{"collection":"Zoroastrianism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/zor/yasnae.htm","path":"zor/yasnae.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/zor/yasnae.htm","text":"AVESTA: YASNA (Sacred Liturgy and Gathas/Hymns of Zarathushtra)\nTranslated by L. H. Mills (from Sacred Books of the East,\nAmerican Edition, 1898) except as noted.\nCONTENT:\n - Introduction and dedications (0-8)\n - Hom Yasht (9-11)\n - The Zoroastrian Creed (12)\n - Chapters 13-18\n - Commentary on Ahunwar (19)\n - Commentary on Ashem Vohu (20)\n - Commentary on Yenghe Hatam (21)\n - Chapter 22\n - Invocation of the Fravashis (Guardian Angels) (23)\n - Presentations (24)\n - Chapter 25\n - Sacrifice and praise to the Fravashis (26)\n - Prelude to the chief recital of the Ahunwar (27)\n - Ahunavaiti Gatha (28-34)\n - Yasna Haptanghaiti (35-42)\n - Ushtavaiti Gatha (43-46)\n - Spentamainyush Gatha (47-50)\n - Vohukhshathra Gatha (51)\n - Prayer for sanctity (52)\n - Vahishtoishti Gatha (53)\n - Airyema Ishyo formula (54)\n - Chapter 55\n - Introduction to the Srosh Yasht (56)\n - Srosh Yasht (57)\n - Fshusho Mathra (58)\n - Mutual blessings (59)\n - Prayers for the dwelling of the sacrificer (60)\n - Chapter 61\n - To the fire (62)\n - Chapters 63-64\n - To Ardvi Sura Anahita and the Waters (65)\n - Chapters 66-69\n - To the Amesha Spentas (70)\n - Conclusion (70-71)\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nAVESTA: YASNA (sacred liturgy)\n==============================\n[Translated by L. H. Mills (from Sacred Books of the East,\nAmerican Edition, 1898) except as noted.]\nYASNA 0 - INTRODUCTION\n----------------------\n[Translation of y0.4-6 is from Dhalla, pp. 9 ff. They are in the Old Avesta\ndialect. = Y11.17 = Ny1.3 = Ny2.3.]\n(In the name of God)\n1.\tAshem Vohu (1 & 3).\nI profess myself a Mazda-worshipper and a Zoroastrian, opposing the Daevas, accepting the \nAhuric doctrine. For Hawan....\n2.\tTo Fire, the son of Ahura Mazda. To you, O Fire, son of Ahura Mazda. With propitiation, \nfor worship, adoration, propitiation, and praise.\n3.\t'Yatha Ahu Vairyo', the zaotar should say to me\n'Atha ratush ashatchit hacha', the knowing Ashavan should say. \nAshem Vohu ...(3).\nYatha Ahu Vairyo ...(2).\n4.\tI praise good thoughts, good words, and good deeds and those that are to be thought, spoken, \nand done. I do accept all good thoughts, good words, and good deeds. I do renounce all evil \nthoughts, evil words, and evil deeds.\n5.\tI proffer to you, O Amesha Spentas, sacrifice and prayer, with thought, with word, with deed, \nwith [my] being, with the very life of my body.\n6.\tI praise Asha.\nAshem Vohu ...(3).\n7.\t[=y1.23 = y3.24 = y14.4 = y27.12 = y62.12.]\n8.\t....\n9.\t[=y22.24 = y24.29.]\n10.\t[=y22.25 = y24.30.]\n11.\t[=y22.26 = y24.31.]\n12.\t[=y24.32.]\n13.\t....\n15.\t[=y27.13.]\nYASNA 1.\n--------\n1.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for the creator Ahura Mazda, the radiant and \nglorious, the greatest and the best, the most beautiful (?) (to our conceptions), the most firm, \nthe wisest, and the one of all whose body is the most perfect, who attains His ends the most \ninfallibly, because of his Asha, to him who disposes our minds aright, who sends His joy-\ncreating grace afar; who made us, and has fashioned us, and who has nourished and protected \nus, who is the most bounteous Spirit!\n2.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) to Vohu Mano, and to the Highest Asha, and to \nKhshathra Vairya, and to Spenta Armaiti, and to the two, the Haurvatat and Ameretat, to the \nbody of the Kine, and to the Kine's Soul, and to the Fire of Ahura Mazda, that one who more \nthan (all) the Amesha Spentas has made most effort (for our succor)!\n3.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for Asnya, the masters of Asha, to Hawan, Asha-\nsanctified, master of Asha; and I celebrate, and I carry out (this Yasna) for Savanghi and for \nVisya, Asha-sanctified, master(s) of Asha.\nI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for Mithra of wide pastures, of the thousand ears, and \nof the myriad eyes, the Yazad of the spoken name, and for Raman Khwastra.\n4.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for Rapithwin, the Asha-sanctified master of Asha, \nand for Fradat-fshu, and for Zangtuma, the holy master(s) of Asha; and I celebrate and carry \nout (this Yasna) to Asha the Best, and to the Fire of Ahura Mazda.\n5.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for Uzerin the Asha-sanctified master of Asha, and \nfor Fradat-vira and Dakhyuma, the Asha-sanctified master(s) of Asha, and for that lofty \nAhura Napat-apam (the son of waters), and for the waters which Ahura Mazda made.\n6.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for Aiwisruthrem (and) Aibigaya, the Asha-sanctified \nmaster(s) of Asha, and for the Zarathushtrotema, and for him who possesses and who gives \nthat prosperity in life which furthers all. And I celebrate and carry out (this Yasna) for the \nfravashis of the saints, and for those of the women who have many sons[FNOTE]'Men and \nherds?'[/FNOTE], and for a prosperous home life which continues without reverse throughout \nthe year, and for that Might which is well-shaped and stately[FNOTE]'Well-\ngrown'[/FNOTE], which strikes victoriously, Ahura-made, and for that Victorious \nAscendency (which it secures).\n7.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for Ushahin, the Asha-sanctified master of Asha, and \nfor Berejya (and) Nmanya, the Asha-sanctified master(s) of Asha, and for Sraosha, \ncompanion of Ashi, possessing rewards, victorious, who furthers the world, and the very \nstraight Rashnu and Arshtad, who further the world, who augment the world.\n8.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for the Mahya, the monthly festivals, masters of \nAsha, for the new and the later[FNOTE]Literally, 'the moon within,' showing little \nlight.[/FNOTE] moon, the Asha-sanctified master of Asha, and for the full moon which \nscatters night.\n9.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for the Yairya, yearly feasts, the Asha-sanctified \nmasters of Asha. I celebrate and carry out (this Yasna) for Maidyozarem, the Asha-sanctified \nmaster of Asha, and for Maidyoshahem, the Asha-sanctified master of Asha, and for \nPaitishahem, and for Ayathrem the advancer, and the spender of the strength of males, the \nAsha-sanctified master of Asha, and for Maidyarem, the Asha-sanctified master of Asha, and \nfor Hamaspathmaidyem, the Asha-sanctified master of Asha; yea, I celebrate and carry out \nthis Yasna for the seasons, masters of Asha.\n10.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for all those who are the thirty three masters of \nAsha, which, coming the nearest, are around about Hawan, and which (as in their festivals) \nwere instituted by Ahura Mazda, and were promulgated by Zarathushtra, as the masters of \nAsha Vahishta.\n11.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for the two, for Ahura and Mithra, the lofty, and the \neverlasting, and the Asha-sanctified, and for all the stars which are Spenta Mainyu's creatures, \nand for the star Tishtrya, the resplendent and glorious, and for the Moon which contains the \nseed of the Kine, and for the resplendent Sun, the swift-horsed, the eye of Ahura Mazda, and \nfor Mithra the province ruler. And I celebrate and carry out this Yasna for Ahura Mazda \n(once again, and as to him who rules the month), the radiant, the glorious, and for the \nFravashis of the saints.\n12.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for you, o Fire, son of Ahura Mazda, together with \nall the fires, and for the good waters, even for all the waters made by Mazda, and for all the \nplants which Mazda made.\n13.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for the Bounteous Manthra, the Asha-sanctified and \neffective, the revelation given against the Daevas; the Zoroastrian revelation, and for the \nlong descent[FNOTE]'The long tradition;' so Spiegel.[/FNOTE] of the good Mazdayasnian \nFaith.\n14.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for the mountain Ushi-darena, the Mazda-made, with \nits sacred brilliance, and for all the mountains glorious with sanctity[FNOTE]Observe the \nimpossibility of the meaning 'comfort,' or mere 'well-being' here.[/FNOTE], with their \nabundant Glory Mazda-made, and for that majestic Glory Mazda-made, the \nunconsumed[FNOTE]Or possibly 'the unseized,' the Pahlavi agrift(?); Ner. agrihitam; hvar, to \neat, may have meant 'seize' originally.[/FNOTE] Glory which Mazda made. And I announce \nand carry out (this Yasna) for Ashi the good, the blessedness (of the reward), and for Chisti, \nthe good religious Knowledge, for the good Erethe (Rectitude?), and for the good Rasastat \n(persisting zeal?), and to the Glory and the Benefit which are Mazda-made.\n15.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for the pious and good Blessing of the religious man, \nthe Asha-sanctified, and for the curse of wisdom, the swift and redoubted Yazad of potency \n(to blight).\n16.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for these places and these lands, and for these \npastures, and these abodes with their springs of water(?)[FNOTE]The Pahlavi with its \nafkhvar points here perhaps to a better text. Recall awzhdatemja, awzhdaungho, \nawrem.[/FNOTE], and for the waters, land, and plants, and for this earth and for yon heaven, \nand for the Asha-sanctified wind, and for the stars, moon, and sun, and for the eternal stars \nwithout beginning, and self-disposing, and for all the Asha-sanctified creatures of Spenta \nMainyu, male and female, the regulators of Asha.[COMMENT]Bailey, xxxviii (avO-\nxvarena): \"hay-rack, manger\"[/COMMENT]\n17.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for that lofty lord who is the Asha (itself), and for \nthe masters of the days in their duration, and of the days during daylight, for the moons, the \nyears, and the seasons which are masters of Asha at the time of Hawan.\n18.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for the fravashis of the saints, the redoubted, which \noverwhelm (the evil), for those of the saints of the ancient lore, for those of the next of kin, \nand for the fravashi of (my) own soul!\n19.\tI announce (and) carry out (this Yasna) for all the masters of Asha, and for all the yazads, \nthe beneficent, who dispose (of all) aright, for those both heavenly and earthly, who are \n(meet) for our sacrifice and homage because of Asha Vahishta.\n20.\tO Hawan, Asha-sanctified master of Asha, and Savanghi, Rapithwin, and Uzerin, and \nAiwisruthrem, (and) Aibigaya, (you who aids life!) if I have offended you, and you, o \nUshahin, Asha-sanctified master of Asha!\n21.\tIf I have offended you, whether by thought, or word, or deed, whether by act of will, or \nwithout intent or wish, I earnestly make up the deficiency of this in praise to you. If I have \ncaused decrease in that which is your Yasna, and your homage, I announce (and carry out) to \nyou (the more for this)!\n22.\tYea, all ye masters, the greatest ones, Asha-sanctified masters of Asha, if I have offended \nyou by thought, or word, or deed, whether with my will, or without intending error, I praise \nyou (now the more) for this. I announce to you (the more) if I have caused decrease in this \nwhich is your Yasna, and your praise.\n23.\tI would confess myself a Mazda-worshipper, of Zarathushtra's order, a foe to the Daevas, \ndevoted to the lore of Ahura, for Hawan, the Asha-sanctified master of Asha, for (his) \nsacrifice, homage, propitiation, and praise, for Savanghi and for Visya, the Asha-sanctified \nmaster of Asha, for (his) sacrifice, homage, propitiation and praise, and for the sacrifice, \nhomage, propitiation and praise of the masters of the days in their duration, and of the days \nduring daylight, for those of the monthly festivals, and for those of the yearly ones, and for \nthose of the seasons!\nYASNA 2.\n--------\n1.\tI desire the libations for this Yasna; I desire the Baresman for this Yasna. I desire the \nBaresman for this Yasna; I desire the libations for this Yasna. I desire the libations together \nwith Baresman for this Yasna; I desire the Baresman together with the libations for this \nYasna. With this libation I desire this Baresman for this Yasna. With this Baresman I desire \nthis libation for this Yasna. This Baresman with the libation I desire for this Yasna. I desire \nfor this Yasna this Baresman with this libation and with its kusti, and spread with Asha.\n2.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the Ashawan Ahura Mazdah, the \nmaster of Asha. I desire for this Yasna the well-ruling, judicious Amesha Spentas.\n3.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the Asha-sanctified Asnya, the master \nof Asha. I desire for this Yasna the Asha-sanctified Hawan, the master of Asha. I desire for \nthis Yasna the Savanghi and the Asha-sanctified Visya, the master of Asha. With this libation \nand Baresman I desire for this Yasna Mithra of the wide pastures, of the thousand ears, of the \nten-thousand eyes, the Yazad of the spoken name. I desire for this Yasna Raman Khwastra.\n4.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the Asha-sanctified Rapithwin, the \nmaster of Asha. I desire for this Yasna the Fradat-fshav and the Asha-sanctified Zantuma, the \nmaster of Asha. With this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna Asha Vahishta and \nAtar, the Son of Ahura Mazda.\n5.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the Asha-sanctified Uzerin, the \nmaster of Asha. I desire for this Yasna the Fradat-vira and the Asha-sanctified Dahyuma, the \nmaster of Asha. With this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the high Lord, the \nkingly and brilliant Apam-Napat, of swift-horses, and likewise the water, Mazda-made and \nholy.\n6.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the Asha-sanctified Aiwisruthrem \nAibigaya the master of Asha. I desire for this Yasna the Fradat-vispam-hujyatay and the \nAsha-sanctified Zarathushtro-tema, the master of Asha.\nWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the good, mighty, bountiful Fravashis \nof the Asha-sanctified.\nI desire for this Yasna the women who have many sons. And I desire for this Yasna the \nYairya Hushitay; and I desire for this Yasna the well-formed, stately Ama; and I desire for \nthis Yasna the Ahura-given Verethraghna; and I desire for this Yasna the triumphing \nUparatat.\n7.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the Asha-sanctified Ushahina, the \nmaster of Asha. I desire for this Yasna the Berejya and the Asha-sanctified Nmanya, the \nmaster of Asha.\nWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna Sraosha, companion of Ashi, fair of \nform, victorious, furthering the world, Asha-sanctified, the master of Asha.\nI desire for this Yasna the straightest Rashnu, and I desire for this Yasna Arshtat, who \nfurthers the settlements, and causes them to increase.\n8.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the Asha-sanctified Mahya (Monthly \nfestivals), the master of Asha. I desire for this Yasna the Asha-sanctified Antaremah, the \nmaster of Asha.\nI desire for this Yasna the Pereno-mah and the Asha-sanctified Vishaptatha, the master of \nAsha.\n9.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the Asha-sanctified Yairya (Yearly \nfestivals), the master of Asha. \nI desire for this Yasna the Asha-sanctified Maidyozarem, the master of Asha. With this \nlibation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the Asha-sanctified Maidyoshahem, the master \nof Asha. With this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the Asha-sanctified \nPaitishahem, the master of Asha.\nWith this libation and Barasman I desire for this Yasna Ayathrem, the promoter, who spends \nthe strength of males, Asha-sanctified, the master of Asha.\nWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the Asha-sanctified Maidyarem, the \nmaster of Asha. With this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the Asha-sanctified \nHamaspathmaidyem, the master of Asha. With this libation and Baresman I desire for this \nYasna the Asha-sanctified Yairya (Yearly festivals), the masters of Asha.\n10.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna all of the masters of Asha, the thirty-\nthree who come the nearest round about our Hawans, who are masters of Asha Vahishta, \nwhich were inculcated by Mazda, and spoken forth by Zarathushtra.\n11.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna Ahura (and) Mithra, the lofty, \neternal, and Asha-sanctified two.\nI desire for this Yasna the Stars and Moon and Sun (and) - with the Baresman-Plants - and \nMithra, the governor of all the provinces. With this libation and Baresman I desire for this \nYasna the radiant and glorious Ahura Mazda. With this libation and Baresman I desire for this \nYasna the good, heroic, bountiful Fravashis of the Asha-sanctified.\n12.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna you, the Asha-sanctified Atar, the \nSon of Ahura Mazda, the master of Asha, with all Fires. With this libation and Baresman I \ndesire for this Yasna the good, best, Mazda-made, Asha-sanctified Water. I desire for this \nYasna all the Mazda-made Asha-sanctified Waters. I desire for this Yasna all the Mazda-\nmade, Asha-sanctified Plants.\n13.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the bounteous Manthra, the most \nglorious. I desire for this Yasna the law instituted against the Daevas. I desire for this Yasna \nthe Zoroastrian law. I desire for this Yasna the long tradition. I desire for this Yasna the good \nMazdayasnian Religion.\n14.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna Mount Ushi-darena, Mazda-made, the \nYazad possessing the ease of Asha. I desire for this Yasna all mountains possessed of ease of \nAsha, full of ease, Mazda-made, Asha-sanctified, the masters of Asha. \nI desire for this Yasna the strong, Mazda-made khwarrah of the Kavis. I desire for this Yasna \nthe strong, Mazda-made ungraspable khwarrah.\nWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the good Ashi, the brilliant, tall, \nvigorous, fair of form, self-sufficient. \nI desire for this Yasna the Mazda-made khwarrah; I desire for this Yasna the Mazda-made \nprosperity.\n15.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna the pious and good Blessing. I desire \nfor this Yasna the pious, Asha-sanctified Man, and I desire for this Yasna the strong, brave \nYazad Damoish Upamana.\n16.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna these Waters and Lands and Plants; I \ndesire for this Yasna these places, districts, and pastures, and these dwellings with their springs \nof water, and this land-ruler, who is Ahura Mazda.\n17.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna all the greatest masters: the day-lords, \nthe month-lords, those of the years, and of the seasons, and the good, mighty, beneficent \nFravashis of the Asha-sanctified.\n18.\tWith this libation and Baresman I desire for this Yasna all the Asha-sanctified Yazatas. I \ndesire for this Yasna all the masters of Asha: Hawan at his time, and Savanghi and Visya at \ntheir times, and all the greatest masters at their times.\nYASNA 3 - THE YASNA ADVANCES TO THE NAMING OF THE OBJECTS OF PROPITIATION.\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------\n1.\tWith a Baresman brought to its appointed place accompanied with the Zaothra at the time of \nHavani, I desire to approach the Myazda-offering with my praise, as it is consumed, and \nlikewise Ameretat (as the guardian of plants and wood) and Haurvatat (who guards the water), \nwith the (fresh) meat, for the propitiation of Ahura Mazda, and of the Bountiful Immortals, \nand for the propitiation of Sraosha (who is Obedience) the blessed, who is endowed with \nsanctity, and who smites with the blow of victory, and causes the settlements to advance.\n2.\tAnd I desire to approach Haoma and Para-haoma with my praise for the propitiation of the \nFravashi of Spitama Zarathushtra, the saint. And I desire to approach the (sacred) wood with \nmy praise, with the perfume, for the propitiation of thee, the Fire, O Ahura Mazda's son!\n3.\tAnd I desire to approach the Haomas with my praise for the propitiation of the good waters \nwhich Mazda created; and I desire to approach the Haoma-water, and the fresh milk with my \npraise, and the plant Hadhanaepata, offered with sanctity for the propitiation of the waters \nwhich are Mazda-made.\n4.\tAnd I desire to approach this Baresman with the Zaothra with my praise, with its binding and \nspread with sanctity for the propitiation of the Bountiful Immortals. And I desire with (?) my \nvoice the thoughts well thought, and the words well spoken, and the deeds well done, and the \nrecital of the Gathas as they are heard. And I desire to approach the well-said Mathras with \nmy praise, and this (higher) lordship with this sanctity, and this exact regulation (of the \nRatu), and the reverential prayer for blessings (spoken at the fitting hour); and I desire to \napproach them for the contentment and propitiation of the holy Yazads, heavenly and \nearthly, and for the contentment of each man's soul.\n5.\tAnd I desire to approach the Asnya with my praise, the lords of the ritual order, and the \nHavani and Savanghi and Visya, the holy lords of the ritual order. And I desire to approach \nwith the Yasht of Mithra of the wide pastures, of the thousand ears, of the myriad eyes, the \nYazad of the spoken name, and with him Raman Hvastra.\n6.\tAnd I desire to approach Rapithwina with my praise, the holy lord of the ritual order, and \nFradat-fshu and Zantuma, and Righteousness the Best, and Ahura Mazda's Fire.\n7.\tAnd I desire to approach Uzayeirina, and Fradat-vira and Dahvyuma* with my praise, with \nthat lofty Ahura Napt-apam, and the waters Mazda-made,\n8.\tAnd Aiwisruthrima, and Aibigaya, and Fradat-vispam-hujaiti, and Zarathushtrotema with the \nYasht of the Fravashis of the saints, and of the women who have many sons, and the year \nlong unchanged prosperity, and of Might, the well-shaped and stately, smiting victoriously, \nAhura-made and of the Victorious Ascendency (which it secures).\n9.\tAnd I desire to approach Ushahina, Berejya, and Nmanya with the Yasht of Sraosha \n(Obedience) the sacred, the holy, who smites with the blow of victory, and makes the \nsettlements advance, and with that of Rashnu, the most just, and Arshtat who furthers the \nsettlements, and causes them to increase.\n10.\tAnd I desire to approach the monthly festivals, the lords of the ritual order, and the new \nmoon and the waning moon, and the full moon which scatters night,\n11.\tAnd the yearly festivals, Maidhyo-zaremaya, Maidhyo-shema, Paitishahya, and Ayathrima \nthe breeder who spends the strength of males, and Maidhyairya, and Hamaspathmaedhaya, \nand the seasons, lords of the ritual order, (12) and all those lords who are the three and thirty, \nwho approach the nearest at the time of Havani, who are the Lords of Asha called Vahishta \n(and whose services were) inculcated by Mazda, and pronounced by Zarathushtra, as the feasts \nof Righteousness, the Best.\n13.\tAnd I desire to approach Ahura and Mithra, the lofty and imperishable two, the holy, and \nwith the Yasht of those stars which are the creatures of Spenta Mainyu, and with the Yasht \nof the star Tistrya, the radiant, the glorious, and with that of the moon which contains the \nseed of cattle, and with that of the resplendent sun, the eye of Ahura Mazda, and of Mithra, \nprovince-lord of the provinces, and with that of Ahura Mazda (as He rules this day) the \nradiant, the glorious, and with that of the Fravashis of the saints, (who rule this month),\n14.\tAnd with thy Yasht, the Fire's, O Ahura Mazda's son! with all the fires, and to the good \nwaters with the Yasht of all the waters which are Mazda-made, and with that of all the plants \nwhich Mazda made.