair of form, victorious,\n world-promoting, the Ashavan, master of Asha . The Ahuna Vairya\n prayer protects the body.\n Yatha Ahu Vairyo....\n (Here recite the Kem Na Mazda prayer.)\n Yatha Ahu Vairyo....(2)\n4. I desire worship and adoration and strength and force for\n Sraosha, companion of Ashi, the brave, who has the Manthra for\n body, with bold club, the ahurian.\n Ashem Vohu....\n5. Bestow on him riches and good things; bestow health of body,\n toughness of body, and resistance of body; bestow on him possessions\n giving abundant ease, future noble offspring, and a lengthy long\n life; bestow on him the best existence of the Asha-sanctified,\n the luminous, offering all happy. [This paragraph follows Bailey,\n p. 10.]\n Thus may it come as I wish.\n Ashem Vohu....\n A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies (3). Ashem Vohu....\n Come to my help, O Mazda (3).\n To Ama, well-built, fair of form, Verethraghna, Ahura-created;\n and to Triumphing Uparatat; and to Raman of good pastures, and\n to Vayu of superior activity, superior to other creatures. That\n part of you, Vayu, which belongs to Spenta Mainyu; to self-governed\n Thwasha, to boundless Zurwan, to Zurwan of the long dominion.\n Ashem Vohu....\n For the reward of virtue and the forgiveness of sins, I do (deeds\n of) righteousness for the love of my soul. May all virtuousness\n of all good ones of the earth of seven climes reach the width\n of the earth, the length of the rivers, the height of the sun\n in their original form. May it be righteous, live long. Thus may\n it come as I wish.\n Ashem Vohu...!!\n Hoshbam (Prayer at Dawn)\n ------------------------\n1. Then thou shalt say those victorious, most healing words;\n thou shalt chant the Ahunwar five times:\n Yatha ahu vairyo... (5).\n The Ahunwar protects the body....\n (Here recite the Kem Na Mazda prayer.)\n Ashem vohu....\n Yatha Ahu Vairyo...(21).\n Ashem vohu...(12)\n2. Homage to you, O Dawn (3).\n (Y27.1-2:)\n This is to render Him who is of all the greatest, our lord\n and master (even) Ahura Mazda. And this to smite the wicked Angra\n Mainyu, and to smite Aeshma of the bloody spear, and the Mazainya\n Daevas, and to smite all the wicked Varenya Daevas.\n3. And this is to further Ahura Mazda, the resplendent, the glorious,\n to further the Bountiful Immortals, and the influences of the\n star Tishtrya, the resplendent, the glorious, (and) to the furtherance\n of the holy man, and of all the (bountiful and) holy creatures\n of the Bounteous Spirit.\n (Y52.1-4:)\n4. I pray with benedictions for a benefit, and for the good,\n even for the entire creation of the holy (and the clean); I beseech\n for them for the (generation which is) now alive, for that which\n is just coming into life, and for that which shall be hereafter.\n And (I pray for that) sanctity which leads to prosperity, and\n which has long afforded shelter, which goes on hand in hand with\n it, which joins it in its walk, and of itself becoming its close\n companion as it delivers forth its precepts, bearing every form\n of healing virtue which comes to us in waters, appertains to cattle,\n or is found in plants, and overwhelming, all the harmful malice\n of the Daevas, (and their servants) who might harm this dwelling\n and its lord, bringing good gifts, and better blessings, given\n very early, and later (gifts), leading to successes, and for a\n long time giving shelter. And so the greatest, and the best, and\n most beautiful benefits of sanctity fall likewise to our lot.\n For the sacrifice, homage, propitiation, and the praise of the\n Bountiful Immortals, for the bringing prosperity to this abode,\n and for the prosperity of the entire creation of the holy, and\n the clean, (and as for this, so) for the opposition of the entire\n evil creation. (And I pray for this) as I praise through Righteousness,\n I who am beneficent, those who are (likewise of a better mind).\n (Y8.5-7:)\n May'st Thou, O Ahura Mazda! reign at Thy will, and with a\n saving rule over Thine own creatures, and render Ye the holy (man)\n also a sovereign at his will over waters, and over plants, and\n over all the clean and sacred (creatures) which contain the seed\n of Righteousness. Strip ye the wicked of all power!\n Absolute in power may the holy be, bereft of all free choice the\n wicked ! Gone (may he be), met as foe, carried out from the creatures\n of Spenta Mainyu, hemmed in without power over any wish! ----------\n I will incite, even I who am Zarathushtra, the heads of the houses,\n villages, Zantus, and provinces, to the careful following of this\n Religion which is that of Ahura, and according to Zarathushtra,\n in their thoughts, their words, and their deeds.\n (Y60.11 seq.:)\n5. In order that our minds may be delighted, and our souls the\n best, let our bodies be glorified as well, and let them; O Mazda!\n go likewise openly (unto Heaven) as the best world of the saints\n as devoted to Ahura, and accompanied by Asha Vahishta (who is\n Righteousness the Best), and the most beautiful! And may we see\n Thee, and may we, approaching, come around about Thee, and attain\n to entire companionship with Thee!\n Ashem Vohu...(3).\n Bestow on him riches... (Recite SrB5.)\n Ashem Vohu...!!\nGahs (prayers for each period of the day)\n-----------------------------------------\n Hawan Gah - (sunrise to midday)\n -------------------------------\n1. Propitiation to Ahura Mazda.\n Ashem Vohu...(3).\n I profess myself a Mazda-worshipper, a follower of Zarathushtra,\n opposing the Daevas, accepting the Ahuric doctrine.\n To Hawan, Ashavan, the master of Asha, for worship, adoration,\n propitiation and praise. To Savanghi and Visya, Ashavan, the master(s)\n of Asha, for worship, adoration, propitiation and praise.\n2. With propitiation of Mithra of wide pastures, with a thousand\n ears, ten thousand eyes, a Yazata who is invoked by name, (and)\n Raman Khwastra, for worship, adoration, propitiation and praise.\n Yatha Ahu Vairyo, the zaotar should say to me Atha ratush ashatchit\n hacha, the knowing Asha-one should say.\n3. We worship Ahura Mazda, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship\n Zarathushtra, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the Fravashi\n of Ashavan Zarathushtra. We worship the Ashavan Amesha Spentas.\n4. We worship the Ashavan, good, powerful, holy Fravashis, the\n material and the spiritual. We worship the most effective of masters,\n the most active of Yazatas, and the most worthy of the masters\n of Asha, who is best able to reach his goal of satisfaction, the\n Ashavan master of Asha!\n5. We worship Hawan, Ashavan, the master of Asha, We worship\n Haurvatat, Ashavan, the master of Asha, We worship Ameretat, Ashavan,\n the master of Asha, We worship the Ahuric question, Ashavan, the\n master of Asha, We worship the Ahuric doctrine, Ashavan, the master\n of Asha, We worship the mighty Yasna Haptanghaiti, Ashavan, the\n master of Asha.\n6. We worship Savanghe and Visya, Ashavan, the master(s) of Asha,\n We worship the Airyema-ishyo (prayer), Ashavan, the master of\n Asha, mighty, victorious against the hostility [of Daevas], overcoming\n all hostility, destroying all hostility, which is the last, middle,\n and the foremost of the Manthras to be invoked, the five Gathas.\n7. We worship Mithra of wide pastures, And we worship Raman Khwastra,\n and the master Visya, for worship and praise; and we worship Visya,\n Asha- sanctified, the master of Asha.\n8. We worship Mithra of wide pastures, with a thousand ears,\n ten thousand eyes, a Yazata who is invoked by name. We worship\n Raman Khwastra!\n9. We worship you, O Atar, son of Ahura Mazda, Ashavan, the master\n of Asha. We worship this Baresman spread with Asha and provided\n with Zaothra and girdle, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship\n Apam Napat, Nairyosangha, and the brave Yazata Damoish Upamana.\n We worship the souls of the deceased, they, the Fravashis of the\n Ashavan.\n We worship the exalted master who is Ahura Mazda, who is highest\n in Asha, who is furthest going in Asha. We worship all the teachings\n of Zarathushtra. We worship all well done deeds (those already)\n done, and those that will be done.\n We worship all those Beings whom Ahura Mazda knows to be best\n for worship according to Asha, male and female.\n10. Yatha Ahu Vairyo...(2).\n I desire worship and adoration and strength and force for Mithra\n of wide pastures, with a thousand ears, ten thousand eyes, a Yazata\n who is invoked by name, (and) Raman Khwastra.\n Ashem Vohu....\n Bestow on him riches... (Recite SrB5.)\n Rapithwin Gah - (midday to mid-afternoon)\n -----------------------------------------\n1. Propitiation to Ahura Mazda.\n Ashem Vohu...(3).\n I profess myself a Mazda-worshipper, a follower of Zarathushtra,\n opposing the Daevas, accepting the Ahuric doctrine.\n To Rapithwin, Ashavan, the master of Asha, for worship, adoration,\n propitiation and praise. To Fradat-Fshu and Zangtuma, Ashavan,\n the master(s) of Asha, for worship, adoration, propitiation and\n praise.\n2. With propitiation of Asha Vahishta and Atar, (son) of Ahura\n Mazda, for worship, adoration, propitiation and praise.\n Yatha Ahu Vairyo, the zaotar should say to me\n Atha ratush ashatchit hacha, the knowing Asha-one should say.\n3. We worship Ahura Mazda, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship\n Zarathushtra, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the Fravashi\n of Ashavan Zarathushtra, We worship the Ashavan Amesha Spentas.\n4. We worship the good, powerful, holy Fravashis, Ashavan, the\n material and the spiritual. We worship the most effective of masters,\n the most active of Yazatas, and the most worthy of the masters\n of Asha, who is best able to reach his goal of satisfaction, the\n Ashavan master of Asha!\n5. We worship Rapithwin, Ashavan, the master of Asha, We worship\n the Ahunawad Gatha, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the\n Ushtawad Gatha, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the Spentomad\n Gatha, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the Wohukhshathra\n Gatha, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the Wahishtoisht\n Gatha, Ashavan, the master of Asha.\n6. We worship Fradat-Fshu and the Ashavan Zantuma, the master\n of Asha, and we worship the Fshusho Manthra, and we worship the\n truthfully spoken word; we worship the truthfully spoken sayings,\n victorious, Daeva smiting. We worship the waters and the Earth;\n we worship the plants and the spiritual Ashavan Yazatas, conferring\n good; and we worship the Ashavan Amesha Spentas.\n7. We worship the Ashavan, good, powerful, holy Fravashis; and\n we worship the peak of Asha Vahishta: of great Manthra, of great\n operation, of great fidelity, of great performance, of great\n effect in spreading the Mazdayasnian religion.\n8. We worship that assembly and meeting of the Amesha Spentas\n when they visit the heights of Heaven, to worship and praise the\n master Zantuma, and the Ashavan Zantuma, the master of Asha.\n9. We worship Asha Vahishta, and Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda!\n10. We worship you, O Atar, son of Ahura Mazda, Ashavan, the master\n of Asha. We worship this Baresman spread with Asha and provided\n with Zaothra and girdle, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship\n Apam Napat. We worship Nairyosangha. We worship the brave Yazata\n Damoish Upamana. We worship the souls of the deceased, they, the\n Fravashis of the Asha- sanctified.\n11. We worship the exalted master who is Ahura Mazda, who is highest\n in Asha, who is furthest going in Asha. We worship all the teachings\n of Zarathushtra. We worship all well done deeds (those already)\n done, and those that will be done.\n We worship all those Beings whom Ahura Mazda knows to be best\n for worship according to Asha, male and female.\n12. Yatha Ahu Vairyo...(2).\n I desire worship and adoration and strength and force for Asha\n Vahishta and Atar (son) of Ahura Mazda.\n Ashem Vohu....\n Bestow on him riches... (Recite SrB5.)\n Uzerin Gah - (mid-afternoon to sunset)\n --------------------------------------\n1. Propitiation to Ahura Mazda.\n Ashem Vohu...(3).\n I profess myself a Mazda-worshipper, a follower of Zarathushtra,\n opposing the Daevas, accepting the Ahuric doctrine.\n To Uzerin, Ashavan, the master of Asha, for worship, adoration,\n propitiation and praise. To Fradat-Vira and Dakhyuma, Ashavan,\n the master(s) of Asha, for worship, adoration, propitiation and\n praise.\n2. With propitiation of the lofty Ahura Apam Napat, and the waters\n made by Mazda, for worship, adoration, propitiation and praise.\n Yatha Ahu Vairyo, the zaotar should say to me\n Atha ratush ashatchit hacha, the knowing Asha-one should say.\n3. We worship Ahura Mazda, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship\n Zarathushtra, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the Fravashi\n of Ashavan Zarathushtra, We worship the Ashavan Amesha Spentas.\n4. We worship the good, powerful, holy Fravashis, Ashavan, the\n material and the spiritual. We worship the most effective of masters,\n the most active of Yazatas, and the most worthy of the masters\n of Asha, who is best able to reach his goal of satisfaction, the\n Ashavan master of Asha!\n5. We worship Uzerin, Ashavan, the master of Asha; we worship\n the Zaotar, Ashavan, the master of Asha; we worship the Havanan,\n Ashavan, the master of Asha; we worship the Aterevaxsh, Ashavan,\n the master of Asha; we worship the Fraberetar, Ashavan, the master\n of Asha; we worship the Aberet, Ashavan, the master of Asha; we\n worship the Asnatar, Ashavan, the master of Asha; we worship the\n Rathwishkara, Ashavan, the master of Asha; we worship the Sraoshavarez,\n Ashavan, the master of Asha;\n6. We worship the Fradat-Vira and Dakhyuma, Ashavan, the master(s)\n of Asha; we worship the stars and the Moon and the Sun, the [celestial]\n luminosity. We worship Anagra Raochah; and we worship the comfortable\n abode of the blissful, which is the torment of the druj-followers.\n7. We worship those Asha-ones who perform their duty, the master(s)\n of Asha; and we worship the later doctrine. We worship the Asha-believing\n creation of Asha, performing its duty by day and night with worthy\n offering of Zaothra, for worship and adoration of the master Dahvyuma;\n and we worship the Ashavan Dahvyuma, the master of Asha.\n8. We worship the lofty Ahura, the radiant Khshathra, Apam Napat,\n possessing swift horses; and we worship the Ashavan waters, made\n by Mazda.\n9. We worship you, O Atar, son of Ahura Mazda, Ashavan, the master\n of Asha. We worship this Baresman spread with Asha and provided\n with Zaothra and girdle, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship\n Apam Napat. We worship Nairyosangha. We worship the brave Yazata\n Damoish Upamana. We worship the souls of the deceased, they, the\n Fravashis of the Ashavan.\n10. We worship the exalted master who is Ahura Mazda, who is highest\n in Asha, who is furthest going in Asha. We worship all the teachings\n of Zarathushtra. We worship all well done deeds (those already)\n done, and those that will be done.\n We worship all those Beings whom Ahura Mazda knows to be best\n for worship according to Asha, male and female.\n11. Yatha Ahu Vairyo...(2).\n I desire worship and adoration and strength and force for Asha\n Vahishta and the fire of Ahura Mazda.\n Ashem Vohu....\n Bestow on him riches... (Recite SrB5.)\n Aiwisruthrem Gah - (sunset to midnight)\n ---------------------------------------\n1. Propitiation to Ahura Mazda.\n Ashem Vohu...(3).\n I profess myself a Mazda-worshipper, a follower of Zarathushtra,\n opposing the Daevas, accepting the Ahuric doctrine.\n To Aiwisruthrem that furthers life, Ashavan, the master of Asha,\n for worship, adoration, propitiation and praise. To Fradat-vispam-hujyaiti\n and Zarathushtrotema, Ashavan, the master(s) of Asha, for worship,\n adoration, propitiation and praise.\n2. With propitiation of the Ashavan Fravashis, and to the women\n with their troops of heroes, and the Yairya Hushitay and to Ama,\n well-built, fair of form, Verethraghna, Ahura-created; and to\n Triumphing Uparatat, for worship, adoration, propitiation and\n praise.\n Yatha Ahu Vairyo, the zaotar should say to me\n Atha ratush ashatchit hacha, the knowing Asha-one should say.\n3. We worship Ahura Mazda, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship\n Zarathushtra, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the Fravashi\n of Ashavan Zarathushtra. We worship the Ashavan Amesha Spentas.\n4. We worship the good, powerful, holy Fravashis, Ashavan, the\n material and the spiritual. We worship the most effective of masters,\n the most active of Yazatas, and the most worthy of the masters\n of Asha, who is best able to reach his goal of satisfaction, the\n Ashavan master of Asha!\n5. We worship Aiwisruthrima, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We\n worship Aibigaya, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship you,\n Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We\n worship the stone mortar, the master of Asha. We worship the iron\n mortar, the master of Asha. We worship this Baresman spread with\n Asha and provided with Zaothra and girdle, Ashavan, the master\n of Asha. We worship the waters (and) plants; we worship the Aourvatam\n Urunay , Ashavan, the master of Asha.\n6. We worship the Fradat-vispam-hujyatay, Ashavan, the master\n of Asha. We worship Zarathushtra, Ashavan, the master of Asha.\n We worship the sacred Manthra, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We\n worship the Geush Urvan, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship\n the Zarathushrotema, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship Zarathushtra,\n Ashavan, the master of Asha.\n7. We worship the Athravan, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship\n the warrior, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the cattle\n farmer, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the cattle farmer,\n Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the homes with a house-lord,\n Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the villages with a village-lord,\n Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the provinces with a province-lord,\n Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the countries with a country-lord,\n Ashavan, the master of Asha.\n8. We worship the youth of good thought, good words, good deeds,\n good Daena , Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the youth\n (who) makes intercession, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship\n the Khvaetvadatha, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the\n (priest) within the country, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship\n the blessed (priest who) goes about abroad, Ashavan, the master\n of Asha. We worship the homes with a house-lady, Ashavan, the\n master of Asha.\n9. We also worship the Ashavan woman, predominating in good thoughts,\n predominating in good words, predominating in good deeds, well\n instructed, having power over the masters , Ashavan, (as are)\n Spenta Armaiti and your females, O Ahura Mazda.\n We also worship the Ashavan man, predominating in good thoughts,\n predominating in good words, predominating in good deeds, knowing\n the creed, not knowing the Kayadha, through whose activity Creation\n is advanced in Asha, for worship and adoration of the master Zarathushtrotema,\n and we worship the Ashavan Zarathushtrotema, the master of Asha.\n10. We worship the good, powerful, holy Fravashis, Ashavan, the\n material and the spiritual. We also worship the women with their\n troops of heroes, and we worship the Yairya Hushitay. And we worship\n Ama, well-built, fair of form; and we worship Verethraghna, Ahura-created;\n and we worship Triumphing Uparatat.\n11. We worship you, O Atar, son of Ahura Mazda, Ashavan, the master\n of Asha. We worship this Baresman spread with Asha and provided\n with Zaothra and girdle, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship\n Apam Napat. We worship Nairyosangha. We worship the brave Yazata\n Damoish Upamana. We worship the souls of the deceased, they, the\n Fravashis of the Ashavan.\n12. We worship the exalted master who is Ahura Mazda, who is highest\n in Asha, who is furthest going in Asha. We worship all the teachings\n of Zarathushtra. We worship all well done deeds (those already)\n done, and those that will be done.\n We worship all those Beings whom Ahura Mazda knows to be best\n for worship according to Asha, male and female.\n13. Yatha Ahu Vairyo...(2).\n I desire worship and adoration and strength and force for the\n Ashavan Fravashis, and to the women with their troops of heroes,\n and the Yairya Hushitay and to Ama, well-built, fair of form,\n Verethraghna, Ahura-created; and to Triumphing Uparatat.\n Ashem Vohu....\n Bestow on him riches... (Recite SrB5.)\n Ushahin Gah - (midnight to dawn)\n --------------------------------\n1. Propitiation to Ahura Mazda.\n Ashem Vohu...(3).\n I profess myself a Mazda-worshipper, a follower of Zarathushtra,\n opposing the Daevas, accepting the Ahuric doctrine.\n To Ushahin that furthers life, Ashavan, the master of Asha, for\n worship, adoration, propitiation and praise. To Berejya and Nmanya,\n Ashavan, the master(s) of Asha, for worship, adoration, propitiation\n and praise.\n2. With propitiation of Sraosha, companion of Ashi, procuring\n rewards, victorious, who furthers the world, (and) the very straight\n Razishta and Arshtad, who further the world, who augment the world,\n for worship, adoration, propitiation and praise.\n Yatha Ahu Vairyo, the zaotar should say to me\n Atha ratush ashatchit hacha, the knowing Asha-one should say.\n3. We worship Ahura Mazda, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship\n Zarathushtra, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the Fravashi\n of Ashavan Zarathushtra, We worship the Ashavan Amesha Spentas.\n4. We worship the good, powerful, holy Fravashis, Ashavan, the\n material and the spiritual. We worship the most effective of masters,\n the most active of Yazatas, and the most worthy of the masters\n of Asha, who is best able to reach his goal of satisfaction, the\n Ashavan master of Asha!\n5. We worship Ushahin, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship\n the beautiful Ushah; we worship the radiant Ushah, with swift\n horses, the men ..., the insight of men ..., the deceased, together\n with (?) Nmanya; the swift Ushah, with swift horses, which appear\n throughout the seven regions of the earth; we worship that Ushah.\n We worship Ahura Mazda, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship\n Vohu Mano; we worship Asha Vahishta; we worship Khshathra Vairya;\n we worship the good Spenta Armaiti.\n6. We worship Berejya, Ashavan, the master of Asha; for the practice\n of Asha Vahishta, for the practice of the good Mazdayasnian\n religion , for worship and adoration of the master Nmanya; and\n we worship Nmanya, Ashavan, the master of Asha.\n7. We worship Sraosha, companion of Ashi, fair of form, victorious,\n world-promoting, the Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship the\n very straight Rashnu; and we worship Arshtad, who further the\n world, who augment the world!\n8. We worship you, O Atar, son of Ahura Mazda, Ashavan, the master\n of Asha. We worship this Baresman spread with Asha and provided\n with Zaothra and girdle, Ashavan, the master of Asha. We worship\n Apam Napat. We worship Nairyosangha. We worship the brave Yazata\n Damoish Upamana. We worship the souls of the deceased, they, the\n Fravashis of the Ashavan.\n9. We worship the exalted master who is Ahura Mazda, who is highest\n in Asha, who is furthest going in Asha. We worship all the teachings\n of Zarathushtra. We worship all well done deeds (those already)\n done, and those that will be done.\n We worship all those Beings whom Ahura Mazda knows to be best\n for worship according to Asha, male and female.\n10. Yatha Ahu Vairyo...(2).\n I desire worship and adoration and strength and force for Sraosha,\n companion of Ashi, procuring rewards, victorious, who furthers\n the world, (and) the very straight Razishta and Arshtad, who further\n the world, who augment the world.\n Ashem Vohu....\n Bestow on him riches... (Recite SrB5.)\nNiyayeshes (litanies)\n---------------------\n Khwarshed Niyayesh (Sun Litany)\n -------------------------------\n Translation by Dhalla, 1908.\n0. In the name of God. I praise and invoke the creator Ormazd,\n the radiant, glorious, omniscient, maker, lord of lords, king\n over all kings, watchful, creator of the universe, giver of daily\n bread, powerful, strong, eternal, forgiver, merciful, loving,\n mighty, wise, holy, and nourisher. May (his) just kingdom be imperishable.\n May the majesty and glory of Ormazd, the beneficent lord, increase.\n (Hither) may come the immortal, radiant, swift-horsed Sun. Of\n all sins ... I repent.\n1. Homage to you, O Ahura Mazda, trice prior to other creatures.\n Homage to you, O Amesha Spentas, all of one accord with the Sun.\n May this (homage) seek its way so as to reach to Ahura Mazda,\n this (homage) to the Amesha Spentas, this (homage) to the Fravashis\n of the righteous, this to Vayu, that follows its own law for the\n Long Period.\n2. Propitiation to Ahura Mazda.... I praise Asha.\n3. I praise good thoughts, good words, and good deeds and those\n that are to be thought, spoken, and done. I do accept all good\n thoughts, good words, and good deeds. I do renounce all evil thoughts,\n evil words, and evil deeds.\n4. I proffer to you, O Amesha Spentas, sacrifice and prayer,\n with thought, with word, with deed, with (my) being, with the\n very life of my body. I praise Asha.\n5. Homage to Ahura Mazda. Homage to the Amesha Spentas. Homage\n to Mithra of wide cattle pastures. Homage to the Sun, the swift-horsed.\n Homage to these two eyes that are of Ahura Mazda. Homage to the\n Bull. Homage to Gaya (Maretan). Homage to the Fravashi of the\n righteous Spitama Zarathushtra. Homage to the whole creation of\n the Righteous One, that is, that is coming into being and that\n will be.\n (At the Hawan Gah:)\n Further the body through Vohuman, Khshathra, and Asha in accordance\n with (my) desire.\n (At the Rapithwin Gah:)\n (To) these lights, the highest (light) of the high.\n (At the Uzerin Gah:)\n At which end you (i.e. Ahura Mazda) will come with your Beneficent\n Spirit.\n6. We sacrifice to the immortal, radiant, swift-horsed Sun. We\n sacrifice to Mithra of wide cattle pastures,\n Whose word is true, who is of the assembly,\n Who has a thousand ears, the well-shaped one,\n Who has ten thousand eyes, the exalted one,\n Who has wide knowledge, the helpful one,\n Who sleeps not, the ever wakeful.\n7. We sacrifice to Mithra\n The lord of all countries,\n Whom Ahura Mazda created the most glorious\n Of the supernatural yazads.\n So may there come to us for aid\n Both Mithra and Ahura, the two exalted ones.\n We sacrifice to the immortal,\n Radiant, swift-horsed Sun.\n8. We sacrifice to Tishtrya of sound eyes. We sacrifice to Tishtrya.\n We sacrifice to those attendants on Tishtrya. We sacrifice to\n Tishtrya, the radiant (and) glorious. We sacrifice to the star\n Vanant, made by Mazda. We sacrifice to the star Tishtrya, the\n radiant (and) glorious. We sacrifice to the Sky that follows its\n own law. We sacrifice to the boundless Time. We sacrifice to Time,\n that follows its own law for the long period. We sacrifice to\n the wind, the holy (and) beneficent. We sacrifice to Wisdom, the\n most upright, righteous, made by Mazda. We sacrifice to the good\n Mazdayasnian Religion. We sacrifice to the Path leading to the\n good state. We sacrifice to the golden shaft. We sacrifice to\n Mount Saokanta, made by Mazda.\n9. We sacrifice to every righteous Yazad of the spiritual world.\n We sacrifice to every righteous Yazad of the material world. We\n sacrifice to our own soul. We sacrifice to our own Fravashi. Come\n to my help, O Mazda. We sacrifice to the good, helpful, holy Fravashis\n of the righteous. We sacrifice to the immortal, radiant, swift-horsed\n Sun.\n10. I proclaim ... of the Ahurian Faith.\n (Here recite the appropriate Gah dedication)\n Propitiation ... glorification to the immortal, radiant, swift-horsed\n Sun. As (he is) the Lord that is to be chosen ... let one who\n knows it pronounce it to me.\n11. We sacrifice to the immortal, radiant, swift-horsed Sun. When\n the Sun warms with its light, when the sunlight gives warmth,\n there stand the spiritual Yazads, a hundred and a thousand. They\n gather together this glory. They distribute this glory. They bestow\n this glory upon the earth made by Ahura, with the furtherance\n of the world of Asha, with the furtherance of the material existence\n of Asha, with the furtherance of the Sun that (is) immortal, radiant,\n swift-horsed.\n12. When the Sun rises up, purification comes to the earth made\n by Ahura, purification to the flowing waters, purification to\n the waters of the wells, purification to the water of the seas,\n purification to the water that is standing. Purification comes\n to the righteous creation, which is of the Beneficent Spirit.\n13. If indeed the Sun were not to rise, then the daevas would\n kill all things that are in the seven regions. Not at all would\n the spiritual Yazads find support and stability in the material\n world.\n14. Whoever sacrifices to the Sun that is immortal, radiant, (and)\n swift-horsed, in order to withstand darkness, to withstand the\n daevas, the progeny of darkness, to withstand the theives and\n robbers, to withstand the sorcerers and the enchantresses, to\n withstand death that creeps on,\n He sacrifices to Ahura Mazda, he sacrifices to the Amesha Spentas,\n he sacrifices to his own soul.\n He propitiates all heavenly and earthly Yazads, who sacrifices\n to the Sun that is immortal, radiant, swift-horsed.\n15. I shall sacrifice to Mithra of wide cattle pastures, who has\n a thousand ears, ten thousand eyes. I shall sacrifice to his mace,\n well aimed against the skulls of the Daevas, Mithra of wide cattle\n pastures. And I shall sacrifice to that friendship which is the\n best of friendships, that between the Moon and the Sun.\n16. For his splendor and fortune I shall sacrifice to him with\n audible worship, the immortal, radiant, swift-horsed Sun, with\n libations. We sacrifice to the immortal, radiant, swift-horsed\n Sun, with milk provided with Haoma, with the Barsom, with skill\n of tongue, and with the spell, and with word, and with deeds,\n and with libations, and with rightly spoken words.\n Of whomsoever among beings Ahura Mazda has known the excellence\n (lit. something better) in Yasna-sacrifice in accordance with\n Asha, to both these males and females we sacrifice.\n (Recite quietly:) ....\n Y.A.V.(2)\n I desire worship and adoration and strength and force for the\n immortal, radiant, swift-horsed Sun.\n17. I bless the sacrifice ... of the immortal, radiant, swift-horsed\n Sun.\n18. (Whoso sacrifices to) the Ahuranis (Ladies) of Ahura with\n most excellent libation, with fairest libations, with libations\n filtered by the pious man, (give) to that man radiance ... as\n I bless.\n A thousand ... ten thousand of the healing remedies.\n Come to me for help, O Mazda! ... of the Time of Long Duration.\n(Paz.) The reward of merit ... as I bless.\n19. Homage to the creator of the creatures of the world, on the\n day (N.) of good name, of holy name, of auspicious name, of the\n month (N.) of auspicious name, of the gah (N.).\n Propitiation ... I praise Asha.\n May there be an increase in the luster and glory of the immortal,\n radiant, swift-horsed Sun, the courageous, victorious in courage\n and victory. May the knowledge, promulgation, and glory of the\n good Mazdayasnian Law and Religion be in the seven regions of\n the earth. So be it. I must go thither (i.e. the next world).\n (Homage) to the Creator of the world, to the Mazdayasnian Religion,\n the Law of Zartusht. Homage to you, O righteous Ardvisura Anahita,\n most profitable, righteous one.\n Homage to you, good Tree, righteous one, created by Ormazd!\n We sacrifice to the immortal, radiant, swift-horsed Sun.\n (Hither) may reach the immortal, radiant, swift-horsed Sun.\n Mihr Niyayesh (Litany to Mithra)\n --------------------------------\n0. In the name of God. May the majesty and glory of Ormazd, the\n beneficent lord, increase. (Hither) may come Mithra of wide cattle pastures,\n the true judge. Of all sins ... I repent.\n1-9. Homage to you, O Ahura Mazda ... come to my help, O Mazda. We\n sacrifice to the good, helpful, holy Fravashis of the righteous.\n We sacrifice to Mithra of wide cattle pastures.\n10. I proclaim ... of the Ahurian Faith.\n (Here recite the appropriate Gah dedication)\n Propitiation ... glorification to Mithra of wide cattle pastures, who has a\n thousand ears, who has ten thousand eyes, the Yazad who is invoked by name,\n (and) to Rama Khvastra. As (he is) the Lord that is to be chosen ... let one\n who knows it pronounce it to me.\n11. We sacrifice to Mithra of wide cattle pastures, whose word is true\n ... the ever wakeful. We sacrifice to Mithra, who is around the country. We\n sacrifice to Mithra, who is within the country. We sacrifice to Mithra, who\n is in the country. We sacrifice to Mithra, who is above the country. We\n sacrifice to Mithra, who is under the country. We sacrifice to Mithra, who is\n before the country. We sacrifice to Mithra, who is behind the country.\n12. We sacrifice to Mithra and Ahura, the exalted, imperishable,\n righteous ones, and the Stars, the Moon, and the Sun, by means of trees\n yielding Barsom. We sacrifice to Mitha, the Lord of all countries.\n13. For his splendor and fortune I shall sacrifice to him with audible\n worship, Mithra of wide cattle pastures with libations. We sacrifice to\n Mithra of wide cattle pastures, who gives an abode of joy, and a good abode to\n the Aryan countries.\n14. May he come hither to us in order to help\n (us). May he come hither to us for spaciousness. May he come hither to\n us to support (us). May he come hither to us to (grant us) mercy. May\n he come hither to us to cure (us of disease). May he come hither to us\n so that we are able to defeat our enemies. May he come hither to us to\n (grant us) a good life. May he come hither to us to grant us possession\n of Truth. (May) strong, unshakable, undeceivable Mithra of wide pastures,\n who is worthy of worship and praise, (come hither) for the sake of the\n whole material world.\n15. This powerful strong god Mithra, strongest in the (world of)\n creatures, I will worship with libations. I will cultivate him with praise\n and reverence, worship him with audible prayer, with libations, Mithra of wide\n cattle pastures.\n We worship Mithra of wide cattle pastures with Haoma-containing milk and\n baresman twigs, with skill of tongue and magic word, with speech and action\n and libations, and with correctly uttered words.\n We worship the male and female Entities in the worship of whom Ahura Mazda\n knows (there is (or: consists) what is) best (lit. better) according to Asha.\n Vispa Humata\n ------------\n All good thoughts, all good words, all good deeds I do willingly.\n All evil thoughts, all evil words, all evil deeds I do unwillingly.\n All good thoughts, all good words, all good deeds will reach Paradise.\n All evil thoughts, all evil words, all evil deeds will reach Hell.\n And all good thoughts, all good words, all good deeds are the\n badge of the Ashavans for Paradise. Ashem Vohu....\n Nam Stayishn\n ------------\n (Translation by B. N. Dhabhar, Translation of Zand-i Khurtak\n Avistak, Bombay, 1963, pp. 44 ff.)\n1. With propitiation of Ahura Mazda. Ashem Vohu....\n Praise be to the name of Him Who always was, always is and\n always will be. (He is), by name, the Yazad Spena Menoi. Even\n among the spiritual (yazads). He is Menoi (i.e. an invisible spirit).\n One of His own names is also Ohrmazd. (He is) the greatest Lord,\n powerful and wise, creator, nourisher, protector, compassionate,\n virtuous, forgiver, pure, a good dispenser of justice and all\n powerful.\n2. Thanks be to that Great Architect who, with His own unrivaled\n strength and wisdom, created the sublime world, the six Amahraspands\n of higher rank, many wonderful Yazads, the bright paradise Garothman,\n the revolution of the sky, the shining sun, the brilliant moon,\n stars of different germs, the wind, atmosphere, water, fire, the\n earth, trees, beneficent cattle, the metals and mankind.\n3. Adoration and praise be to the righteous Lord Who made man\n the greatest of all earthly creatures and through (the gift of)\n speech and the power of reasoning, created them for the sovereignty\n of the times and for the management of the creatures through the\n contest in battles against the daevas.\n4. Homage to the Omniscient One, to him who is compassionate,\n who, through Zartosht Spitaman of holy farohar, sent for the creatures\n the apostleship (of religion), the knowledge of and the trustworthiness\n with regard to, the Religion, innate wisdom and wisdom acquired\n through the ears, and the instruction of, and guidance for all\n who are, were, and will be, and the science of sciences, viz.,\n the bountiful Manthra, so that the soul at the Chinwad bridge\n may be released from hell, and may cause them to pass over the\n Best Existence of the holy, the bright sweet-smelling, and all-beneficent.\n5. In obedience to your command, o compassionate one, I accept\n your pure religion, and think, speak, and practice (in accordance\n with it). I am steadfast on every meritorious deed and desist\n from all sins. I keep pure my own personal conduct and completely\n preserve the six powers of life, viz., first, thought, second,\n word, third, deed, and again fourth, reasoning, fifth, memory,\n and sixth, intellect.\n6. O righteous one, according to your will, I shall accomplish\n to the extent of (my) power, your worship with good thoughts,\n good words, and good deeds. I shall open (for myself) the brilliant\n way (of paradise) so that the grievous punishment of hell may\n not be inflicted on me. I shall pass over the Chinwad bridge and\n attain to the abode of paradise (which is) very fragrant, all-embroidered,\n and of all happiness.\n7. Praise be to the merciful Lord who bestows rewards for meritorious\n deeds on those who obey his commands according to his will, and\n at last will liberate even the wicked from (the torture of) hell\n and will embellish with purity the whole creation.\n8. All praise to the creator Ohrmazd the omniscient, omnipotent,\n and powerful, and to the seven Amahraspands, to the victorious\n Yazad Warharan, the vanquisher of foes, and to the well-shapen\n (Yazad) Ama (strength). (May all these) come (to my help).\n [May the glory of the pure and good religion of the Mazdayasnians\n be triumphant].\n9. Homage to these places and cities [these regions and districts],\n [know that they are not specially mentioned], pasture lands [i.e.,\n stalls of cattle are so called], houses [i.e., dwellings], drinking\n places [i.e., fountains of water], to the waters, lands, and trees,\n to this earth and the yonder sky, and even to the holy wind, to\n the stars, the moon and the sun, and also to the self-sustained\n eternal lights, [know that the self-sustainedness is this that\n every one of them acts for itself] and to all creations of Spena\n Menoi, males and females, [especially] the lords of holiness.\n Ashem Vohu...(3). \n Namaz-i Chahar nemag\n --------------------\n Of all sins I repent. Ashem Vohu....\n (Recite once facing East, West, South, and North respectively:)\n >> Homage to these places and these lands, and for these\n pastures, and these abodes vith their hay-racks, and for the waters,\n land, and plants, and for this earth and for yon heaven, and for\n tbe Asha-owning wind, and for the stars, moon, and sun, and for\n the eternal stars without beginning, and self-disposing, and for\n all the Asha-owning creatures of Spenta Mainyu, male and female,\n the regulators of Asha. Ashem Vohu.... (4)<<\n Bestow on him riches... (Recite SrB5.)\n Ashem Vohu....\n Mah Niyayesh (Moon Litany)\n --------------------------\n0. In the name of God. May the majesty and glory of Ormazd, the\n beneficent lord, increase. (Hither) may come the purifier Moon, the Yazad\n Moon. Of all sins ... I repent.\n1. Homage to Ahura Mazda. Homage to the Amesha Spentas. Homage to the\n Moon that has the seed of the Bull. Homage (to the Moon) when looked at.\n Homage with the look.\n2. Propitiation to Ahura Mazda. ... I praise Asha. I proclaim ... of\n Ahurian Faith.\n (Here recite the appropriate Gah dedication.)\n Propitiation ... glorification to the Moon that has the seed of\n the Bull. To the sole-created Bull. To the Bull of many species.\n As (he is) the Lord that is to be chosen ... let one who knows it\n pronounce it to me.\n3. Homage to Ahura Mazda .... Homage with the look.\n4. How does the Moon wax? How does the Moon wane? Fifteen (days) does\n the Moon wax. Fifteen days does the moon wane. As long as (is) her waxing,\n so long the waning. So long (is) the waning, even as the waxing. Who (is it)\n through whom the Moon waxes (and) wanes, (other) than you?\n5. We sacrifice to the Moon that has the seed of the Bull, the\n righteous and master of Asha. Now I look at the Moon. Now I present myself\n to the Moon. Now I behold the brilliant Moon. I present myself to the\n brilliant Moon. There stand up the Amesha Spentas, they hold the glory.\n There stand the Amesha Spentas, they bestow the glory on the earth created by\n Ahura.\n6. When the Moon warms with its light, then the golden-colored plants\n always grow up together from the earth in the spring. (We sacrifice to) the\n new-moon days, the full-moon days, and the intervening seventh day. We\n sacrifice to the new-moon, the righteous, master of Asha. We sacrifice to the\n full-moon, the righteous, master of Asha. We sacrifice to the intervening\n day, the righteous, master of Asha.\n7. I will sacrifice to the Moon that has the seed of the Bull, the\n bestower, radiant, glorious, possessed of water, possessed of warmth,\n possessed of knowledge, possessed of wealth, possessed of riches, possessed of\n discernment, possessed of weal, possessed of verdure, possessed of good, the\n bestower, the healing.\n8. For his splendor and fortune I shall sacrifice to him with audible\n worship, the Moon that has the seed of the Bull, with libations.\n We sacrifice to the Moon that has the seed of the Bull, the righteous,\n master of Asha,\n With Haoma-containing milk ... and with correctly uttered words.\n We worship the male and female Entities in the worship of whom Ahura\n Mazda knows (there is (or: consists) what is) best (lit. better) according to\n Asha.\n9. Y.A.V.(2).\n I desire worship ... of the Moon that has the seed of the Bull, of the sole-\n created Bull, of cattle of all species. Ashem...(3). 10.Give strength\n and victory. Give a satisfactory supply of cattle. Give a multitude of men,\n steadfast, belonging to the assembly, vanquishing, not vanquished, vanquishing\n adversaries at one stroke, vanquishing enemies at one stroke, of manifest help\n to the blessed.\n11. O Yazads full of fortune! O Yazads full of healing! Manifest by\n your greatness, manifest be those of you who help when invoked. O waters give\n indeed just your own manifest fortune to the worshiper.\n Aban Niyayesh (Litany to Water)\n -------------------------------\n0. In the name of God. May the majesty and glory of Ormazd, the\n beneficent lord, increase. (Hither) may come Banu Aban Ardvisur.\n Of all sins ... I repent.\n1. To the good waters, created by Mazda. To the waters of Aredvi\n Anahita, the righteous. To all waters created by Mazda. To all\n plants created by Mazda. Propitiation ... glorification. As (he\n is) the Lord that is to be chosen ... let one who knows it pronounce\n it to me.\n2. Ahura Mazda spoke to Spitama Zarathushtra: 'May you sacrifice\n for me, O Spitama Zarathushtra, to her who is Aredvi Sura Anahita,\n The wide-expanding, the healing,\n Foe to the daevas, of Ahura's Faith,\n Worthy of sacrifice in the material world,\n Worthy of prayer in the material world,\n Life-increasing, the righteous,\n Herd-increasing, the righteous,\n Fold-increasing, the righteous,\n Wealth-increasing, the righteous,\n Country-increasing, the righteous.'\n3. Who purifies the seed of all males.\n Who purifies the wombs of\n All females for bearing. Who makes all females have easy childbirth.\n Who bestows on all females\n Right (and) timely milk.\n4. The great, far-famed,\n Who is as much in greatness\n As all these waters\n That run along on this earth.\n Who, the strong one, flows forth\n From the height Hukairya\n To the Sea Vourukasha.\n5. All the shores around the Sea Vourukasha\n Are in commotion,\n The whole middle is bubbling up\n When she flows forth to them,\n When she streams forth to them,\n Aredvi Sura Anahita.\n To whom belong a thousand lakes,\n To whom a thousand outlets;\n Anyone of these lakes\n And any of these outlets\n (Is) a forty days' ride\n For a man mounted on a good horse.\n6. And the outflow of this\n One water of mine penetrates to all the seven zones. And (the\n outflow) of this one water of mine\n Flows continuously\n Both summer and winter.\n She purifies my waters, she (purifies) the seed of males, the\n wombs of females, the milk of females.\n7. Whom I, Ahura Mazda by movement of tongue (?) brought forth\n for the furtherance of the house, village, town, and country.\n8. Inasmuch as I shall henceforth recite the Staota Yasna, and\n shall recite the Ahuna Vairya, and shall pour forth (?) the Asha\n Vahishta, and shall purify the good waters with (lit. together\n with) that Gathic word 'Ahura Mazda attained first in the Abode\n of Praise' - she will therefore give me reward.\n9. For her splendor and fortune I shall sacrifice to her with\n audible worship, I shall sacrifice to her with the well-sacrificed\n worship. Through this may you be commanded when invoked! Through\n this may you be more than well-sacrificed! (We sacrifice) to Aredvi\n Sura Anahita, the righteous, with libations. We sacrifice to Aredvi\n Sura Anahita, the righteous, master of Asha,\n With Haoma-containing milk ... and with correctly uttered words.\n We worship the male and female Entities in the worship of whom\n Ahura Mazda knows (there is (or: consists) what is) best (lit.\n better) according to Asha. \n Atash Niyayesh (Litany to Fire)\n -------------------------------\n0. With propitiation of Ahura Mazda. Homage to you, O Fire of\n Ahura Mazda, O good created, great Yazata.\n Ashem Vohu.... In the name of God. May the majesty and glory of\n Ormazd, the beneficent Lord, increase.\n (Note: If praying at an Atash Bahram, recite:)\n To the Fire Behram, the great Fire.\n (Note: If praying at an Atash Adaran, recite:)\n To the Fire Adaran, the great Fire.\n (Note: If praying at an Atash Dadgah, recite:)\n To the Fire Dadgah, the great Fire.\n Of all sins ... I repent.\n1. Arise unto me, O Ahura! give vigor through Armaiti, Strength\n by the good reward through Thy Holy Spirit, O Mazda! Mighty power\n through Asha, supremacy through Vohu Manah.\n2. For my support, O Far-seeing One, may Ye manifest unto me\n those incomparable things\n Of your Khshathra, O Ahura, which are the reward of Vohu Manah;\n Instruct our consciences, O Holy Armaiti, through Asha.\n3. So Zarathushtra gives as an offering even the life of his body,\n And the excellence of Vohu Manah unto Mazda,\n As also obedience and power of deed and word unto Asha.\n4. Propitiation unto Ahura Mazda. Homage unto thee, O Fire of\n Ahura Mazda, thou good-created, great Yazata.\n Ashem Vohu...(3).\n I profess myself a Mazda-worshipper, a follower of Zarathushtra,\n opposing the Daevas, accepting the Ahuric doctrine.\n (Here recite the appropriate Gah dedication.)\n Unto Fire, the son of Ahura Mazda. Unto thee, O Fire, son of Ahura\n Mazda.\n5. To Fire, the son of Ahura Mazda; to the good fortune and Prosperity,\n created by Mazda; to the Aryan good fortune, created by Mazda;\n to the kingly good fortune, created by Mazda; to Fire, the son\n of Ahura Mazda; to Kavi Husravah, to the Lake of Husravah; to\n Mount Asnavant, created by Mazda; to Lake Chaechista, created\n by Mazda; to the kingly good fortune, created by Mazda.\n6. To Fire, the son of Ahura Mazda; to Mount Raevant, created\n by Mazda, to the kingly good fortune, created by Mazda; to Fire,\n the son of Ahura Mazda; O Fire! holy warrior, O Yazata full of\n fortune, O Yazata full of healing; to Fire, the son of Ahura Mazda,\n with all fires; to the Yazata Nairyosangha, offspring of sovereignty\n (Khshathra). Propitiation for worship, adoration, propitiation,\n and praise.\n 'Yatha Ahu Vairyo', the zaotar should say to me\n 'Atha ratush ashatchit hacha', the Asha-owning, knowing one should\n say.\n7. I bless in reverence and adoration the abiding offering, the\n joyous offering, and the devotional offering (offered) to you,\n O Fire! son of Ahura Mazda.\n Worthy of sacrifice you are, worthy of prayer,\n worthy of sacrifice may you always be, worthy of prayer,\n in the dwellings of men.\n May there be hope to that man who verily shall sacrifice to you\n with fuel in his hand, with the Baresma in his hand,\n with milk in his hand, with the mortar in his hand.\n8. May you be provided with proper fuel! May you be provided\n with proper incense! May you be provided with proper nourishment!\n May you be provided with proper upkeep! May you be maintained\n by one of full age! May you be maintained by one wise (in religion),\n O Fire, son of Ahura Mazda.\n9. In order to be burning in this house, in order to be ever\n burning in this house, in order to be blazing in this house, in\n order to be increasing in this house,\n Even throughout the Long Time,\n until the mighty Renovation, including the mighty, good Renovation.