\n15.\tAnd I desire to approach with the Yasht of the Mathra Spenta, the holy, the effective, the \nlaw composed against the Daevas, the Zarathushtrian, and with that of the long descent of \nthe Religion which Mazda gave.\n16.\tAnd I desire to approach with the Yasht of Mount Ushi-darena, Mazda-made, and of all, \nglorious with sanctity, and abundant in brilliance, and with that of the Kingly Glory, Mazda-\nmade; yea, with that of the unconsumed glory which Mazda made, and with that of Ashi \nVanguhi, and Chishti Vanguhi, and with that of the good Erethe, and the good Rasastat, and \nthe good Glory, and of the Benefit which Mazda gave.\n17.\tAnd I desire to approach with the Yasht of the good and pious Blessing of the pious man and \nof the saint, and with that of the awful and swift Curse of the wise, the Yazad-curse, (18) and \nto these places, regions, pastures, and abodes, with their water-springs, and with that of the \nwaters, and the lands, and the plants, and with that of this earth and yon heaven, and with \nthat of the holy wind and of the stars, moon, and sun, and with that of the stars without \nbeginning, self-determined and self-moved, and with that of all the holy creatures which are \nthose of Spenta Mainyu, male and female, regulators of the ritual order, (19) and with that of \nthe lofty lord who is Righteousness (himself, the essence of the ritual), and with that of the \ndays in their duration, and of the days during daylight, and with that of the monthly festivals, \nand the yearly festivals, and with those of the several seasons which are lords of the ritual at \nthe time of Havani.\n20.\tAnd I desire to approach the meat-offering with a Yasht, and Haurvatat (who guards the \nwater), and Ameretatat (who guards the plants and wood), with the Yasht of the sacred flesh \nfor the propitiation of Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed and the mighty, whose body is the \nMathra, of him of the daring spear, the lordly, the Yazad of the spoken name.\n21.\tAnd I desire to approach both Haoma and the Haoma-juice with a Yasht for the propitiation \nof the Fravashi of Zarathushtra Spitama, the saint, the Yazad of the spoken name. And I \ndesire to approach the wood-billets with a Yasht, with the perfume for the propitiation of \nthee, the Fire, O Ahura Mazda's son! the Yazad of the spoken name.\n22.\tAnd I desire to approach with a Yasht for the mighty Fravashis of the saints, the \noverwhelming, the Fravashis of those who held to the ancient lore, and of those of the next \nof kin.\n23.\tAnd I desire to approach toward all the lords of the ritual order with a Yasht, toward all the \ngood Yazads, heavenly and earthly, who are (set) for worship and for praise because of Asha \nVahishta (of Righteousness the Best).\n24.\tI will confess myself a Mazdayasnian, of Zarathushtra's order, a foe to the Daevas, devoted to \nthe lore of the Lord for Havani, the holy lord of the ritual order, for sacrifice, homage, \npropitiation, and for praise, and for Savanghi and Visya, the holy lord(s) of the ritual order, \nand for the sacrifice, homage, propitiation, and praise of the day-lords of the days in their \nduration, and of the days during daylight, and for the month-regulators, and the year-\nregulators, and for those of the (several) seasons, for their sacrifice, and homage, their \npropitiation, and their praise. \n(The Zaotar speaks): As the Ahu to be (revered and) chosen, let the priest speak forth to me.\n(The Ratu responds): As the Ahu to be (revered and) chosen, let him who is the Zaotar speak \nforth to me.\n(The Zaotar again): So let the Ratu from his Righteousness, holy and learned, speak forth!\nYASNA 4 - THE OFFERING TAKES PLACE.\n-----------------------------------\n1.\tThese good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, these Haomas, meat-offerings, and \nZaothras, this Baresman spread with sanctity, this flesh, and the two, Haurvatat (who guards \nthe water) and Ameretatat (who guards the plants and wood), even the flesh, the Haoma and \nHaoma-juice, the wood-billets, and their perfume, this sacred lordship and chieftainship, and \nthe timely prayer with blessing, and the heard recital of the Gathas, and the well-said \nMathras, these all we offer, and make known with celebrations (here).\n2.\tYea, these do we announce with celebrations, and we present them to Ahura Mazda, and to \nSraosha (Obedience) the blessed, and to the Bountiful Immortals, and to the Fravashis of the \nsaints, and to their souls, and to the Fire of Ahura Mazda, the lofty lord of the entire creation \nof the holy, for sacrifice, homage, propitiation, and praise.\n3.\tYea, further, we present (them to the Bountiful Immortals with an especial gift) these \nthoughts well thought, these words well spoken, these deeds well done, these Haomas, \nMyazdas, Zaothras, and this Baresman spread with sanctity, the flesh, and Haurvatat (who \nguards the water), and Ameretatat (who guards the plants and wood), even the flesh, Haoma \nand Parahaoma, the wood-billets, the perfume, and this their lordship and their sanctity, and \nthis chieftainship, this prayer for blessing, the heard recital of the Gathas, and the well-said \nMathras.\n4.\tWe offer with our celebrations, and we announce them (of a verity) to the Bountiful \nImmortals, those who exercise their rule aright, and who dispose (of all) aright, the ever-\nliving, ever-helpful, the male divinities among their number who dwell with the Good Mind, \n[and the female ones as well].\n5.\tAnd we announce them in our celebrations as more propitious for this house, and for the \nfurtherance of this house, of its herds, and of its men, of those now born, and of those yet to \nbe born, the holy, yea, for the furtherance of that house of which these (men) are thus.\n6.\tAnd we present these offerings to the good Fravashis of the saints who are mighty and \noverwhelming for the succor of the saints.\n7.\tYea, we present these hereby to the Creator Ahura Mazda, the radiant, the glorious, and the \nheavenly spirit, for the sacrifice, homage, propitiation, and praise of the Bountiful Immortals \n(all).\n8.\tAnd we present these hereby to the Day-lords of the ritual order, to Havani, to Savanghi, and \nto Visya, the holy lords of the ritual order, for sacrifice, homage, propitiation, and for praise, \nand to Mithra of the wide pastures, and the thousand ears, and the myriad eyes, the Yazad of \nthe spoken name,\n9.\tAnd to Rapithwina, Fradat-fshu, and Zantuma, the holy lords of the ritual order, and to \nRighteousness the Best, and to Ahura Mazda's Fire,\n10.\tAnd to Uzayeirina, Fradat-vira, and Dahvyuma, the holy lords of the ritual order, and to that \nlofty lord Napat-apam, and to the water Mazda-made,\n11.\tAnd to Aiwisruthrima, the life-furtherer, and to Fradat-vispam-hujyaiti and \nZarathushtrotema, the holy lords of the ritual order, and to the Fravashis of the saints, and to \nthe women who bring forth many sons, and to the Prosperous home-life which endures \nwithout reverse throughout the year, and to Force, well-shaped and stately, and to the Blow \nof victory which Mazda gives, and to the Victorious Ascendency which it secures, for their \nsacrifice, homage, their propitiation, and their praise,\n12.\tAnd to Ushahina, with Berejya and Nmanya, and Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, smiting \nwith the blow of victory and furthering the settlements, and to Rashnu, the most just, and to \nArstat, furthering the settlements, and causing them to increase.\n13.\tAnd these we announce and we present hereby to the Month-lords of the ritual order, to the \nnew moon and the waning moon (the moon within), and to the full moon which scatters \nnight, the holy lord of the ritual order, for (their) sacrifice, homage, their propitiation, and \ntheir praise.\n14.\tAnd these we announce hereby and we present to the Yearly festivals, to Maidhyo-zaremaya, \nMaidhyo-shema, Patishahya, and to Ayathrima, to Maidhyairya, Hamaspathmaedhaya, and \nto the Seasons as holy lords of the ritual order, for sacrifice, homage, propitiation, and for \npraise.\n15.\tAnd these we announce and we present hereby to all those lords who are the three and thirty \nlords of the ritual order, who approach the nearest around about our Havani, and which are \nthe festivals of Righteousness the Best, inculcated by Mazda, and uttered forth by \nZarathushtra for their sacrifice, homage, propitiation, and praise.\n16.\tAnd these we announce and we present to Ahura and to Mithra, the lofty, and imperishable, \nand holy two, to the stars, the creatures of Spenta Mainyu, and to the star Tistrya, the \nradiant, the glorious, and to the Moon which contains the seed of cattle, and to the \nresplendent Sun, of the swift horses, Ahura Mazda's eye, and to Mithra, the lord of provinces, \nfor their sacrifice, homage, their propitiation and their praise; yea, these we present hereby \nto Ahura Mazda (as he rules this day) and to the Fravashis of the saints (as they rule this \nmonth), for their sacrifice, homage, their propitiation and their praise.\n17.\tAnd these we announce hereby to thee, the Fire, O Ahura Mazda's son! with all the fires for \nthy sacrifice, homage, propitiation, and praise, and to the good waters for the sacrifice, \nhomage, propitiation, and praise of all the waters Mazda-made, and to all the plants which \nMazda made,\n18.\tAnd to the Mathra Spenta, the holy, the effective, the law against the Daevas, the \nZarathushtrian statute, and to the long descent of the good Mazdayasnian religion.\n19.\tAnd these we announce and we present hereby to Mount Ushi-darena, Mazda-made, brilliant \nwith sanctity, and to all the mountains shining with their holiness, abundantly luminous, and \nMazda-made, and to the Kingly glory, the unconsumed glory Mazda-made, and to the good \nBlessedness, and the good Religious-knowledge, and the good Rectitude, and to the good \nRasastat, and to the Glory and the Benefit which Mazda created.\n20.\tAnd these we offer and present to the pious and good Blessing of the pious, and to the swift \nand dreadful Yazad, the Curse of wisdom.\n21.\tAnd to these places, pastures, and dwellings with their springs of water, their rivers, to the \nlands and to the plants, to this earth and yon heaven, to the holy wind, to the stars, moon, \nand sun, to the stars without beginning, self-disposed, and to all the holy creatures of the \nSpenta Mainyu, male and female (the rulers as they are of the ritual order).\n22.\tAnd these we announce and we present hereby to that lofty lord who is Asha, the ritual \nrighteousness itself, to the Day-lords, and the Month-lords, the Year-lords, and the Seasons \nwho are the lords of the ritual at the time of Havani, and for their sacrifice, homage, their \npropitiation and their praise.\n23.\tYea, these we announce and we present to Sraosha, the blessed and mighty, whose body is the \nMathra, him of the daring spear, the lordly one, and to the holy Fravashi of Zarathushtra \nSpitama, the saint.\nAnd these we announce and we present to thee, the Fire, O Ahura Mazda's son! for thy \nsacrifice, homage, thy propitiation, and thy praise.\n24.\tAnd these we announce and we present to the Fravashis of the saints, the mighty and \noverwhelming, of the saints of the ancient lore, and of the next of kin.\n25.\tAnd these we announce and we present hereby to all the good Yazads, earthly and heavenly, \nwho are (meet) for sacrifice, homage, propitiation, and for praise, because of Asha Vahishta \n(who is Righteousness the Best).\nWe worship the Bountiful Immortals who rule aright, and who dispose of all aright.\n26.\tAnd that one of beings (do we worship) whose superior (service) in the sacrifice Ahura Mazda \nknows, and from his righteousness (which he maintains, and those of all female beings do we \nworship) whose (higher service is thus likewise known; yea, all) male and female beings do we \nworship (who are such)!\nYASNA 5.\n--------\n(This chapter is identical with Yasna 37. )\nYASNA 6 - THE SACRIFICE CONTINUES WITH FULLER EXPRESSION.\n---------------------------------------------------------\n1.\tWe worship the Creator Ahura Mazda with our sacrifice, and the Bountiful Immortals who \nrule aright, and who dispose of all aright.\n2.\tAnd we worship the Asnya with our sacrifice, and Havani, Savanghi and Visya, the holy lords \nof the ritual order, and Mithra of the wide pastures, of the thousand ears, and myriad eyes, \nthe Yazad of the spoken name, and we worship Raman Hvastra.\n3.\tAnd we worship Rapithwina with our sacrifice, and Fradat-fshu, and the Zantuma, and \nRighteousness the Best, and the Fire, Ahura Mazda's son, holy lords of the ritual order.\n4.\tAnd we worship Uzayeirina, and Fradat-vira, and Dahvyuma*, the holy lord of the ritual \norder, and that kingly Ahura, the radiant Napat-apam, of the fleet horses, and the water holy, \nand Mazda-made.\n5.\tAnd we worship Aiwisruthrima and Aibigaya in our sacrifice, the holy lord of the ritual order, \nand Fradat-vispam-hujyaiti and the Zarathushtrotema, the holy lord of the ritual order, and \nthe good, heroic, bountiful Fravashis of the saints, and the women who bring forth many \nsons, and the Prosperous home-life which endures without reverse throughout the year, and \nForce which is well-shaped and stately, and the Blow which brings the victory, which is \nAhura-given, and the Victorious Ascendency (which it secures).\n6.\tAnd we worship Ushahina with our sacrifice, and Berejya, and Nmanya, and Sraosha \n(Obedience) the blessed and the stately who smites with victory, and makes the settlements \nadvance, and Rashnu, the most just, and Arshtat who makes the settlements advance and \ncauses them to increase, the holy lords of the ritual order.\n7.\tAnd we worship the Mahya in our sacrifice, the new moon and the waning moon (the moon \nwithin) and the full moon which scatters night, the holy lord of the ritual order.\n8.\tAnd we worship the Yearly festivals in our sacrifice, Maidhya-zaremaya, Maidhyo-shema, \nPaitishhahya, and Ayathrima, the furtherer (or breeder), the spender of virile strength, and \nMaidhyairya, the holy lord of the ritual order, and Hamaspathmaedhaya, and the Seasons (in \nwhich they are).\n9.\tAnd we worship with our sacrifice all the lords of the ritual order, who are the thirty and \nthree who approach the nearest around about us at Havani, who are the lords of \nRighteousness the Best, and whose observances were inculcated by Ahura Mazda, and uttered \nforth by Zarathushtra.\n10.\tAnd we worship Ahura and Mithra with our sacrifice, the lofty, and imperishable, and holy \ntwo, and the stars, moon, and sun, among the plants of the Baresman, and Mithra, the \nprovince-lord of all the provinces, even Ahura Mazda, the radiant, the glorious, and the good, \nvaliant, and bountiful Fravashis of the saints.\n11.\tAnd we worship thee, the Fire, Ahura Mazda's son, together with all the fires, and the good \nwaters, the best and Mazda-made, and holy, even all the waters which are Mazda-made and \nholy, and all the plants which Mazda made.\n12.\tAnd we worship the Mathra Spenta with our sacrifice, the glorious and of a truth, the law \nrevealed against the Daevas, the Zarathushtrian law, and we worship with our sacrifice its long \ndescent, and the good Mazdayasnian Religion.\n13.\tAnd we worship Mount Ushi-darena, the Mazda-made, the glorious Yazad, shining with \nholiness, and all the mountains that shine with holiness, with abundant brilliance, Mazda-\nmade, the holy lords of the ritual order. And we worship the mighty Kingly glory Mazda-\nmade, the mighty glory, unconsumed and Mazda-made, and the good Sanctity, the brilliant, \nthe lofty, the powerful and the stately, delivering (men) with its inherent power. Yea, we \nworship the Glory, and the Benefit which are Mazda-made.\n14.\tAnd we worship the pious and good Blessing with our sacrifice, and the pious man, the saint, \nand that Yazad, the mighty Curse of wisdom.\n15.\tAnd we worship these waters, lands, and plants, these places, districts, pastures, and abodes \nwith their springs of water, and we worship this lord of the district with our sacrifice, who is \nAhura Mazda (Himself).\n16.\tAnd we worship all the greatest lords, the Day-lords in the day's duration, and the Day-lords \nduring daylight, and the Month-lords, and the Year-lords.\n17.\tAnd we worship Haurvatat (who guards the water) and Ameretatat (who guards the plants and \nthe wood), and Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed and the stately, who smites with the blow of \nvictory, and makes the settlements advance, the holy lord of the ritual order.\n18.\tAnd we worship Haoma with our sacrifice and the Haoma-juice. And we worship the sacred \nFravashi of Zarathushtra Spitama the saint.\nAnd we worship the wood-billets, and the perfume and thee, the Fire, Ahura Mazda's son, the \nholy lord of the ritual order.\n19.\tAnd we worship the good, heroic, bountiful Fravashis of the saints.\n20.\tAnd we worship all the holy Yazads, and all the lords of the ritual order at the time of \nHavani, and Savanghi, and all the greatest lords at their (proper) time. (The Yenhe hatam \nfollows.)\n21.\tThe Ratu. As an Ahu (revered and) to be chosen, the priest speaks forth to me. The Zaotar. \nSo let the Ratu from his Righteousness, holy and learned, speak forth!\nYASNA 7 - PRESENTATION OF OFFERINGS BY THE PRIEST WITH THE OBJECT OF PROPITIATION NAMED.\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n1.\tWith a complete and sacred offering I offer and I give this meat-offering, and (with it) \nHaurvatat (who guards the water), and Ameretatat (who guards the plants and the wood), and \nthe flesh of the Kine of blessed gift, for the propitiation of Ahura Mazda, and of the \nBountiful Immortals (all, and) for the propitiation of Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, \nendowed with sanctity, who smites with the blow of victory, and who causes the settlements \nto advance.\n2.\tAnd I offer the Haoma and Haoma-juice with a complete and sacred offering for the \npropitiation of the Fravashi of Zarathushtra Spitama the saint, and I offer the wood-billets \nwith the perfume for Thy propitiation, the Fire's, O Ahura Mazda's son!\n3.\tAnd I offer the Haomas with a complete and sacred offering for propitiation [to the good \nwaters] for the good waters Mazda-made. And I offer this Haoma-water with scrupulous \nexactness and with sanctity, and this fresh milk, and the plant Hadhanaepata uplifted with a \ncomplete and sacred offering for the propitiation of the waters which are Mazda-made.\n4.\tAnd I offer this Baresman with its Zaothra (and with its binding) for a girdle spread with \ncomplete sanctity and order for the propitiation of the Bountiful Immortals, and I offer with \nmy voice the thoughts well-thought, the words well-spoken, and the deeds well-done, and the \nheard recital of the Gathas, the Mathras well-composed and well-delivered, and this Lordship, \nand this Sanctity, and this ritual mastership, and the timely Prayer for blessings, with a \ncomplete and sacred offering for the propitiation of the holy Yazads, heavenly and earthly, \nand for the contentment of the individual soul!\n5.\tAnd I offer to the Asnya with a complete and sacred offering, as lords of the ritual order, and \nto Havani, and to Savanghi and Visya, holy lords of the ritual order, and to Mithra of the \nwide pastures, of the thousand ears, and myriad eyes, the Yazad of the spoken name, and to \nRaman Hvastra.\n6.\tAnd I offer with a complete and sacred offering to Rapithwina, the holy lord of the ritual \norder; and I offer to Fradat-fshu and to the Zantuma, and to Asha Vahishta (who is \nRighteousness the Best) and to Ahura Mazda's Fire.\n7.\tAnd I offer with a complete and sacred offering to Uzayeirina, Fradat-vira, and to the \nDahvyuma*, the holy lord of the ritual order, and to that lofty Ahura Napat-apam, and to \nthe waters which Mazda created.\n8.\tAnd I offer with a complete and sacred offering to Aiwisruthrima, the life-furtherer, and to \nFradat-vispam-hujyaiti, and to the Zarathushtrotema, and to the Fravashis of the saints, and \nto the women who have many sons, and to the Prosperous home-life which endures (without \nreverse) throughout the year, and to Force, the well-shaped and stately, and to the Blow \nwhich smites with victory Ahura-given, and to the Victorious Ascendency (which it secures).\n9.\tAnd I offer with a complete and sacred offering to Ushahina, the holy lord of the ritual order, \nand to Berejya, and Nmanya, and to Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, endowed with sanctity, \nwho smites with the blow of victory, and makes the settlements advance, and to Rashnu the \nmost just, and to Arshtat who furthers the settlements and causes them to increase.\n10.\tAnd I offer with a complete and sacred offering to the Mahya, lords of the ritual order, to the \nnew and the waning moon (the moon within), and to the full moon which scatters night, holy \nlords of the ritual order.\n11.\tAnd I offer with a complete and sacred offering to the Yearly festivals, the lords of the ritual \norder, to Maidhyo-zaremaya, and Maidhyo-shema, to Paitishahya, and to Ayathrima the \nfurtherer (the breeder), the spender of the strength of males, and to Maidhyairya and \nHamaspathmaedhaya, holy lords of the ritual order, and I offer with sanctity to the several \nseasons, the lords of the ritual order.\n12.\tAnd I offer with a complete and sacred offering to all those lords who are the thirty and \nthree, who approach the nearest round about our Havani, and who are the lords of Asha (the \nritual by-eminence), of Righteousness who is (the Best), whose observances are inculcated as \nprecepts by Mazda, and uttered forth by Zarathushtra. 13. And I offer with a complete and \nsacred offering to Ahura and Mithra, the lofty and imperishable, and holy two, and to the \nstars which are the creatures of Spenta Mainyu, and to the star Tishtrya, the radiant, the \nglorious, and to the Moon which contains the seed of cattle in its beams, and to the \nresplendent Sun of the fleet horses, the eye of Ahura Mazda, and to Mithra, the lord of the \nprovinces. And I offer with a complete and sacred offering to Ahura Mazda, the resplendent, \nthe glorious, (who rules this day), and to the Fravashis of the saints (who name the month).\n14.\tAnd I offer with a complete and sacred offering to thee, the Fire, O Ahura Mazda's son! \ntogether with all the fires, and to the good waters, even to the waters which are Mazda-made, \nand to all the plants which Mazda made.\n15.\tAnd I offer with a complete and sacred offering to the Mathra Spenta, the holy, the \neffective, revealed against the Daevas, the Zarathushtrian law, and to the long descent of the \ngood Religion, of the Mazdayasnian faith.\n16.\tAnd I offer with a complete and sacred offering to Mount Ushi-darena, the Mazda-made, \nbrilliant with holiness, and to all the mountains shining with holiness, of abundant brightness, \nand which Mazda made, and to the Royal glory unconsumed and Mazda-made. And I offer \nwith a complete and sacred offering to Ashi Vanguhi, and to Chishti Vanguhi, and to Erethe, \nand to Rasastat, and to the Glory (and the) Benefit which Mazda made.\n17.\tAnd I offer with a complete and sacred offering to the good and pious Prayer for blessings of \nthe pious man, and to that Yazad, the swift and dreadful Curse of the wise.\n18.\tAnd I offer with a complete and sacred blessing to these places, districts, pastures, and abodes \nwith their springs of water, and to the waters and the lands, and the plants, and to this earth \nand yon heaven, and to the holy wind, and to the stars, and the moon, even to the stars \nwithout beginning (to their course), the self-appointed, and to all the holy creatures of Spenta \nMainyu, be they male or female, regulators (as they are) of the ritual order.\n19.