\n10. Give me, O Fire, son of Ahura Mazda! well-being immediately,\n sustenance immediately; life immediately, well-being in abundance;\n sustenance in abundance, life in abundance; knowledge, holiness,\n a ready tongue, understanding for (my) soul; and afterwards wisdom\n (which is) comprehensive, great, imperishable.\n11. (Give me) then the manly valor, which is ever afoot, sleepless,\n (for one third of the days and nights), watchful while lying in\n bed. (Give me) native offspring that give support, ruling over\n the region, belonging to the assembly, thoroughly developed, possessed\n of good works, delivering from distress, of good intellect, that\n may further my house, village, town, country, (and) the renown\n of the country.\n12. Give me, O Fire, son of Ahura Mazda, the Best\n World of the righteous, the shining, the all-happy, so that it\n may fulfill my wish, now and for ever, so as to attain to good\n reward, and to good renown, and to long happiness of my soul!\n13. The Fire of Ahura Mazda\n Gives command to all\n For whom he cooks\n The night and the morning meals.\n From all he solicits\n A good offering, and a wished-for offering,\n And a devotional offering, O Spitama!\n14. The Fire looks at the hands of all passers-by - 'what does\n the friend bring to the friend, the one that goes forth to the\n one that sits still?' We sacrifice unto the holy Fire, the bold,\n good warrior.\n15. Then if that one brings unto him either fuel righly brought,\n or Baresma rightly spread, or the plant Hadhanaepata, to him thereupon,\n in fulfillment of his wish, the Fire of Ahura Mazda, propitiated,\n unoffended, gives a blessing:\n16. 'May a herd of cattle attend you,\n A multitude of men to you,\n And may an active mind\n And an active spirit attend you.\n May you live with a joyous life\n The nights which you live!'\n This is the Fire's blessing (on him)\n Who brings him fuel,\n Dry, exposed to the light,\n Purified in accordance with the ritual of Asha.\n17. (Recite silently:)\n Ormazd the Lord! the increaser of mankind, of the species\n of mankind, of all species, and of all good ones! May he cause\n intelligence, steadfastness, and goodness, unto me (who am) one\n of the good Mazdayasnians. So be it!\n (Recite aloud:)\n Yatha Ahu Vairyo...(2).\n I desire worship and adoration and strength and force for Fire,\n son of Ahura Mazda. For Fire, son of Ahura Mazda, to the good\n fortune and prosperity, created by Mazda, to the Aryan good fortune,\n created by Mazda; to the kingly good fortune, created by Mazda;\n to Fire, the son of Ahura Mazda; to Kavi Husravah; to the Lake\n of Husravah, to Mount Asnavant, created by Mazda; to Lake Chaechista,\n created by Mazda; to the kingly good fortune, created by Mazda.\n To Fire, the son of Ahura Mazda; to Mount Raevant, created by\n Mazda; to the kingly good fortune, created by Mazda; to Fire,\n the son of Ahura Mazda; O Fire! holy warrior, O Yazata full of\n fortune, O Yazata full of healing; to Fire, the son of Ahura Mazda,\n with all fires; to the Yazata Nairyosangha, offspring of sovereignty\n (Khshathra).\n Ashem Vohu...(3).\n18. Then through Asha, O Ahura! we wish your mighty and powerful\n Fire, which is taught through Asha, to be a manifest help to the\n ally, but a visible harm at your beck, O Mazda! to the foe.\n Ashem Vohu....\n19. Bestow on him riches... (SrB5)\n20. Homage to the creator of the creatures of the world, on the\n day (name the day) of good name, of holy name, of auspicious name,\n on the month (name the month) of auspicious name, of the Gah (name\n the Gah). With propitiation of Ahura Mazda. Homage to you, O Fire\n of Ahura Mazda, O good created, great Yazata.\n Ashem Vohu....\n May there be an increase in the luster and fortune .\n (Note: If praying at an Atash Bahram, recite:)\n To the Fire Behram, the great Fire.\n (Note: If praying at an Atash Adaran, recite:)\n To the Fire Adaran, the great Fire.\n (Note: If praying at an Atash Dadgah, recite:)\n To the Fire Dadgah, the great Fire.\n May the powerful and victorious fires - Adar Gushasp, Adar Khordad\n and Adar Burzin Meher and other Adaran and Atashan which are established\n in their proper places (dad-gah) be on the increase. May the greatness\n and brightness of Menoi Karko which is powerful and victorious\n be on the increase. May these be on the increase - these fires\n which possess power and victory. May the knowledge, promulgation,\n and glory of the Mazdayasnian law and religion be in the seven\n regions of the earth! So be it!\n I must go thither (3).\n Ashem Vohu....\n (Recite facing south:)\n To the creator of the world, to the Mazdayasnian religion,\n the Law of Zarthusht. Homage to you! O righteous Ardvisura Anahita,\n most profitable, O righteous one.\n Ashem Vohu....\n Homage to you, O good tree, righteous, created by Mazda.\n Ashem Vohu....\n With propitiation of Ahura Mazda. Homage to you, O Fire of Ahura\n Mazda, O good created, great Yazata.\n Ashem Vohu....\nYashts (Hymns to Ahura Mazda, the Archangels, and the Angels)\n-------------------------------------------------------------\n 1. Ohrmazd Yasht (Hymn to Ahura Mazda)\n --------------------------------------\n (Translated by James Darmesteter (From Sacred Books of the\n East, American Edition, 1898.)\n0. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced! May Angra Mainyu be destroyed\n by those who do truly what is the foremost wish (of God). \n I praise well-thought, well-spoken, and well-done thoughts, words,\n and deeds. I embrace all good thoughts, good words, and good deeds;\n I reject all evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds. \n I give sacrifice and prayer unto you, O Amesha-Spentas! even with\n the fullness of my thoughts, of my words, of my deeds, and of\n my heart: I give unto you even my own life. \n I recite the 'Praise of Holiness:' \n 'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good. Well is it for\n it, well is it for that holiness which is perfection of holiness!'\n I confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathushtra,\n one who hates the Daevas and obeys the laws of Ahura;\n For sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto [Havani],\n the holy and master of holiness; \n For sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto [Savanghi\n and Visya], the holy and masters of holiness;\n For sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto the\n Masters of the days, of the periods of the day, of the months,\n of the seasons, and of the years; \n Unto AHURA MAZDA, bright and glorious, be propitiation, with sacrifice,\n prayer, propitiation, and glorification. \n Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness:\n the riches of Vohu-Mano shall he given to him who works in this\n world for Mazda, and wields according to the will of Ahura the\n power he gave him to relieve the poor.\n1. Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: 'O Ahura Mazda, most beneficent\n Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! \n 'What of the Holy Word is the strongest? What is the most victorious?\n What is the most glorious? What is the most effective?\n2. 'What is the most fiend-smiting? What is the best-healing?\n What destroyeth best the malice of Daevas and Men? What maketh\n the material world best come to the fulfillment of its wishes?\n What freeth the material world best from the anxieties of the\n heart?'\n3. Ahura Mazda answered: 'Our Name, O Spitama Zarathushtra! who\n are the Amesha-Spentas, that is the strongest part of the Holy\n Word; that is the most victorious; that is the most glorious;\n that is the most effective;\n4. 'That is the most fiend-smiting; that is the best-healing;\n that destroyeth best the malice of Daevas and Men: that maketh\n the material world best come to the fulfillment of its wishes;\n that freeth the material World best from the anxieties of the\n heart.'\n5. Then Zarathushtra said: 'Reveal unto me that name of thine,\n O Ahura Mazda! that is the greatest, the best, the fairest, the\n most effective, the most fiend-smiting, the best-healing, that\n destroyeth best the malice of Daevas and Men;\n6. 'That I may afflict all Daevas and Men; that I may afflict\n all Yatus and Pairikas; that neither Daevas nor Men may be able\n to afflict me; neither Yatus nor Pairikas.'\n7. Ahura Mazda replied unto him: 'My name is the One of whom\n questions are asked, O holy Zarathushtra!\n 'My second name is the Herd-giver\n 'My third name is the Strong One\n 'My fourth name is Perfect Holiness.\n 'My fifth name is All good things created by Mazda, the offspring\n of the holy principle. \n 'My sixth name is Understanding; \n 'My seventh name is the One with understanding. \n 'My eighth name is Knowledge; \n 'My ninth name is the One with Knowledge.\n8. 'My tenth name is Weal; \n 'My eleventh name is He who produces weal. \n 'My twelfth name is AHURA (the Lord). \n 'My thirteenth name is the most Beneficent. \n 'My fourteenth name is He in whom there is no harm. \n 'My fifteenth name is the unconquerable One. \n 'My sixteenth name is He who makes the true account. \n 'My seventeenth name is the All-seeing One. \n 'My eighteenth name is the healing One. \n 'My nineteenth name is the Creator. \n 'My twentieth name is MAZDA (the All-knowing One).\n9. Worship me, O Zarathushtra, by day and by night, with offerings\n of libations well accepted I will come unto thee for help and\n joy, I, Ahura Mazda; the good, holy Sraosha will come unto thee\n for help and joy; the waters, the plants, and the Fravashis of\n the holy ones will come unto thee for help and joy.\n10. 'If thou wantest, O Zarathushtra, to destroy the malice of\n Daevas and Men, of the Yatus and Pairikas, of the oppressors,\n of the blind and of the deaf, of the two-legged ruffians, of the\n two-legged Ashemaoghas, of the four-legged wolves;\n11. 'And of the hordes with the wide front, with the many spears,\n with the straight spears, with the spears uplifted, bearing the\n spear of havock; then, recite thou these my names every day and\n every night.\n12. 'I am the Keeper; I am the Creator and the Maintainer; I am\n the Discerner; I am the most beneficent Spirit. \n 'My name is the bestower of health; my name is the best bestower\n of health. \n 'My name is the Athravan; my name is the most Athravan-like of\n all Athravans. \n 'My name is Ahura (the Lord) \n 'My name is Mazdau (the all-knowing). \n 'My name is the Holy; my name is the most Holy. \n 'My name is the Glorious; my name is the most Glorious. \n 'My name is the Full-seeing; my name is the Fullest-seeing. \n 'My name is the Far-seeing; my name is the Farthest-seeing.\n13. 'My name is the Protector; my name is the Well-wisher; my\n name is the Creator; my name is the Keeper; my name is the Maintainer.\n 'My name is the Discerner; my name is the Best Discerner. \n 'My name is the Prosperity-producer; my name is the Word of Prosperity.\n 'My name is the King who rules at his will; my name is the King\n who rules most at his will. \n 'My name is the liberal King; my name is the most liberal King.\n14. 'My name is He who does not deceive; my name is He who is\n not deceived. \n 'My name is the good Keeper; my name is He who destroys malice;\n my name is He Who conquers at once; my name is He who conquers\n everything; my name is He who has shaped everything. \n 'My name is All weal; my name is full weal; my name is the Master\n of weal.\n15. 'My name is He who can benefit at his wish; my name is He\n who can best benefit at his wish. \n 'My name is the Beneficent One; my name is the Energetic One;\n my name is the most Beneficent. \n 'My name is Holiness; my name is the Great One; my name is the\n good Sovereign; my name is the Best of Sovereigns. \n 'My name is the Wise One; my name is the Wisest of the Wise; my\n name is He who does good for a long time.\n16. 'These are my names.\n 'And he who in this material world, O Spitama Zarathushtra! shall\n recite and pronounce those names of mine either by day or by night;\n17. 'He who shall pronounce them, when he rises up or when he\n lays him down; when he lays him down or when he rises up; when\n he binds on the sacred girdle or when he unbinds the sacred girdle;\n when he goes out of his dwelling-place, or when he goes out of\n his town, or when he goes out of his country and comes into another\n country:\n18. 'That man, neither in that day nor in that night, shall be\n wounded by the weapons of the foe who rushes Aeshma-like and is\n Druj-minded; not the knife, not the cross-bow, not the arrow,\n not the sword, not the club, not the sling-stone shall reach and\n wound him.\n19. 'But those names shall come in to keep him from behind and\n to keep him in front, from the Druj unseen, from the female Varenya\n fiend, from the evil-doer bent on mischief, and from that fiend\n who is all death, Angra Mainyu. It will be as if there were a\n thousand men watching over one man.\n20. '\"Who is he who will smite the fiend in order to maintain\n thy ordinances? Teach me clearly thy rules for this world and\n for the next, that Sraosha may come with Vohu-Mano and help whomsoever\n thou pleasest.\"\n21. 'Hail to the Glory of the Kavis! Hail to the Airyanem Vaejah!\n Hail to the Saoka, made by Mazda! Hail to the waters of the Daitya!\n Hail to Ardvi, the undefiled well! Hail to the whole world of\n the holy Spirit! \n 'Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord... \n 'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\n22. 'We worship the Ahuna Vairya. We worship Asha-Vahishta, most\n fair, undying, and beneficent. We worship Strength and Prosperity\n and Might and Victory and Glory and Vigour. We worship Ahura Mazda,\n bright and glorious. \n 'Yenghe hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda knows the\n goodness for a sacrifice [performed] in holiness, all those beings,\n males and females, do we worship.\n23. 'Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....\n I bless the sacrifice and the prayer unto Ahura Mazda, bright\n and glorious, and his strength and vigour.'\n (Bahman Yasht.)\n24. 'O Zarathushtra! keep thou for ever that man who is friendly\n [to me] from the foe unfriendly [to me]! Do not give up that friend\n unto the stroke (of the foe), unto vexations to be borne; wish\n no harm unto that man who would offer me a sacrifice, be it ever\n so great or ever so small, if it has reached unto us, the Amesha-Spentas.\n25. 'Here is Vohu-Mano, my creature, O Zarathushtra! here is Asha-Vahishta,\n my creature, O Zarathushtra! here is Khshathra-Vairya, my creature,\n O Zarathushtra! here is Spenta-Armaiti, my creature, O Zarathushtra!\n here are Haurvatat and Ameretat, who are the reward of the holy\n ones, when freed from their bodies, my creatures, O Zarathushtra!\n26. 'Thou knowest this, and how it is, O holy Zarathushtra! from\n my understanding and from my knowledge; namely, how the world\n first began, and how it will end. \n 'A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies! \n 'A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies! \n 'A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies!\n27. '[We worship] the well-shapen, tall-formed Strength; Verethraghna,\n made by Ahura; the crushing Ascendant, and Spenta-Armaiti.\n28. 'And with the help of Spenta-Armaiti, break ye asunder their\n malice, turn their minds astray, bind their hands, make their\n knees quake against one another, bind their tongues. \n 'When, O Mazda! shall the faithful smite the wicked? When shall\n the faithful smite the Druj? When shall the faithful smite the\n wicked?'\n29. Then Zarathushtra said: 'I threw you back into the earth,\n and by the eyes of Spenta-Armaiti the ruffian was made powerless.\n30. 'We worship the powerful Gaokerena, made by Mazda; the powerful\n Gaokerena, made by Mazda.\n31. 'We worship the memory of Ahura Mazda to keep the Holy Word.\n We worship the understanding of Ahura Mazda, to study the Holy\n Word. \n 'We worship the tongue of Ahura Mazda, to speak forth the Holy\n Word. \n 'We worship the mountain that gives understanding, that preserves\n understanding; [we worship it] by day and by night, with offerings\n of libations well-accepted.\n32. 'We worship that creation [of Ahura's], Spenta-Armaiti; and\n the holy creations of that creature and of Asha [Vahishta], that\n are foremost in holiness. \n 'Here I take as lord and master the greatest of all, Ahura Mazda;\n to smite the fiend Angra Mainyu; to smite Aeshma of the wounding\n spear; to smite the Mazainya fiends; to smite all the Daevas and\n the Varenya fiends; to increase Ahura Mazda, bright and glorious;\n to increase the Amesha-Spentas; to increase the star Tishtrya,\n the bright and glorious; to increase the faithful men; to increase\n all the holy creatures of the beneficent Spirit. \n 'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\n33. Bestow on him riches... (Recite SrB5.)\n 'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....'\n 2. Haft Amahraspand Yasht\n -------------------------\n0. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced!...\nAshem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\nI confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of\nZarathushtra, one who hates the Daevas and obeys the laws of\nAhura;\nFor sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto\n[Havani], the holy and master of holiness....\n I.\n1. To Ahura Mazda, bright and glorious, and to the\nAmesha-Spentas;\nTo Vohu-Mano; to Peace, whose breath is friendly, and who is\nmore powerful to destroy than all other creatures; to the\nheavenly Wisdom, made by Mazda, and to the Wisdom acquired\nthrough the ear, made by Mazda;\n2. To Asha-Vahishta, the fairest; to the much-desired Airyaman;\nto the instrument made by Mazda: and to the good Saoka, with eyes\nof love, made by Mazda and holy;\nTo Khshathra-Vairya; to the metals; to Mercy and Charity.\n3. To the good Spenta-Armaiti, and to the good Rata, with eyes\nof love, made by Mazda and holy;\nTo Haurvatat, the master; to the prosperity of the seasons\nand to the years, the masters of holiness;\nAnd to Ameretat, the master; to fatness and flocks; to the\nplenty of corn; and to the powerful Gaokerena, made by Mazda.\n4. (At the Gah Hawan): To Mithra, the lord of wide pastures and\nto Rama Hvastra.\n(At the Gah Rapithwin): To Asha-Vahishta and to Atar, the\nson of Ahura Mazda.\n(At the Gah, Uzerin): To Apam Napat, the tall lord, and to\nwater, made by Mazda.\n5. (At the Gah Aiwisruthrem): To the Fravashis of the faithful\nand to the females that bring forth flocks of males; to the\nprosperity of the seasons; to the well-shapen and tall-formed\nStrength; to Verethraghna, made by Ahura, and to the crushing\nAscendant.\n(At the Gah Usahin): To the holy, devout, fiend-smiting\nSraosha, who makes the world grow; to Rashnu-Razishta and to\nArshtat, who makes the world grow, who makes the world increase;\nBe propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation and\nglorification!\nYatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of\nholiness....\n II.\n6. We sacrifice unto Ahura Mazda, bright and glorious; we\nsacrifice unto the Amesha-Spentas, the all-ruling, the\nall-beneficent.\nWe sacrifice unto Vohu-Mano, the Amesha-Spenta; we sacrifice\nunto Peace, whose breath is friendly, and who is more powerful to\ndestroy than all other creatures; we sacrifice unto the heavenly\nWisdom, made by Mazda; we sacrifice unto the Wisdom acquired\nthrough the ear, made by Mazda.\n7. We sacrifice unto Asha-Vahishta, the fairest, the\nAmesha-Spenta; we sacrifice unto the much-desired Airyaman; we\nsacrifice unto the instrument made by Mazda; we sacrifice unto\nthe good Saoka, with eyes of love, made by Mazda and holy.\nWe sacrifice unto Khshathra-Vairya; we sacrifice unto the\nmetals; we sacrifice unto Mercy and Charity.\n8. We sacrifice unto the good Spenta-Armaiti; we sacrifice unto\nthe good Rata, with eyes of love, made by Mazda and holy.\nWe sacrifice unto Haurvatat, the Amesha-Spenta; we sacrifice\nunto the prosperity of the seasons; we sacrifice unto the years,\nthe holy and masters of holiness.\nWe sacrifice unto Ameretat, the Amesha-Spenta; we sacrifice\nunto fatness and flocks; we sacrifice unto the plenty of corn; we\nsacrifice unto the powerful Gaokerena, made by Mazda.\n9. (At the Gah Hawan): We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of\nwide pastures; we sacrifice unto Rama Hvastra.\n(At the Gah Rapithwin): We sacrifice unto Asha-Vahishta and\nAtar, the son of Ahura Mazda.\n(At the Gah Uzerin): We sacrifice unto Apam Napat, the\nswift-horsed, the tall and shining lord, the lord of the females;\nwe sacrifice unto the holy waters, made by Mazda.\n10. (At the Gah Aiwisruthrem): We sacrifice unto the good,\npowerful, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful; we sacrifice unto\nthe females who bring forth flocks of males; we sacrifice unto\nthe prosperity of the seasons; we sacrifice unto the well-shapen,\ntall-formed Strength; we sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by\nMazda; we sacrifice unto the crushing Ascendant.\n(At the Gah Ushahin): We sacrifice unto the holy,\ntall-formed, fiend-smiting Sraosha; who makes the world grow, the\nholy an master of holiness; we sacrifice unto Rashnu-Razishta; we\nsacrifice unto Arshtat, who makes the world grow, who makes the\nworld increase\n III.\n \n11. Let the Yatus be crushed, O Zarathushtra! both Daevas and\nmen.\nWho is he in whose house, O Spitama Zarathushtra! every Druj\nis destroyed, every Druj perishes, when he pronounces these\nwords:\n12. ........?\n13. It is he who takes the seven Amesha-Spentas, the all-ruling,\nthe all-beneficent, as a shield against his enemies.\nWe worship the Law of the worshippers of Mazda; we worship\nthe waters coming in the shape of a horse, made by Mazda.\n14-15.\n He has renounced trespasses and faults, O Zarathustra! he\nhas renounced all trespasses and faults, O Zarathustra! when he\nthrows down the destroyer of Vohu-Mano and his words, with a\nhundred times hundredfold, with a many times manifold preaching\nand smiting, and he takes away the Law of Mazda, that was carried\naway as a prisoner, from the hands of the [ungodly], who are\ndestroyed by his strength.\nAshem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\n16. Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of\nholiness....\nI bless the sacrifice and the prayer, the strength and\nvigour\nOf Ahura Mazda, bright and glorious, and of the\nAmesha-Spentas;\nOf Vohu-Mano; of Peace, whose breath is friendly....\nOf Asha-Vahishta, the fairest; of the much-desired\nAiryaman....\nOf Khshathra-Vairya, of the metals....\nOf the good Spenta-Armaiti and of the good Rata....\nOf Haurvatat, the master....\nOf Ameretat, the master....\n(At the Gah Hawan): Of Mithra....\n(At the Gah Rapithwin): Of Asha-Vahishta....\n(At the Gah Uzerin): Of the high lord Apam Napat....\n(At the Gah Aiwisruthrem): Of the Fravashis of the\nfaithful....\n(At the Gah Ushahin): Of the holy, devout, fiend-smiting\nSraosha, who makes the world grow; of Rashnu-Razishta and of\nArshtat, who makes the world grow, who makes the world increase.\nAshem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\nGive unto that man brightness and glory, give him health of\nbody, give him sturdiness of body, give him victorious strength\nof body, give him full welfare of wealth, give him a virtuous\noffspring,\ngive him long, long life, give him the bright, all-happy,\nblissful abode of the holy Ones.\n 3. Ardwahisht Yasht\n -------------------\n0. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced! ....\nAshem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\nI confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of\nZarathushtra, one who hates the Daevas and obeys the laws of\nAhura;\nFor sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto\n[Havani], the holy and master of holiness....\nUnto Asha-Vahishta, the fairest; unto the much-desired\nAiryaman, made by Mazda, and unto the good Saoka, with eyes of\nlove, made by Mazda and holy;\nBe propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and\nglorification.\nYatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of\nholiness....\n I.\n1. Ahura Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathushtra, saying: 'That\nthou mayest increase Asha-Vahishta, O Spitama Zarathushtra! with\nhymns of praise, with performance of the office, with\ninvocations, holy words, sacrifice, blessings, and adoration -\nonce to abide in the shining luminous space, in the beautiful\nabodes - for the sacrifice and invocation of us, the\nAmesha-Spentas'....\n2. Zarathushtra said: 'Say unto me the right words, such as\nthey are, O Ahura Mazda! that I may increase Asha-Vahishta, with\nhymns of praise, with performance of the office, with\ninvocations, holy words, sacrifice, blessings, and adoration, -\nonce to abide in the shining luminous space, in the beautiful\nabodes, - for the sacrifice and invocation of you, the\nAmesha-Spentas.\n3. '.... I proclaim Asha-Vahishta: if I proclaim Asha-Vahishta,\nthen easy is the way to the abode of the other Amesha-Spentas,\nwhich Ahura Mazda keeps with Good Thoughts, which Ahura Mazda\nkeep with Good Words, which Ahura Mazda keeps with Good Deeds;\n4. '(Easy is the way to the Garo-nmana of Ahura Mazda): the\nGaro-nmana is for the holy souls, and no one of the wicked can\nenter the Garo-nmana and its bright, wide, holy ways; (no one of\nthem can go) to Ahura Mazda.\n II.\n5. 'The Airyaman prayer smites down the strength of all the\ncreatures of Angra Mainyu, of the Yatus and Pairikas. It is the\ngreatest of spells, the best of spells, the very best of all\nspells; the fairest of spells, the very fairest of all spells;\nthe fearful one amongst spells, the most fearful of all spells;\nthe firm one amongst spells, the firmest of all spells; the\nvictorious one amongst spells, the most victorious of all spells;\nthe healing one amongst spells, the best-healing of all spells.\n6. 'One may heal with Holiness, one may heal with the Law, one\nmay heal with the knife, one may heal with herbs, one may heal\nwith the Holy Word: amongst all remedies this one is the healing\none that heals with the Holy Word; this one it is at will best\ndrive away sickness from the body of the faithful: for this one\nis the best-healing of all remedies.\n7. 'Sickness fled away [before it], Death fled away; the Daeva\nfled away, the Daeva's counter-work fled away; the unholy\nAshemaogha fled away, the oppressor of men fled away.\n8. 'The brood of the Snake fled away; the brood of the Wolf\nfled away; the brood of the Two-legged fled away. Pride fled\naway; Scorn fled away; Hot Fever fled away; Slander fled away;\nDiscord fled away; the Evil Eye fled away.\n9. 'The most lying words of falsehood fled away; the Jahi,\naddicted to the Yatu, fled away; the Jahi, who makes one pine,\nfled away; the wind that blows from the North fled away; the\nwind that blows from the North vanished away.\n10. 'He it is who smites me that brood of the Snake, and who\nmight smite those Daevas by thousands of thousands, by ten\nthousands of ten thousands; he smites sickness, he smites death,\nhe smites the Daevas, he smites the Daeva's counter-work, he\nsmites the unholy Ashemaogha, he smites the oppressor of men.\n11. 'He smites the brood of the Snake; he smites the brood of\nthe Wolf; he smites the brood of the Two-legged. He smites\nPride; he smites Scorn; he smites Hot Fever; he smites Slander;\nhe smites Discord; he smites the Evil Eye.\n12. 'He smites the most lying words of falsehood; he smites the\nJahi, addicted to the Yatu; he smites the Jahi, who makes one\npine. He smites the wind that blows from the North; the wind\nthat blows from the North vanished away.\n13. 'He it is who smites me that brood of the Two-legged, and\nwho might smite those Daevas, by thousands of thousands, by ten\nthousands of ten thousands. Angra Mainyu, who is all death, the\nworst-lying of all Daevas, rushed from before him:\n14. 'He exclaimed, did Angra Mainyu: \"Woe is me! Here is the\ngod Asha-Vahishta, who will smite the sickliest of all\nsicknesses, who will afflict the sickliest of all sicknesses;\n'\"He will smite the deadliest of all deaths, he will afflict\nthe deadliest of all deaths;\n'\"He will smite the most fiendish of all fiends, he will\nafflict the most fiendish of all fiends;\n'\"He will smite the most counter-working of all\ncounter-works, he will afflict the most counter-working of all\ncounter-works;\n'\"He will smite the unholy Ashemaogha, he will afflict the\nunholy Ashemaogha;\n'\"He will smite the most oppressive of the oppressors of\nmen, he will afflict most oppressive of the oppressors of men.\n15. '\"He will smite the snakiest of the Snake's brood, he will\nafflict the snakiest of the Snake's brood;\n'\"He will smite the most wolfish of the Wolf's brood, he\nwill afflict the most wolfish of the Wolf's brood;\n'\"He will smite the worst of the two-legged brood, he will\nafflict the worst of the two-legged brood;\n'\"He will smite Pride, he will afflict Pride;\n'\"He will smite Scorn, he will afflict Scorn;\n'\"He will smite the hottest of hot fevers, he will afflict\nthe hottest of hot fevers;\n'\"He will smite the most slanderous of slanders, he will\nafflict the most slanderous of slanders;\n'\"He will smite the most discordant of discords, he will\nafflict the most discordant of discords;\n'\"He will smite the worst of the Evil Eye, he will afflict\nthe worst of the Evil Eye.\n16. '\"He will smite the most lying words of falsehood, he will\nafflict the most lying words of falsehood;\n'\"He will smite the Jahi, addicted to the Yatu, he will\nafflict the Jahi, addicted to the Yatu;\n'\"He will smite the Jahi, who makes one pine, he will\nafflict the Jahi, who makes one pine;\n'\"He will smite the wind that blows from the North, he will\nafflict the wind that blows from the North.\"\n17. 'The Druj will perish away, the Druj will perish; the Druj\nwill rush, the Druj will vanish. Thou perishest away to the\nregions of the North, never more to give unto death the living\nworld of the holy spirit.\n18. 'For his brightness and glory I will offer unto him a\nsacrifice worth being heard, namely, unto Asha-Vahishta, the\nfairest - the Amesha-Spenta. Unto Asha-Vahishta, the fairest, the\nAmesha-Spenta, we offer up the libations, the Haoma and meat,\nthe baresma, the wisdom of the tongue, the holy spells, the\nspeech, the deeds, the libations, and the rightly-spoken words.\n'Yenhe hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda knows the\ngoodness....\n19. 'Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of\nholiness....\n'I bless the sacrifice and prayer and the strength and\nvigour of Asha-Vahishta, the fairest; of the much-desired\nAiryaman, made by Mazda; and of the good Saoka, with eyes of\nlove, made by Mazda and holy.\n'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\n'[Give] unto that man brightness and glory, give him health\nof body; .... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of\nthe holy Ones.'\n 4. Awerdad Yasht\n ----------------\n0. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced! ....\nAshem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\nI confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of\nZarathushtra, one who hates the Daevas and obeys the laws of\nAhura;\nFor sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto\n[Havani], the holy and master of holiness....\nUnto Haurvatat, the master; unto the prosperity of the\nseasons and unto the years, the masters of holiness,\nBe propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and\nglorification.\nYatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of\nholiness....\nWe sacrifice unto Haurvatat, the Amesha-Spenta; we sacrifice\nunto the prosperity of the seasons; we sacrifice unto the years,\nthe holy and masters of holiness.\n1. Ahura Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathushtra, saying: 'I\ncreated for the faithful the help, the enjoyments, the comforts,\nand the pleasures of Haurvatat. We unite them with him who would\ncome up to thee as one of the Amesha-Spentas, as he would come to\nany of the Amesha-Spentas, Vohu-Mano, Asha-Vahishta,\nKhshathra-Vairya, Spenta-Armaiti, Haurvatat, and Ameretat.\n2. 'He who against the thousands of thousands of those Daevas,\nagainst their ten thousands of ten thousands, against their\nnumberless myriads would invoke the name of Haurvatat, as one of\nthe Amesha-Spentas, he would smite the Nasu, he would smite\nHashi, he would smite Bashi, he would smite Saeni, he would\nsmite Buji.\n3. 'I proclaim the faithful man as the first [of men]; if I\nproclaim the faithful man as the first [of men], then Rashnu\nRazishta, then every heavenly Yazata of male nature in company\nwith the Amesha-Spentas will free the faithful man\n4. 'From the Nasu, from Hashi, from Gashi, from Saeni, from\nBuji; from the hordes with the wide front, from the hordes with\nthe many spears uplifted, from the evil man who oppresses, from\nthe willful sinner, from the oppressor of men, from the Yatu,\nfrom the Pairika, from the straying way.\n5. 'How does the way of the faithful turn and part from the way\nof the wicked?'\nAhura Mazda answered: 'It is when a man pronouncing my\nspell, either reading or reciting it by heart, draws the furrows\nand hides there himself, [saying]:\n6. '\"I will smite thee, O Druj! whomsoever thou art, whomsoever\nthou art amongst the Drujes that come in an open way, whomsoever\nthou art amongst the Drujes that come by hidden way, whomsoever\nthou art amongst the Drujes that defile by contact; whatsoever\nDruj thou art, I smite thee away from the Aryan countries;\nwhatsoever Druj thou art, I bind thee; I smite thee down, O Druj!\nI throw thee down below, O Druj!\"\n7. 'He draws [then] three furrows: I proclaim him one of the\nfaithful; he draws six furrow: I proclaim him one of the\nfaithful; he draws nine furrows: I proclaim him one of the\nfaithful.\n8. 'The names of those (Amesha-Spentas) smite the men turned to\nNasus by the Drujes: the seed and kin of the deaf are smitten,\nthe scornful are dead, as the Zaotar Zarathushtra blows them\naway to woe, however fierce, at his will and wish, as many as he\nwishes.\n9. 'From the time when the sun is down he smites them with\nbruising blows; from the time when the sun is no longer up, he\ndeals deadly blows on the Nasu with his club struck down, for the\npropitiation and glorification of the heavenly gods.\n10. 'O Zarathushtra! let not that spell be shown to any one,\nexcept by the father to his son, or by the brother to his brother\nfrom the same womb, or by the Athravan to his pupil in black\nhair, devoted to the good law, who, devoted to the good law,\nholy and brave, stills all the Drujes.\n11. 'For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a\nsacrifice worth being heard, namely, unto Haurvatat, the\nAmesha-Spenta. Unto Haurvatat, the Amesha-Spenta, we offer up the\nlibations, the Haoma and meat, the baresma, the wisdom of the\ntongue, the holy spells, the speech, the deeds, the libations,\nand the rightly-spoken words.\n12.\n 'Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of\nholiness....\n'I bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and\nvigour of Haurvatat, the master; of the prosperity of the seasons\nand of the years, the masters of holiness.\n'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\n'[Give] unto that man brightness and glory, .... give him\nthe bright, all happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones.'\n 5. Ardui Sur Bano Yasht (Hymn to the Waters)\n --------------------------------------------\nTranslated by James Darmesteter. (From Sacred Books of the\nEast, American Edition, 1898.)\n0. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced!.... \nAshem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good.... \nI confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathushtra,\none who hates the Daevas and obeys the laws of Ahura; \nFor sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto [Havani],\nthe holy and master of holiness.... \nUnto the good Waters, made by Mazda; unto the holy water-spring\nARDVI ANAHITA; unto all waters, made by Mazda; unto all plants,\nmade by Mazda, \nBe propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.\n \nYatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....\n I.\n1. Ahura Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathushtra, saying: 'Offer\nup a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring of mine,\nArdvi Sura Anahita, the wide-expanding and health-giving, who\nhates the Daevas and obeys the laws of Ahura, who is worthy of\nsacrifice in the material world, worthy of prayer in the material\nworld; the life-increasing and holy, the herd-increasing and holy,\nthe fold-increasing and holy, the wealth-increasing and holy,\nthe country-increasing and holy;\n2.\n 'Who makes the seed of all males pure, who makes the womb\nof all females pure for bringing forth, who makes all females\nbring forth in safety, who puts milk into the breasts of all females\nin the right measure and the right quality;\n3. 'The large river, known afar, that is as large as the whole\nof the waters that run along the earth; that runs powerfully from\nthe height Hukairya down to the sea Vouru-Kasha.\n4. 'All the shores of the sea Vouru-Kasha are boiling over, all\nthe middle of it is boiling over, when she runs down there, when\nshe streams down there, she, Ardvi Sura Anahita, who has a thousand\ncells and a thousand channels: the extent of each of those cells,\nof each of those channels is as much as a man can ride in forty\ndays, riding on a good horse.\n5. 'From this river of mine alone flow all the waters that spread\nall over the seven Karshvares; this river of mine alone goes on\nbringing waters, both in summer and in winter. This river of mine\npurifies the seed in males, the womb in females the milk in females'\nbreasts.\n6. 'I, Ahura Mazda, brought it down with mighty vigor, for the\nincrease of the house, of the borough of the town, of the country,\nto keep them, to maintain them, to look over them, to keep and\nmaintain them close.\n7. 'Then Ardvi Sura Anahita, O Spitama Zarathushtra! proceeded\nforth from the Maker Mazda. Beautiful were her white arms, thick\nas a horse's shoulder or still thicker; beautiful was her ....,\nand thus came she, strong, with thick arms, thinking thus in her\nheart:\n8. '\"Who will praise me? Who will offer me a sacrifice,\nwith libations cleanly prepared and well-strained, together with\nthe Haoma and meat? To whom shall I cleave, who cleaves unto me,\nand thinks with me, and bestows gifts upon me, and is of good\nwill unto me?\"\n9. 'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice\nworth being heard; I will offer up unto the holy Ardvi Sura Anahita\na good sacrifice with an offering of libations;- thus mayest thou\nadvise us when thou art appealed to! Mayest thou be most fully\nworshipped, O Ardvi Sura Anahita! with the Haoma and meat, with\nthe baresma, with the wisdom of the tongue, with the holy spells,\nwith the words with the deeds, with the libations, and with the\nrightly-spoken words. \n'Yenhe hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda....\n II.\n10. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita, the wide-expanding and health-giving,\nwho hates the Daevas and obeys the laws of Ahura, who is worthy\nof sacrifice in the material world, worthy of prayer in the material\nworld; the life-increasing and holy, the herd-increasing and holy,\nthe fold-increasing and holy, the wealth-increasing and holy,\nthe country-increasing and holy;\n11. 'Who drives forwards on her chariot, holding the reins of\nthe chariot. She goes, driving, on this chariot, longing for men\nand thinking thus in her heart: \"Who will praise me? Who\nwill offer me a sacrifice, with libations cleanly prepared and\nwell-strained, together with the Haoma and meat? To whom shall\nI cleave, who cleaves unto me, and thinks with me, and bestows\ngifts unto me, and is of good will unto me?\" \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice, worth\nbeing heard....\n III.\n12. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n13. 'Whom four horses carry, all white, of one and the same color,\nof the same blood, tall, crushing down the hates of all haters,\nof the Daevas and men, of the Yatus and Pairikas, of the oppressors,\nof the blind and of the deaf. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice ....\n IV.\n14. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n15. 'Strong and bright, tall and beautiful of form, who sends\ndown by day and by night a flow of motherly waters as large as\nthe whole of the waters that run along the earth, and who runs\npowerfully. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n V.\n16. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n17. 'To her did the Maker Ahura Mazda offer up a sacrifice to\nthe Airyana Vaejah, by the good river Daitya; with the Haoma and\nmeat, with the baresma, with the wisdom of the tongue, with the\nholy spells, with the words, with the deeds, with the libations,\nand with the rightly-spoken words.\n18. He begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant me this, O good,\nmost beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that I may bring the son of\nPourushaspa, the holy Zarathushtra, to think after my law, to\nspeak after my law, to do after my law!\"\n19. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering\nlibations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and begging that she would\ngrant him that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n VI.\n20. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n21. 'To her did Haoshyangha, the Paradhata, offer up a sacrifice\non the enclosure of the Hara, with a hundred male horses, a thousand\noxen, and ten thousand lambs.\n22. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant me this, O good,\nmost beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita, that I may become the sovereign\nlord of all countries, of the Daevas and men, of the Yatus and\nPairikas, of the oppressors, the blind and the deaf; and that\nI may smite down two thirds of the Daevas of Mazana and of the\nfiends of Varena.\"\n23. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering\nlibations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she\nwould grant him that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n VII.\n24. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n25. 'To her did Yima Khshaeta, the good shepherd, offer up a sacrifice\nfrom the height Hukairya, with a hundred male horses, a thousand\noxen, ten thousand lambs.\n26. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant me this, O good,\nmost beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that I may become the sovereign\nlord of all countries, of the Daevas and men, of the Yatus and\nPairikas, of the oppressors, the blind and the deaf; and that\nI may take from the Daevas both riches and welfare, both fatness\nand flocks, both weal and Glory.\"\n27. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering\nlibations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she\nwould grant him that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n VIII.\n28. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n29. 'To her did Azi Dahaka, the three-mouthed, offer up a sacrifice\nin the land of Bawri, with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen,\nand ten thousand lambs.\n30. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant me this boon,\nO good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that I may make all\nthe seven Karshvares of the earth empty of men.\"\n31. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita did not grant him that boon, although\nhe was offering libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating\nher that she would grant him that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n IX.\n32. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto Ardvi\nSura Anahita....\n33. 'To her did Thraetaona, the heir of the valiant Athwya clan,\noffer up a sacrifice in the four-cornered Varena, with a hundred\nmale horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs.\n34. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant me this, O good,\nmost beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that I may overcome Azi Dahaka,\nthe three-mouthed, the three-headed, the six-eyed, who has a thousand\nsenses, that most powerful, fiendish Druj, that demon, baleful\nto the world, the strongest Druj that Angra Mainyu created against\nthe material world, to destroy the world of the good principle;\nand that I may deliver his two wives, Savanghavach and Erenavach,\nwho are the fairest of body amongst women, and the most wonderful\ncreatures in the world.\"\n35. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering\nlibations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she\nwould grant him that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n X.\n36. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto Ardvi\nSura Anahita....\n37. 'To her did Keresaspa, the manly-hearted, offer up a sacrifice\nbehind the Vairi Pisanah, with a hundred male horses, a thousand\noxen, ten thousand lambs.\n38. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant me this, O good,\nmost beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that I may overcome the golden-heeled\nGandarewa, though all the shores of the sea Vouru-Kasha are boiling\nover; and that I may run up to the stronghold of the fiend on\nthe wide, round earth, whose ends lie afar.\"\n39. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering\nlibations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she\nwould grant him that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XI.\n40. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sara Anahita....\n41. 'To her did the Turanian murderer, Frangrasyan, offer up a\nsacrifice in his cave under the earth, with a hundred male horses,\na thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs.\n42. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant me this, O good,\nmost beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that I may seize hold of that\nGlory, that is waving in the middle of the sea Vouru-Kasha and\nthat belongs to the Aryan people, to those born and to those not\nyet born, and to the holy Zarathushtra.\"\n43. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita did not grant him that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n II.\n44. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n45. 'To her did the great, most wise Kavi Usa offer up a sacrifice\nfrom Mount Erezifya, with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen,\nten thousand lambs.\n46. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant me, this, O\ngood, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that I may become the\nsovereign lord of all countries, of the Daevas and men, of the\nYatus and Pairikas, of the oppressors, the blind and the deaf.\"\n47. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering\nlibations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she\nwould grant him that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XIII.\n48. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n49. 'To her did the gallant Husravah, he who united the Aryan\nnations into one kingdom, offer up a sacrifice behind the Chaechasta\nlake, the deep lake, of salt waters, with a hundred male horses,\na thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs.\n50. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant me this, O good,\nmost beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that I may become the sovereign\nlord of all countries, of Daevas and men, of the Yatus and Pairikas,\nof the oppressors, the blind and the deaf; and that I may have\nthe lead in front of all the teams and that he may not pass through\nthe forest , he, the murderer, who now is fiercely striving against\nme on horseback.\"\n51. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering\nlibations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she\nwould grant him that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XIV.\n52. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n53. 'To her did the valiant warrior Tusa offer worship on the\nback of his horse, begging swiftness for his teams, health for\nhis own body, and that he might watch with full success those\nwho hated him, smite down his foes, and destroy at one stroke\nhis adversaries, his enemies, and those who hated him.\n54. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant me this, O good,\nmost beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that I may overcome the gallant\nsons of Vaesaka, by the castle Khshathro-saoka, that stands high\nup on the lofty, holy Kangha; that I may smite of the Turanian\npeople their fifties and their hundreds, their hundreds and their\nthousands, their thousands and their tens of thousands, their\ntens of thousands and their myriads of myriads.\"\n55. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering\nlibations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she\nwould grant him that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XV.\n56. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n57. 'To her did the gallant sons of Vaesaka offer up a sacrifice\nin the castle Khshathro-saoka, that stands high up on the lofty,\nholy Kangha, with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, ten\nthousand lambs.\n58. 'They begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant us this, O\ngood, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that we may overcome\nthe valiant warrior Tusa, and that we may smite of the Aryan people\ntheir fifties and their hundreds, their hundreds and their thousands,\ntheir thousands and their tens of thousands, their tens of thousands\nand their myriads of myriads.\"\n59. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita did not grant them that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XVI.