\tAnd I offer with a complete and sacred blessing to that lofty lord who is Righteousness (the \nBest) and the Day-lords, the lords of the days during their duration, and to those of the days \nduring daylight, and to the Month-lords, and the Year-lords, and to those of the seasons, the \nlords who are lords of the ritual, and at the time of Havani.\n20.\tAnd I offer the Myazda meat-offering with a complete and sacred offering, and Haurvatat \n(who guards the water), and Ameretatat (who guards the wood), and the flesh of the Kine of \nblessed gift, for the propitiation of Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, whose body is the \nMathra, him of the daring spear, the lordly, the Yazad of the spoken name.\n21.\tAnd I offer the Haoma and the Haoma-juice for the propitiation of the Fravashi of \nZarathushtra Spitama the saint, the Yazad of the spoken name.\nAnd I offer the wood-billets with the perfume for Thy propitiation, the Fire's, Ahura Mazda's \nson, the Yazad of the spoken name.\n22.\tAnd I offer with a complete and sacred offering to the Fravashis of the saints, the mighty and \noverwhelming, to those of the saints of the ancient lore, and to those of the next of kin.\n23.\tAnd I offer with a complete and sacred offering to all the lords of the ritual order, and to all \nthe good Yazads heavenly and earthly who are (meet) for sacrifice and homage because of \nAsha who is Vahishta (of Righteousness who is the Best).\n24.\tMay that approach to us, and with a sacred blessing (O Lord!) whose benefits the offerers are \nseeking for. Thy praisers and Mathra-speakers, O Ahura Mazda! may we be named; we desire \nit, and such may we be. What reward, O Ahura Mazda! adapted to myself Thou hast \nappointed unto souls,\n25.\tOf this do Thou Thyself bestow upon us for this world and for that of mind; (yea, do Thou \nbestow) so much of this as that we may attain to Thy ruling protection and to that of \nRighteousness for ever.\n26.\tWe sacrifice to the Ahuna-vairya and to the veracious word correctly uttered, and to the \ngood and pious prayer for blessings, and to the dreadful curse of the wise, the Yazad, and to \nHaurvatat and Ameretatat, and to the flesh of the Kine of blessed gift, and to the Haoma and \nHaoma-juice, and to the wood-billets, and the perfume, for the praise of the pious and good \nprayer for blessings. (The Yenghe hatam:)\n27.\t(To that one) of beings do we sacrifice whose superior (fidelity) in the sacrifice Ahura Mazda \nknows through his Righteousness (within him, yea, even to those female saints do we \nsacrifice) whose (superior sanctity is thus known. We sacrifice to all) both males and females \nwhose (superiority is such). (The Ratu speaks.)\nAs an Ahu (revered and) to be chosen, he who is the Zaotar speaks forth to me. (The \nZaotar.)\nSo let the Ratu from his Righteousness, holy and learned, speak forth!\nYASNA 8 - OFFERING OF THE MEAT-OFFERING IN PARTICULAR. THE FAITHFUL PARTAKE.\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\n1.\tA blessing is Righteousness (called) the Best.\nIt is weal; it is weal to this (man),\nWhen toward Righteousness Best there is right.\nI offer the Myazda (of the) meat-offering with a complete and sacred offering; and I offer \nHaurvatatat (who guards the water), and Ameretatat (who guards the plants and the wood), \nand the flesh of the blessed Kine; and I offer the Haoma and the Haoma-juice, the wood-\nbillets and the perfume for the praise of Ahura Mazda, and of the Ahuna-vairya, the \nveracious word, and for that of the pious and beneficent Prayer for blessings, and for the \nredoubted Curse of the wise, and for the praise of the Haoma, and of the Mathra of the holy \nZarathushtra; and may it come to us with sacred fullness (to accept and to recompense our \ngift).\n2.\t(The Ratu speaks.) Eat, O ye men, of this Myazda, the meat-offering, ye who have deserved \nit by your righteousness and correctness.\n3.\tO ye Bountiful Immortals, and thou, the Mazdayasnian law, ye just men and just women, and \nye Zaothras, whoever among these Mazdayasnians would call himself a Mazdayasnian desiring \nto live in the practice of the liberality of Righteousness [for by sorcery the settlements of \nRighteousness are ruined], do ye cause (such an one) to be (still further) taught, (ye), who are \nthe waters, the plants, and the Zaothras!\n4.\tAnd whoever of these Mazdayasnians, adults, when he invokes with earnestness, does not \nadhere to these words, and (so) speaks, he approaches to that (word) of the magician; (but, as \nagainst that magician's word) 'a blessing is Righteousness (called) the Best.'\n5.\tMay'st Thou, O Ahura Mazda! reign at Thy will, and with a saving rule over Thine own \ncreatures, and render Ye the holy (man) also a sovereign at his will over waters, and over \nplants, and over all the clean and sacred (creatures) which contain the seed of Righteousness. \nStrip ye the wicked of all power!\n6.\tAbsolute in power may the holy be, bereft of all free choice the wicked ! Gone (may he be), \nmet as foe, carried out from the creatures of Spenta Mainyu, hemmed in without power over \nany wish! ----------\n7.\tI will incite, even I who am Zarathushtra, the heads of the houses, villages, Zantus, and \nprovinces, to the careful following of this Religion which is that of Ahura, and according to \nZarathushtra, in their thoughts, their words, and their deeds.\n8.\tI pray for the freedom and glory of the entire existence of the holy (man) while I bless it, \nand I pray for the repression and shame of the entire existence of the wicked.\n9.\tPropitiation to Haoma who brings righteousness (to us) for sacrifice, homage, propitiation, \nand for praise. (The Zaotar?) As the Ahu to be (revered and) chosen, the Zaotar speaks forth \nto me. (The Ratu.) As an Ahu to be (revered and) chosen, the Zaotar speaks forth to me. \n(The Zaotar.) So let the Ratu from his Righteousness, holy and learned, speak forth!\nTHE HOM YASHT\n=============\nYASNA 9.\n--------\n1.\tAt the hour of Havani. Haoma came to Zarathushtra, as he served the (sacred) Fire, and \nsanctified (its flame), while he sang aloud the Gathas.\nAnd Zarathushtra asked him: Who art thou, O man! who art of all the incarnate world the \nmost beautiful in Thine own body of those whom I have, seen, (thou) glorious [immortal]?\n2.\tThereupon gave Haoma answer, the holy one who driveth death afar: I am, O Zarathushtra \nHaoma, the holy and driving death afar; pray to me, O Spitama, prepare me for the taste. \nPraise toward me in (Thy) praises as the other [Saoshyants] praise.\n3.\tThereupon spake Zarathushtra: Unto Haoma be the praise. What man, O Haoma! first \nprepared thee for the corporeal world? What blessedness was offered him? what gain did he \nacquire?\n4.\tThereupon did Haoma answer me, he the holy one, and driving death afar: Vivanghvant was \nthe first of men who prepared me for the incarnate world. This blessedness was offered him; \nthis gain did he acquire, that to him was born a son who was Yima, called the brilliant, (he of \nthe many flocks, the most glorious of those yet born, the sunlike-one of men), that he made \nfrom his authority both herds and people free from dying, both plants and waters free from \ndrought, and men could eat imperishable food.\n5.\tIn the reign of Yima swift of motion was there neither cold nor heat, there was neither age \nnor death, nor envy demon-made. Like fifteen-yearlings walked the two forth, son and \nfather, in their stature and their form, so long as Yima, son of Vivanghvant ruled, he of the \nmany herds!\n6.\tWho was the second man, O Haoma! who prepared thee for the corporeal world? What \nsanctity was offered him? what gain did he acquire?\n7.\tThereupon gave Haoma answer, he the holy one, and driving death afar: Athwya was the \nsecond who prepared-me for the corporeal world. This blessedness was given him, this gain \ndid he acquire, that to him a son was born, Thraetaona of the heroic tribe,\n8.\tWho smote the dragon Dahaka, three-jawed and triple-headed, six-eyed, with thousand \npowers, and of mighty strength, a lie-demon of the Daevas, evil for our settlements, and \nwicked, whom the evil spirit Angra Mainyu made as the most mighty Druj [against the \ncorporeal world], and for the murder of (our) settlements, and to slay the (homes) of Asha!\n9.\tWho was the third man, O Haoma! who prepared thee for the corporeal world? What \nblessedness was given him? what gain did he acquire?\n10.\tThereupon gave Haoma answer, the holy one, and driving death afar: Thrita, [the most \nhelpful of the Samas], was the third man who prepared me for the corporeal world. This \nblessedness was given him, this gain did he acquire, that to him two son were born, \nUrvakhshaya and Keresaspa, the one a judge confirming order, the other a youth of great \nascendant, ringlet-headed, bludgeon-bearing.\n11.\tHe who smote the horny dragon swallowing men, and swallowing horses, poisonous, and green \nof color over which, as thick as thumbs are, greenish poison flowed aside, on whose back once \nKeresaspa cooked his meat in iron caldron at the noonday meal; and the deadly, scorched, \nupstarted, and springing off, dashed out the water as it boiled. Headlong fled affrighted manly-\nminded Keresaspa.\n12.\tWho was the fourth man who prepared thee, O Haoma! for the corporeal world? What \nblessedness was given him? what gain did he acquire?\n13.\tThereupon gave Haoma answer, he the holy, and driving death afar: Pourushaspa was the \nfourth man who prepared me for the corporeal world. This blessedness was given him, this \ngain did he acquire, that thou, O Zarathushtra! wast born to him, the just, in Pourushaspa's \nhouse, the Daeva's foe, the friend of Mazda's lore, (14) famed in Airyana Vaejah; and thou, O \nZarathushtra! didst recite the first the Ahuna-vairya, four times intoning it, and with verses \nkept apart [(Pazand) each time with louder and still louder voice].\n15.\tAnd thou didst cause, O Zarathushtra! all the demon-gods to vanish in the ground who \naforetime flew about this earth in human shape (and power. This hast thou done), thou who \nhast been the strongest, and the staunchest, the most active, and the swiftest, and (in every \ndeed) the most victorious in the two spirits' world.\n16.\tThereupon spake Zarathushtra: Praise to Haoma. Good is Haoma, and the well-endowed, \nexact and righteous in its nature, and good inherently, and healing, beautiful of form, and \ngood in deed, and most successful in its working, golden-hued, with bending sprouts. As it is \nthe best for drinking, so (through its sacred stimulus) is it the most nutritious for the soul.\n--------------------\n17.\tI make my claim on thee, O yellow one! for inspiration. I make my claim on thee for \nstrength; I make my claim on thee for victory; I make my claim on thee for health and \nhealing (when healing is my need); I make my claim on thee for progress and increased \nprosperity, and vigor of the entire frame, and for understanding, of each adorning kind, and \nfor this, that I may have free course among our settlements, having power where I will, \noverwhelming angry malice, and a conqueror of lies.\n18.\tYea, I make my claim on thee that I may overwhelm the angry hate of haters, of the Daevas \nand of mortals, of the sorcerers and sirens, of the tyrants, and the Kavis, of the Karpans, \nmurderous bipeds, of the sanctity-destroyers, the profane apostate bipeds, of the wolves four-\nfooted monsters, of the invading host, wide-fronted, which with stratagems advance.\n--------------------\n19.\tThis first blessing I beseech of thee, O Haoma, thou that drivest death afar! I beseech of thee \nfor (heaven), the best life of the saints, the radiant, all-glorious.\nThis second blessing I beseech of thee, O Haoma, thou that drivest death afar! this body's \nhealth (before that blest life is attained). \nThis third blessing I beseech of thee, O Haoma, thou that drivest death afar! the long vitality \nof life.\n20.\tThis fourth blessing I beseech of thee, O Haoma, thou that drivest death afar! that I may \nstand forth on this earth with desires gained, and powerful, receiving satisfaction, \noverwhelming the assaults of hate, and conquering the lie.\nThis fifth blessing, O Haoma, I beseech of thee, thou that drivest death afar! that I may stand \nvictorious on earth, conquering in battles, overwhelming the assaults of hate, and conquering \nthe lie.\n21.\tThis sixth blessing I ask of thee, O Haoma, thou that drivest death afar! that we may get \ngood warning of the thief, good warning of the murderer, see first the bludgeon-bearer, get \nfirst sight of the wolf. May no one whichsoever get first the sight of us. In the strife with \neach may we be they who get the first alarm!\n--------------------\n22.\tHaoma grants to racers who would run a course with span both speed and bottom (in their \nhorses). Haoma grants to women come to bed with child a brilliant offspring and a righteous \nline. \nHaoma grants to those (how many!) who have long sat searching books, more knowledge and \nmore wisdom.\n23.\tHaoma grants to those long maidens, who sit at home unwed, good husbands, and that as soon \nas asked, he Haoma, the well-minded.\n24.\tHaoma lowered Keresani, dethroned him from his throne, for he grew so fond of power, that \nhe treacherously said: No priest behind (and watching) shall walk the lands for me, as a \ncounselor to prosper them, he would rob everything of progress, he would crush the growth of \nall!\n--------------------\n25.\tHail to thee, O Haoma, who hast power as thou wilt, and by thine inborn strength! Hail to \nthee, thou art well-versed in many sayings, and true and holy words. Hail to thee for thou \ndost ask no wily questions, but questionest direct.\n26.\tForth hath Mazda borne to thee, the star-bespangled girdle, the spirit-made, the ancient one, \nthe Mazdayasnian Faith.\nSo with this thou art begirt on the summits of the mountains, for the spreading of the \nprecepts, and the headings of the Mathra, (and to help the Mathra's teacher),\n27.\tO Haoma, thou house-lord, and thou clan-lord, thou tribe-lord, and chieftain of the land, and \nthou successful learned teacher, for aggressive strength I speak to thee, for that which smites \nwith victory, and for my body's saving, and for manifold delight!\n28.\tBear off from us the torment and the malice of the hateful. Divert the angry foe's intent!\nWhat man soever in this house is violent and wicked, what man soever in this village, or this \ntribe, or province, seize thou away the fleetness from his feet; throw thou a veil of darkness \no'er his mind; make thou his intellect (at once) a wreck!\n29.\tLet not the man who harms us, mind or body, have power to go forth on both his legs, or \nhold with both his hands, or see with both his eyes, not the land (beneath his feet), or the \nherd before his face.\n--------------------\n30.\tAt the aroused and fearful Dragon, green, and belching forth his poison, for the righteous \nsaint that perishes, yellow Haoma, hurl thy mace!\nAt the (murderous) bludgeon-bearer, committing deeds unheard of, blood-thirsty, (drunk) with \nfury, yellow Haoma, hurl thy mace!\n31.\tAgainst the wicked human tyrant, hurling weapons at the head, for the righteous saint that \nperishes, yellow Haoma, hurl thy mace!\nAgainst the righteousness-disturber, the unholy life-destroyer, thoughts and words of our \nreligion well-delivering, yet in actions never reaching, for the righteous saint that perishes, \nyellow Haoma, hurl thy mace!\n32.\tAgainst the body of the harlot, with her magic minds o'erthrowing with (intoxicating) \npleasures, to the lusts her person offering, whose mind as vapor wavers as it flies before the \nwind, for the righteous saint that perishes, yellow Haoma, hurl thy mace!\nYASNA 10.\n---------\n1.\tLet the Demon-gods and Goddesses fly far away from hence, and let the good Sraosha make \nhere his home! [And may the good Blessedness here likewise dwell], and may she here spread \ndelight and peace within this house, Ahura's, which is sanctified by Haoma, bringing \nrighteousness (to all).\n2.\tAt the first force of thy pressure, O intelligent! I praise thee with my voice, while I grasp at \nfirst thy shoots. At thy next pressure, O intelligent! I praise thee with my voice, when as \nwith full force of a man I crush thee down.\n3.\tI praise the cloud that waters thee, and the rains which make thee grow on the summits of the \nmountains; and I praise thy lofty mountains where the Haoma branches spread.\n4.\tThis wide earth do I praise, expanded far (with paths), the productive, the full bearing, thy \nmother, holy plant! Yea, I praise the lands where thou dost grow, sweet-scented, swiftly \nspreading, the good growth of the Lord. O Haoma, thou growest on the mountains, apart on \nmany paths, and there still may'st thou flourish. The springs of Righteousness most verily \nthou art, (and the fountains of the ritual find their source in thee)!\n5.\tGrow (then) because I pray to thee on all thy stems and branches, in all thy shoots (and \ntendrils) increase thou through my word!\n6.\tHaoma grows while he is praised, and the man who praises him is therewith more victorious. \nThe lightest pressure of thee, Haoma, thy feeblest praise, the slightest tasting of thy juice, \navails to the thousand-smiting of the Daevas.\n7.\tWasting doth vanish from that house, and-with it foulness, whither in verity they bear thee, \nand where thy praise in truth is sung, the drink of Haoma, famed, health-bringing (as thou \nart). [(Pazand) to his village and abode they bear him.]\n8.\tAll other toxicants go hand in hand with Rapine of the bloody spear, but Haoma's stirring \npower goes hand in hand with friendship. [Light is the drunkenness of Haoma (Pazand).]\nWho as a tender son caresses Haoma, forth to the bodies of such persons Haoma comes to \nheal.\n9.\tOf all the healing virtues, Haoma, whereby thou art a healer, grant me some. Of all the \nvictorious powers, whereby thou art a victor, grant me some. A faithful praiser will I be to \nthee, O Haoma, and a faithful praiser (is) a better (thing) than Righteousness the Best; so \nhath the Lord, declaring (it), decreed.\n10.\tSwift and wise hath the well-skilled Deity created thee; swift and wise on high Haraiti did He, \nthe well-skilled, plant thee.\n11.\tAnd taught (by implanted instinct) on every side, the bounteous birds have carried thee to the \nPeaks-above-the-eagles, to the mount's extremest summit, to the gorges and abysses, to the \nheights of many pathways, to the snow-peaks ever whitened.\n12.\tThere, Haoma, on the ranges dost thou grow of many kinds. Now thou growest of milky \nwhiteness, and now thou growest golden; and forth thine healing liquors flow for the inspiring \nof the pious. So terrify away from me the (death's) aim of the curser. So terrify and crush his \nthought who stands as my maligner.\n13.\tPraise be to thee, O Haoma, (for he makes the poor man's thoughts as great as any of the \nrichest whomsoever.) Praise be to Haoma, (for he makes the poor man's thoughts as great as \nwhen mind reacheth culmination.) With manifold retainers dost thou, O Haoma, endow the \nman who drinks thee mixed with milk; yea, more prosperous thou makest him, and more \nendowed with mind.\n14.\tDo not vanish from me suddenly like milk-drops in the rain; let thine exhilarations go forth \never vigorous and fresh; and let them come to me with strong effect. Before thee, holy \nHaoma, thou bearer of the ritual truth, and around thee would I cast this body, a body which \n(as all) may see (is fit for gift and) grown.\n15.\tI renounce with vehemence the murderous woman's emptiness, the Jaini's, hers, with intellect \ndethroned. She vainly thinks to foil us, and would beguile both Fire-priest and Haoma; but she \nherself, deceived therein, shall perish. And when she sits at home, and wrongly eats of \nHaoma's offering, priest's mother will that never make her, nor give her holy sons!\n--------------------\n16.\tTo five do I belong, to five others do I not; of the good thought am I, of the evil am I not; \nof the good word am I, of the evil am I not; of the good deed am I, and of the evil, not. \nTo Obedience am I given, and to deaf disobedience, not; to the saint do I belong, and to the \nwicked, not; and so from this on till the ending shall be the spirits' parting. (The two shall \nhere divide.)\n--------------------\n17.\tThereupon spake Zarathushtra: Praise to Haoma, Mazda-made. Good is Haoma, Mazda-made. \nAll the plants of Haoma praise I, on the heights of lofty mountains, in the gorges of the \nvalleys, in the clefts (of sundered hill-sides) cut for the bundles bound by women. From the \nsilver cup I pour Thee to the golden chalice over. Let me not thy (sacred) liquor spill to \nearth, of precious cost.\n18.\tThese are thy Gathas, holy Haoma, these thy songs, and these thy teachings, and these thy \ntruthful ritual words, health-imparting, victory-giving, from harmful hatred healing giving.\n19.\tThese and thou art mine, and forth let thine exhilarations flow; bright and sparkling let them \nhold on their (steadfast) way; for light are thine exhilaration(s), and flying lightly come they \nhere. Victory-giving smiteth Haoma, victory-giving is it worshipped; with this Gathic word \nwe praise it.\n--------------------\n20.\tPraise to the Kine; praise and victory (be) spoken to her! Food for the Kine, and pasture! \n'For the Kine let thrift use toil; yield thou us food.'\n21.\tWe worship the yellow lofty one; we worship Haoma who causes progress, who makes the \nsettlements advance; we worship Haoma who drives death afar; yea, we worship all the \nHaoma plants. And we worship (their) blessedness, and the Fravashi of Zarathushtra Spitama, \nthe saint.\nYASNA 11 - PRELUDE TO THE HAOMA-OFFERING.\n-----------------------------------------\n1.\tThree clean creatures (full of blessings) curse betimes while yet invoking, the cow, the horse, \nand then Haoma. The cow cries to her driver thus: Childless be thou, shorn of offspring evil-\nfamed, and slander-followed, who foddered fairly dost not use me, but fattenest me for wife or \nchildren, and for thy niggard selfish meal.\n2.\tThe horse cries to his rider thus: Be not spanner of the racers; stretch no coursers to full-\nspeed; do not stride across the fleetest, thou, who dost not pray me swiftness in the meeting \nthick with numbers, in the circuit thronged with men.\n3.\tHaoma speaks his drinker thus: Childless be thou, shorn of offspring, evil-famed, and slander-\nfollowed, who holdest me from full outpouring, as a robber, skulls in-crushing. No head-smiter \nam I ever, holy Haoma, far from death.\n4.\tForth my father gave an offering, tongue and left eye chose Ahura, set apart for Haoma's \nmeal.\n5.\tWho this offering would deny me, eats himself, or prays it from me, this which Mazda gave \nto bless me, tongue with left eye (as my portion).\n6.\tIn his house is born no fire-priest, warrior ne'er in chariot standing, never more the thrifty \ntiller. In his home be born Dahakas, Murakas of evil practice, doing deeds of double nature.\n7.\tQuick, cut off then Haoma's portion, gift of flesh for doughty Haoma! Heed lest Haoma bind \nthee fettered, as he bound the fell Turanian Frangrasyan (the murderous robber) fast in iron \nclose-surrounded in the mid-third of this earth!\n8.\tThereupon spake Zarathushtra: Praise to Haoma made by Mazda, good is Haoma Mazda-\nmade.\n--------------------\n9.\tWho to us is one hereupon to thee (becomes) two, to be made to three, for the five-making \nof the four, for the seven-making of the sixth, who are your nine in the decade (?), who serve \nyou and with zeal.\n--------------------\n10.\tTo thee, O holy Haoma! bearer of the ritual sanctity, I offer this my person which is seen \n(by all to be) mature, (and fit for gift); to Haoma the effective do I offer it, and to the sacred \nexhilaration which he bestows; and do thou grant to me (for this), O holy Haoma! thou that \ndrivest death afar, (Heaven) the best world of the saints, shining, all brilliant.\n11.\t(The Ashem Vohu, &c.)\n12-15.\tMay'st Thou rule at Thy will, O Lord....(Repeat Y8.5-7)!\n16.\tI confess myself a Mazdayasnian of Zarathushtra's order.\n17.\tI celebrate my praises for good thoughts, good words, and good deeds for my thoughts, my \nspeeches, and (my) actions. With chanting praises I present all good thoughts, good words, \nand good deeds, and with rejection I repudiate all evil thoughts, and words, and deeds. 18. Here \nI give to you, O ye Bountiful Immortals! sacrifice and homage with the mind, with words, \ndeeds, and my entire person; yea, (I offer) to you the flesh of my very body (as your own). \nAnd I praise Righteousness. A blessing is Righteousness (called) the Best, &c.\nYASNA 12 - The Zoroastrian Creed\n--------------------------------\n[Translation by J. H. Peterson, 1996.\nThis creed probably dates to the earliest days of the faith, but\nseems to have undergone some linguistic shift and subsequent recasting\nin the Old Avestan dialect. It was probably intended to be recited\nbefore an open assembly. See discussion in Boyce, Zoroastrianism\n- Its Antiquity and Constant Vigour, p. 84 and 104 ff. The\nlast phrase of verse 7, plus all of verses 8 and 9, are incorporated\ninto the daily Kusti ritual.]\n1. I curse the Daevas.\nI declare myself a Mazda-worshipper, a supporter of Zarathushtra,\nhostile to the Daevas, fond of Ahura's teaching, a praiser of\nthe Amesha Spentas, a worshipper of the Amesha Spentas. I ascribe\nall good to Ahura Mazda, 'and all the best,' the Asha-owning one,\nsplendid, xwarena-owning, whose is the cow, whose is Asha, whose\nis the light, 'may whose blissful areas be filled with light'.\n2. I choose the good Spenta Armaiti for myself; let her be mine.\nI renounce the theft and robbery of the cow, and the damaging\nand plundering of the Mazdayasnian settlements.\n3. I want freedom of movement and freedom of dwelling for those\nwith homesteads, to those who dwell upon this earth with their\ncattle. With reverence for Asha, and (offerings) offered up, I\nvow this: I shall nevermore damage or plunder the Mazdayasnian\nsettlements, even if I have to risk life and limb.\n4. I reject the authority of the Daevas, the wicked, no-good,\nlawless, evil-knowing, the most druj-like of beings, the foulest\nof beings, the most damaging of beings. I reject the Daevas and\ntheir comrades, I reject the demons (yatu) and their comrades;\nI reject any who harm beings. I reject them with my thoughts,\nwords, and deeds. I reject them publicly.\nEven as I reject the head (authorities), so too do I reject\nthe hostile followers of the druj.\n5. As Ahura Mazda taught Zarathushtra at all discussions, at\nall meetings, at which Mazda and Zarathushtra conversed;\n6. as Ahura Mazda taught Zarathushtra at all discussions, at\nall meetings, at which Mazda and Zarathushtra conversed -- even\nas Zarathushtra rejected the authority of the Daevas, so I also\nreject, as Mazda-worshipper and supporter of Zarathushtra, the\nauthority of the Daevas, even as he, the Asha-owning Zarathushtra,\nhas rejected them.\n7. As the belief of the waters, the belief of the plants, the\nbelief of the well-made (Original) Cow; as the belief of Ahura\nMazda who created the cow and the Asha-owning Man; as the belief\nof Zarathushtra, the belief of Kavi Vishtaspa, the belief of both\nFrashaostra and Jamaspa; as the belief of each of the Saoshyants\n(saviors) -- fulfilling destiny and Asha-owning -- so I am a Mazda-worshipper\nof this belief and teaching.\n8. I profess myself a Mazda-worshipper, a Zoroastrian, having\nvowed it and professed it. I pledge myself to the well-thought\nthought, I pledge myself to the well-spoken word, I pledge myself\nto the well-done action.\n9. I pledge myself to the Mazdayasnian religion, which causes\nthe attack to be put off and weapons put down; which upholds khvaetvadatha\n(kin-marriage), which possesses Asha; which of all religions that\nexist or shall be, is the greatest, the best, and the most beautiful:\nAhuric, Zoroastrian. I ascribe all good to Ahura Mazda. This is\nthe creed of the Mazdayasnian religion.\nYASNA 13.\n---------\n[Translated by L. H. Mills (From Sacred Books of the East, American\nEdition, 1898.) Y13.1-6 and the beginning of 7 is in the Old Avesta\ndialect.]\n1.\tI address (my invocation to) Ahura Mazda. And I invoke (among guardian beings) the chief \nof the house-lord, and the chief of the Vis-lord, and the chief of the Zantu-lord. And I invoke \nthe chief of the province-lord. And the chief of women I invoke, the Mazdayasnian Faith, \nthe blessed and good Parendi, her who is the holy one of human-kind. And I invoke this \n(holy) earth which bears us.\n2.\tAnd I invoke the friendly and most helpful person's lord, the Fire of Ahura Mazda, and also \nthe most energetic lords of holy men, those who are most strenuous in their care of cattle \nand the fields, and the chief of the thrifty tiller of the earth. And I invoke the steady settler \nof sanctity, (and) the chief of the charioteer.\n3.\tAnd I invoke the chief of the fire-priest by means of the most imposing sciences of the \nMazdayasnian Faith. And I invoke the chief of the Atharvan, and his pupils I invoke; yea, \nthe lords of each of them. I invoke these lords, and I summon the Bountiful Immortals here, \nand the Prophets who shall serve us, the wisest as they are, the most scrupulous in their \nexactness (as) they utter words (of doctrine and of service), the most devoted (to their duties \nlikewise), and the most glorious in their thoughts(?). And I invoke the most imposing forces \nof the Mazdayasnian Faith, and the fire-priests I invoke, and the charioteers, the warriors, \nand the thrifty tillers of the soil.\n4.\tAnd to You, O Ye Bountiful Immortals! Ye who rule aright, and dispose (of all) aright, I offer \nthe flesh of my very frame, and all the blessings of my life.\n-------\nThus the two spirits thought, thus they spoke, and thus they did;\n5.\tAnd therefore as Thou, O Ahura Mazda! didst think, speak, dispose, and do all things good \n(for us), so to Thee would we give, so would we assign to Thee our homage; so would we \nworship Thee with our sacrifices. So would we bow before Thee with these gifts, and so direct \nour prayers to Thee with confessions of our debt.\n6.\tBy the kinship of the good kindred, by that of Righteousness the good (Thy righteous \nservant's nature) would we approach Thee, and by that of the good thrift-law, and of Piety \nthe good.\n7.\tAnd we would worship the Fravashi of the Kine of blessed gift, and that of the holy Gaya \nMareyan, and we would worship the holy Fravashi of Zarathushtra Spitama, the saint. Yea, \nthat one of beings do we worship whose better (service) in the sacrifice Ahura Mazda knows; \n(even those women do we worship) whose (better service thus is known). Yea, both (holy) \nmen and women (do we worship whom Ahura Mazda knows).\nAs the Ahu is excelling....\nA blessing is the Right called the best....\n8.\tWe worship the Ahuna-vairya; and we worship Asha Vahishta the best(?), the bountiful \nImmortal. And we sacrifice to the Ha fraoreti, even to the confession and laudation of the \nMazdayasnian Faith!\nYASNA 14 - DEDICATIONS.\n-----------------------\n1.\tI will come to You, O Ye Bountiful Immortals! as a praiser and a priest, and an invoker and \nsacrificer, as a memorizing reciter and a chanter, for Your sacrifice and homage, which are to \nbe offered to You, the Bountiful Immortals, and for our dedication and sanctification; (yea, \nfor ours) who are the holy prophets (destined to benefit the saints).\n2.\tAnd to You, O Ye Bountiful Immortals! would I dedicate the flesh of my very body, and all \nthe blessings of a prospered life.\n3.\tIn this Zaothra with this Baresman, I desire to approach the holy Yazads with my praise, and \nall the holy lords of the ritual order at their times, Havani at his time, and Savanghi and Visya \nat their times. 4. I confess myself a Mazdayasnian, and of Zarathushtra's order.\n5.\tThe Zaotar speaks: As an Ahu (revered and) chosen, the Zaotar (?) speaks forth to me (?).\nThe Ratu speaks: As an Ahu (revered and) to be chosen, the Zaotar speaks forth to me.\nThe Zaotar: So let the Ratu from his Righteousness, holy and learned, speak forth!\nYASNA 15 - THE SACRIFICE CONTINUES.\n-----------------------------------\n1.\tWith precept, praise, and with delight produced by grace, I call upon the Bountiful Immortals \nthe good, and also therewith the beautiful by name; and I sacrifice to them with the blessing \nof the good ritual, with the earnest blessings of the good Mazdayasnian Faith.\n2.\tWhose best gift from his Righteousness is mine in the offering Ahura this knoweth; who have \nlived, and live ever, by their names these I worship, while I draw near with praises. The Good \nKingdom is to be chosen, that lot which most of all bears on (our blessings).\n3.\tLet Sraosha (Obedience) be here present for the sacrifice of Ahura Mazda, the most \nbeneficent, the holy, who is so dear to us as at the first, so at the last; yea, let him be present \nhere.\n4.\tAs the Ahu (revered and) to be chosen, the Atarevakhsha thus speaks forth to me.\n(Response): So let the Ratu from his righteousness, holy and learned, speak forth!\nYASNA 16 - THE SACRIFICE CONTINUES WITH INCREASED FULLNESS OF EXPRESSION.\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\n1.\tWe worship Ahura Mazda, the holy lord of the ritual order, who disposes (all) aright, the \ngreatest Yazad, who is also the most beneficent, and the one who causes the settlements to \nadvance, the creator of good creatures; yea, we worship Him with these offered Zaothras and \nwith truthfully and scrupulously delivered words; and we worship every holy Yazad of the \nheaven (as well)!\n2.\tAnd we worship Zarathushtra Spitama in our sacrifice, the holy lord of the ritual order with \nthese Zaothras and with faithfully delivered words; and we worship every holy earthly Yazad \nas we worship him; and we worship also the Fravashi of Zarathushtra Spitama, the saint. And \nwe worship the utterances of Zarathushtra and his religion, his faith and his lore.\n3.\tAnd we worship the former religions of the world devoted to Righteousness which were \ninstituted at the creation, the holy religions of the Creator Ahura Mazda, the resplendent and \nglorious. And we worship Vohu Manah (the Good Mind), and Asha Vahishta (who is \nRighteousness the Best), and Khshathra-vairya, the Kingdom to be desired, and the good and \nbountiful Armaiti (true piety in the believers), and Haurvatat and Ameretat (our Weal and \nImmortality).\n4.\tYea, we worship the Creator Ahura Mazda and the Fire, Ahura Mazda's son, and the good \nwaters which are Mazda-made and holy, and the resplendent sun of the swift horses, and the \nmoon with the seed of cattle (in his beams); and we worship the star Tishtrya, the lustrous \nand glorious; and we worship the soul of the Kine of blessed endowment, (5) and its Creator \nAhura Mazda; and we worship Mithra of the wide pastures, and Sraosha (Obedience) the \nblessed, and Rashnu the most just, and the good, heroic, bountiful Fravashis of the saints, and \nthe Blow-of-victory Ahura-given (as it is). And we worship Raman Hvastra, and the \nbounteous Wind of blessed gift, (6) and (its) Creator Ahura Mazda, and the good \nMazdayasnian Religion, and the good Blessedness and Arshtat.\nAnd we worship the heaven and the earth of blessed gift, and the bounteous Mathra, and the \nstars without beginning (to their course), self-disposing as they are.\n7.\tAnd we worship the glorious works of Righteousness in which the souls of the dead find \nsatisfaction and delight [(Pazand) which are the Fravashis of the saints], and we worship \n(Heaven) the best world of the saints, shining, all glorious.\n8.\tAnd we worship the two, the milk-offering and the libation, the two which cause the waters \nto flow forth, and the plants to flourish, the two foes who meet the Dragon demon-made; and \nwho are set to meet, to defeat, and to put to flight, that cheat, the Pairika, and to contradict \nthe insulting malice of the Ashemaogha (the persecuting heretic) and that of the unholy \ntyrant full of death.\n9.\tAnd we worship all waters and all plants, and all good men and all good women. And we \nworship all these Yazads, heavenly and earthly, who are beneficent and holy.\n10.\tAnd we worship thee (our) dwelling-place who art the (earth, our) bounteous Armaiti, and \nThee, O Ahura Mazda, O holy Lord of this abode! which is the home of healthy herds and \nhealthy men, and of those who are both endowed with health and lover(s) of the ritual right.\n(Response of the individual worshipper (?).) Wherefore whichever of persons, or whatever of \nbodily influences, is most helpful and preserving in that abode (thus owned by Mazda) let this \nmeet me in mine abode, and there may it abide for summer and for winter. (Or let that one \nmeet me in all my house, in whom are what of influences are the most mighty power for the \nbody and the person's life; yea, let that one meet me there, and there abide for summer and \nfor winter (for my help)!)\nYASNA 17 - TO THE FIRES, WATERS, PLANTS, &C.\n--------------------------------------------\n1-10.\t(See Y6, which is nearly identical with verses 1-10.)\n11.\tWe worship thee, the Fire, O Ahura Mazda's son! We worship the fire Berezi-savangha (of \nthe lofty use), and the fire Vohu-fryana (the good and friendly), and the fire Urvazishta (the \nmost beneficial and most helpful), and the fire Vazishta (the most supporting), and the fire \nSpenishta (the most bountiful), and Nairya-sangha the Yazad of the royal lineage, and that \nfire which is the house-lord of all houses and Mazda-made, even the son of Ahura Mazda, the \nholy lord of the ritual order, with all the fires.\n12.\tAnd we worship the good and best waters Mazda-made, holy, all the waters Mazda-made and \nholy, and all the plants which Mazda made, and which are holy.\n13.\tAnd we worship the Mathra-spenta (the bounteous word-of-reason), the Zarathushtrian law \nagainst the Daevas, and its long descent.\n14.\tAnd we worship Mount Ushi-darena which is Mazda-made and shining with its holiness, and \nall the mountains shining with holiness, and of abundant glory, and which Mazda made ---.\n15.\tAnd we worship the good and pious prayer for blessings, (16) and these waters and (these \nlands), (17) and all the greatest chieftains, lords of the ritual order;\n18.\tAnd I praise, invoke, and glorify the good, heroic, bountiful Fravashis of the saints, those of \nthe house, the Vis, the Zantuma, the Dahvyuma, and the Zarathushtrotema, and all the holy \nYazads!\nYASNA 18.\n---------\n1.\tGrant me, Thou who art maker of the Kine, plants and waters, Immortality, Mazda! Grant, \ntoo, Weal, Spirit bounteous.... (See Y51.7 and Y59.1-17).\nYASNA 19 - ZAND OR COMMENTARY ON THE AHUNWAR.\n---------------------------------------------\n\t(As the Ahu is excellent, so (is) the Ratu (one who rules) from the righteous Order, a creator \nof mental goodness and of life's actions done for Mazda; and the Kingdom (is) for Ahura \nwhich to the poor shall offer a nurturer.)\n1.\tZarathushtra asked of Ahura Mazda: O Ahura Mazda, Thou most bounteous Spirit! maker of \nthe corporeal worlds, the holy One! which was that word which Thou did'st declare to me, (2) \nwhich was before the sky, and before the water, before the earth, and before the cattle, before \nthe plants, and before the fire, and before the holy man, and the Demon-gods (the Daevas), \nbefore the Khrafstra-men, and before all the incarnate world; even before all the good \ncreatures made by Mazda, and which contain (and are) the seed of righteousness?\n3.\tThereupon Ahura Mazda said: It was this piece, the Ahuna-vairya, O Spitama Zarathushtra! \nwhich I pronounced as thine (4) before the sky, and before the waters, before the land, and \nbefore the cattle and the plants, and before the fire, Ahura Mazda's son, before the holy man, \nand before the Daevas, and Khrafstra-men, and before the entire corporeal world, even before \nthe good creatures made by Mazda, which contain (and are) the seed of righteousness.\n5.\tIt was these part(s) of the Ahuna-vairya, O Spitama Zarathushtra! which especially belongs \nto me, and when each is intoned aloud without the (needless) repetition of verses and of \nwords, and without their omission, it is worth a hundred of their other stanzas, even although \nthey are prominent in the ritual, and likewise equally as well recited without additions or \nomissions; nay, further, when it is intoned imperfectly but added to, and with omissions, it is \neven then in effect equivalent (not to a hundred indeed, but) to ten other (stanzas) that are \nprominent.\n6.\tAnd whoever in this world of mine which is corporeal shall mentally recall, O Spitama* \nZarathushtra! a portion of the Ahuna-vairya, and having thus recalled it, shall undertone it, \nor beginning to recite it with the undertone, shall then utter it aloud, or chanting it with \nintoning voice, shall worship thus, then with even threefold (safety and with speed) I will \nbring his soul over the Bridge of Chinvat, I who am Ahura Mazda (I will help him to pass \nover it) to Heaven (the best life), and to Righteousness the Best, and to the lights of heaven.\n7.\tAnd whoever, O Spitama Zarathushtra! while undertoning the part(s) of the Ahuna-vairya (or \nthis piece the Ahuna-vairya), takes ought therefrom, whether the half, or the third, or the \nfourth, or the fifth, I who am Ahura Mazda will draw his soul off from the better world; yea, \nso far off will I withdraw it as the earth is large and wide; [and this earth is as long as it is \nbroad].\n8.\tAnd I pronounced this saying which contains its Ahu and its Ratu before the creation of this \nheaven, before the making of the waters, and the plants, and the four-footed kine, before the \nbirth of the holy biped man, before this sun with its body made for the acquisition of the \ncreation of the Bountiful Immortals.\n9.\tAnd the more bountiful of the two Spirits (Ahura) declared to me (Zarathushtra) the entire \ncreation of the pure, that which exists at present, that which is in the course of emerging into \nexistence, and that which shall be, with reference to the performance and realization 'of the \nactions of a life devoted to Mazda.'\n10.\tAnd this word is the most emphatic of the words which have ever been pronounced, or which \nare now spoken, or which shall be spoken in future; for (the eminence of) this utterance is a \nthing of such a nature, that if all the corporeal and living world should learn it, and learning \nshould hold fast by it, they would be redeemed from their mortality!\n11.\tAnd this our word I have proclaimed as a symbol to be learned, and to be recited, as it were, \nto every one of the beings under the influence of and for the sake of Righteousness the Best.\n12.\tAnd 'as' (the worshipper has) here spoken it forth, when he has thus 'appointed' the 'Lord and \nregulator,' so (by thus reciting these authoritative words), he acknowledges Ahura Mazda (as \nprior to, and supreme) over, those creatures who have 'the mind' as their first. 'As' he \nacknowledges Him as the greatest of them all, 'so' he assigns the creatures to Him (as to their \noriginator).\n13.\tAs he undertones the third sentence, he thereby announces that 'all the amenities of life \nappertain to the 'good' Mazda, (and come) from Him. As he recites 'dazda manangho,' 'the \ncreator of mind,' he acknowledges Him as superior and prior to mind; and as he makes Him \nthe one who indicates (the truth) to mind, (saying) 'manangho of mind,' which means that by \nthis much he makes Him (its director), and then he makes Him 'the lord of actions.'\n14.\tAnd when he acknowledges Him for the creatures thus, 'O Mazda!' he acknowledges Him (as \ntheir ruler) when he assigns the creatures to Him thus. He then assigns the Kingdom to Ahura, \nsaying: 'Thine, O Mazda! is the Kingdom.' And he assigns a nourisher and protector to the \npoor, saying: Yim drigubyo dadat vastarem; that is, as a friend to Spitama. This is the fifth \nsentence, (and it concludes) the entire recital and word, (even) the whole of this word of \nAhura Mazda.\n15.\tHe who is the best (of all) Ahura Mazda, pronounced the Ahuna-vairya, and as He \npronounced it as the best, so He caused it to have its effect, (He, ever) the same, (as He is).\nThe evil one at once arose (to oppose Him), but He (Ahura) repelled that wicked one with \nHis interdict, and with this repelling renunciation: Neither our minds are in harmony, nor our \nprecepts, nor our comprehensions, nor our beliefs, nor our words, nor our actions, nor our \nconsciences, nor our souls!\nCATECHETICAL ZAND.\n------------------\n16.\tAnd this saying, uttered by Mazda, has three stages, or measures, and belongs to four classes \n(of men as its supporters), and to five chiefs (in the political world, without whom its \nefficiency is marred), and it has a conclusion ending with a gift. (Question.) How are its \nmeasures (constituted)? (Answer.) The good thought, the good word, and the good deed. 17. \n(Question.) With what classes of men? (Answer.) The priest, the charioteer (as the chief of \nwarriors), the systematic tiller of the ground, and the artisan. These classes therefore \naccompany the religious man throughout his entire duty with the correct thought, the \ntruthful word, and the righteous action. These are the classes and states in life which give \nattention to the rulers, and fulfill the (laws) of religion; (yea, they are the guides and \ncompanions of that religious man) through whose actions the settlements are furthered in \nrighteousness.\n18.\t(Question.) How are the chiefs (constituted)? (Answer.) They are the house-chief, the \nvillage-chief, and the tribe-chief, the chief of the province, and the Zarathushtra as the fifth. \nThat is, so far as those provinces are concerned which are different from, and outside of the \nZarathushtrian regency, or domain. [Ragha which has four chiefs (only) is the Zarathushtrian \n(district)] (Question.) How are the chiefs of this one constituted? (Answer.) They (are) the \nhouse-chief, the village-chief, the tribe-chief, and the Zarathushtra as the fourth. 19. \n(Question.) What is the thought well thought? (Answer.) (It is that which the holy man \nthinks), the one who holds the holy thought to be before all other things (Question.) What is \nthe word well spoken? (Answer.) It is the Mathra Spenta, the bounteous word of reason. \n(Question.) What is the deed well done? (Answer.) It is that done with praises, and by the \ncreatures who regard Righteousness as before all other things. 20. (Question.) Mazda made a \nproclamation, whom did He announce? (Answer.) Some one who was holy, and yet both \nheavenly and mundane. (Question.) What was His character, He who made this sacred \nenunciation? (Answer.) He who is the best (of all), the ruling one. (Question.) Of what \ncharacter (did He proclaim him the coming one)? (Answer.) As holy and the best, a ruler who \nexercises no wanton or despotic power.\n21.\tWe sacrifice to the (several) part(s) of the Ahuna-vairya. We sacrifice to the memorized \nrecital of the Ahuna-vairya, and its regular chanting and its use in the full Yasna.\nYASNA 20 - ZAND, OR COMMENTARY, ON THE ASHEM VOHU.\n--------------------------------------------------\n1.\tA blessing is Righteousness (called) the best; there is weal, there is weal to this man when the \nRight (helps) the Righteousness best, (when the pious man serves it in truth). Ahura Mazda \nspake forth: Ashem vohu vahishtem asti. To this Asha, the holy ritual sanctity, one \nattributes the qualities of 'good' and 'best,' as one attributes property to an owner; thus this \nsentence vohu vahishtem asti is substantiated (at once).\n2.