\n60. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n61. 'The old Vafra Navaza worshipped her when the strong fiend-smiter,\nThraetaona, flung him up in the air in the shape of a bird, of\na vulture.\n62. 'He went on flying, for three days and three nights, towards\nhis own house; but he could not, he could not turn down. At the\nend of the third night, when the beneficent dawn came dawning\nup, then he prayed unto Ardvi Sura Anahita, saying:\n63. '\"Ardvi Sura Anahita! do thou quickly hasten helpfully\nand bring me assistance at once. I will offer thee a thousand\nlibations, cleanly prepared and well strained, along with Haomas\nand meat, by the brink of the river Rangha, if I reach alive the\nearth made by Ahura and my own house.\"\n64. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita hastened unto him in the shape of a maid,\nfair of body, most strong, tall-formed, high-girdled, pure, nobly\nborn of a glorious race, wearing shoes up to the ankle wearing\na golden...., and radiant.\n65. 'She seized him by the arm: quickly was it done, nor was it\nlong till, speeding, he arrived at the earth made by Mazda and\nat his own house, safe, unhurt, unwounded, just as he was before.\n[66. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering\nup libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, entreating that she would\ngrant him that boon.] \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XVII.\n67. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n68. 'To her did Jamaspa offer up a sacrifice, with a hundred horses,\na thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs, when he saw the army of the\nwicked, of the worshippers of the Daevas, coming from afar in\nbattle array.\n69. 'He asked of her a boon, saying: \"Grant me this, O good,\nmost beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that I may be as constantly\nvictorious as any one of all the Aryans.\"\n70. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering\nup libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she\nwould grant him that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XVIII.\n71. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n72. 'To her did Ashavazdah, the son of Pouru-dhakhshti, and Ashavazdah\nand Thrita, the sons of Sayuzhdri, offer up a sacrifice, with\na hundred horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs, by Apam\nNapat, the tall lord, the lord of the females, the bright and\nswift-horsed.\n73. 'They begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant us this, O\ngood, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that we may overcome\nthe assemblers of the Turanian Danus, Kara Asabana, and Vara Asabana,\nand the most mighty Duraekaeta, in the battles of this world.\n74. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted them that boon, as they were offering\nup libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she\nwould grant them that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, l will offer her a sacrifice....\n XIX.\n75. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n76. 'Vistauru, the son of Naotara, worshipped her by the brink\nof the river Vitanghuhaiti, with well-spoken words, speaking thus:\n77. '\"This is true, this is truly spoken, that I have smitten\nas many of the worshippers of the Daevas as the hairs I bear on\nmy head. Do thou then, O Ardvi Sura Anahita! leave me a dry passage,\nto pass over the good Vitanghuhaiti.\"\n78. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita hastened unto him in the shape of a maid,\nfair of body, most strong, tall-formed, high-girded, pure, nobly\nborn of a glorious race, wearing shoes up to the ankle, with all\nsorts of ornaments and radiant. A part of the waters she made\nstand still, a part of the waters she made flow forward, and she\nleft him a dry passage to pass over the good Vitanghuhaiti.\n[79. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering\nup libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she\nwould grant him that boon.] \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XX.\n80. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n81. 'To her did Yoishta, one of the Fryanas, offer up a sacrifice\nwith a hundred horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs on\nthe Pedvaepa of the Rangha.\n82. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant me this, O good,\nmost beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that I may overcome the evil-doing\nAkhtya, the offspring of darkness, and that I may answer the ninety-nine\nhard riddles that he asks me maliciously, the evil-doing Akhtya,\nthe offspring of darkness.\"\n83. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering\nup libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she\nwould grant him that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XXI.\n84. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n85. 'Whom Ahura Mazda the merciful ordered thus, saying: \"Come,\nO Ardvi Sura Anahita, come from those stars down to the earth\nmade by Ahura, that the great lords may worship thee, the masters\nof the countries, and their sons.\n86. '\"The men of strength will beg of thee swift horses and\nsupremacy of Glory. \n'\"The Athravans who read and the pupils of the Athravans\nwill beg of thee knowledge and prosperity, the Victory made by\nAhura, and the crushing Ascendant.\n87. '\"The maids of barren womb, longing for a lord, will\nbeg of thee a strong husband; \n'\"Women, on the point of bringing forth, will beg of thee\na good delivery. \n'\"All this wilt thou grant unto them, as it lies in thy power,\nO Ardvi Sura Anahita!\"\n88. 'Then Ardvi Sura Anahita came forth, O Zarathushtra! down\nfrom those stars to the earth made by Mazda; and Ardvi Sura Anahita\nspake thus:\n89. '\"O pure, holy Zarathushtra! Ahura Mazda has established\nthee as the master of the material world: Ahura Mazda has established\nme to keep the whole of the holy creation. \n'\"Through my brightness and glory flocks and herds and two-legged\nmen go on, upon the earth: I, forsooth, keep all good things,\nmade by Mazda, the offspring of the holy principle, just as a\nshepherd keeps his flock.\"\n90. 'Zarathushtra asked Ardvi Sura Anahita: \"O Ardvi Sura\nAnahita! With what manner of sacrifice shall I worship thee? With\nwhat manner of sacrifice shall I worship and forward thee? So\nthat Mazda may make thee run down (to the earth), that he may\nnot make thee run up into the heavens, above the sun; and that\nthe Serpent may not injure thee with...., with...., with....,\nand.... poisons.\"\n91. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita answered: \"O pure, holy Spitama!\nthis is the sacrifice wherewith thou shalt worship me, this is\nthe sacrifice wherewith thou shalt worship and forward me, from\nthe time when the sun is rising to the time when the sun is setting.\n'\"Of this libation of mine thou shalt drink, thou who art\nan Athravan, who hast asked and learnt the revealed law, who art\nwise, clever, and the Word incarnate.\n92. '\"Of this libation of mine let no foe drink, no man fever-sick,\nno liar, no coward, no jealous one, no woman, no faithful one\nwho does not sing the Gathas, no leper to be confined.\n93. '\"I do not accept those libations that are drunk in my\nhonor by the blind, by the deaf, by the wicked, by the destroyers,\nby the niggards, by the...., nor any of those stamped with those\ncharacters which have no strength for the holy Word. \n'\"Let no one drink of these my libations who is hump-backed\nor bulged forward; no fiend with decayed teeth.\"\n94. 'Then Zarathushtra asked Ardvi Sura Anahita: \"O Ardvi\nSura Anahita! What becomes of those libations which the wicked\nworshippers of the Daevas bring unto thee after the sun has set?\"\n95. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita answered: \"O pure, holy Spitama Zarathushtra!\nhowling, clapping, hopping, and shouting, six hundred and a thousand\nDaevas, who ought not to receive that sacrifice, receive those\nlibations that men bring unto me after [the sun has set].\"\n96. 'I will worship the height Hukairya, of the deep precipices,\nmade of gold, wherefrom this mine Ardvi Sura Anahita leaps, from\na hundred times the height of a man, while she is possessed of\nas much Glory as the whole of the waters that run along the earth,\nand she runs powerfully. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XXII.\n97. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n98. 'Before whom the worshippers of Mazda stand with baresma in\ntheir hands: the Hvovas did worship her, the Naotaras did worship\nher; the Hvovas asked for riches, the Naotaras asked for swift\nhorses. Quickly was Hvova blessed with riches an full prosperity;\nquickly became Vishtaspa, the Naotaride, the lord of the swiftest\nhorses in these countries.\n99. ['Ardvi Sura Anahita granted them that boon, as they were\noffering up libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating\nthat she would grant them that boon.] \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XXIII.\n100. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n101. 'Who has a thousand cells and a thousand channels: the extent\nof each of those cells, of each of those channels, is as much\nas a man can ride in forty days, riding on a good horse. In each\nchannel there stands a palace, well-founded, shining with a hundred\nwindows, with a thousand columns, well-built, with ten thousand\nbalconies, and mighty.\n102. 'In each of those palaces there lies a well-laid, well-scented\nbed, covered with pillows, and Ardvi Sura Anahita, O Zarathushtra!\nruns down there from a thousand times the height of a man, and\nshe is possessed of as much Glory as the whole of the waters that\nrun along the earth, and she runs powerfully.\n XXIV.\n103. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n104. 'Unto her did the holy Zarathushtra offer up a sacrifice in\nthe Airyana Vaejah, by the good river Daitya; with the Haoma and\nmeat, with the baresma, with the wisdom of the tongue, with the\nholy spells, with the speech, with the deeds, with the libations,\nand with the rightly-spoken words.\n105. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant me this, O good,\nmost beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that I may bring the son of\nAurvat-aspa, the valiant Kavi Vistaspa, to think according to\nthe law, to speak according to the law, to do according to the\nlaw.\"\n106. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was\noffering up libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating\nthat she would grant him that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XXV.\n107. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n108. 'Unto her did the tall Kavi Vishtaspa offer up a sacrifice\nbehind Lake Frazdanava, with a hundred male horses, a thousand\noxen, ten thousand lambs.\n109. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant me this, O good,\nmost beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that I may overcome Tathravant,\nof the bad law, and Peshana, the worshipper of the Daevas and\nthe wicked Arejat-aspa, in the battles of this world!\"\n110. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was offering\nup libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she\nwould grant him that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XXVI.\n111. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n112. 'Unto her did Zairi-vairi, who fought on horseback, offer\nup a sacrifice behind the river Daitya, with a hundred male horses,\na thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs.\n113. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant me this, O good,\nmost beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that I may overcome Pesho-Changha\nthe corpse-burier, Humayaka the worshipper of the Daevas, and\nthe wicked Arejat-aspa, in the battles of this world.\n114. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita granted him that boon, as he was\noffering up libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating\nthat she would grant him that boon. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XXVII.\n115. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n116. 'Unto her did Arejat-aspa and Vandaremaini offer up a sacrifice\nby the sea Vouru-Kasha, with a hundred male horses, a thousand\noxen, ten thousand lambs.\n117. 'They begged of her a boon, saying: \"Grant us this, O\ngood, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! that we may conquer\nthe valiant Kavi Vishtaspa and Zairivairi who fights on horseback,\nand that we may smite of the Aryan people their fifties and their\nhundreds, their hundreds and their thousands, their thousands\nand their tens of thousands, their tens of thousands and their\nmyriads of myriads.\"\n118. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita did not grant them that favor, though\nthey were offering up libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and\nentreating that she should grant them that favor. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XXVIII.\n119. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n120. 'For whom Ahura Mazda has made four horses -- the wind,\nthe rain, the cloud, and the sleet -- and thus ever a upon the\nearth it is raining, snowing, hailing, and sleeting; and whose\narmies are so many and numbered by nine-hundreds and thousands.\n121. 'I will worship the height Hukairya, of the deep precipices,\nmade of gold, wherefrom this mine Ardvi Sura Anahita leaps, from\na hundred times the height of a man, while she is possessed of\nas much Glory as the whole of the waters that run along the earth,\nand she runs powerfully. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XXIX.\n122. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n123. 'She stands, the good Ardvi Sura Anahita, wearing a golden\nmantle, waiting for a man who shall offer her libations and prayers,\nand thinking thus in her heart:\n124. \"'Who will praise me? Who will offer me a sacrifice,\nwith libations cleanly prepared and well-strained, together with\nthe Haoma and meat? To whom shall I cleave, who cleaves unto me,\nand thinks with me, and bestows gifts upon, me, and is of good\nwill unto me?\" \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n XXX.\n125. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring\nof mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita....\n126. 'Ardvi Sura Anahita, who stands carried forth in the shape\nof a maid, fair of body, most strong, tall-formed, high-girded,\npure, nobly born of a glorious race, wearing along her.... a mantle\nfully embroidered with gold;\n127. 'Ever holding the baresma in her hand, according to the rules,\nshe wears square golden earrings on her ears bored, and a golden\nnecklace around her beautiful neck, she, the nobly born Ardvi\nSura Anahita; and she girded her waist tightly, so that her breasts\nmay be well-shaped, that they may be tightly pressed.\n128. 'Upon her head Ardvi Sura Anahita bound a golden crown, with\na hundred stars, with eight rays, a fine ...., a well-made crown,\nin the shape of a ...., with fillets streaming down.\n129. 'She is clothed with garments of beaver, Ardvi Sura Anahita;\nwith the skin of thirty beavers of those that bear four young\nones, that are the finest kind of beavers; for the skin of the\nbeaver that lives in water is the finest-colored of all skins,\nand when worked at the right time it shines to the eye with full\nsheen of silver and gold.\n130. 'Here, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! I beg of\nthee this favor: that I, fully blessed, may conquer large kingdoms,\nrich in horses, with high tributes, with snorting horses, sounding\nchariots, flashing swords, rich in aliments, with stores of food,\nwith well-scented beds; that I may have at my wish the fullness\nof the good things of life and whatever makes a kingdom thrive.\n131. 'Here, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Anahita! I beg of\nthee two gallant companions, one two-legged and one four-legged:\none two-legged, who is swift, quickly rushing, and clever in turning\na chariot round in battle; and one four-legged, who can quickly\nturn towards either wing of the host with a wide front, towards\nthe right wing or the left, towards the left wing or the right.\n132. 'Through the strength of this sacrifice, of this invocation,\nO Ardvi Sura Anahita! come down from those stars, towards the\nearth made by Ahura, towards the sacrificing priest, towards the\nfull boiling [milk]; come to help him who is offering up libations\ngiving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that thou wouldst grant\nhim thy favors; that all those gallant warriors may be strong,\nlike king Vishtaspa. \n'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice....\n133. 'Yatha ahu vairya: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....\n \n'I bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and vigor\nof the holy water-spring Anahita. \n'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good.... \n'[Give] unto that man brightness and glory, .... give him the\nbright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones!'\n 6. Khwarshed Yasht (Hymn to the Sun)\n ------------------------------------\n0. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced!....\nAshem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\nI confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathushtra,\none who hates the Daevas and obeys the laws of Ahura;\nFor sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto [Havani],\nthe holy and master of holiness....\nUnto the undying, shining, swift-horsed Sun;\nBe propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.\nYatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....\n1. We sacrifice unto the undying, shining, swift-horsed Sun.\nWhen the light of the sun waxes warmer, when the brightness of\nthe sun waxes warmer, then up stand the heavenly Yazatas, by hundreds\nand thousands: they gather together its Glory, they make its Glory\npass down, they pour its Glory upon the earth made by Ahura, for\nthe increase of the world of holiness, for the increase of the\ncreatures of holiness, for the increase of the undying, shining,\nswift-horsed Sun.\n2. And when the sun rises up, then the earth, made by Ahura,\nbecomes clean; the running waters become clean, the waters of\nthe wells become clean, the waters of the sea become clean, the\nstanding waters become clean; all the holy creatures, the creatures\nof the Good Spirit, become clean.\n3. Should not the sun rise up, then the Daevas would destroy\nall the things that are in the seven Karshvares, nor would the\nheavenly Yazatas find any way of withstanding or repelling them\nin the material world.\n4. He who offers up a sacrifice unto the undying, shining, swift-horsed\nSun - to withstand darkness, to withstand the Daevas born of darkness,\nto withstand the robbers and bandits, to withstand the Yatus and\nPairikas, to withstand death that creeps in unseen - offers it\nup to Ahura Mazda, offers it up to the Amesha-Spentas, offers\nit up to his own soul. He rejoices all the heavenly and worldly\nYazatas, who offers up a sacrifice unto the undying, shining,\nswift-horsed Sun.\n5. I will sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, who\nhas a thousand ears, ten thousand eyes.\nI will sacrifice unto the club of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,\nwell struck down upon the skulls of the Daevas.\nI will sacrifice unto that friendship, the best of all friendships,\nthat reigns between the moon and the sun.\n6. For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice\nworth being heard, namely, unto the undying, shining, swift-horsed\nSun. Unto the undying, shining, swift-horsed Sun we offer up the\nlibations, the Haoma and meat, the baresma, the wisdom of the\ntongue, the holy spells, the speech, the deeds, the libations,\nand the rightly-spoken words.\nYenghe hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda....\n7. Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....\nI bless the sacrifice and the invocation, and the strength and\nvigour of the undying, shining, swift-horsed Sun.\nAshem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\nGive unto that man brightness and glory, give him health of body,\n.... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy\nOnes.\n 7. Mah Yasht (Hymn to the Moon)\n -------------------------------\n0. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced!....\nAshem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\nI confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathushtra,\none who hates the Daevas and obeys the laws of Ahura;\nFor sacrifice,prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto [Havani],\nthe holy and master of holiness....\nUnto the Moon that keeps in it the seed of the Bull; unto the\nonly-created Bull and unto the Bull of many species;\nBe propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.\nYatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....\n1. Hail to Ahura Mazda! Hail to the Amesha-Spentas! Hail to the\nMoon that keeps in it the seed of the Bull! Hail to thee when\nwe look at thee! Hail to thee when thou lookest at us!\n2. How does the moon wax? How does the moon wane?\nFor fifteen days does the moon wax; for fifteen days does the\nmoon wane. As long as her waxing, so long is the waning; as long\nas her waning, so long is the waxing.\n'Who is there but thee who makes the moon wax and wane?'\n3. We sacrifice unto the Moon that keeps in it the seed of the\nBull, the holy and master of holiness.\nHere I look at the moon, here I perceive the moon; here I look\nat the light of the moon, here I perceive the light of the moon.\nThe Amesha-Spentas stand up holding its glory; the Amesha-Spentas\nstand up, pouring its glory upon the earth, made by Mazda.\n4. And when the light of the moon waxes warmer, golden-hued plants\ngrow on from the earth during the spring.\nWe sacrifice unto the new moons, the full moons, and the Vishaptathas.\nWe sacrifice unto the new moon, the holy and master of holiness;\nWe sacrifice unto the full moon, the holy and master of holiness;\nWe sacrifice unto the Vishaptatha, the holy and master of holiness.\n5. I will sacrifice unto the Moon, that keeps in it the seed\nof the Bull, the liberal, bright, glorious, water-giving, warmth-giving,\nwisdom-giving, wealth-giving, riches-giving, thoughtfulness-giving,\nweal-giving, freshness-giving, prosperity-giving, the liberal,\nthe healing.\n6. For its brightness and glory, I will offer unto it a sacrifice\nworth being heard, namely, unto the Moon that keeps in it the\nseed of the Bull.\nUnto the Moon that keeps in it the seed of the Bull, we offer\nup the libations, the Haoma and meat, the baresma, the wisdom\nof the tongue, the holy spells, the speech, the deeds, the libations,\nand the rightly-spoken words.\nYenghe hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda....\n7. Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....\nI bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and vigour\nof the Moon, that keeps in it the seed of the Bull, and of the\nonly-created Bull, and of the Bull of many species.\nAshem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good.\nGive unto that man brightness and glory, give him health of body,\n.... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy\nOnes.\n 8. Tishtar Yasht (Hymn to the Star Sirius)\n ------------------------------------------\n (Tishtrya is the angel (Yazad) of the star Sirius. Tishtrya also\n presides over the fourth month and the thirteenth day of each month.\n Sirius also directs the rain.)\n0. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced!....\nAshem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\nI confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathushtra,\none who hates the Daevas and obeys the laws of Ahura;\nFor sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto [Havani],\nthe holy and master of holiness....\nUnto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star, and unto the powerful\nSatavaesa, made by Mazda, who pushes waters forward,\nBe propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.\nYatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....\n [[1]]\n1. Ahura Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathushtra, saying: 'We worship\nthe lordship and mastership [of Tishtrya], whereby he protects\nthe Moon, the dwelling, the food, when my glorious stars come\nalong and impart their gifts to men. I will sacrifice unto the\nstar Tishtrya, that gives the fields their share [of waters].\n2. 'We offer up libations unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious\nstar, that gives happy dwelling and good dwelling; the white,\nshining, seen afar, and piercing; the health-bringing, loud-snorting,\nand high, piercing from afar with its shining, undefiled rays;\nand unto the waters of the wide sea, the Vanguhi of wide renown,\nand the species of the Bull, made by Mazda, the awful kingly Glory,\nand the Fravashi of the holy Spitama Zarathushtra.