\tUshta asti ushta ahmai; by this attribution of blessedness (the praiser) assigns every person \n(or thing) of a sacred nature to every holy person, and as one usually (?) and regularly (?) \nassigns every person or thing (?) that is holy to every holy man.\n3.\tHyat ashai vahishtai; by these words the worshipper ascribes the entire Mathra (to Asha \nVahishta), and ascribes all to the Mathra, as one ascribes the kingdom to Righteousness, and \nas one ascribes righteousness to the invoking saint; yea, as one ascribes righteousness to us \nwho are the prophets (who shall help and bless the people). The three maxims of the \nsentences (are thus fulfilled). And every word (in its detail), and the entire utterance in its \nproclamation, is the word of Ahura Mazda.\nCATECHETICAL ADDITION.\n----------------------\n4.\tMazda has made a proclamation. (Question.) Whom did He announce? (Answer.) That holy \none who is both heavenly and earthly. (Question.) Of what character is He who has thus \nannounced Him? (Answer.) He is the best, and the one who is exercising sovereign power. \n(Question.) Of what character is the man whom He announced? (Answer.) The holy and the \nbest, the one who rules with no capricious tyranny. \nWe sacrifice to the (several) part(s) of the Asha Vahishta (prayer). We sacrifice to the heard-\nrecital of the Asha Vahishta, to its memorizing, its chanting, and its sacrificial use!\nYASNA 21 - CATECHETICAL ZAND, OR COMMENTARY UPON THE YENHE HATAM.\n-----------------------------------------------------------------\n\t(The Yenhe. (To that one) of beings do we offer, whose superior (fidelity) in the sacrifice \nAhura Mazda recognizes by reason of the sanctity (within him; yea, even to those female \nsaints also do we sacrifice) whose (superior fidelity is thus likewise known; thus) we sacrifice \nto (all, to both) the males and females (of the saints)!)\n1.\tA word for the Yasna by Zarathushtra, the saint, Yenhe, &c. Here the worshipper indicates \nand offers the Yasna (which is the sacrificial worship) of Mazda as by the command (or as the \ninstitution) of Ahura. Hatam. Here the worshipper offers the sacrificial worship as if with the \nbeings who are among those who are destined to live. 2. Yaungham. Here he indicates and \noffers the sacrificial worship of those holy females who have Aramaiti at their head, as \nhomage to the Immortals. These are the three sentences which comprehend all the Yasnian \nspeech. (Question.) To whom is this Yasna addressed? (Answer.) To the Bountiful Immortals \n(in the course of the Yasna). 3. Thereupon spake Mazda: Salvation to this one, whosoever he \nmay be! May the absolute ruler Ahura grant it. (Question.) 4. Whom did He answer with this \nanswer? (Answer.) He answered: The state of salvation; and with this answer, 'the state of \nsalvation,' he answered every saint who exists, every one who is coming into existence, and \nevery one who shall exist in the future. (Question. Who answered thus? Answer.) The best \nOne. (Question. What did He answer?) (Answer.) The best thing. (That is,) the best One, \nMazda, answered the best and the holy (answer) for the better and the holy man. 5. We \nsacrifice to this piece, the Yenhe hatam, the prominent and holy Yasht.\nYASNA 22 - THE SACRIFICE CONTINUES.\n-----------------------------------\n1.\tWith the Baresman brought hither together with the Zaothra, for the worship of the Creator \nAhura Mazda, the resplendent, the glorious, and for that of the Bountiful Immortals, I desire \nto approach this Haoma with my praise, offered (as it is) with punctilious sanctity (or, for a \nblessing), and this fresh milk, and this plant Hadhanaepata. 2. And, as an act of worship to \nthe beneficent waters, I desire to approach these Zaothras with (my) praise offered (as they \nare) with punctilious sanctity, having the Haoma with them, and the flesh, with the \nHadhanaepata. And I desire to approach the Haoma-water with my praise for the beneficent \nwaters; and I desire to approach the stone mortar and the iron mortar with my praise. 3. And \nI desire to approach this plant for the Baresman with my praise, and the well-timed prayer \nfor blessings, that which has approached (to accept our homage), and the memorized recital \nand the fulfillment of the good Mazdayasnian Faith, and the heard recital of the Gathas, and \nthe well-timed and successful prayer for blessings, that of the holy lord of the ritual order. \nAnd I desire to approach these wood-billets and their perfume with my praise, - thine, the \nFire's, O Ahura Mazda's son! Yea, I desire to approach all good things with my praise, those \nwhich Mazda made, and which have the seed of sanctity (within them), (4) for the \npropitiation of Ahura Mazda and of the Bountiful Immortals, and of Sraosha the blessed, and \nof Ahura Mazda's Fire, the lofty ritual lord! 5-\n19.\t(=Y3.5-19; 20-23=Y3.1-4)\n20.\tAnd I desire to approach this Haoma with (my) praise, that which is thus lifted up with \nsanctity, and this milk (fresh as it is, and as if) living and lifted up with sanctity, and this \nplant the Hadhanaepata lifted up with sanctity. 21. And I desire to approach these Zaothras \nwith (my) praise for the beneficial waters, these Zaothras which have the Haoma with them \nand the milk with them, and the Hadhanaepata, and which are lifted up with sanctity. And I \ndesire to approach the Haoma-water with (my) praise for the beneficial waters, and the two \nmortars, the stone one and the iron one, (22) and I desire to, approach this branch for the \nBaresman with my praise, and the memorized recital and fulfillment of the Mazdayasnian \nlaw, and the heard recital of the Gathas, and the well-timed and persistent prayer for \nblessings(uttered) by the holy lords of the ritual order, and this wood and perfume, even thine, \nO Fire, Ahura Mazda's son, and all good objects Mazda-made (23) for the propitiation of \nAhura Mazda, the resplendent, the glorious, and of the Bountiful Immortals, and of Mithra of \nthe wide pastures, and of Raman Hvastra, (24) and of the resplendent sun, immortal, radiant, \nof the fleet horses, and of Vayu, (of predominant influence and) working on high, set over \nthe other beings in the creation [(Pazand); that is for thee thus (O Vayu) when thine \ninfluence is that which appertains to Spenta Mainyu], and for the propitiation of the most \njust knowledge Mazda-given, and of the holy and good Religion, the Mazdayasnian Faith; \n(25) for the propitiation of the Mathra Spenta, (the bounteous) and holy, and the effective, \ninstituted against the Daevas, the Zarathushtrian law, and of the long descent of the good \nMazdayasnian Faith [the holding in mind and devotion to the Mathra Spenta, and knowledge \nof the Mazdayasnian Religion] for the propitiation of the understanding which is innate and \nMazda-made, and of that which is heard by the ear; (26) and for thy propitiation, the Fire's, \nO Ahura Mazda's son! [(Pazand); (yea) thine, the Fire's, O Ahura Mazda's son] with all the \nfires, and for the propitiation of Mount Ushi-darena, the Mazda-made, radiant with sanctity; \n(27) and of all the holy Yazads, spiritual and earthly, and of the holy Fravashis, the redoubted \nand overwhelming, those of the ancient lore, and those of the next of kin and of the Yazad \nof the spoken name!\nYASNA 23 - THE FRAVASHIS OF THE SAINTS; PRAYERS FOR THEIR APPROACH.\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n1.\tI desire to approach with my praise those Fravashis which have existed from of old, the \nFravashis of the houses, and of the villages, of the communities, and of the provinces, which \nhold the heaven in its place apart, and the water, land, and cattle, which hold the children in \nthe wombs safely enclosed apart so that they do not miscarry.\n2.\tAnd I desire to approach toward the Fravashi of Ahura Mazda, and with my praise, and for \nthose of the Bountiful Immortals, with all the holy Fravashis which are those of the heavenly \nYazads. And I desire to approach the Fravashi of Gaya Maretan (the life-man) in my worship \nwith my praise, and for that of Zarathushtra Spitama, and for those of Kavi Vishtaspa, and of \nIsat-vastra, the Zarathushtrian, with all the holy Fravashis of the other ancient counselors as \nwell. 3. And I desire in my worship to approach toward every holy Fravashi whosesoever it \nmay be, and wheresoever dead upon this earth (its possessor may have lain), the pious \nwoman, or the girl of tender years, the maiden diligent (among the cattle) in the field (who) \nmay have dwelt (here; yea, all) which are now worshipped from this house, which are \nattentive to, and which attain to (our) good Yasnas and (our) homage. 4. Yea, I desire to \napproach the Fravashis of the saints with my praise redoubted (as they are) and \noverwhelming, the Fravashis of those who held to the ancient lore, and the Fravashis of the \nnext-of-kin; and I desire to approach toward the Fravashi of mine own soul in my worship \nwith my praise; and I desire therewith to approach toward all the lords of the ritual, and with \npraise; and I desire to approach all the good Yazads with my praise, the heavenly and the \nearthly, who are meet for sacrifice and homage, because of Righteousness the Best!\nYASNA 24 - PRESENTATIONS.\n-------------------------\n1.\t(And having approached these Haomas with our worship), we present them to Ahura Mazda; \n(yea, we present) these Haomas, Myazdas, Zaothras, and the Baresman spread with \npunctilious sanctity, and the flesh, and the milk, fresh as if living, and lifted up with \npunctilious sanctity, and this branch the Hadhanaepata likewise lifted up with-sanctity.\n2.\t(And having approached these Zaothras in our worship), we present them to the good waters \nhaving the Haoma with them, and the milk, and the Hadhanaepata, and lifted up with \nscrupulous sanctity; and (with them) we present the Haoma-water to the good waters, and \nboth the stone and the iron mortar.\n3.\tAnd we present this plant of the Baresman! and the timely prayer for blessings, which has \napproached in the due course of the ritual, and the recollection and practice of the good \nMazdayasnian Religion, and the heard recital of the Gathas, and the timely prayer for \nblessings which has approached as the prayer of the holy lord of the ritual order; and these \nwood-billets, and the perfume, (even) thine, the Fire's, O Ahura Mazda's son! and all good \nobjects Mazda-made, which have the seed of righteousness, we offer and present. 4. And these \nwe present hereby to Ahura Mazda, and to Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed (and Righteous), \nand to the Bountiful Immortals; and to the Fravashis of the saints, even to the souls of the \nsaints, and to the Fire of Ahura Mazda, the lofty lord of entire holy creation, for sacrifice, \nhomage, propitiation, and for praise.\n5.\tAnd these we present hereby to the Fravashi of Zarathushtra Spitama, the saint, for sacrifice, \npropitiation, and for praise, and to that of the people who love Righteousness, with all the \nholy Fravashis of the saints who are dead and who are living, and to those of men who are as \nyet unborn, and to those of the prophets who will serve us, and will labor to complete the \nprogress and renovation of the world.\n6.\tAnd we present these Haomas, Myazdas, Zaothras, and the Baresman spread with sanctity, \nand the flesh, and the milk (fresh as if) living, and lifted up with sanctity, and the \nHadhanaepata branch.\n7.\tAnd we present these Zaothras to the beneficial waters having the Haoma with them, and the \nflesh, and the Hadhanaepata lifted up with sanctity, and the Haoma-water, to the good \nwaters, with the stone and iron mortars, (8) and this plant of the Baresman, (and) the tirnely \nPrayer and the recollection and practice of the good Mazdayasnian Faith, and these wood-\nbillets, and the perfume, thine, the Fire's, O Ahura Mazda's son! and all objects which are \nMazda-made, and which have, and are, the seed of Righteousness, these we offer and present.\n9.\t(Yea,) we present these hereby to the Bountiful Immortals who rule aright, and who dispose \nof all aright, the ever-living, ever-helpful, who abide with the Good Mind (of the Lord and of \nHis folk)!\nYASNA 25\n--------\n1.\tAnd we worship the Bountiful Immortals with our sacrifice, who rule aright, and who dispose \nof all aright; and we worship this Haoma, this flesh and branch, (2) and these Zaothras for the \ngood waters, having the Haoma with them, and the flesh with them, and Hadhanaepata, and \nlifted up with sanctity, and we worship the Haoma-water for the beneficial waters; and we \nworship the two, the stone mortar and the iron mortar; (3) and we worship this plant for the \nBaresman and the well-timed prayer for blessings which has approached (in its proper place \nwithin the ritual course), and also both the remembrance and the practice of the good \nMazdayasnian Religion, and the heard recital of the Gathas, and the well-timed prayer for \nblessings of the holy lord of the ritual order which has approached, and these wood-billets \nwith the perfume, (even) thine, the Fire's, O Ahura Mazda's son! and we worship all good \nobjects which are Mazda-made, and which contain (and are) the seed of Righteousness.\n4.\tAnd we worship Ahura Mazda with our sacrifice, the resplendent, the glorious, and the \nBountiful Immortals who rule aright, and who dispose (of all) aright, and Mithra of the wide \npastures and Raman Hvastra; and we worship the shining sun, the resplendent, the immortal, \nof the fleet horses.\n5.\tAnd we worship the holy wind which works on high, placed higher than the other creatures in \nthe creation; and we worship this which is thine, O Vayu! and which appertains to the Spenta \nMainyu within thee; and we worship the most true religious Knowledge, Mazda-made and \nholy, and the good Mazdayasnian law.\n6.\tAnd we worship the Mathra Spenta verily glorious (as it is), even the law pronounced against \nthe Daevas, the Zarathushtrian law, and its long descent; yea, we worship the good \nMazdayasnian Religion, and the Mathra which is heart-devoted and bounteous (imparting \nheart's devotion to the saint); yea, we worship the Mazdayasnian Religion maintained in the \nunderstanding of the saint; and we honor that science which is the Mathra Spenta, and the \ninnate understanding Mazda-made, and the derived understanding, heard with ear, and Mazda-\nmade.\n7.\tYea, we worship thee, the Fire, Ahura Mazda's son I the holy lord of the ritual order; and we \nworship all the Fires, and Mount Ushi-darena (which holds the light) Mazda-made and holy, \nthe Yazad mount, brilliant with sanctity. 8. And we worship every holy spiritual Yazad; and \nevery holy earthly Yazad (who exists)!\nYASNA 26 - THE FRAVASHIS; SACRIFICE AND PRAISE TO THEM.\n-------------------------------------------------------\n1.\tI praise, invoke, and weave my hymn to the good, heroic, and bountiful Fravashis of the \nsaints; (and having invoked these, then) we worship the Nmanyas, and the Visyas, and the \nZantumas, and the Dahvyumas, and the Zarathushtrotemas.\n2.\tAnd of all these prior Fravashis, we worship here the Fravashi of Ahura Mazda, which is the \ngreatest and the best, the most beautiful and the firmest, the most wise and the best in form, \nand the one that attains the most its ends because of Righteousness. 3. And (having invoked \nthem) hither, we worship the good, heroic, bountiful Fravashis of the holy ones, those of the \nBountiful Immortals, the brilliant, of effective glance, the lofty, the devoted, the swift ones \nof the creatures of Ahura who are imperishable and holy.\n4.\tAnd (having invoked them) hither, we worship the spirit and conscience, the intelligence and \nsoul and Fravashi of those holy men and women who early heard the lore and commands (of \nGod), and loved and strove after Righteousness, the ritual truth; and we worship the soul of \nthe Kine of blessed gift. 5. And (having invoked it) hither, we worship the Fravashi of Gaya \nMaretan the holy, and the sanctity and Fravashi of Zarathushtra Spitama the saint; and we \nworship the Fravashi of Kavi Vishtasp the holy, and that of Isat-vastra the Zarathushtrian, \nthe saint.\n6.\tAnd (having invoked them) hither, we worship the life, conscience, intelligence, soul and \nFravashi of the next of kin, of the saints male and female who have striven after the ritual \ntruth, which are those of the dead and living saints, and which are those also of men as yet \nunborn, of the future prophets who will help on the renovation, and complete the human \nprogress, with them all.\n7.\tAnd (having invoked them) hither, we worship the souls of the dead [(Pazand) which are the \nFravashis of the saints]; and of all the next of kin who have passed away in this house, of the \nAethra-paitis (the teachers) and of the disciples; yea, of all holy men and women; (8) and we \nworship the Fravashis of all the holy teachers and disciples; and of all the saints both male \nand female.\n9.\t(And having invoked them) hither we worship the Fravashis of all the holy children who \nfulfill the deeds of piety; and we worship the Fravashis of the saints within the province; and \nthose of the saints without the province. 10. We worship the Fravashis of (those) holy men \nand holy women; we worship all the good, heroic, bountiful Fravashis of the saints from Gaya \nMaretan (the first created) to the Saoshyant, the victorious.\n11.\tYea, we worship all the Fravashis of the saints, and we worship the souls of the dead \n[(Pazand) which are the Fravashis of the saints]!\nYASNA 27 - PRELUDE TO THE CHIEF RECITAL OF THE AHUNWAR.\n-------------------------------------------------------\n1.\tThis is to render Him who is of all the greatest, our lord and master (even) Ahura Mazda. And \nthis to smite the wicked Angra Mainyu, and to smite Aeshma of the bloody spear, and the \nMazainya Daevas, and to smite all the wicked Varenya Daevas.\n2.\tAnd this is to further Ahura Mazda, the resplendent, the glorious, to further the Bountiful \nImmortals, and the influences of the star Tishtrya, the resplendent, the glorious, (and) to the \nfurtherance of the holy man, and of all the (bountiful and) holy creatures of the Bounteous \nSpirit.\n3-5.\t(The Ahunwar appears here with Y34.5, the A Airyema, and the Ashem Vohu.)\n6.\tThe Haomas are crushed, O Mazda, Khshathra, and Asha, O ye Lords! Good is Sraosha who \naccompanies the sacrifice with the great glory,' and may he be present affording strenuous \nhelp.\n7.\tWe are offering saving acts of wisdom and of worship with the sacred gift of the Ahuna-\nVairya intoned with sanctity, and of the two mortars here brought forward with holy act, and \nwith that of the correctly uttered words likewise; and therefore may they be to us the more \nsaving in their wise significance.\n8-12.\t(See Y33.11-14; and Y1.23, and Y12.)\n13.\tAs the Ahu is excellent, so is the Ratu (one who rules) from (his) sanctity, a creator of \nmental goodness, and of life's actions done for Mazda; and the Kingdom (is) for Ahura, which \nto the poor may offer a nurturer. 14. (What is Your Kingdom, Your riches; how may I be \nYour own in my actions, to nourish Your poor, O Mazda? Beyond; yea, beyond all we declare \nYou, far from Daevas and Khrafstra-accursed mortals!)\n15.\tWe worship the Ahuna-vairya. We worship Asha Vahishta, the most beautiful, the Bountiful \nImmortal.\nAhunavaiti Gatha\n================\n[Translation by C. Bartholomae, from I.J.S. Taraporewala, The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra.\nYASNA 28.\n---------\n1.\tWith outspread hands in petition for that help, O Mazda, I will pray for the works of the \nholy spirit, O thou the Right, whereby I may please the will of Good Thought and the Ox-\nSoul.\n2.\tI who would serve you, O Mazda Ahura and Vohu Mano, do ye give through Asha the \nblessings of both worlds, the bodily and that of the Spirit, which set the faithful in felicity.\n3.\tI who would praise ye as never before, Right and Good Thought and Mazda Ahura, and those \nfor whom Piety makes an imperishable Dominion to grow; come ye to me help at my call.\n4.\tI who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as \nknowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, \nteach men to seek after Right.\n5.\tO Asha, shall I see thee and Good Thought, as one that knows? (Shall I see) the throne of the \nmightiest Ahura and the following of Mazda? Through this word (of promise) on our tongue \nwill we turn the robber horde unto the Greatest.\n6.\tCome thou with Good Thought, give through Asha, O Mazda, as the gift to Zarathushtra, \naccording to thy sure words, long enduring mighty help, and to us, O Ahura, whereby we may \novercome the enmity of our foes.\n7.\tGrant, O thou Asha, the reward, the blessing of Good Thought; O Piety, give our desire to \nVishtaspa and to me; O thou Mazda and King, grant that your Prophet may command a \nhearing.\n8.\tThe best I ask of Thee, O Best, Ahura (Lord) of one will with the Best Asha, desiring (it) for \nthe hero Frashaostra and for those (others) to whom thou wilt give (it), (the best gift) of \nGood Mind through all time.\n9.\tWith these bounties, O Ahura, may we never provoke your wrath, O Mazda and Right and \nBest Thought, we who have been eager in bringing you songs of praise. Ye are they that are \nthe mightiest to advance desire and the Dominion of Blessings.\n10.\tThe wise whom thou knowest as worthy, for their right (doing) and their good thought, for \nthem do thou fulfill their longing for attainment. For I know words of prayer are effective \nwith Ye, which tend to a good object.\n11.\tI would thereby preserve Right and Good Thought for evermore, that I may instruct, do thou \nteach me, O Mazda Ahura, from thy spirit by thy mouth how it will be with the First Life.\nYASNA 29.\n---------\n1.\tUnto you wailed the Ox-soul, \"For whom did ye fashion me? Who created me? Violence and \nrapine (and) savagery hath oppressed me, and outrage and might. I have no other herdsman \nthan you; prepare for me then the blessings of pasture.\"\n2.\tThen the Ox-Creator asked of the Right: \"Hast thou a judge for the Ox, that ye may be able \nto appoint him zealous tendance as well as fodder? Whom do ye will to be his lord, who may \ndrive off violence together with the followers of the Lie?\"\n3.\tTo him the Right replied: \"There is for the Ox no helper that can keep him away. Those \nyonder have no knowledge how right-doers act towards the lowly\".\n(The Ox-Creator): \"Strongest of beings is he to whose help I come at call\".\n4.\t(Asha) \"Mazda knoweth best the purposes that have been wrought already by demons and by \nmortals, and that shall be wrought hereafter. He, Ahura, is the decider. So shall it be as he \nshall will.\"\n5.\t(The Ox-Creator) \"To Ahura with outspread hands we twain would pray, my soul and that of \nthe pregnant cow, so that we twain urge Mazda with entreaties. Destruction is not for the \nright-living, nor for the cattle-tender at the hands of Liars.\"\n6.\tThen spake Ahura Mazda himself, who knows the law with wisdom: \"There is found no lord \nor judge according to the Right Order for the Creator hath formed thee for the cattle-tender \nand the farmer.\"\n7.\tThis ordinance about the fat hath Ahura Mazda, one in will with Right, created for cattle, and \nthe milk for them that crave nourishment, by his command, the holy one.\n(The Ox and Cow:) \"Whom hast thou, O Good Thought, among men, who may care for us \ntwain?\"\n8.\t(Vohu Manah:) He is known to me here who alone hath heard our commands, even \nZarathushtra Spitama; he willeth to make known our thoughts, O Mazda, and those of the \nRight. So let us bestow on him charm of speech.\n9.\tThen the Ox-Soul lamented: \"That I must be content with the ineffectual word of an \nimpotent man for my protector, when I wish for one that commands mightily! When ever \nshall there be one who shall give him (the Ox) effective help?\"\n10.\t(Zarathushtra:) Do ye, O Ahura, grant them strength, and O Asha, and O Good Thought, that \ndominion, whereby he (the Savior) could produce good dwellings and peace. I also have \nrealized thee, Mazda, as the first to accomplish this.\n11.\t\"Where are Right and Good Thought and Dominion? So, ye men, acknowledge me, for \ninstruction, Mazda, for the great society.\" \n(The Ox and Cow:) \"O Ahura, now is help ours, we will be ready to serve those that are of \nyou.\"\nYASNA 30.\n---------\n1.\tNow I will proclaim to those who will hear the things that the understanding man should \nremember, for hymns unto Ahura and prayers to Good Thought; also the felicity that is with \nthe heavenly lights, which through Right shall be beheld by him who wisely thinks.\n2.\tHear with your ears the best things; look upon them with clear-seeing thought, for decision \nbetween the two Beliefs, each man for himself before the Great consummation, bethinking \nyou that it be accomplished to our pleasure.\n3.\tNow the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the \nBad, in thought and word and action. And between these two the wise ones chose aright, the \nfoolish not so.\n4.\tAnd when these twain Spirits came together in the beginning, they created Life and Not-Life, \nand that at the last Worst Existence shall be to the followers of the Lie, but the Best \nExistence to him that follows Right.\n5.\tOf these twain Spirits he that followed the Lie chose doing the worst things; the holiest Spirit \nchose Right, he that clothes him with the massy heavens as a garment. So likewise they that \nare fain to please Ahura Mazda by dutiful actions.\n6.\tBetween these twain the Daevas also chose not aright, for infatuation came upon them as \nthey took counsel together, so that they chose the Worst Thought. Then they rushed \ntogether to Violence, that they might enfeeble the world of men.\n7.\tAnd to him (i.e. mankind) came Dominion, and Good Mind, and Right and Piety gave \ncontinued life to their bodies and indestructibility, so that by thy retributions through \n(molten) metal he may gain the prize over the others.\n8.\tSo when there cometh their punishment for their sins, then, O Mazda, at Thy command shall \nGood Thought establish the Dominion in the Consummation, for those who deliver the Lie, \nO Ahura, into the hands of Right.\n9.\tSo may we be those that make this world advance, O Mazda and ye other Ahuras, come \nhither, vouchsafing (to us) admission into your company and Asha, in order that (our) \nthought may gather together while reason is still shaky.\n10.\tThen truly on the (world of) Lie shall come the destruction of delight; but they who get \nthemselves good name shall be partakers in the promised reward in the fair abode of Good \nThought, of Mazda, and of Right.\n11.\tIf, O ye mortals, ye mark those commandments which Mazda hath ordained -- of happiness \nand pain, the long punishment for the follower of the Druj, and blessings for the followers of \nthe Right -- then hereafter shall it be well.\nYASNA 31.\n---------\n1.\tMindful of your commands, we proclaim words unpleasant for them to hear that after the \ncommands of the Lie destroy the creatures of Right, but most welcome to those that give \ntheir heart to Mazda.\n2.\tIf by reason of these things the better path is not in sight for choosing, then will I come to \nyou all as judge of the parties twain whom Ahura Mazda knoweth, that we may live according \nto the Right.\n3.\tWhat award Thou givest through the (holy) Spirit and through the Fire and hast taught \nthrough Asha, to both the parties, and what the decision is for the wise, this do Thou tell us, \nMazda, that we may know, even with the tongue of Thine own mouth, that I may convert all \nliving men.\n4.\tIf Asha is to be invoked and Mazda and the other Ahuras and Ashi and Armaiti, do thou seek \nfor me, O Vohu Manah, the mighty Dominion, by the increase of which we might vanquish \nthe Lie.\n5.\tTell me therefore what ye, O thou Right, have appointed me as the better portion, for me to \ndetermine, to know and to keep in mind, O thou Good Thought -- which portion they envy \nme. Tell me of all these things. O Mazda Ahura, that shall not or shall be.\n6.\tTo him shall the best befall, who, as one that knows, speaks to me Right's truthful word of \nWelfare and of Immortality; even the Dominion of Mazda which Good Thought shall \nincrease for him.\n7.\tAbout which he in the beginning thus thought, \"let the blessed realms be filled with Light\", he \nit is that by his wisdom created Right. (Those realms) that the Best Thought shall possess \nthose dost Thou exalt, O Mazda, through the Spirit, which, O Ahura, is ever the same.\n8.\tI recognize Thee, O Mazda, in my thought, that Thou the First art (also) the Last -- that \nThou art Father of Vohu Manah; -- when I apprehend Thee with mine eye, that Thou art the \ntrue Creator of Right, and art the Lord to judge the actions of life.\n9.\tThine was Armaiti, Thine the Ox-Creator, (namely) the Wisdom of the Spirit, O Mazda \nAhura, because Thou didst give (the cattle) choice whether to depend on a husbandman or \none who is no husbandman.\n10.\tSo she chose for herself out of the two the cattle-tending husbandman as her lord to guard the \nRight, the man that advances Good Thought. He that is no-husbandman, O Mazda, however \neager he be, has no part in this good message.\n11.\tWhen Thou, O Mazda, in the beginning didst create the Individual and the Individuality, \nthrough Thy Spirit, and powers of understanding - when Thou didst make life clothed with \nthe body, when (Thou madest) actions and teachings, whereby one may exercise one's \nconvictions at one's free-will;\n12.\tThen lifts up his voice the false speaker or the true speaker, he that knows or he that knows \nnot, (each) according to his own heart and mind. Passing from one to another Armaiti \nconfers with the spirit in whom there is wavering.\n13.\tWhatever open or whatever secret (acts) may be visited with punishment, or whether a \nperson for a little sin demands the highest punishment, -- of all this through Asha Thou art \naware, observing it with Thy flashing eye.\n14.\tThese things I ask Thee, O Ahura, how will these come and happen -- the dues, that in accord \nwith the records are appointed for the righteous, and those, O Mazda, for the followers of the \nDruj, -- how shall these be when they come to the reckoning.\n15.\tThis I ask, what penalty is for him who seeks to achieve kingdom for a liar, for a man of ill \ndeeds, O Ahura, who finds not his living without injury to the husbandman's cattle and men, \nthough he does him no injury.\n16.\tThis I ask, whether the understanding man, who strives to advance the Dominion over the \nhouse, or district, or land through Asha, shall become like Thee, O Mazda Ahura, when will \nhe be and how will he act?\n17.\tWhich is the greater -- what the follower of Asha or what the follower of Druj believe? Let \nhim that knows inform the wise; no longer let him that knows nothing deceive. Be to us, O \nMazda Ahura, the Teacher of Good Thought.\n18.\tLet none of you listen to the words and commands of the follower of the Druj; for he brings \nhouse and clan and district and land into misery and destruction. Resist them with weapon!\n19.\tTo him should we listen who has understood Asha, to the wise Healer of Life O Ahura, who \ncan or will establish the truth of the words of his tongue, when through Thy red Fire, O \nMazda, the assignment (of rewards) is made to the two parties.\n20.\tWhosoever cometh over to the Righteous, far from him hereafter shall be long age of misery \n(and) darkness, ill-food, and crying of woe. To such an existence, ye followers of the Lie, \nshall your own Self bring you through your (own) action.\n21.\tMazda Ahura by virtue of His absolute Lordship will grant a perpetuity of communion with \nHaurvatat and Ameretat, and with Asha, with Khshathra, and with Vohu Manah, to him that \nin spirit and in action is his friend.\n22.\tClear it is to the man of understanding, as one who has realized it with his thought. He \nupholds Asha together with good Dominion by his word and deed. He will be, O Mazda Ahura, \nthe most helpful helper to Thee.\nYASNA 32.\n---------\n1.\t(Zarathushtra) -- And his blessedness, even that of Ahura Mazda, shall the nobles strive to \nattain, his the community with the brotherhood, his, ye Daevas, in the manner as I declare it. \n(The Representatives of the Classes) -- As thy messengers we would keep them far away that \nare enemies to you.\n2.\tTo them Mazda Ahura, who is united with Good Thought, and is in goodly fellowship with \nglorious Right, through Dominion, made reply: We make choice of your holy good Piety -- \nmay it be ours.\n3.\t(Zarathushtra) -- But ye, ye Daevas all, and he that highly honors you, are the seed of Bad \nThought -- yes, and of the Lie and of Arrogance, likewise your deeds, whereby ye have long \nbeen known in the seventh region of the earth.\n4.\tFor ye have brought it to pass that men who do the worst things shall be called beloved of the \nDaevas, separating themselves from Good Thought, departing from the will of Mazda Ahura \nand from Right.\n5.\tThereby ye defrauded mankind of happy life and immortality, by the deed which he and the \nBad Spirit together with Bad Thought and Bad Word taught you, ye Daevas and the Liars, so \nas to ruin (mankind).\n6.\tThe many sins by which he has succeeded in being famous whether by these it shall be thus, \nthis Thou Knowest by the Best Thought, O Ahura, Thou who art mindful of each person's \ndeserts. In Thy Dominion, O Mazda, and that of Asha, shall your decision thereon be \nobserved.\n7.\tNone of these sins will the understanding commit, in eagerness to attain the blessing that \nshall be proclaimed, we know, through the glowing metal -- sins the issue of which, O Ahura \nMazda, Thou knowest best.\n8.\tAmong these sinners, we know, Yima was included, Vivanghen's son, who desiring to satisfy \nmen gave our people flesh of the ox to eat. From these shall I be separated by Thee, O \nMazda, at last.\n9.\tThe teacher of evil destroys the lore, he by his teaching destroys the design of life, he \nprevents the possession of Good Thought from being prized. These words of my spirit I wail \nunto you, O Mazda, and to the Right.\n10.\tHe it is that destroys, who declares that the Ox and the Sun are the worst things to behold \nwith the eyes, and hath made the pious into liars, and desolates the pastures and lifts his \nweapon against the righteous man.\n11.\tIt is they, the liars, who destroy life, who are mightily determined to deprive matron and \nmaster of the enjoyment of their heritage, in that they would prevent the righteous, O \nMazda, from the Best Thought.\n12.\tSince they by their lore would pervert men from the best doing, Mazda uttered evil against \nthem, who destroy the life of the Ox with shouts of joy, by whom Grehma and his tribe are \npreferred to the Right and the Karapan and the lordship of them that seek after the Lie.\n13.\tSince Grehma shall attain the realm in the dwelling of the Worst Thought, he and the \ndestroyers of life, O Mazda, they shall lament in their longing for the message of Thy \nprophet, who will stay them from beholding the Right.\n14.\tTo his undoing Grehma, and the Kavis, have long devoted their purpose and energies, for \nthey set themselves to help the liar, and that it may be said, \"The Ox shall be slain that it \nmay kindle the Averter of Death to help us.\"\n15.\tThereby hath come to ruin the Karapan and the Kavi community, through those whom they \nwill not have to rule over their life. These shall be born away from them both to the dwelling \nof Good Thought.\n16.\t..., who hast power, O Mazda Ahura, on him who threatens to be my undoing, that I may \nfetter the men of the Lie in their violence against my friends.\nYASNA 33.\n---------\n1.\tAccording as it is with the laws that belong to the present life, so shall the Judge act with \nmost just deed towards the man of the Lie and the man of the Right, and him whose false \nthings and good things balance (in equal measure).\n2.\tWhoso worketh ill for the liar by word or thought or hands, or converts his dependent to the \ngood -- such men meet the will of Ahura Mazda to his satisfaction.\n3.\tWhose is most good to the righteous man, be he noble or member of the community or the \nbrotherhood, Ahura -- or with diligence cares for the cattle, he shall be hereafter in the \npasture of Right and Good Thought.\n4.\tI who by worship would keep far from Thee, O Mazda, disobedience and Bad Thought, heresy \nfrom the nobles, and from the community the Lie, that is most near, and from the \nbrotherhood the slanderers, and the worst herdsmen from the pastures of the cattle; -\n5.\tI who would invoke thy Obedience as the greatest of all at the Consummation, attaining long \nlife, and the Dominion of Good Thought, and the straight ways into Right, wherein Mazda \nAhura dwells.\n6.\tI, as a priest, who would learn the straight (paths) by the Right, would learn by the Best Spirit \nhow to practice husbandry by that thought in which it is thought of; these Twain of Thine, O \nAhura Mazda, I strive to see and take counsel with them.\n7.\tCome hither to me, O ye Best Ones, hither, O Mazda, in Thine own person and visibly, O \nRight and Good Thought, that I may be heard beyond the limits of the people. Let the august \nduties be manifest among us and clearly viewed.\n8.\tConsider ye my matters whereon I am active, O Good Thought, my worship, O Mazda, \ntowards one like you, and O Right, the words of my praise. Grant, O Welfare and \nImmortality, your own everlasting blessing.\n9.\tThat Spirit of Thine, Mazda, together with the comfort of the Comrades Twain, who \nadvance the Right, let the Best Thought bring through the Reform wrought by me. Sure is the \nsupport of those twain, whose souls are one.\n10.\tAll the pleasures of life which thou holdest, those that were, that are, and that shall be O \nMazda, according to thy good will apportion them. Through Good Thought advance thou the \nbody, through Dominion and Right at will.\n11.\tThe most mighty Ahura Mazda, and Piety, and Right that blesses our substance, and Good \nThought and Dominion, hearken unto me, be merciful to me, when to each man the \nrecompense comes.\n12.\tRise up for me, O Ahura, through Armaiti give strength, through the holiest Spirit give \nmight, O Mazda, through the good Recompense, through the Right give powerful prowess, \nthrough Good Thought give the reward.\n13.\tTo support me, O Thou that seest far onward, do ye assure me the incomparable things in \nyour Dominion, O Ahura, as the Destiny of Good Thought. O Holy Armaiti, teach the \nDaenas about the Right.\n14.\tAs an offering Zarathushtra brings the life of his own body, the choiceness of good thought, \naction, and speech, unto Mazda, unto the Right, Obedience, and Dominion.\nYASNA 34.\n---------\n1.\tThe action, the word, and the worship for which Thou, O Mazda, shalt bestow Immortality \nand Right, and Dominion of Welfare - through multitudes of these, O Ahura, we would that \nthou shouldst give them.\n2.\tAnd all the actions of the good spirit and the holy man, whose soul follows the Right, do ye \nset with the thought (thereof) in thine outer court, O Mazda, when ye are adored with hymns \nof praise.\n3.\tTo Thee and to Right we will offer the sacrifice with due service, that in (Thy established) \nDominion ye may bring all creatures to perfection through Good Thought. For the reward of \nthe wise man is for ever secure, O Mazda, among you.\n4.\tOf Thy Fire, O Ahura, that is mighty through Right, promised and powerful, we desire that it \nmay be for the faithful man with manifested delight, but for the enemy with visible torment, \naccording to the pointings of the hand.\n5.\tHave ye Dominion and power, O Mazda, Right and Good Thought, to do as I urge upon you, \neven to protect your poor man? We have renounced the robber-gangs, both demons and men.\n6.\tIf ye are truly thus, O Mazda, Right and Good Thought, then give me this token, even a total \nreversal of this life, that I may come before you again more joyfully with worship and praise.\n7.\tCan they be true to thee, O Mazda, who by their doctrines turn the known inheritances of \nGood Thought into misery and woe [usheuru?]. I know none other but you, O Right, so do ye \nprotect us.\n8.\tFor by these actions they put us in fear, in which peril is for many -- in that the stronger \n(puts in fear) (me) the weaker one -- through hatred of thy commandment, O Mazda. They \nthat will not have the Right in their thought, from them shall the Good Abode be far.\n9.\tThese men of evil action who spurn the holy Piety, precious to thy wise one, O Mazda, \nthrough their having no part in Good Thought, from them Right shrinks back far, as from us \nshrink the wild beasts of prey.\n10.\tThe man of understanding has instructed (people) to cling to action of this Good Thought, \nand to the Holy Piety, creator, comrade of Right -- wise that he is, and to all hope, O Ahura, \nthat are in thy Dominion, O Mazda.\n11.\tAnd both thy (gifts) shall be for sustenance, even nectar and ambrosia. Piety linked with \nRight shall advance the Dominion of Good Thought, its permanence and power. By these, O \nMazda, dost thou bless the foes of thy foes.\n12.\tWhat is thine ordinance? What willst thou? What of praise or what of worship? Proclaim it, \nMazda, that we may hear what ordinances Destiny will apportion. Teach us by Right the \npaths of Good Thought that are blessed to go in, -\n13.\tEven that way of Good Thought, O Ahura, of which thou didst speak to me, whereon, a way \nwell made by Right, the Daena of the future benefactors shall pass to the reward that was \nprepared for the wise, of which thou art determinant, O Mazda.\n14.\tThe precious reward, then, O Mazda, ye will give by the action of Good Thought to the \nbodily life of those who are in the community that tends the pregnant cow, (the promise of) \nyour good doctrine, Ahura, that of the wisdom which exalts communities through Right.\n15.\tO Mazda, make known to me he best teachings and actions, these O Good Thought and O \nRight the due of praise. Through your Dominion, O Ahura, assure us that mankind shall be \ncapable according to (Thy) will.\nYASNA HAPTANGHAITI.\n===================\n[Translated by L. H. Mills (From Sacred Books of the East, American Edition, 1898.)]\nYASNA 35 - PRAISE TO AHURA AND THE IMMORTALS; PRAYER FOR THE PRACTICE AND DIFFUSION OF THE FAITH.\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n1.\tWe sacrifice to Ahura Mazda, the holy Lord of the ritual order, and to the Bountiful \nImmortals, who rule aright, who dispose of all aright; and we sacrifice to the entire creation \nof the clean, the spiritual and the mundane, with the longing blessing of the beneficent ritual, \nwith the longing blessing of the benignant Religion, the Mazdayasnian Faith.\n2.\tWe are praisers of good thoughts, of good words, and of good actions, of those now and those \nhereafter [(Pazand) of those being done; and of those completed]. We implant (?) them (with \nour homage, and we do this) the more, and yet the more since we are (praisers) of the good \n(from whom they spring).\n3.\tThat, therefore, would we choose, O Ahura Mazda! and thou, O Righteousness the beauteous! \nthat we should think, and speak, and do those thoughts, and words, and deeds, among actual \ngood thoughts, and words, and actions, which are the best for both the worlds; (4) and \ntogether with these gifts (?) and actions which are thus the best, we would pray for the Kine \n(which represents the pure creation), that she may have comfort and have fodder from the \nfamed! and from the humble, from the potent and the weak.\n5.\tTo the best of good rulers (is) verily the Kingdom, because we render and ascribe it to Him, \nand make it thoroughly His own (?), to Mazda Ahura do we ascribe it, and to Righteousness \nthe Best.\n6.\tAs thus both man or woman knows (the duty), both thoroughly and truly, so let him, or her, \ndeclare it and fulfill it, and inculcate it upon those who may perform it as it is. 7. We would \nbe deeply mindful of Your sacrifice and homage, Yours, O Ahura Mazda! and the best, (and \nwe would be mindful) of the nurture of the Kine. And that let us inculcate, and perform for \nYou according as we may; and (for) such (praisers as we are).\n8.\tUnder the shelter of the ritual Order let us do so in the active fulfillment of its (precepts) \ntoward every one of the (clean) and better creatures which are fit to live, with a gift for both \nthe worlds.\n9.\tYea, those words and sayings, O Ahura Mazda! we would proclaim as Righteousness, and as of \nthe better mind (?); and we would make Thee the one who both supports (us in our \nproclamation) of them, and who throws still further light upon them (as they are),\n10.\tAnd by reason of Thy Righteous Order, Thy Good Mind, and Thy Sovereign Power, and \nthrough the instrumentality of our praises of Thee, O Ahura Mazda! and for the purpose of \n(still further) praises, by Thy spoken words, and for (still further) spoken words, through Thy \nYasna, and for (still further) Yasnas (would we thus proclaim them, and make Thee the \nbestower of our light).\nYASNA 36 - TO AHURA AND THE FIRE.\n---------------------------------\n1.\tWe would approach You two, O (Ye) primeval ones in the house of this Thy holy Fire, O \nAhura Mazda, Thou most bounteous Spirit! Who brings pollutions to this (Thy flame) him \nwilt Thou cover with pollutions (in his turn). 2. But as the most friendly do Thou give us \nzeal, O Fire of the Lord! and approach us, and with the loving blessing of the most friendly, \nwith the praise of the most adored. Yea, may'st thou approach to aid us in this our greatest \n(undertaking) among the efforts of our zeal.\n3.\tThe Fire of Ahura Mazda art thou verily; yea, the most bounteous one of His Spirit, \nwherefore Thine is the most potent of all names (for grace), O Fire of the Lord! 4. And \ntherefore we would approach Thee, (O Ahura!) with the help of Thy Good Mind (which \nThou dost implant within us), with Thy (good) Righteousness, and with the actions and the \nwords inculcated by Thy good wisdom!\n5.\tWe therefore bow before Thee, and we direct our prayers to Thee with confessions of our \nguilt, O Ahura Mazda! with all the good thoughts (which Thou dost inspire), with all the \nwords well said, and the deeds well done, with these would we approach Thee. 6. And to Thy \nmost beauteous body do we make our deep acknowledgments, O Ahura Mazda! to those stars \n(which are Thy body); and to that one, the highest of the high, [such as the sun was called]!\nYASNA 37 - TO AHURA, THE HOLY CREATION, THE FRAVASHIS OF THE JUST, AND THE BOUNTIFUL IMMORTALS.\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n1.\tThus therefore do we worship Ahura Mazda, who made the Kine (the living creation), and the \n(embodied) Righteousness (which is incarnate in the clean), and the waters, and the \nwholesome plants, the stars, and the earth, and all (existing) objects that are good. 2. Yea, we \nworship Him for His Sovereign Power and His greatness, beneficent (as they are), and with \npriority among the Yazads who abide beside the Kine (and care for her protection and \nsupport).\n3.\tAnd we worship Him under His name as Lord, to Mazda dear, the most beneficent (of names). \nWe worship him with our bones, and with our flesh, (with our bodies and our life). And we \nworship the Fravashis of the saints, of holy men, and holy women; (4) and Righteousness the \nBest do we worship, the most beauteous, the Bountiful Immortal and that which is endowed \nwith light in all things good.\n5.\tAnd we worship the Good Mind (of the Lord), and His Sovereign Power, and the Good Faith, \nthe good law of our thrift, and Piety the ready mind (within Thy folk)!\nYASNA 38 - TO THE EARTH AND THE SACRED WATERS.\n----------------------------------------------\n1.