\n3. 'For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice\nworth being heard, namely, unto the star Tishtrya.\n'Unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star, we offer up the\nlibations, the Haoma and meat, the baresma, the wisdom of the\ntongue, the holy spells, the speech, the deeds, the libations,\nand the rightly-spoken words.\n'Yenhe hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda....\n [[2]]\n4. 'We sacrifice unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star,\nwho is the seed of the waters, powerful, tall, and strong, whose\nlight goes afar; powerful and highly working, through whom the\nbrightness and the seed of the waters come from the high Apam\nNapat.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[3]]\n5. 'We sacrifice unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star;\nfor whom long flocks and herds and men, looking forward for him\nand deceived in their hope: \"When shall we see him rise up,\nthe bright and glorious star Tishtrya? When will the springs run\nwith waves as thick as a horse's size and still thicker? Or will\nthey never come?\"\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[4]]\n6. 'We sacrifice unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star;\nwho flies, towards the sea Vouru-Kasha, as swiftly as the arrow\ndarted through the heavenly space, which Erekhsha, the swift archer,\nthe Arya amongst the Aryas whose arrow was the swiftest, shot\nfrom Mount Khshaotha to Mount Hvanvant.\n7. 'For Ahura Mazda gave him assistance; so did the waters and\nthe plants; and Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, opened a wide\nway unto him.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[5]]\n8. 'We sacrifice unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star,\nthat afflicts the Pairikas, that vexes the Pairikas, who, in the\nshape of worm-stars, fly between the earth and the heavens, in\nthe sea Vouru-Kasha, the powerful sea, the large-sized, deep sea\nof salt waters. He goes to its lake in the shape of a horse, in\na holy shape; and down there he makes the waters boil over, and\nthe winds flow above powerfully all around.\n9. 'Then Satavaesa makes those waters flow down to the seven\nKarshvares of the earth, and when he has arrived down there, he\nstands, beautiful, spreading ease and joy on the fertile countries\n(thinking in himself): \"How shall the countries of the Aryas\ngrow fertile?\"\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[6]]\n10. 'We sacrifice unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star,\nwho spoke unto Ahura Mazda, saying: \"Ahura Mazda, most beneficent\nSpirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One!\n11. '\"If men would worship me with a sacrifice in which I\nwere invoked by my own name, as they worship the other Yazatas\nwith sacrifices in which they are invoked by their own names,\nthen I should have come to the faithful at the appointed time;\nI should have come in the appointed time of my beautiful, immortal\nlife, should it be one night, or two nights, or fifty, or a hundred\nnights.\"\n12. 'We sacrifice unto Tishtrya;\n'We sacrifice unto the rains of Tishtrya.\n'We sacrifice unto the first star; we sacrifice unto the rains\nof the first star.\n'I will sacrifice unto the stars Haptoiringa, to oppose the Yatus\nand Pairikas.\n'We sacrifice unto Vanant, the star made by Mazda; for the well-shapen\nstrength, for the Victory, made by Ahura, for the crushing Ascendant,\nfor the destruction of what distresses us, for the destruction\nof what persecutes us.\n'We sacrifice unto Tishtrya, whose eye-sight is sound.\n13. 'For ten nights, O Spitama Zarathushtra! Tishtrya, the bright\nand glorious star, mingles his shape with light, moving in the\nshape of a man of fifteen years of age, bright, with clear eyes,\ntall, full of strength, strong, and clever.\n14. 'He is active as the first man was; he goes on with the strength\nof the first man; he has the virility of the first man.\n15. 'Here he calls for people to assemble, here he asks, saying:\n\"Who now will offer me the libations with the Haoma and the\nholy meat? To whom shall I give wealth of male children, a troop\nof male children, and the purification of his own soul? Now I\nought to receive sacrifice and prayer in the material world, by\nthe law of excellent holiness.\"\n16. 'The next ten nights, O Spitama Zarathushtra! the bright and\nglorious Tishtrya mingles his shape with light, moving in the\nshape of a golden-horned bull.\n17. 'Here he calls for people to assemble, here he asks, saying:\n\"Who now will offer me the libations with the Haoma and the\nholy meat? To whom shall I give wealth of oxen, a herd of oxen,\nand the purification of his own soul? Now I ought to receive sacrifice\nand prayer in the material world, by the law of excellent holiness.\"\n18. 'The next ten nights, O Spitama Zarathushtra! the bright and\nglorious Tishtrya mingles his shape with light, moving in the\nshape of a white, beautiful horse, with golden ears and a golden\ncaparison.\n19. 'Here he calls for people to assemble, here he asks, saying:\n\"Who now will offer me the libations with the Haoma and the\nholy meat? To whom shall I give wealth of horses, a troop of horses,\nand the purification of his own soul? Now I ought to receive sacrifice\nand prayer in the material world, by the law of excellent holiness.\"\n20. 'Then, O Spitama Zarathushtra! the bright and glorious Tishtrya\ngoes down to the sea Vouru-Kasha in the shape of a white, beautiful\nhorse, with golden ears and a golden caparison.\n21. 'But there rushes down to meet him the Daeva Apaosha, in the\nshape of a dark horse, black with black ears, black with a black\nback, black with a black tail, stamped with brands of terror.\n22. 'They meet together, hoof against hoof, O Spitama Zarathushtra!\nthe bright and glorious Tishtrya and the Daeva Apaosha. They fight\ntogether, O Spitama Zarathushtra! for three days and three nights.\nAnd then the Daeva Apaosha proves stronger than the bright and\nglorious Tishtrya, he overcomes him.\n23. 'And Tishtrya flees from the sea Vouru-Kasha, as far as a\nHathra's length. He cries out in woe and distress, the bright\nand glorious Tishtrya: \"Woe is me, O Ahura Mazda! I am in\ndistress, O Waters and Plants! O Fate and thou, Law of the worshippers\nof Mazda! Men do not worship me with a sacrifice in which I am\ninvoked by my own name, as they worship the other Yazatas with\nsacrifices in which they are invoked by their own names.\n24. '\"If men had worshipped me with a sacrifice in which\nI had been invoked by my own name, as they worship the other Yazatas\nwith sacrifices in which they are invoked by their own names,\nI should have taken to me the strength of ten horses, the strength\nof ten camels, the strength of ten bulls, the strength of ten\nmountains, the strength of ten rivers.\"\n25. 'Then I, Ahura Mazda, offer up to the bright and glorious\nTishtrya a sacrifice in which he is invoked by his own name, and\nI bring him the strength of ten horses, the strength of ten camels,\nthe strength of ten bulls, the strength of ten mountains, the\nstrength of ten rivers.\n26. 'Then, O Spitama Zarathushtra! the bright and glorious Tishtrya\ngoes down to the sea Vouru-Kasha in the shape of a white, beautiful\nhorse, with golden ears and golden caparison.\n27. 'But there rushes down to meet him the Daeva Apaosha in the\nshape of a dark horse, black with black ears, black with a black\nback, black with a black tail, stamped with brands of terror.\n28. 'They meet together, hoof against hoof, O Spitama Zarathushtra!\nthe bright and glorious Tishtrya, and the Daeva Apaosha; they\nfight together, O Zarathushtra! till the time of noon. Then the\nbright and glorious Tishtrya proves stronger than the Daeva Apaosha,\nhe overcomes him.\n29. 'Then he goes from the sea Vouru-Kasha as far as a Hathra's\nlength: \"Hail!\" cries the bright and glorious Tishtrya.\n\"Hail unto me, O Ahura Mazda! Hail unto you, O waters and\nplants! Hail, O Law of the worshippers of Mazda! Hail will it\nbe unto you, O lands! The life of the waters will flow down unrestrained\nto the big-seeded corn fields, to the small-seeded pasture-fields,\nand to the whole of the material world!\"\n30. Then the bright and glorious Tishtrya goes back down to the\nsea Vouru-Kasha, in the shape of a white, beautiful horse, with\ngolden ears and a golden caparison.\n31. 'He makes the sea boil up and down; he makes the sea stream\nthis and that way; he makes the sea flow this and that way: all\nthe shores of the sea Vouru-Kasha are boiling over, all the middle\nof it is boiling over.\n32. 'And the bright and glorious Tishtrya rises up from the sea\nVouru-Kasha, O Spitama Zarathushtra! the bright and glorious Satavaesa\nrises up from the sea Vouru-Kasha; and vapours rise up above Mount\nUs-hindu, that stands in the middle of the sea Vouru-Kasha.\n33. 'Then the vapours push forward, in the regular shape of clouds;\nthey go following the wind, along the ways which Haoma traverses,\nthe increaser of the world. Behind him travels the mighty wind,\nmade by Mazda, and the rain, and the cloud, and the sleet, down\nto the several places, down to the fields, down to the seven Karshvares\nof the earth.\n34. 'Apam Napat, O Spitama Zarathushtra! divides the waters amongst\nthe countries in the material world, in company with the mighty\nwind, the Glory, made by the waters, and the Fravashis of the\nfaithful.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[7]]\n35. 'We sacrifice unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star,\nwho from the shining east, moves along his long winding course,\nalong the path made by the gods, along the way appointed for him\nthe watery way, at the will of Ahura Mazda, at the will of the\nAmesha-Spentas.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[8]]\n36. 'We sacrifice unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star,\nwhose rising is watched by men who live on the fruits of the year,\nby the chiefs of deep understanding; by the wild beasts in the\nmountains, by the tame beasts that run in the plains; they watch\nhim, as he comes up to the country for a bad year, or for a good\nyear, (thinking in themselves): \"How shall the Aryan countries\nbe fertile?\"\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[9]]\n37. 'We sacrifice unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star,\nswift-flying and swift-moving, who flies towards the sea Vouru-Kasha,\nas swiftly as the arrow darted through the heavenly space, which\nErekhsha, the swift archer, the Arya amongst the Aryas whose arrow\nwas the swiftest, shot from Mount Khshaotha to Mount Hvanvant.\n38. 'Ahura Mazda gave him assistance, and the Amesha-Spentas and\nMithra, the lord of wide pastures, pointed him the way: behind\nhim went the tall Ashish Vanguhi and Parendi on her light chariot:\nalways till, in his course, he reached Mount Hvanvant on the shining\nwaters.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[10]]\n39. 'We sacrifice unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star,\nwho afflicts the Pairikas, who destroys the Pairikas, that Angra\nMainyus flung to stop all the stars that have in them the seed\nof the waters.\n40. 'Tishtrya afflicts them, he blows them away from the sea Vouru-Kasha;\nthen the wind blows the clouds forward, bearing the waters of\nfertility, so that the friendly showers spread wide over, they\nspread helpingly and friendly over the seven Karshvares.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[10]]\n41. 'We sacrifice unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star,\nfor whom long the standing waters, and the running spring-waters,\nthe stream-waters, and the rain-waters:\n42. '\"When will the bright and glorious Tishtrya rise up\nfor us? When will the springs with a flow and overflow of waters,\nthick as a horse's shoulder, run to the beautiful places and fields,\nand to the pastures, even to the roots of the plants, that they\nmay grow with a powerful growth?\"\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[10]]\n43. 'We sacrifice unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star,\nwho washes away all things of fear, who stunts the growth of all\n...., and brings health to all these creations, being most beneficent,\nwhen he has been worshipped with a sacrifice and propitiated,\nrejoiced, and satisfied.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[10]]\n44. 'I will sacrifice unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star,\nwhom Ahura Mazda has established as a lord and overseer above\nall stars, in the same way as he has established Zarathushtra\nabove men; whom neither Angra Mainyu, nor the Yatus and the Pairikas,\nnor the men Yatus can deliver unto death, nor can all the Daevas\ntogether prevail for his death.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[10]]\n45. 'We sacrifice unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star,\nto whom Ahura Mazda has given a thousand senses, and who is the\nmost beneficent amongst the stars that have in them the seed of\nthe waters:\n46. 'Who moves in light with the stars that have in them the seed\nof the waters: he, from the sea Vouru-Kasha, the powerful sea,\nthe large-sized, deep, and salt of waters, goes to all the lakes,\nand to all the beautiful caves, and to all the beautiful channels,\nin the shape of a white, beautiful horse, with golden ears and\na golden caparison.\n47. 'Then, O Spitama Zarathushtra! the waters flow down from the\nsea Vouru-Kasha, mother-like, friendly, and healing: he divides\nthem amongst these countries, being most beneficent, when he has\nbeen worshipped with a sacrifice and propitiated rejoiced, and\nsatisfied. 'For his brigbtness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice\nworth being heard....\n [[10]]\n48. 'We sacrifice unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star,\nfor whom long all the creatures of Spenta-Mainyu, those that live\nunder the ground, and those that live above the ground; those\nthat live in the waters, and those that live on dry land; those\nthat fly, and those that run in the plains; and all those that\nlive within this boundless and endless world of the holy Spirit.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[10]]\n49. 'We sacrifice unto Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star,\nthe healthful, wise, happy, and powerful, who is the lord of a\nthousand boons, and grants many boons to that man who has pleased\nhim, whether begging or not begging for them.\n50. 'I, O Spitama Zarathushtra! have created that star Tishtrya\nas worthy of sacrifice, as worthy of prayer, as worthy of progitiation,\nas worthy of glorification as myself, Ahura Mazda;\n51. 'In order to withstand, to break asunder, to afflict, to drive\nback the malice of that Pairika Duzyairya, whom evil-speaking\npeople call Huyairya.\n52. 'Had I not created that star Tishtrya as worthy of sacrifice,\nas worthy of prayer, as worthy of propitiation, as worthy of glorification\nas myself, Ahura Mazda;\n53. 'In order to withstand, to break asunder, to afflict, to drive\nback the malice of that Pairika Duzyairya, whom evil-speaking\npeople call Huyairya;\n54. 'Then all day long, all night long, that Pairika Duzyairya\nwould wage war against this material world of mine, wanting to\nextinguish its life, and she goes on, rushing upon and around\nit.\n55. 'But the bright and glorious Tishtrya keeps that Pairika in\nbonds, with twofold bonds, with threefold bonds, that cannot be\novercome, with bonds all over the body: it is as if there were\na thousand men keeping one man in bonds, a thousand men of those\nwho are the strongest in strength.\n56. 'If the Aryan countries, O Spitama Zarathushtra! would perform\nin honour of the bright and glorious Tishtrya the due sacrifice\nand invocation, just as that sacrifice and invocation ought to\nbe performed in the perfection of holiness; never should a hostile\nhorde enter these Aryan countries, nor any plague, nor leprosy,\nnor venomous plants, nor the chariot of a foe, nor the uplifted\nspear of a foe.'\n57. Zarathushtra asked: 'What is then, O Ahura Mazda! the sacrifice\nand invocation in honour of the bright and glorious Tishtrya,\nas it ought to be performed in the perfection of holiness?'\n58. Ahura Mazda answered: 'Let the Aryan nations bring libations\nunto him; let the Aryan nations tie bundles of baresma for him;\nlet the Aryan nations cook for him a head of cattle, either white,\nor black, or of any other colour, but all of one and the same\ncolour.\n59. 'Let not a murderer take of these offerings, nor a whore,\nnor a .... who does not sing the Gathas, who spreads death in\nthe world and withstands the law of Mazda, the law of Zarathushtra.\n60. 'If a murderer take of these offerings, or a whore, or a ....\nwho does not sing the Gathas, who spreads death in the world and\nwithstands the law of Mazda, the law of Zarathushtra, then the\nbright and glorious Tishtrya takes back his healing virtues.\n61. 'Plagues will ever pour upon the Aryan nations; hostile hordes\nwill ever fall upon the Aryan nations; the Aryans will be smitten,\nby their fifties and their hundreds, by their hundreds and their\nthousands, by thetr thousands and their tens of thousands, by\ntheir tens of thousands and their myriads of myriads.\n62. 'Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....\n'I bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and vigour\nof Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star, and of the powerful\nSatavaesa, made by Mazda, who pushes waters forward.\n'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\n'[Give] unto that man brightness and glory, .... give him the\nbright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones.'\n 9. Drvasp Yasht\n ---------------\n0. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced! May Angra Mainyu be afflicted!....\nAshem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\nI confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathushtra,\none who hates the Daevas and obeys the laws of Ahura;\nFor sacrifice, prayer, satisfaction, and glorification unto Havani,\nthe holy and master of holiness.\nUnto the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy,\nBe propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.\nYatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....\n [[1]]\n1. We sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and\nholy, who heeps the flocks in health, the herds in health, the\ngrown-up (cattle) in health, the young ones in health; who watches\nwell from afar, with a wide-spread and long-continued welfare-giving\nfriendship;\n2. Who yokes teams of horses, who makes her chariot turn and\nits wheels sound, fat and glistening, strong, tall-formed, weal-possessing,\nhealth-giving, powerful to stand and powerful to turn for assistance\nto the faithful.\n3. To her did Haoshyangha, the Paradhata, offer up a sacrifice\non the enclosure of the Hara, the beautiful height, made by Mazda,\nwith a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, and ten thousand\nlambs, and with an offering of libations:\n4. 'Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that\nI may overcome all the Daevas of Mazana; that I may never fear\nand bow through terror before the Daevas, but that all the Daevas\nmay fear and bow in spite of themselves before me, that they may\nfear and flee down to darkness.'\n5. The powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the\nmaintainer, granted him that boon, as he was offering libations,\ngiving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant\nhim that boon.\n6. For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice\nworth being heard; I will offer her a sacrifice well performed,\nnamely, unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy. We\noffer up libations to the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and\nholy; we offer her the Haoma and meat, the baresma, the wisdom\nof the tongue, the holy spells, the speech, the deeds, the libations,\nand the rightly-spoken words.\nYenghe hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda....\n [[2]]\n7. We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by\nMazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health....\nWho yokes teams of horses .... for assistance to the faithful.\n8. To her did Yima Khshaeta, the good shepherd, offer up a sacrifice\nfrom the height Hukairya, with a hundred male horses, a thousand\noxen, ten thousand lambs, and with an offering of libations:\n9. 'Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that\nI may bring fatness and flocks down to the world created by Mazda;\nthat I may bring immortality down to the world created by Mazda;\n10. 'That I may take away both hunger and thirst, from the world\ncreated by Mazda; that I may take away both old age and death,\nfrom the world created by Mazda; that I may take away both hot\nwind and cold wind, from the world created by Mazda, for a thousand\nyears.'\n11. The powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the\nmaintainer, granted him that boon, as he was offering lipbations,\ngiving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant\nhim that boon.\nFor her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[3]]\n12. We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by\nMazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health....\nWho yokes teams of horses .... for assistance to the faithful.\n13. To her did Thraetaona, the heir of the valiant Athwya clan,\noffer up a sacrifice in the four-cornered Varena, with a hundred\nmale horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs, and with an\noffering of libations:\n14. 'Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that\nI may overcome Azhi Dahaka, the three-mouthed, the three-headed,\nthe six-eyed, who has a thousand senses, that most powerful, fiendish\nDruj, that demon, baleful to the world, the strongest Druj that\nAngra Mainyu created against the material world, to destroy the\nworld of the good principle; and that I may deliver his two wives,\nSavanghavack and Erenavach, who are the fairest of body amongst\nwomen, and the most wonderful creatures in the world.'\n15. The powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvasya, the\nmaintainer, granted him that boon, as he was offering up libations,\ngiving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant\nhim that boon.\nFor her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[4]]\n16. We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by\nMazda and holy, who keeps flocks in health....\nWho yokes teams of horses .... for assistance to the faithful.\n17. To her did Haoma offer up a sacrifice, Haoma, the enlivening,\nthe healing, the beautiful, the lordly, with golden eyes, upon\nthe highest height of the Haraiti Bareza. He begged of her a boon\nsaying:\n18. 'Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that\nI may bind the Turanian murderer Franghrasyan, that I may drag\nhim bound, that may bring him bound unto king Husravah, that king\nHusravah may kill him, behind the Chaechasta lake, the deep lake\nof salt waters, to avenge the murder of his father Syavarshana,\na man, and of Aghraeratha, a semi-man.'\n19. The powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the\nmaintainer, granted him that boon, as he was offering up libations,\ngiving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would give\nhim that boon.\nFor her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[5]]\n20. We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by\nMazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health....\nWho yokes teams of horses .... for assistance to the faithful.\n21. To her did the gallant Husravah, he who united the Arya nations\ninto one kingdom, offer up a sacrifice, behind the Chaechasta\nlake, the deep lake of salt waters, with a hundred male horses,\na thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs, and an offering of libations:\n22. 'Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that\nI may kill the Turanian murderer, Franghrasyan, behind the Chaechasta\nlake, the deep lake of salt waters, to avenge the murder of my\nfather Syavarshana, a man, and of Aghraeratha, a semi-man.'\n23. The powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the\nmaintainer, granted him that boon, as he was offering up libations,\ngiving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant\nhim that boon.\nFor her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[6]]\n24. We offer up a sacrifice unlo the powerful Drvaspa, made by\nMazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health....