\tAnd now we worship this earth which bears us, together with Thy wives, O Ahura Mazda! \nyea, those Thy wives do we worship which are so desired from their sanctity. 2. We sacrifice \nto their zealous wishes, and their capabilities, their inquiries (as to duty), and their wise acts of \npious reverence, and with these their blessedness, their full vigor and good portions, their \ngood fame and ample wealth. 3. O ye waters! now we worship you, you that are showered \ndown, and you that stand in pools and vats, and you that bear forth. (our loaded vessels?) ye \nfemale Ahuras of Ahura, you that serve us (all) in helpful ways, well forded and full-flowing, \nand effective for the bathings, we will seek you and for both the worlds! 4. Therefore did \nAhura Mazda give you names, O ye beneficent ones! when He who made the good bestowed \nyou. And by these names we worship you, and by them we would ingratiate ourselves with \nyou, and with them would we bow before you, and direct our prayers to you with free \nconfessions of our debt. O waters, ye who are productive, and ye maternal ones, ye with heat \nthat suckles the (frail and) needy (before birth), ye waters (that have once been) rulers of (us) \nall, we will now address you as the best, and the most beautiful; those (are) yours, those good \n(objects) of our offerings, ye long of arm to reach our sickness, or misfortune, ye mothers of \nour life!\nYASNA 39 - TO THE SOUL OF THE KINE, &C.\n---------------------------------------\n1.\tAnd now we sacrifice to the Kine's soul, and to her created body, and we sacrifice to the souls \nof cattle who are fit to live (for us), and whose (we?) are, such as are the same to them.\n2.\tAnd we worship the souls of those beasts which are tame and broken in, and of wild herds, and \nthe souls of the saints wherever they were born, both of men and of women, whose good \nconsciences are conquering in the strife against the Daevas, or will conquer, or have \nconquered.\n3.\tAnd now we worship the Bountiful Immortals (all) the good, and both those male, and those \nfemale (by their names). The males among them do we worship, ever living, and ever helpful, \nwho dwell beside the pious, and the females thus the same. 4. As Thou, O Ahura Mazda! hast \nthought and spoken, as thou hast determined, and hast done these things (effecting) what is \ngood, therefore do we offer to Thee, therefore do we ascribe to Thee our praises, and worship \nThee, and bow ourselves before Thee; and therefore would we direct our prayers to Thee, \nAhura! with confessions of our sin.\n5.\tAnd we thus draw near to Thee together with the good kinship of our kindred, with that of \nRighteousness the blessed, and the good law of thrift and energy and the good Piety, the ready \nmind (within Thy folk)!\nYASNA 40 - PRAYERS FOR HELPERS.\n-------------------------------\n1.\tAnd now in these Thy dispensations, O Ahura Mazda! do Thou wisely act for us, and with \nabundance with Thy bounty and Thy tenderness as touching us; and grant that reward which \nThou hast appointed to our souls, O Ahura Mazda! 2. Of this do Thou Thyself bestow upon \nus for this world and the spiritual; and now as part thereof (do Thou grant) that we may \nattain to fellowship with Thee, and Thy Righteousness for all duration.\n3.\tAnd do Thou grant us, O Ahura! men who are righteous, and both lovers and producers of the \nRight as well. And give us trained beasts for the pastures, broken in for riding, and for bearing, \n(that they may be) in helpful companionship with us, and as a source of long enduring vigor, \nand a means of rejoicing grace to us for this.\n4.\tSo let there be a kinsman lord for us, with the laborers of the village, and so likewise let there \nbe the clients (or the peers). And by the help of those may we arise.\nSo may we be to You, O Mazda Ahura! holy and true, and with free giving of our gifts.\nYASNA 41 - A PRAYER TO AHURA AS THE KING, THE LIFE, AND THE REWARDER.\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n1.\tPraises, and songs, and adorations do we offer to Ahura Mazda, and to Righteousness the \nBest; yea, we offer and we ascribe them, and proclaim them. 2. And to Thy good Kingdom, O \nAhura Mazda! may we attain for ever, and a good King be Thou over us; and let each man of \nus, and so each woman, thus abide, O Thou most beneficent of beings, and for both the \nworlds! 3. Thus do we render Thee. the helpful Yazad, endowed with good devices, the friend \nof them (who worship Thee) with (well-adjusted) ritual; so may'st Thou be to us our life, and \nour body's vigor, O Thou most beneficent of beings, and that for both the worlds!\n4.\tAye, let us win and conquer (?) long life, O Ahura Mazda! in Thy grace, and through Thy will \nmay we be powerful. May'st Thou lay hold on us to help, and long, and with salvation, O \nThou most beneficent of beings!\n5.\tThy praisers and Mathra-speakers may we be called, O Ahura Mazda! so do we wish, and to \nthis may we attain. What reward most meet for our deserving Thou hast appointed for the \nsouls, O Ahura Mazda! (6) of that do Thou bestow on us for this life, and for that of mind. Of \nthat reward (do Thou Thyself grant this advantage), that we may come under Thy protecting \nguardianship, and that of Righteousness for ever. We sacrifice to that brave Yasna, the Yasna \nHaptanghaiti, the holy, the ritual chief!\nYASNA 42 - A SUPPLEMENT TO THE HAPTANGHAITI.\n--------------------------------------------\n1.\tWe worship You, O Ye Bountiful Immortals! the entire collection of this Yasna, \nHaptanghaiti (as we sum up all). And we sacrifice to the fountains of the waters, and to the \nfordings of the rivers, to the forkings of the highways, and to the meetings of the roads.\n2.\tAnd we sacrifice to the hills that run with torrents, and the lakes that brim with waters! and \nto the corn that fills the corn-fields; and we sacrifice to both the protector and the Creator, \nto both Zarathushtra and the Lord.\n3.\tAnd we sacrifice to both earth and heaven, and to the stormy wind that Mazda made, and to \nthe peak of high Haraiti, and to the land, and all things good.\n4.\tAnd we worship the Good Mind (in the living) and the spirits of the saints. And we sacrifice \nto the fish of fifty-fins, and to that sacred beast the Unicorn (?) which stands in Vouru-kasha, \nand we sacrifice to that sea of Vouru-kasha where he stands, (5) and to the Haoma, golden-\nflowered, growing on the heights; yea, to the Haoma that restores us, and aids this world's \nadvance. We sacrifice to Haoma that driveth death afar, (6) and to the flood-streams of the \nwaters, and to the great flights of the birds, and to the approaches of the Fire-priests, as they \napproach us from afar, and seek to gain the provinces, and spread the ritual lore. And we \nsacrifice to the Bountiful Immortals all!\nUshtavaiti Gatha\n================\n[Translation by Bartholomae, from I.J.S. Taraporewala, The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra.]\nYASNA 43.\n---------\n1.\tTo each several man, to whom Mazda Ahura ruling at his will grant after the (petitioner's) \nwill, I will after his will that he attain permanence and power, lay hold of Right - grant this, O \nPiety, - the destined gift of wealth, the life of the Good Thought,\n2.\tand it shall be for him the best of all things. After his longing for bliss may one be given bliss, \nthrough the provident most holy spirit, O Mazda, even the blessings of Good Thought which \nthou wilt give through Right all the days with joy of enduring life.\n3.\tMay he attain to that which is better than the good, who would teach us the straight paths of \nblessedness in this life here of the body and in that of thought - true paths that lead to the \nworld where Ahura Mazda dwells - a faithful man, well-knowing and holy like thee, O Mazda.\n4.\tThen shall I recognize thee as strong and holy, O Mazda, when by the hand in which thou \nthyself dost hold the destinies that thou wilt assign to the Liar and the Righteous, by the glow \nof thy Fire whose power is Right, the might of Good Thought shall come to me.\n5.\tAs the holy one I recognize thee, Mazda Ahura, when I saw thee in the beginning at the birth \nof Life, when thou madest actions and words to have their meed - evil for the evil, a good \ndestiny for the good - through thy wisdom when creation shall reach its goal.\n6.\tAt which goal thou wilt come with thy holy Spirit, O Mazda, with Dominion, at the same \nwith Good Thought, by whose action the settlements will prosper through Right. Their \njudgments shall Piety proclaim, even those of thy wisdom which none can deceive.\n7.\tAs the holy one I recognized thee, Mazda Ahura, when Good Thought came to me and asked \nme: \"Who art thou? to whom dost thou belong? By what signs wilt thou appoint the days for \nquestioning about thy possessions and thyself?\"\n8.\tThen I said to him: \"To the first (question), Zarathushtra am I, a true foe to the Liar, to the \nutmost of my power, but a powerful support would I be to the Righteous, that I may attain \nthe future things of the infinite Dominion, according as I praise and sing thee, O Mazda.\n9.\tAs the holy one I recognize thee, Mazda Ahura, when Good Thought came to me. To his \nquestion, \"For which wilt thou decide\" (I made reply). \"At the gift of adoration to thy Fire, I \nwill bethink me of Right so long as I have power.\n10.\tThen show me Right, upon whom I call.\n(Mazda:) \"Associating him with Piety, I have come hither. Ask us now what things are here \nfor thee to ask. For thy asking is as that of a mighty one, since he that is able should make \nthee as a mighty one possessed of thy desire.\"\n11.\tAs the holy one I recognized thee, Mazda Ahura, when Good Thought came to me, when first \nby your words I was instructed. Shall it bring me sorrow among men, my devotion, in doing \nthat which ye tell me is the best.\n12.\tAnd when thou saidest to me, 'To Right shalt thou go for teaching', then thou didst not \ncommand what I did not obey: 'Speed thee, ere my Obedience come, followed by treasure-\nladen Destiny, who shall render to men severally the destiny of the two-fold award.'\n13.\tAs the holy one I recognized thee, Mazda Ahura, when Good Thought came to me to learn \nthe state of my desire. Grant it me, that which none may compel you to allow, (the wish) for \nlong continuance of blessed existence that they say is in thy Dominion.\n14.\tIf thy provident side, such as an understanding man who has the power would give to his \nfriends, comes to me by the Dominion through Right, then I will bestir myself to set myself \nin opposition against the foes of thy Law, together with all those who are mindful of thy \nwords.\n15.\tAs the holy one I recognized thee, Mazda Ahura, when Good Thought came to me, when the \nbest Tushna-Matay taught me to declare: \"Let not men seek again and again to please the \nLiars, for they make all the righteous enemies.\"\n16.\tAnd Zarathushtra himself, O Ahura, chooses each one of thy holiest Spirit, O Mazda. May \nRight be embodied full of life and strength! May Piety abide in the Dominion bright as the \nsun! May Good Thought give destiny to men according to their works!\nYASNA 44.\n---------\n1.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura - as to prayer, how it should be to one of you. O Mazda \nAhura, might one like thee teach to a friend such as I am, and through friendly Right give us \nsupport, that Good Thought may come to us.\n2.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura - whether at the beginning of the Best Existence the \nrecompenses shall bring blessedness to him that meets with them. Surely he, O Right, the \nholy one, who watches in his spirit the transgression of all, if himself the benefactor of all \nthat lives, O Mazda.\n3.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura. Who is by generation the Father of Right, at the first? \nWho determined the path of sun and stars? Who is it by whom the moon waxes and wanes \nagain? This, O Mazda, and yet more, I am fain to know.\n4.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura. Who upholds the earth beneath and the firmament \nfrom falling? Who the waters and the plants? Who yoked swiftness to winds and clouds? Who \nis, O Mazda, creator of Good Thought?\n5.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura. What artist made light and darkness? What artist made \nsleep and waking? Who made morning, noon, and night, that call the understanding man to \nhis duty?\n6.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura - whether what I proclaim is verily the truth. Will Right \nwith its actions give aid (at the last)? will Piety? Will Good Thought announce from the \nDominion? For whom hast thou made the pregnant cow that brings good luck?\n7.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura. Who created together with Dominion the precious \nPiety? Who made by wisdom the son obedient to his father? I strive to recognize by these \nthings thee, O Mazda, creator of all things through the holy spirit.\n8.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura. I could keep in mind thy design, O Mazda, and \nunderstand aright the maxims of life which I ask of Good Thought and Right. How will my \nsoul partake of the good that gives increase?\n9.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura - whether for the Self that I would bring to perfection, \nthat of the man of insight, the Lord of Dominion would make promises of the sure \nDominion, one of thy likenesses, O Mazda, who dwells in one abode with (Right) and Good \nThought.\n10.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura. The Religion which is best for (all) that are, which in \nunion with Right should prosper all that is mine, will they duly observe it, the religion of my \ncreed, with words and action of Piety, in desire for thy (future) good things, O Mazda?\n11.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura - whether Piety will extend to those to whom thy \nReligion shall be proclaimed? I was ordained at the first for this by thee; all others I look \nupon with hatred of spirit.\n12.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura. Who among those with whom I would speak is a \nrighteous man, and who a liar? On which side is the enemy? (On this), or is he the enemy, the \nLiar who opposes thy blessings? How shall it be with him? Is he not to be thought of as an \nenemy?\n13.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura - whether we shall drive the Lie away from us to those \nwho being full of disobedience will not strive after fellowship with Right, nor trouble \nthemselves with counsel of Good Thought.\n14.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura - whether I would put the Lie into the hands of Right, \nto cast her down by the words of thy lore, to work a mighty destruction among the Liars, to \nbring torments upon them and enmities, O Mazda.\n15.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura - if thou hast power over this to ward off from me \nthrough Right, when the two opposing hosts meet in battle according to those decrees which \nthou wilt firmly establish. Whether is it of the twain that thou wilt give victory.\n16.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura. Who is victorious to protect by thy doctrine (all) that \nare? By vision assure me how to set up the judge that heals the world. Then let him have \nObedience coming with Good Thought unto every man whom thou desirest, O Mazda.\n17.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura - whether through you I shall attain my goal, O Mazda, \neven attachment unto you, and that my voice may be effectual, that Welfare and \nImmortality may be ready to unite according to that promise with him who joins himself \nwith Right.\n18.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura - whether I shall indeed, O Right, earn the reward, even \nten mares with a stallion and a camel, which was promised to me, O Mazda, as well as through \nthee, the future gift of Welfare and Immortality.\n19.\tThis I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura. He that will not give the reward to him that earns it, \neven to the man who fulfilling his word gives him (what he undertook) - what penalty shall \ncome to him for the same at the present? I know that which shall come to him at the last.\n20.\tHave the Daevas ever exercised good dominion? And I ask of those who see how for the \nDaevas' sake the Karapan and the Usij give cattle to violence, and how the Kavi made them \ncontinually to mourn, instead of taking care that they make the pastures prosper through \nRight.\nYASNA 45.\n---------\n1.\tI will speak forth: hear now and hearken now, ye from near and ye from far that desire \n(instruction). Now observe this in your mind, all of you, for he is revealed. Never shall the \nfalse Teacher destroy the Second Life, the Liar, in perversion by his tongue into evil belief.\n2.\tI will speak of the Spirits twain at the first beginning of the world, of whom the holier spoke \nthus to the enemy: \"Neither thought, nor teachings, nor wills, nor beliefs, nor words, nor \ndeeds, nor selfs, nor souls of us twain agree\".\n3.\tI will speak of that which Mazda Ahura, the all-knowing, revealed to me first in this (earthly) \nlife. Those of you that put not in practice this word as I think and utter it, to them shall be \nwoe at the end of life.\n4.\tI will speak of what is best for the life. Through Asha I have come to know, O Mazda, who \ncreated it (the life), the father of active Good Thought: but his daughter is the good-working \nArmaiti. The all-observant Ahura is not to be deceived.\n5.\tI will speak of that which (he), the Holiest declared to me as the word that is best for mortals \nto obey; while he said: \"they who for my sake render him obedience, shall all attain unto \nWelfare and Immortality by the actions of the Good Spirit\" - (he) Mazda Ahura.\n6.\tI will speak of him who is the greatest of all, praising him, O Right, who is bounteous to all \nthat live. By the holy spirit let Mazda Ahura hearken, in whose Adoration I have been \ninstructed by Good Thought. By his wisdom let him teach me what is best,\n7.\tEven he whose two awards, whereof he ordains, men shall attain, who so are living or have \nbeen or shall be. In immortality shall the soul of the righteous be joyful, in perpetuity shall be \nthe torment of Liars. All this doth Mazda Ahura appoint by his Dominion.\n8.\tHim thou shouldst seek to win for us by hymns of adoration (in thy mind): \"Now indeed have \nI seen it with mine eye, (the Kingdom) of the good spirit and of (good) action and word, since \nI have learnt to know Mazda Ahura through Right\". Let us offer him homage in the House of \nSong.\n9.\tHim thou shouldst seek to propitiate for us together with Good Thought, who at his will \nmaketh us weal or woe. May Mazda Ahura by his Dominion bring us to work, for prospering \nour beasts and our men, so that we may through Right have familiarity with Good Thought.\n10.\tHim thou shouldst seek to exalt with prayers of piety, him that is called Mazda Ahura for \never, for that he hath promised through his own Right and Good Thought that Welfare and \nImmortality shall be for us in his Dominion strength and perpetuity in his house.\n11.\tWhoso therefore in the future lightly esteemeth the Daeva and those mortals that lightly \nesteem him - even all others save that one who highly esteemeth him, - unto his shall the \nholy Daena of the future deliverer, as lord of the house, be friend, brother or father, O Mazda \nAhura.\nYASNA 46.\n---------\n1.\tTo what land shall I go to flee, whither to flee? From nobles and from my peers they sever \nme, nor are the people pleased with me [......], nor the Liar rulers of the land. How am I to \nplease thee, Mazda Ahura?\n2.\tI know wherefore, O Mazda, I have been unable (to achieve) anything. Only a few herds are \nmine (and therefore it is so) and because I have got but few people. I cry unto thee, see thou \nto it, O Ahura, granting me support a friend gives to friend. Teach me through the Right \nwhat the acquisition of Good Thought is.\n3.\tWhen, Mazda, shall the sunrisings come forth for the worlds winning of Right, through the \npowerful teachings of the wisdom of the future Deliverers? Who are they to whose help Good \nThought shall come? I have faith that thou wilt thyself fulfill this for me, O Ahura.\n4.\tThe Liar stays the supporter of Right from prospering the cattle in district and province, \ninfamous that he is, repellent in his actions. Whoso, Mazda, robs him of dominion or of life, \nhe shall go before and prepare the ways of the good belief.\n5.\tIf an understanding man should be able to hold one who comes over from his vow and his ties \nof faith, himself having brought him thereto, and living according to the ordinance, a \nrighteous man (converting) a Liar - then shall he, when he is sure of him, tell it to the nobles, \nthat they may protect him from injury, O Mazda Ahura.\n6.\tBut whoso when thus approached should refuse his aid, he shall go to the abodes of the \ncompany of the Liar. For he is himself a Liar, who is very good to a Liar, he is a righteous \nman to whom a righteous man is dear, since thou hast created men's Selves in the beginning, \nO Ahura.\n7.\tWhom, O Mazda, can one appoint as protector for one like me, when the Liar sets himself \nto injure me, other than Thy Fire and Thy Thought, through actions of which twain the \nRight will come to maturity, O Ahura? In this lore do thou instruct my very self.\n8.\tWhoso is minded to injure my possessions, from his actions may no harm come to me! Back \nupon himself may they come with hostility, against his own person, all the hostile (acts), to \nkeep him far from the Good Life, Mazda, not from the ill!\n9.\tWho is it, the faithful man he, who first taught that we honor thee as mightiest to help, as \nthe holy righteous Lord over action? What thy Right made known, what the Ox-Creator \nmade known to Right, they would fain hear through thy Good Mind.\n10.\tWhoso, man or woman, doeth what thou, Mazda Ahura, knowest as best in life, as destiny for \nwhat is Right (give him) the Dominion through Good Thought. And those whom I impel to \nyour adoration, with all these will I cross the Bridge of the Separator.\n11.\tBy their dominion the Karapans and the Kavis accustomed mankind to evil actions, so as to \ndestroy Life. Their own soul and their own self shall torment them when they come where \nthe Bridge of the Separator is, to all time dwellers in the House of the Lie.\n12.\tWhen among the laudable descendants and posterity of the Turanian Fryana the Right \nariseth, through activity of Piety that blesseth substance; then shall Good Thought admit \nthem, and Mazda Ahura give them protection at the Fulfillment.\n13.\tWhoso among mortals has pleased Spitama Zarathushtra by his willingness, a man deserving \nof good fame, to him shall Mazda Ahura give Life, to him shall Good Thought increase \nsubstance, him we account to be a familiar friend with your Right.\n14.\tO Zarathushtra, what righteous man is thy friend for the great covenant? Who wills to have \ngood fame? It is the Kava Vishtaspa at the consummation. Those whom thou wilt unite in \none house with thee, these will I call with words of Good Thought.\n15.\tYe Haechataspa Spitamas, I will declare unto ye so that ye can discern the wise and the \nunwise. ... Through these actions ye shall acquire Right according to the primeval laws of \nAhura.\n16.\tFrashaoshtra Hvogva, go thou thither with those faithful whom we both desire to be in \nblessedness, where with Right is united Piety, where the Dominion is in possession of Good \nThought, where Mazda Ahura dwells to give it increase.\n17.\tWhen, O Jamaspa Hvogva, when I recount your wrongs not your successes, (and) with your \nobedience the prayers of your loyalty, (before him) who shall separate the wise and the \nunwise through his prudent counselor the Right, even he, Mazda Ahura.