\nWho yokes teams of horses .... for assistance to the faithful,\n25. To her did the holy Zarathushtra offer up a sacrifice in the\nAiryana Vaejah, by the good river Daitya, with the Haoma and meat,\nwith the baresma, with the wisdom of the tongue, with the holy\nspells, with the speech, with the deeds, with the libations, and\nwith the rightly-spoken words. He begged of her a boon, saying:\n26. 'O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! grant me this boon, that\nI may bring the good and noble Hutaosa to think according to the\nlaw, to speak according to the law, to do according to the law,\nthat she may spread my Mazdean law and make it known, and that\nshe may bestow beautiful praises upon my deeds.'\n27. The strong Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the maintainer,\ngranted him that boon, as he was offering up libations, giving\ngifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him that\nboon.\nFor her brightness and glory, I wiII offer her a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[7]]\n28. We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by\nMazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health....\nWho yokes teams of horses .... for assistance to the faithful.\n29. To her did the tall Kavi Vistaspa offer up a sacrifice behind\nthe waters of the river Daitya, with a hundred male horses, a\nthousand oxen, ten thousand lambs, and with an offering of libations:\n30. 'Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that\nI may put to flight Ashta-aurvant, the son of Vispa-thaurvo-asti,\nthe all-afflicting, of the brazen helmet, of the brazen armour,\nof the thick neck, behind whom seven hundred camels ....; that\nI may put to flight the Hvyaona murderer, Arejat-aspa; that I\nmay put to flight Darshinika, the worshipper of the Daevas;\n31. And that I may smite Tathravant of the bad law; that I may\nsmite Spinjaurushka, the worshipper of the Daevas; and that I\nmay bring unto the good law the nations of the Varedhakas and\nof the Hvyaonas; and that I may smite of the Huyaona nations their\nfifties and their hundreds, their hundreds and their thousands,\ntheir thousands and their tens of thousands, their tens of thousands\nand their myriads of myriads.\n32. The strong Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the maintainer,\ngranted him that boon, as he was offering up libations, giving\ngifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him that\nboon.\nFor her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard; I will offer her a sacrifice well performed, namely,\nunto the powerful Drvaspa made by Mazda and holy. We offer up\nlibations to the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy; we\noffer her the Haoma and meat, the baresma, the wisdom of the tongue,\nthe holy spells, the speech, the deeds, the libations, and the\nrightly-spoken words.\nYatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....\nI bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and vigour\nof the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy.\nAshem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\n[Give] unto that man brightness and glory, give him health of\nbody,.... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the\nholy Ones.\n 10. Mihr Yasht (Hymn to Mithra)\n -------------------------------\n0. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced!....\nAshem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\nI confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathushtra,\none who hates the Daevas, and obeys the laws of Ahura;\nFor sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto [Havani],\nthe holy and master of holiness....\nUnto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, who has a thousand ears,\nten thousand eyes, a Yazata invoked by his own name, and unto\nRama Hvastra,\nBe propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.\nYatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....\n [[1]]\n1. Ahura Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathushtra, saying: 'Verily,\nwhen I created Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, O Spitama! I\ncreated him as worthy of sacrifice, as worthy of prayer as myself\nAhura Mazda.\n2. 'The ruffian who lies unto Mithra brings death unto the whole\ncountry, injuring as much the faithful world as a hundred evil-doers\ncould do. Break not the contract, O Spitama! neither the one that\nthou hadst entered into with one of the unfaithful, nor the one\nthat thou hadst entered into with one of the faithful who is one\nof thy own faith. For Mithra stands for both the faithful and\nthe unfaithful.\n3. 'Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, gives swiftness to the\nhorses of those who lie not unto Mithra.\n'Fire, the son of Ahura Mazda, gives the straightest way to those\nwho lie not unto Mithra.\n'The good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful give a\nvirtuous offspring to those who lie not unto Mithra.\n4. 'For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice\nworth being heard, namely, unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures.\n'We offer up libations unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,\nwho gives a happy dwelling and a good dwelling to the Aryan nations.\n5. 'May he come to us for help! May he come to us for ease! May\nhe come to us for joy! May he come to us for mercy! May he come\nto us for health! May he come to us for victory! May he come to\nus for good conscience! May he come to us for bliss! he, the awful\nand overpowering, worthy of sacrifice and prayer, not to be deceived\nanywhere in the whole of the material world, Mithra, the lord\nof wide pastures.\n6. 'I will offer up libations unto him, the strong Yazata, the\npowerful Mithra, most beneficent to the creatures: I will apply\nunto him with charity and prayers: I will offer up a sacrifice\nworth being heard unto him, Mithra, the lord ofwide pastures,\nwith the Haoma and meat, with the baresma, with the wisdom of\nthe tongue, with the holy spells, with the speech, with the deeds,\nwith the libations, and with the rightly-spoken words. 'Yenhe\nhatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda....\n [[2]]\n7. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, who\nis truth-speaking, a chief in assemblies, with a thousand ears,\nwell-shapen, with ten thousand eyes, high, with full knowledge,\nstrong, sleepless, and ever awake;\n8. 'To whom the chiefs of nations offer up sacrifices, as they\ngo to the field, against havocking hosts, against enemies coming\nin battle array, in the strife of conflicting nations.\n9. 'On whichever side he has been worshipped first in the fulness\nof faith of a devoted heart, to that side turns Mithra, the lord\nof wide pastures, with the fiend-smiting wind, with the cursing\nthought of the wise.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[3]]\n10. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake.\n11. 'Whom the horsemen worship on the back of their horses, begging\nswiftness for their teams, health for their own bodies, and that\nthey may watch with full success those who hate them, smite down\ntheir foes, and destroy at one stroke their adversaries, their\nenemies, and those who hate themn,\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[4]]\n12. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n13. 'Who first of the heavenly gods reaches over the Hara, before\nthe undying, swift-horsed sun; who, foremost in a golden array,\ntakes hold of the beautiful summits, and from thence looks over\nthe abode of the Aryans with a beneficent eye.\n14. 'Where the valiant chiefs draw up their many troops in array;\nwhere the high mountains, rich in pastures and waters, yield plenty\nto the cattle; where the deep lakes, with salt waters, stand;\nwhere wide-flowing rivers swell and hurry towards Ishkata and\nPouruta, Mouru and Haroyu, the Gava-Sughdha and Hvairizem;\n15. 'On Arezahi and Savahi, on Fradadhafshu and Vidadhafshu, on\nVourubareshti and Vourujareshti, on this bright Karshvare of Hvaniratha,\nthe abode of cattle, the dwelling of cattle, the powerful Mithra\nlooks with a health-bringing eye;\n16. 'He who moves along all the Karshvares, a Yazata unseen, and\nbrings glory; he who moves along all the Karshvares, a Yazata\nunseen, and brings sovereignty; and increases strength for victory\nto those who, with a pious intent, holily offer him libations.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[5]]\n17. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Unto whom nobody must lie, neither the master of a house, nor\nthe lord of a borough, nor the lord of a town, nor the lord of\na province.\n18. 'If the master of a house lies unto him, or the lord of a\nborough, or the lord of a town, or the lord ofa province, then\ncomes Mithra, angry and offended, and he breaks asunder the house,\nthe borough, the town, the province; and the masters of the houses,\nthe lords of the boroughs, the lords of the towns, the lords of\nthe provinces, and the foremost men of the provinces.\n19. 'On whatever side there is one who has lied unto Mithra, on\nthat side Mithra stands forth, angry and offended, and his wrath\nis slow to relent.\n20. 'Those who lie unto Mithra, however swift they may be running,\ncannot overtake; riding, cannot ....; driving, cannot ..... The\nspear that the foe of Mithra flings, darts backwards, for the\nnumber of the evil spells that the foe of Mithra works out.\n21. 'And even though the spear be flung well, even though it reach\nthe body, it makes no wound, for the number of the evil spells\nthat the foe of Mithra works out. The wind drives away the spear\nthat the foe of Mithra flings, for the number of the evil spells\nthat the foe of Mithra works out.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[6]]\n22. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Who takes out of distress the man who has not lied unto him,\nwho takes him out of death.\n23. 'Take us out of distress, take us out of distresses, O Mithra!\nas we have not lied unto thee. Thou bringest down terror upon\nthe bodies of the men who lie unto Mithra; thou takest away the\nstrength from their arms, being angry and all-powerful; thou takest\nthe swiftness from their feet, the eye-sight from their eyes,\nthe hearing from their ears.\n24. 'Not the wound of the well-sharpened spear or of the flying\narrow reaches that man to whom Mithra comes for help with all\nthe strength of his soul, he, of the ten thousand spies, the powerful,\nall-seeing, undeceivable Mithra.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[7]]\n25. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Who is lordly, deep, strong, and weal-giving; a chief in assemblies,\npleased with prayers, high, holily clever, the incarnate Word,\na warrior with strong arms;\n26. 'Who breaks the skulls of the Daevas, and is most cruel in\nexacting pains; the punisher of the men who lie unto Mithra, the\nwithstander of the Pairikas; who, when not deceived, establisheth\nnations in supreme strength; who, when not deceived, establisheth\nnations in supreme victory;\n27. 'Who confounds the ways of the nation that delights in havoc,\nwho turns away their Glory, takes away their strength for victory,\nblows them away helpless, and delivers them unto ten thousand\nstrokes; he, of the ten thousand spies, the powerful, all-seeing,\nundeceivable Mithra.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[8]]\n28. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Who upholds the columns of the lofty house and makes its pillars\nsolid; who gives herds of oxen and male children to that house\nin which he has been satisfied; he breaks to pieces those in which\nhe has been offended,\n29. 'Thou, O Mithra! art both bad and good to nations; thou, O\nMithra! art both bad and good to men; thou, O Mithra! keepest\nin thy hands both peace and trouble for nations.\n30. 'Thou makest houses large, beautiful with women, beautiful\nwith chariots, with well-laid foundations, and high above their\ngroundwork; thou makest that house lofty, beautiful with women,\nbeautiful with chariots, with well-laid foundations, and high\nabove its groundwork, of which the master, pious and holding libations\nin his hand, offers thee a sacrifice, in which thou art invoked\nby thy own name and with the proper words.\n31. 'With a sacrifice, in which thou art invoked by thy own name,\nwith the proper words will I offer thee libations, O powerful\nMithra!\n'With a sacrifice, in which thou art invoked by thy own name,\nwith the proper words will I offer thee libations, O most beneficent\nMithra!\n'With a sacrifice, in which thou art invoked by thy own name,\nwith the proper words will I offer thee libations, O thou undeceivable\nMithra!\n32. 'Listen unto our sacrifice, O Mithra! Be thou pleased with\nour sacrifice, O Mithra! Come and sit at our sacrifice! Accept\nour libations! Accept them as they have been consecrated! Gather\nthem together with love and lay them in the Garo-nmana!\n33. 'Grant us these boons which we beg of thee, O powerful god\nI in accordance with the words of revelation, namely, riches,\nstrength, and victory, good conscience and bliss, good fame and\na good soul; wisdom and the knowledge that gives happiness, the\nvictorious strength given by Ahura, the crushing Ascendant of\nAsha Vahishta, and conversation (with God) on the Holy Word.\n34. 'Grant that we, in a good spirit and high spirit, exalted\nin joy and a good spirit, may smite all our foes; that we, in\na good spirit and high spirit, exalted in joy and a good spirit,\nmay smite all our enemies; that we, in a good spirit and high\nspirit, exalted in joy and a good spirit, may smite all the malice\nof Daevas and Men, of the Yatus and Pairikas, of the oppressors,\nthe blind, and the deaf.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[9]]\n35. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Victory-making, army-governing, endowed with a thousand senses;\npower-wielding, power-possessing, and all-knowing;\n36. 'Who sets the battle a going, who stands against (armies)\nin battle, who, standing against (armies) in battle, breaks asunder\nthe lines arrayed. The wings of the columns gone to battle shake,\nand he throws terror upon the centre of the havocking host.\n37. 'He can bring and does bring down upon them distress and fear;\nhe throws down the heads of those who lie to Mithra, he takes\noff the heads of those who lie unto Mithra.\n38. 'Sad is the abode, unpeopled with children, where abide men\nwho lie unto Mithra, and, verily, the fiendish killer of faithful\nmen. The grazing cow goes a sad straying way, driven along the\nvales of the Mithradrujes: they stand on the road, letting tears\nrun over their chins.\n39. 'Their falcon-feathered arrows, shot from the string of the\nwell-bent bow, fly towards the mark, and hit it not, as Mithra,\nthe lord of wide pastures, angry, offended, and unsatisfied, comes\nand meets them.\n'Their spears, well whetted and sharp, their long spears fly from\ntheir hands towards the mark, and hit it not, as Mithra, the lord\nof wide pastures, angry, offended, and unsatisfied, comes and\nmeets them.\n40. 'Their swords, well thrust and striking at the heads of men,\nhit not the mark, as Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, angry,\noffended, and unsatisfied, comes and meets them.\n'Their clubs, well falling and striking at the heads of men, hit\nnot the mark, as Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, angry, offended,\nand unsatisfied, comes and meets them.\n41. 'Mithra strikes fear into them; Rashnu strikes a counter-fear\ninto them; the holy Sraosha blows them away from every side towards\nthe two Yazatas, the maintainers of the world. They make the ranks\nof the army melt away, as Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, angry,\noffended, and unsatisfied, comes and meets them.\n42. 'They cry unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, saying:\n\"O Mithra, thou lord of wide pastures! here are our fiery\nhorses taking us away, as they flee from Mithra; here are our\nsturdy arms cut to pieces by the sword, O Mithra!\"\n43. 'And then Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, throws them to\nthe ground, killing their fifties and their hundreds, their hundreds\nand their thousands, their thousands and their tens of thousands,\ntheir tens of thousands and their myriads of myriads; as Mithra,\nthe lord of wide pastures, is angry and offended,\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[10]]\n44. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Whose dwelling, wide as the earth, extends over the material\nworld, large, unconfined, and bright, a far-and-wide-extending\nabode.\n45. 'Whose eight friends sit as spies for Mithra, on all the heights,\nat all the watching-places, observing the man who lies unto Mithra,\nlooking at those, remembering those who have lied unto Mithra,\nbut guarding the ways of those whose life is sought by men who\nlie unto Mithra, and, verily, by the fiendish killers of faithful\nmen.\n46. 'Helping and guarding, guarding behind and guarding in front,\nMithra, the lord of wide pastures, proves an undeceivable spy\nand watcher for the man to whom he comes to help with all the\nstrength of his soul, he of the ten thousand spies, the powerful,\nall-knowing, undeceivable god.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[11]]\n47. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'A god of high renown and old age, whom wide-hoofed horses carry\nagainst havocking hosts, against enemies coming in battle array,\nin the strife of conflicting nations.\n48. 'And when Mithra drives along towards the havocking hosts,\ntowards the enemies coming in battle array, in the strife of the\nconflicting nations, then he binds the hands of those who have\nlied unto Mithra, he confounds their eye-sight, he takes the hearing\nfrom their ears; they can no longer move their feet; they can\nno longer withstand those people, those foes, when Mithra, the\nlord of wide pastures, bears them ill-will.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[12]]\n49. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n50. 'For whom the Maker, Ahura Mazda, has built up a dwelling\non the Hara Berezaiti, the bright mountain around which the many\n(stars) revolve where come neither night nor darkness, no cold\nwind and no hot wind, no deathful sickness, no uncleanness made\nby the Daevas, and the clouds cannot reach up unto the Haraiti\nBareza;\n51. 'A dwelling that all the Amesha-Spentas, in one accord with\nthe sun, made for him in the fulness of faith of a devoted heart,\nand he survevs the whole of the material world from the Haraiti\nBareza.\n52. 'And when there rushes a wicked worker of evil, swiftly, with\na swift step, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, goes and yokes\nhis horses to his chariot, along with the holy, powerful Sraosha\nand Nairyo-sangha, who strikes a blow that smites the army, that\nsmites the strength of the malicious.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[13]]\n53. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n54. 'Who, with hands lifted up, ever cries unto Ahura Mazda, saying:\n\"I am the kind keeper of all creatures, I am the kind maintainer\nof all creatures; yet men worship me not with a sacrifice in which\nI am invoked by my own name, as they worship the other gods with\nsacrifices in which they are invoked by their own names.\n55. '\"If men would worship me with a sacrifice in which I\nwere invoked by my own name, as they worship the other Yazatas\nwith sacrifices in which they are invoked by their own names,\nthen I would come to the faithful at the appointed time; I would\ncome in the appointed time of my beautiful, immortal life.\"\n56. 'But the pious man, holding libations in his hands, does worship\nthee with a sacrifice, in which thou art invoked by thy own ame,\nand with the proper words.\n'With a sacrifice, in which thou art invoked by thy own name,\nwith the proper words will I offer thee libations, O powerful\nMithra!\n'With a sacrifice, in which thou art invoked by thy own name,\nwith the groper words will I offer thee libations, O most beneficent\nMithra!\n'With a sacrifice, in which thou art invoked by thy own name,\nwith the proper words will I offer thee libations, O thou undeceivable\nMithra!\n57. 'Listen unto our sacrifice, 'O Mithra! Be thou pleased with\nour sacrifice, O Mithra! Come and sit at our sacrifice! Accept\nour libations! Accept them as they have been consecrated! Gather\nthem together with love and lay them in the Garo-nmana!\n58. 'Grant us these boons which we beg of thee, O powerful god!\nin accordance with the words of revelation, namely, riches, strength,\nand victory, good conscience and bliss, good fame and a good soul;\nwisdom and the knowledge that gives happiness, the victorious\nstrength given by Ahura, the crushing Ascendant of Asha-Vahishta,\nand conversation (with God) on the Holy Word.\n59. 'Grant that we, in a good spirit and high spirit, exalted\nin joy and a good spirit, may smite all our foes; that we, in\na good spirit and high spirit, exalted in joy and a good spirit,\nmay smite all our enemies; that we, in a good spirit and high\nspirit, exalted in joy and a good spirit, may smite all the malice\nof Daevas and Men, of the Yatus and Pairikas, of the oppressors,\nthe blind, and the deaf.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[14]]\n60. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Whose renown is good, whose shape is good, whose glory is good;\nwho has boons to give at his will, who has pasture-fields to give\nat his will; harmless to the tiller of the ground, ...., beneficent;\nhe, of the ten thousand spies, the powerful, all-knowing, undeceivable\ngod.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[15]]\n61. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Firm-legged, a watcher fully awake; valiant, a chief in assemblies;\nmaking the waters flow forward; listening to appeals; making the\nwaters run and the plants grow up; ruling over the Karshvares;\ndelivering; happy; undeceivable; endowed with many senses; a creature\nof wisdom;\n62. 'Who gives neither strength nor vigour to him who has lied\nunto Mithra; who gives neither glory nor any boon to him who has\nlied unto Mithra.\n63. 'Thou takest away the strength from their arms, being angry\nand all-powerful; thou takest the swiftness from their feet, the\neye-sight from their eyes, the hearing from their ears.\n'Not the wound of the well-sharpened spear or of the flying arrow\nreaches that man to whom Mithra comes for help with all the strength\nof his soul he of the ten-thousand spies, the powerful all-knowing\nundeceivable god. 'For his brightness and glory, I will offer\nhim a sacrifice worth being heard....\n [[16]]\n64. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Who takes possession of the beautiful, wide-expanding law, greatly\nand powerfully and whose face looks over all the seven Karshvares\nof the earth;\n65. 'Who is swift amongst the swift, liberal amongst the liberal,\nstrong amongst the strong, a chief of assembly amongst the chiefs\nof assemblies; increase-giving, fatness-giving, cattle-giving,\nsovereignty-giving, son-giving, cheerfulness-giving, and bliss-giving.\n66. 'With whom proceed Ashi Vanguhi, and Parendi on her light\nchariot, the awful Manly Courage, the awful kingly Glory, the\nawful sovereign Sky, the awful cursing thought of the wise, the\nawful Fravashis of the faithful, and he who keeps united together\nthe many faithful worshippers of Mazda.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[17]]\n67. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastares, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Who drives along on his high-wheeled chariot, made of a heavenly\nsubstance, from the Karshvare of Arezahi to the Karshvare of Hvaniratha,\nthe bright one; accompanied by the wheel of sovereignty, the Glory\nmade by Mazda, and the Victory made by Ahura;\n68. 'Whose chariot is embraced by the great Ashi Vanguhi; to whom\nthe Law of Mazda opens a way, that he may go easily; whom four\nheavenly steeds, white, shining, seen afar, beneficent, endowed\nwith knowledge, swiftly carry along the heavenly space, while\nthe cursing thought of the wise pushes it forward;\n69. 'From whom all the Daevas unseen and the Varenya fiends flee\naway in fear. Oh! may we never fall across the rush of the angry\nlord, who goes and rushes from a thousand sides against his foe,\nhe, of the ten thousand spies, the powerful, all-knowing, undeceivable\ngod.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[18]]\n70. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Before whom Verethraghna, made by Ahura, runs opposing the foes\nin the shape of a boar, a sharp-toothed he-boar, a sharp-jawed\nboar, that kills at one stroke, pursuing, wrathful, with a dripping\nface; strong, with iron feet, iron fore-paws, iron weapons, an\niron tail, and iron jaws;\n71. 'Who, eagerly clinging to the fleeing foe, along with Manly\nCourage, smites the foe in battle, and does not think he has smitten\nhim, nor does he consider it a blow till he has smitten away the\nmarrow and the column of life, the marrow and the spring of existence.\n72. 'He cuts all the limbs to pieces, and mingles, together with\nthe earth, the bones, hair, brains, and blood of the men who have\nlied unto Mithra.\n'For his brightness and glory, we offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[19]]\n73. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Who, with hands lifted up, rejoicing, cries out, speaking thus:\n74. '\"O Ahura Mazda, most beneficent spirit! Maker of the\nmaterial world, thou Holy One!\n'\"If men would worship me with a sacrifice in which I were\ninvoked by my own name, as they worship the other gods with sacrifices\nin which they are invoked by their own names, then I should come\nto the faithful at the appointed time; I should come in the appointed\ntime of my beautiful, immortal life.\"\n75. 'May we keep our field; may we never be exiles from our field,\nexiles from our house, exiles from our borough, exiles from our\ntown, exiles from our country.\n76. 'Thou dashest in pieces the malice of the malicious, the malice\nof the men of malice: dash thou in pieces the killers of faithful\nmen!\n'Thou hast good horses, thou hast a good chariot: thou art bringing\nhelp at every appeal, and art powerful.\n77. 'I will pray unto thee for help, with many consecrations,\nwith good consecrations of libations; with many offerings, with\ngood offerings of libations, that we, abiding in thee, may long\ninhabit a good abode, full of all the riches that can be wished\nfor.\n78. 'Thou keepest those nations that tender a good worship to\nMithra, the lord of wide pastures; thou dashest in pieces those\nthat delight in havoc. Unto thee will I pray for help: may he\ncome to us for help, the awful, most powerful Mithra, the worshipful\nand praiseworthy, the glorious lord of nations.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[20]]\n79. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Who made a dwelling for Rashnu, and to whom Rashnu gave all his\nsoul for long friendship;\n80. 'Thou art a keeper and protector of the dwelling of those\nwho lie not: thou art the maintainer of those who lie not. With\nthee hath Verethraghna, made by Ahura, contracted the best of\nall friendships, and thus it is how so many men who have lied\nunto Mithra, even privily, lie smitten down on the ground.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[21]]\n81. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Who made a dwelling for Rashnu, and to whom Rashnu gave all his\nsoul for long friendship;\n82. 'To whom Ahura Mazda gave a thousand senses and ten thousand\neyes to see. With those eyes and those senses, he watches the\nman who injures Mithra, the man who lies unto Mithra. Through\nthose eyes and those senses, he is, undeceivable, he, of the ten\nthousand spies, the powerful, all-knowing, undeceivable god.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[22]]\n83. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Whom the lord of the country invokes for help, with hands uplifted;\n'Whom the lord of the town invokes for help, with hands uplifted;\n84. 'Whom the lord of the borough invokes for help, with hands\nuplifted;\n'Whom the master of the house invokes for help, with hands uplifted;\n'Whom the .... in danger of death invokes for help, with hands\nuplifted;\n'Whom the poor man, who follows the good law, when wronged and\ndeprived of his rights, invokes for help, with hands uplifted.\n85. 'The voice of his wailing reaches up to the sky, it goes over\nthe earth all around, it goes over the seven Karshuares, whether\nhe utters his prayer in a low tone of voice or aloud.\n86. 'The cow driven astray invokes him for help, longing for the\nstables:\n'\"When will that bull, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,\nbring us back, and make us reach the stables? when wilt he turn\nus back to the right way from the den of the Druj where we were\ndriven?\"\n87. 'And to him with whom Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, has\nbeen satisfied, he comes with help; and of him with whom Mithra,\nthe lord of wide pastures, has been offended, he crushes down\nthe house, the borough, tne town, the province, the country.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[23]]\n88. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'To whom the enlivening, healing, fair, lordly golden-eyed Haoma\noffered up a sacrifice on the highest of the heights, on the Haraiti\nBareza, he the undefiled to one undefiled, with undefiled baresma,\nundefiled libations, and undefiled words;\n89. 'Whom the holy Ahura Mazda has established as a priest, quick\nin performing the sacrifice and loud in song. He performed the\nsacrifice with a loud voice, as a priest quick in sacrifice and\nloud in song, a priest to Ahura Mazda, a priest to the Amesha-Spentas.\nHis voice reached up to the sky; went over the earth all around,\nwent over the seven Karshvares.\n90. 'Who first lifted up Haomas, in a mortar inlaid with stars\nand made of a heavenly substance. Ahura Mazda longed for him,\nthe Amesha-Spentas longed for him, for the well-slapen body of\nhim whom the swift-horsed sun awakes for prayer from afar.\n91. 'Hail to Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, who has a thousand\nears and ten thousand eyes! Thou art worthy of sacrifice and prayer:\nmayest thou have sacrifice and prayer in the houses of men! Hail\nto the man who shall offer thee a sacrifice, with the holy wood\nin his hand, the baresma in his hand, the holy meat in his hand,\nthe holy mortar in his hand, with his hands well-washed, with\nthe mortar well-washed, with the bundles of baresma tied up, the\nHaoma uplifted, and the Ahuna Vairya sung through.\n92. 'The holy Ahura Mazda confessed that religion and so did Vohu-Mano,\nso did Asha-Vahishta, so did Khshathra-Vairya, so did Spenta-Armaiti,\nso did Haurvatat and Ameretat; and all the Amesha-Spentas longed\nfor and confessed his religion. The kind Mazda conferred upon\nhim the mastership of the world; and [so did they] who saw thee\namongst all creatures the right lord and master of the world,\nthe best cleanser of these creatures.\n93. 'So mayest thou in both worlds, mayest thou keep us in both\nworlds, O Mithra, lord of wide pastures! both in this material\nworld and in the world of the spirit, from the fiend of Death,\nfrom the fiend Aeshma, from the fiendish hordes, that lift up\nthe spear of havoc, and from the onsets of Aeshma, wherein the\nevil-doing Aeshma rushes along with Vidotu, made by the Daevas.\n94. 'So mayest thou, O Mithra, lord of wide pastures! give swiftness\nto our teams, strength to our own bodies, and that we may watch\nwith full success those who hate us, smite down our foes, and\ndestroy at one stroke our adversaries, our enemies and those who\nhate us.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[24]]\n95. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Who goes over the earth, all her breadth over, after the setting\nof the sun, touches both ends of this wide, round earth, whose\nends tie afar, and surveys everything that is between the earth\nand the heavens,\n96. 'Swinging in his hands a club with a hundred knots, a hundred\nedges, that rushes forwards and fells men down; a club cast out\nof red brass, of strong, golden brass; the strongest of all weapons,\nthe most victorious of all weapons;\n97. 'From whom Angra Mainyu, who is all death, flees away in fear;\nfrom whom Aeshma, the evil-doing Peshotanu, flees away in fear;\nfrom whom the long-handed Bushyasta flees away in fear; from whom\nall the Daevas unseen and the Varenya fiends flee away in fear.\n98. 'Oh! may we never fall across the rush of Mithra, the lord\nof wide pastures, when in anger! May Mithra, the lord of wide\npastures, never smite us in his anger; he who stands up upon this\nearth as the strongest of all gods, the most valiant of all gods,\nthe most energetic of all god , th swiftest of all gods, the most\nfiend-smiting of all gods, he, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[25]]\n99. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'From whom all the Daevas unseen and the Varenya fiends flee away\nin fear.\n'The lord of nations, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, drives\nforward at the right-hand side of this wide, round earth, whose\nends lie afar.\n100. 'At his right hand drives the good, holy Sraosha; at his left\nhand drives the tall and strong Rashnu; on all sides around him\ndrive the waters, the plants, and the Fravashis of the faithful.\n101. 'In his might, he ever brings to them falcon-feathered arrows,\nand, when diiving, he himself comes there, where are nations,\nenemy to Mithra, he, first and foremost, strikes blows with his\nclub on the horse and his rider; he throws fear and fright upon\nthe horse and his rider.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[26]]\n102. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'The warrior of the white horse, of the sharp spear, the tong\nspear, the quick arrows; foreseeing and clever;\n103. 'Whom Ahura Mazda has established to maintain and look over\nall this moving world, and who maintains and looks over all this\nmoving world; who, never sleeping, wakefully guards the creation\nof Mazda; who, never sleeping, wakefully maintains the creation\nof Mazda;\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[27]]\n104. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Whose long arms, strong with Mithra-strength, encompass what\nhe seizes in the easternmost river and what he beats with the\nwesternmost river, what is by the Sanaka of the Rangha and what\nis by the boundary of the earth.\n105. 'And thou, O Mithra! encompassing all this around, do thou\nreach it, all over, with thy arms.\n'The man without glory, led astray from the right way, grieves\nin his heart; the man without glory thinks thus in himself: \"That\ncareless Mithra does not see all the evil that is done, nor all\nthe lies that are told.\"\n106. 'But I think thus in my heart:\n'\"Should the evil thoughts of the earthly man be a hundred\ntimes worse, they would not rise so high as the good thoughts\nof the heavenly Mithra;\n'\"Should the evil words of the earthly man be a hundred times\nworse, they would not rise so high as the good words of the heavenly\nMithra;\n'\"Should the evil deeds of the earthly man be a hundred times\nworse, they would not rise so high as the good deeds of the heavenly\nMithra;\n107. '\"Should the heavenly wisdom in the earthly man be a\nhundred times greater, it would not rise so high as the heavenly\nw'isdom in the heavenly Mithra;\n''And thus, should the ears of the earthly man hear a hundred\ntime better, he would not hear so well as the heavenly Mithra,\nwhose ear hears well who has a thousand senses, and sees every\nman that tells a lie.\"\n'Mithra stands up in his strength, he drives in the awfulness\nof royalty, and sends from his eyes beautiful looks that shine\nfrom afar, (saying):\n108. '\"Who will offer me a sacrifice? Who will lie unto me? Who\nthinks me a god worthy of a good sacrifice? Who thinks me worthy\nonly of a bad sacrifice? To whom shall I, in my might, impart\nbrightness and glory? To whom bodily health? To whom shall I,\nin my might, impart riches and full weal? Whom shall I bless by\nraising him a virtuous offspring?\n109. '\"To whom shall I give in return, without his thinking\nof it, the awful sovereignty, beautifully. arrayed, with many\narmies, and most perfect; the sovereignty of an all-powerful tyrant,\nwho fells down heads, valiant, smiting, and unsmitten; who orders\nchastisement to be done and his order is done at once, which he\nhas ordered in his anger?\"\n'O Mithra! when thou art offended and not satisfied, he soothes\nthy mind, and makes Mithra satisfied.\n110. '\"To whom shall I, in my might, impart sickness and death?\nTo whom shall I impart poverty and sterility? Of whom shall I\nat one stroke cut off the offspring!\n111. '\"From whom shall I take away, without his thinking of\nit, the awful sovereignty, beautifully arrayed, with many armies,\nand most perfect; the sovereignty of an all-powerful tyrant, who\nfells down heads, valiant, smiting, and unsmitten; who orders\nchastisement to be done and his order is done at once, which he\nhas ordered in his anger.\"\n'O Mithra! while thou art satisfied and not angry, he moves thy\nheart to anger, and makes Mithra unsatisfied.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[28]]\n112. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'A warrior with a silver helm, a golden cuirass, who kills with\nthe poniard, strong, valiant, lord of the borough. Bright are\nthe ways of Mithra, by which he goes towards the country, when,\nwishing well, he turns its plains and vales to pasture grounds,\n113. 'And then cattle and males come to graze, as many as he wants.\n'May Mithra and Ahura, the high gods, come to us for help, when\nthe poniard lifts up its voice aloud, when the nostrils of the\nhorses quiver, when the poniards ...., when the, strings of the\nbows whistle and shoot sharp arrows; then the brood of those whose\nlibations are hated fall smitten to the ground, with their hair\ntorn off.\n114. 'So mayest thou, O Mithra, lord of wide pastures! give swiftness\nto our teams, strength to our own bodies, and that we may watch\nwith full success those who hate us, smite down our foes, and\ndestroy at one stroke our adversaries, our enemies, and those\nwho hate us.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[29]]\n115. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake.\n'O Mithra, lord of wide pastures! thou master of the house, of\nthe borough, of the town, of the country, thou Zarathushtrotema!\n116. 'Mithra is twentyfold between two friends or two relations;\n'Mithra is thirtyfold between two men of the same group;\n'Mithra is fortyfold between two partners;\n'Mithra is fiftyfold between wife and husband;\n'Mithra is sixtyfold between two pupils (of the same master);\n'Mithra is seventyfold between the pupil and his master;\n'Mithra is eightyfold between the son-in-law and his father-in-law;\n'Mithra is ninetyfold between two brothers;\n117. 'Mithra is a hundredfold between the father and the son;\n'Mithra is a thousandfold between two nations;\n'Mithra is ten thousandfold when connected with the Law of Mazda,\nand then he will be every day of victorious strength.\n118. 'May I come unto thee with a prayer that goes lowly or goes\nhighly! As this sun rises up above the Hara Berezaiti and then\nfulfils its career, so may I, O Spitama! with a prayer that goes\nlowly or goes highly, rise up above the will of the fiend Angra\nMainyu!\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[30]]\n119. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastwes, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake,\n'Offer up a sacrifice unto Mithra, O Spitama! and order thy pupils\nto do the same.\n'Let the worshipper of Mazda sacrifice unto thee with small cattle,\nwith black cattle, with flying birds, gliding forward on wings.\n120. 'To Mithra all the faithful worshiypers of Mazda must give\nstrength and energy with offered and proffered Haomas, which the\nZaotar proffers unto him and gives in sacrifice. Let the faithful\nman drink of the libations cleanly prepared, which if he does,\nif he offers them unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, Mithra\nwill be pleased with him and without anger.'\n121. Zarathushtra asked him: 'O Ahura Mazda! how shall the faithful\nman drink the libations cleanly prepared, which if he does and\nhe offers them unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, Mithra\nwill be pleased vvith him and without anger?'\n122. Ahura Mazda answered: 'Let them wash their bodies three days\nand three nights; let them undergo thirty strokes for the sacrifice\nand prayer unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures. Let them wash\ntheir bodies two days and two nights; let them undergo twenty\nstrokes for the sacrifice and prayer unto Mithra, the lord of\nwide pastures. Let no man drink of these libations who does not\nknow the staota yesnya: Vispe ratavo.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacriace worth\nbeing heard....\n [[31]]\n123. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'To whom Ahura Mazda offered up a sacrifice in the shining Garo-nmana.\n124. 'With his arms lifted up towards Immortality, Mithra, the\nlord of wide pastures, drives forward from the shining Garo-nmana,\nin a beautiful chariot that drives on, ever-swift, adorned with\nall sorts of ornaments, and made of gold.\n125. 'Four stallions draw that chariot, all of the same white colour,\nliving on heavenly food and undying. The hoofs of their fore-feet\nare shod with gold, the hoofs of their hind-feet are shod with\nsilver; all are yoked to the same pole, and wear the yoke and\nthe cross-beams of the yoke, fastened with hooks of Khshathra\nvairya to a beautiful....\n126. 'At his right hand drives Rashnu-Razishta, the most beneficent\nand most well-shapen.\n'At his left hand drives the most upright Chista, the holy one,\nbearing libations in her hands, clothed with white clothes, and\nwhite herself; and the cursing thought of the Law of Mazda.\n127. 'Close by him drives the strong cursing thought of the wise\nman, opposing foes in the shape of a boar, a sharp-toothed he-boar,\na sharp- jawed boar, that kills at one stroke, pursuing, wrathful,\nwith a dripping face, strong and swift to run, and rushing all\naround.\n'Behind him drives Atar, all in a blaze, and the awful kingly\nGlory.\n128. 'On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,\nstand a thousand bows well-made, with a string of cowgut; they\ngo through the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly\nspace upon the skulls of the Daevas.\n129. 'On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,\nstand a thousand vulture-feathered arrows, with a golden mouth,\nwith a horn shaft, with a brass tail, and well-made. They go through\nthe heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space upon\nthe skulls of the Daevas.\n130. 'On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,\nstand a thousand spears well-made and sharp-piercing. They go\nthrough the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space\nupon the skulls of the Daevas.\n'On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,\nstand a thousand steel-hammers, two-edged, well-made. They go\nthrough the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space\nupon the skulls of the Daevas.\n131. 'On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,\nstand a thousand swords, two-edged and well-made. They go through\nthe heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space upon\nthe skulls of the Daevas.\n'On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,\nstand a thousand maces of iron, well-made. They go through the\nheavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space upon the\nskulls of the Daevas.\n132. 'On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,\nstands a beautiful well-falling club, with a hundred knots, a\nhundred edges, that rushes forward and fells men down; a club\ncast out of red brass, of strong, golden brass; the strongest\nof all weapons, the most victorious of all weapons. It goes through\nthe heavenly space, it falls through the heavenly space upon the\nskulls of the Daevas.\n133. After he has smitten the Daevas, after he has smitten down\nthe men who lied unto Mithra, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,\ndrives forward through Arezahe and Savahe, through Fradadhafshu\nand Vidadhafshu, through Vourubareshti and Vouru-jareshti, through\nthis our Karshvare, the bright Hvaniratha.\n134. 'Angra Mainyu, who is all death, flees away in fear; Aeshma,\nthe evil-doing Peshotanu, flees away in fear; the long-handed\nBushyasta flees away in fear; all the Daevas unseen and the Varenya\nfiends flee away in fear.\n135. 'Oh! may we never fall across the rush of Mithra, the lord\nof wide pastures, when in anger! May Mithra, the lord of wide\npastures, never smite us in his anger; he who stands up upon this\nearth as the strongest of all gods, the most valiant of all gods,\nthe most energetic of all gods, the swiftest of all gods, the\nmost fiend-smiting of all gods, he, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[32]]\n136. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'For whom white stallions, yoked to his chariot, draw it, on one\ngolden wheel, with a full shining axle.\n137. 'If Mithra takes his libations to his own dwelling, \"Happy\nthat man, I think,\" - said Ahura Mazda,- \"O holy Zarathra!\nfor whom a holy priest, as pious as any in the world, who is the\nWord incarnate, offers up a sacrifice unto Mithra with bundles\nof baresma and with the [proper] words.\n'\"Straight to that man, I think, will Mithra come, to visit\nhis dwelling,\n138. '\"When Mithra's boons will come to him, as he follows\nGod's teaching, and thinks according to God's teaching.\n'\"Woe to that man, I think,\" - said Ahura Mazda, - \"O\nholy Zarathushtra! for whom an unholy priest, not pious, who is\nnot the Word incarnate, stands behind the baresma, however full\nmay be the bundles of baresma he ties, however long may be the\nsacrifice he performs.\"\n139. 'He does not delight Ahura Mazda, nor the other Amesha-Spentas,\nnor Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, he who thus scorns Mazda,\nand the other Amesha-Spentas, and Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,\nand the Law, and Rashnu, and Arstat, who makes the world grow,\nwho makes the world increase.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[33]]\n140. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake.\n'I will offer up a sacrifice unto the good Mithra, O Spitama!\nunto the strong, heavenly god, who is foremost, highly merciful,\nand peerless; whose house is above, a stout and strong warrior;\n141. 'Victorious and armed with a well-fashioned weapon, watchful\nin darkness and undeceivable. He is the stoutest of the stoutest,\nhe is the strongest of the strongest, he is the most intelligent\nof the gods, he is victorious and endowed with Glory: he, of the\nten thousand eyes, of the ten thousand spies, the powerful, all-knowing,\nundeceivable god.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[34]]\n142. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....\nsleepless, and ever awake;\n'Who, with his manifold knowledge, powerfully increases the creation\nof Spenta Mainyu, and is a well-created and most great Yazata,\nself-shining like the moon, when he makes his own body shine;\n143. 'Whose face is flashing with light like the face of the star\nTistrya; whose chariot is embraced by that goddess who is foremost\namongst those who have no deceit in them, O Spitama! who is fairer\nthan any creature in the world, and full of light to shine. I\nwill worship that chariot, wrought by the Maker, Ahura Mazda,\ninlaid with stars and made of a heavenly substance; (the chariot)\nof Mithra, who has ten thousand spies, the powerful, all-knowing,\nundeceivable god.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth\nbeing heard....\n [[35]]\n144. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, who\nis truth-speaking, a chief in assemblies, with a thousand ears,\nwell-shapen, with a thousand eyes, high, with full knowledge,\nstrong, sleepless, and ever awake.\n'We sacrifice unto the Mithra around countries;\n'We sacrifice unto the Mithra within countries;\n'We sacrifice unto the Mithra in this country;\n'We sacrifice unto the Mithra above countries;\n'We sacrifice unto the Mithra under countries;\n'We sacrifice unto the Mithra before countries;\n'We sacrifice unto the Mithra behind countries.\n145. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra and Ahura, the two great, imperishable,\nholy gods; and unto the stars, and the moon, and the sun, with\nthe trees that yield up baresma. We sacrifice unto Mithra, the\nlord of all countries.\n'For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice\nworth being heard, namely, unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures.\n'Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....\n'I bless the sacrifice and p yer, and the strength and vigour\nof Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, who has a thousand ears,\nten thousand eyes, a Yazata invoked by his own name; and that\nof Rama Hvastra.\n'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....\n'[Give] unto that man brightness and glory, .... give him the\nbright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones!'\n 11. Srosh Yasht Hadokht yt11sbe \n -----------------------\nAVESTA: KHORDA AVESTA (English): YASHT 11 \n11. SROSH YASHT HADHOKHT.\nTranslated by James Darmesteter (From Sacred Books of the\nEast, American Edition, 1898.)\nTranslated by James Darmesteter (From Sacred Books of the East, American Edition, 1898.)","title":"AVESTA: KHORDA AVESTA (Book of Common Prayer)","type":"page"}