\n18.\tHe that holds unto me, to him I promise what is best in my possession through the Good \nThought, but enmities to him that shall set himself to devise enmity to us, O Mazda and the \nRight, desiring to satisfy your will. That is the decision of my understanding and thought.\n19.\tHe who accomplisheth for me, even Zarathushtra, in accordance with Right that which best \nagrees with my will, to him as earning the reward of the Other Life shall be that of two \npregnant cows, with all things whereon his mind is set. These things will thou bring to pass \nfor me who best knowest how, O Mazda.\nSpentamainyush Gatha\n====================\n[Translation by Bartholomae, from I.J.S. Taraporewala, The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra.]\nYASNA 47.\n---------\n1.\tFor his holy Spirit and for Best Thought, deed, and word, in accordance with Right Mazda \nAhura with Dominion and Piety shall give us Welfare and Immortality.\n2.\tThe best (work) of this most holy Spirit he fulfills with the tongue through words of Good \nThought, with work of his hands through the action of Piety, by virtue of this knowledge: he, \neven Mazda, is the Father of Right.\n3.\tThou art the holy Father of this Spirit, which has created for us the luck-bringing cattle, and \nfor its pasture to give it peace (has created) Piety, when he had taken counsel, O Mazda, with \nGood Thought.\n4.\tFrom this Spirit have Liars fallen away, O Mazda, but not the Righteous. Whether one is lord \nof little or of much, he is to show love to the righteous, but be ill unto the Liar.\n5.\tAnd all the best things which by this Holy Spirit thou hast promised to the righteous, O \nMazda Ahura, shall the Liar partake of them without thy will, who by his actions is on the \nside of Ill Thought?\n6.\tThrough this holy Spirit, Mazda Ahura, and through the Fire thou wilt give the division of \ngood to the two parties, with support of Piety and Right. This verily will convert many who \nare ready to hear.\nYASNA 48.\n---------\n1.\tWhen at the Recompensings the Right shall smite the Liar, so that what was long since made \nknown shall be assigned to eternity to Daevas and men, then will it exalt with thy blessings, \nAhura, him who prays to thee.\n2.\tTell me, for thou art he that knows, O Ahura: - shall the Righteous smite the Liar before the \nretributions come which thou hast conceived? That were indeed a message to bless the world.\n3.\tFor him that knows, that is the best of teachings which the beneficent Ahura teaches through \nthe Right, he the holy one, even thyself, O Mazda, that knows the secret lore through the \nwisdom of Good Thought.\n4.\tWhoso, O Mazda, makes his thought (now) better, (now) worse, and likewise his Self by \naction and by word, and follows his own inclinations, wishes, and choices, he shall in thy \npurpose be in a separate place at last.\n5.\tLet good rulers rule us, not evil rulers with the actions of the Good Lore, O Piety! Perfect \nthou for man, O thou most good, the future birth, and for the cow skilled husbandry. Let her \ngrow fat for our nourishing.\n6.\tShe (Armaiti) will give us peaceful dwelling, she will give lasting life and strength, she the \nbeloved of Good Thought. For it (the cattle) Mazda Ahura made the plants to grow at the \nbirth of the First Life, through Right.\n7.\tViolence must be put down! against cruelty make a stand, ye who would make sure of the \nreward of Good Thought through Right, to whose company the holy man belongs. His \ndwelling place shall be in thy House, O Ahura.\n8.\tIs the possession of thy good Dominion, Mazda, is that of thy Destiny assured to me Ahura? \nWill thy manifestation, O thou Right, be welcome to the pious, even the weighing of actions \nby the Good Spirit?\n9.\tWhen shall I know whether ye have power, O Mazda and Right, over everyone whose \ndestructiveness is a menace to me? Let the revelation of Good Thought be confirmed unto \nme; the future deliverer should know how his own destiny shall be.\n10.\tWhen, O Mazda, will the nobles understand the message? When will thou smite the filthiness \nof this intoxicant, through which the Karapans evilly deceive, and the wicked lords of the \nlands with purpose fell?\n11.\tWhen, O Mazda, shall Piety come with Right, with Dominion the happy dwelling rich with \npasture? Who are they that will make peace with the bloodthirsty Liars? To whom will the \nLore of Good Thought come?\n12.\tThese shall be the deliverers of the provinces, who exert themselves, O Good Thought in \ntheir action, O Asha, to fulfill their duty, face to face with thy command, O Mazda. For these \nare the appointed smiters of Violence.\nYASNA 49.\n---------\n1.\tEver has Bendva been for me the greatest obstacle, I who desire to give satisfaction to those \nwho are neglected, O Right, O Mazda. With good Ada come to me, support me firmly. \nPrepare for him (his) ruin, O Good Thought.\n2.\tThe perverter of this Bendva has long time impeded me, the Liar who has fallen away from \nRight. He cares not that holy Piety should be his, nor takes the counsel with Good Thought, \nO Mazda.\n3.\tAnd in this belief (of ours), O Mazda, Right is laid down, for blessing, in the heresy the Lie, \nfor ruin. Therefore I strive for the fellowship of Good Thought, I forbid all intercourse with \nthe Liar.\n4.\tThey who make the increase of violence and cruelty with their tongues, the foes of cattle-\nnurture among its friends; whose ill deeds prevail, not their good deeds: these (shall be) in the \nhouse of the Daevas, (the place for) the Self of the Liar.\n5.\tBut he, O Mazda, - happiness and satiety be his who links his own Self with Good Thought, \nbeing through Right an intimate of Piety. And with all these (may I be) in Thy Dominion, \nAhura.\n6.\tI beseech you twain, O Mazda and the Right, to say what are the plans of your will, that we \nmay discern how we might teach the Religion of such as you, O Ahura.\n7.\tAnd this let Good Thought hear, O Mazda, let the Right hear, do thou also listen, O Ahura, \nwhich men of the brotherhood, what noble is it according to the Law who brings to the \ncommunity fame.\n8.\tOn Frashaoshtra do thou bestow the most gladsome fellowship with the Right - this I ask \nthee, O Mazda Ahura - and on myself the hold on what is good in thy Dominion. To all \neternity we would be thy messengers.\n9.\tLet the helper hear the ordinance, he that is created to bring deliverance. The man of right \nwords is no regarder of fellowship with the Liar, if they that are partakers of Right are to \nmake their Selves partake in the best reward at the Judgment, O Jamaspa.\n10.\tAnd this, O Mazda, will I put in thy care within thy House - the Good Thought and the souls \nof the Righteous, their worship, their Piety and zeal, that thou mayst guard it, O thou mighty \nDominion, with abiding power.\n11.\tBut these that are of an evil dominion, of evil deeds, evil words, evil Self, and evil thought, \nLiars, the Souls go to meet them with evil food; in the House of the Lie they shall be meet \ninhabitants.\n12.\tWhat help hast thou, O Right, for Zarathushtra that calls upon me? What hast thou, Good \nThought? -- for me who with praises seeks your favor, O Mazda Ahura, longing for that \nwhich is best in your possession.\nYASNA 50.\n---------\n1.\t(Zarathushtra:) Can my soul count on any one for help? Who is there found for my herd, \nwho for myself a protector, indeed, at my call other than the Right and thyself. O Mazda \nAhura, and the Best Thought?\n2.\tHow, O Mazda, should one desire the luck-bringing cattle, one who would fain it would come \nto him with the pasture?\n(Mazda:) They that live uprightly according to the Right among the many that look upon \nthe sun, those whom they stand in judgment, I will settle in the dwellings of the wise.\n3.\t(Zarathushtra:) So this (reward) shall come to him through the Right, O Mazda, (this reward) \nwhich by the Dominion and Good Thought he promised, whomsoever by the power of his \nDestiny prospers the neighboring possession that now the Liar holds.\n4.\tI will worship you with praise, O Mazda Ahura, joined with Right and Best Thought and \nDominion, that they, desired of pious men, may stand as Judges on the path of the obedient \nunto the House of Song.\n5.\tAssured by you, O Mazda Ahura and Right, are the pointings of the hand - since you are well-\ndisposed to your prophet - which shall bring us to bliss, together with visible manifest help.\n6.\tThe prophet Zarathushtra, O Mazda, who lifts up his voice in worship, as friend of Asha - \nmay the Creator of Wisdom teach me his ordinances through Good Thought, that my tongue \nmay have a pathway.\n7.\tFor you I will harness the swiftest steeds, stout and strong, by the promptings of your praise, \nthat ye may come hither, O Mazda, Right, and Good thought.\n8.\tEver with verses that are recognized as those of pious zeal I will come before you with \noutstretched hands, O Mazda, before you, O thou Right, with worship of the faithful man, \nbefore you with all the capacity of Good Thought.\n9.\tWith those prayers I would come and praise you, O Mazda and thou Right, with actions of \nGood Thought. If I be master of my own destiny as I will, then will I take thought for the \nportion of the wise in the same.\n10.\tThose actions that I shall achieve and those done aforetime, and those, O Good Thought, \nthat are precious in thy sight, the rays of the sun, the shimmering uprisings of the days, all is \nfor your praise, O thou Right and Mazda Ahura.\n11.\tYour praiser, Mazda, will I declare myself and be, so long, O Right, as I have strength and \npower. May the Creator of the world accomplish through Good Thought its fulfillment of all \nthat most perfectly answers to his will.\nVohukhshathra Gatha\n===================\nYASNA 51.\n---------\n[Translation by Bartholomae, from I.J.S. Taraporewala, The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra.]\n1.\tThe good, the precious Dominion, as a most surpassing portion, shall Right achieve for him \nthat with zeal accomplishes what is best through his actions, O Mazda. This will I now work \nout for us.\n2.\tBefore all, O Mazda Ahura, assure me the Dominion of your possession, O Right, and what is \nthine, O Piety. Your (Dominion) of blessing give through Good Thought to him that prays.\n3.\tLet your ears attend to those who in their deeds and utterances hold to your words, Ahura and \nRight, to those of Good Thought, for whom thou, Mazda, art the first teacher.\n4.\tWhere is the recompense for wrong to be found, where pardon for the same? Where shall \nthey attain the Right? Where is the holy Piety, where Best Thought? Thy Dominions, where \nare they, O Mazda?\n5.\tAll this (I) ask, whether the husbandman shall find cattle in accordance with Right, he that is \nperfect in action, a man of understanding, when he prays to him, who hath promised unto the \nWise the true Judge, in that he is Lord of the two destinies...\n6.\tEven he, Ahura Mazda, who through his Dominion appoints what is better than good to him \nthat is attached to his will, but what is worse than evil to him that obeys him not, at the last \nend of life.\n7.\tGive me, O thou that didst create the Ox and Waters and Plants, Welfare and Immortality, \nby the Highest Spirit, O Mazda, strength and continuance through Good Thought at the \n(Judge's) sentence.\n8.\tOf these two things will I speak, O Mazda, - for one may speak to the wise, - the ill that is \nthreatened to the Liar, and the happiness of him who clings to the Right. For he, the \nProphet, is glad of every one who says this to the wise.\n9.\tWhat recompense thou wilt give to the two parties by thy red Fire, by the molten metal, give \nus a sign of it in our souls - even the bringing of ruin to the Liar, of blessing to the Righteous.\n10.\tWhoso, other than this one, seeks to kill me, Mazda, he is a son of the Lie's creation, ill-\nwilled thus towards all that live. I call the Right to come to me with good destiny.\n11.\tWhat man is friend to Spitama Zarathushtra, O Mazda? Who will let himself be counseled by \nRight? With whom is holy Piety? Or who as an upright man is intent on the brotherhood of \nGood Thought?\n12.\tThe Kavi's wanton did not please Zarathushtra Spitama at the Winter Gate, in that he stayed \nhim from taking refuge with him, and when there came to him also (Zarathushtra's) two \nsteeds shivering with cold.\n13.\tThus the Self of the Liar destroys for himself the assurance of the right Way; whose soul \nshall tremble at the Revelation on the Bridge of the Separator, having turned aside with deeds \nand tongue from the Path of Right.\n14.\tThe Karapans will not obey the statutes and ordinances concerning husbandry. For the pain \nthey inflict upon the cattle, fulfill upon them through their actions and judgments that \njudgment which at the last shall bring them to the House of the Lie.\n15.\tWhen Zarathushtra hath promised to the men of his brotherhood, (which) in the House of \nSong Ahura Mazda hath first attained, for all this I have looked through your blessings, Good \nThought, and those of Right.\n16.\tKavi Vishtaspa hath the creed which the holy Mazda Ahura with Right hath devised, together \nwith the dominion of the Brotherhood, and the path of Good Thought. So be it accomplished \nafter our desire.\n17.\tThe fair form of one that is dear hath Frashaoshtra Hvogva promised unto me: may \nsovereign Mazda Ahura grant that she attain possession of the Right for her good Self.\n18.\tThis creed Jamaspa Hvogva chooses through Right, lordly in substance. This Dominion they \n(choose) who have part in Good Thought. This grant me, Ahura, that they may find in thee, \nMazda, their protection.\n19.\tThe man himself, O Maidyoi-Maungha Spitama, hath set this before him after conceiving it \nin his own self. He that would see life indeed, to him will he make known what in actions by \nMazda's ordinance is better during (this) existence.\n20.\tYour blessings shall ye give us, all that are one in will, with whom Right, Good Thought, \nPiety, and Mazda (are one) according to promise, giving your aid when worshipped with \nreverence.\n21.\tBy Piety the man becomes Holy. Such person advances Right through his thinking, his words, \nhis action, his Self. By Good Thought Mazda Ahura will give the Dominion. For this good \nDestiny I long.\n22.\tHe, I ween, that Mazda Ahura knoweth among all that have been and are, as one to whom in \naccordance with Right the best portion falls for his prayer, these will I reverence by their own \nnames and go before them with honor.\nYASNA 52 - A PRAYER FOR SANCTITY AND ITS BENEFITS.\n--------------------------------------------------\n[Translated by L. H. Mills (From Sacred Books of the East, American Edition, 1898.)]\n1.\tI pray with benedictions for a benefit, and for the good, even for the entire creation of the \nholy (and the clean); I beseech for them for the (generation which is) now alive, for that \nwhich is just coming into life, and for that which shall be hereafter. And (I pray for that) \nsanctity which leads to prosperity, and which has long afforded shelter, which goes on hand in \nhand with it, which joins it in its walk, and of itself becoming its close companion as it \ndelivers forth its precepts, (2) bearing every form of healing virtue which comes to us in \nwaters, appertains to cattle, or is found in plants, and overwhelming, all the harmful malice \nof the Daevas, (and their servants) who might harm this dwelling and its lord, (3) bringing \ngood gifts, and better blessings, given very early, and later (gifts), leading to successes, and for \na long time giving shelter. And so the greatest, and the best, and most beautiful benefits of \nsanctity fall likewise to our lot (4) for the sacrifice, homage, propitiation, and the praise of \nthe Bountiful Immortals, for the bringing prosperity to this abode, and for the prosperity of \nthe entire creation of the holy, and the clean, (and as for this, so) for the opposition of the \nentire evil creation. (And I pray for this) as I praise through Righteousness, I who am \nbeneficent, those who are (likewise of a better mind).\n5-8.\t(See Y8.5-8.)\nVahishtoishti Gatha\n===================\n[Translation by Bartholomae, from I.J.S. Taraporewala, The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra.]\nYASNA 53.\n---------\n1.\t(Zarathushtra) - The best possession known is of Zarathushtra Spitama, which is that Mazda \nAhura will give him through Right the glories of blessed life unto all time, and likewise to \nthem that practice and learn the words and actions of his Good Religion.\n2.\tThen let them seek the pleasure of Mazda with thoughts, words, and actions, unto him praise \ngladly, and seek his worship, even Kava Vishtaspa, and Zarathushtra's son, the Spitamid, with \nFrashaoshtra, making straight the paths for the Religion of the future Deliverer which Ahura \nordained.\n3.\tHim, O Pouruchista, thou scion of Haechataspa and Spitama, youngest of Zarathushtra's \ndaughters, hath (Zarathushtra) appointed as one to enjoin on them the fellowship with Good \nThought, Right, and Mazda. So take counsel with thine own understanding, with good insight \npractice the holiest works of Piety.\n4.\t(Jamaspa): Earnestly will I lead her to the Faith, that she may serve her father and her \nhusband, the farmers and the nobles, as a righteous woman (serving) the righteous. The \nglorious heritage of Good Thought ... shall Mazda Ahura give to her for all time.\n5.\t(Zarathushtra): Teachings address I to maidens marrying, and to you (bridegrooms) giving \ncounsel. Lay them to heart and learn to get them within your Selves in earnest attention to \nthe Life of Good Thought. Let each of you strive to excel the other in the Right, for it will \nbe a prize for that one.\n6.\tSo is it in fact, ye men and women! Whatever happiness ye look for in the follower of the \n(...) that will be snatched away from his person. To them the Liars, crying 'woe', shall be ill-\nfood, paradise shall be lost to them that despite righteousness. In such wise ye destroy for \nyourselves the Spiritual Life.\n7.\tAnd to you shall accrue the reward of the Brotherhood - in so far as the most faithful zeal is \nin your flesh and blood - there where the spirit of the Liar, cringing and cowering, shall fall \ndown into destruction. If you separate yourselves from the Brotherhood, then will 'woe!' be \nyour word at the end of things.\n8.\tSo they whose deeds are evil, let them be deceived, and let them all howl, abandoned to ruin. \nThrough good rulers let him bring death and bloodshed upon them and peace from these \n(their assaults) unto the happy villagers. Grief let him bring on those, he that is the greatest, \nwith the lord of death; and soon let it be.\n9.\tTo men of evil creed belongs the place of corruption. They that set themselves to contemn \nthe worthy, despising righteousness, forfeiting their own body. - Where is the Righteous Lord \nwho shall rob them of life and freedom? Thine Mazda is the Dominion, whereby thou canst \ngive to the right-living poor man the better portion.\nYASNA 54 - The Airyema-Ishyo.\n-----------------------------\n[Translated by L. H. Mills (From Sacred Books of the East,\nAmerican Edition, 1898.)]\n1.\tLet the Airyaman, the desired friend and peersman, draw near for grace to the men and to the \nwomen who are taught of Zarathushtra, for the joyful grace of the Good Mind, whereby the \nconscience may attain its wished-for recompense. I pray for the sacred reward of the ritual \norder which is (likewise so much) to be desired; and may Ahura Mazda grant it, (or cause it to \nincrease).\n--------------------\n2.\tWe sacrifice to the Airyema-ishyo, the powerful, the victoriously smiting, the opponent of \nassaulting malice, the greatest of the sentences of the holy ritual order. And we sacrifice to \nthe bounteous Gathas that rule supreme in the ritual, the holy (and august). And we sacrifice \nto the Praises of the Yasna which were the productions of the world of old.\nYASNA 55 - THE WORSHIP OF THE GATHAS AS CONCLUDED, THAT OF THE STAOTA YESNYA AS BEGINNING.\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n1.\tWe present hereby and we make known, as our offering to the bountiful Gathas which rule (as \nthe leading chants) within (the appointed times and seasons of) the Ritual, all our landed \nriches, and our persons, together with our very bones and tissues, our forms and forces, our \nconsciousness, our soul, and Fravashi.\n2.\tThat which Gathas (may) be to us, which are our guardians and defenders, and our spiritual \nfood, yea, which (may) be to our souls both food and clothing, such are these Gathas to us, \nguardians, and defenders, and (spiritual) food, even such they are, both food and clothing to \nthe soul.\nAnd (may) they be to us (for this our offering) abundant givers of rewards, and just and \nrighteous ones, for the world beyond the present, after the parting of our consciousness and \nbody. 3. And may these (Praises of the Offering) come forth, and appear for us with power \nand victorious assault, with health and healing, with progress, and with growth, with \npreparation and protection, with beneficence and sanctity, and abounding with gifts toward \nhim who can understand; yea, let them appear (with free liberality to the enlightened), let \nthem appear as Mazda, the most beneficent, has produced them, He the one who is victorious \nwhen He smites, and who helps the settlements advance, for the protection, and the guarding \nof the religious order of the settlements which are now being furthered, and of those which \nshall bring salvation to us, and for the protection of the entire creation of the holy (and the \nclean).\n--------------------\n4.\tAnd may'st thou, (O Asha! who abidest within the Gathas), give to every holy man who \ncomes with this prayer for a blessing, and endeavoring to help himself, according to his good \nthoughts, and words, and deeds.\n5.\tWe are therefore worshipping both the (divine) Righteousness and the Good Mind, and the \nbountiful Gathas, that rule as the leading chants within (the times and the seasons of) the \nholy ritual order.\n--------------------\n6.\tAnd we worship the Praises of the Yasna which were the production of the ancient world, \nthose which are (now) recollected and put in use, those which are now learned and taught, \nthose which are being held (in mind, and so) repeated, those remembered and recited, and \nthose worshipped, and thus the ones which further the world through grace in its advance.\nAnd we worship the part(s) of the Praises of the Yasna, and their recitation as it is heard, \neven their memorized recital, and their chanting, and their offering (as complete).\nYASNA 56 - INTRODUCTION TO THE SROSH YASHT.\n-------------------------------------------\n1.\tLet Sraosha (the listening Obedience) be present here for the worship of Ahura Mazda, the \nmost beneficent, and holy, of him) who is desired by us as at the first, so at the last; and so \nagain may attentive Obedience be present here for the worship of Ahura Mazda, the most \nbeneficent and the holy who (is so) desired by us.\n2.\t(Yea), let Sraosha (the attentive Obedience) be present here for the worship of the good \nwaters, and for the Fravashis of the saints which are so desired by us, [and for (their) souls], as \nat the first, so at the last.\nAnd thus again may Sraosha (the listening Obedience) be present here for the worship of the \ngood, waters, and for the Fravashis of the saints, which are so desired by us, [(and) for (their) \nsouls].\n3.\tLet Sraosha (the listening Obedience) be present here for the worship of the good waters; yea, \nlet the good Obedience be here for the worship of the good and bountiful Immortals who rule \naright, and dispose (of all) aright, the good, and for the worship of the good Sanctity, or \nBlessedness, who is closely knit with the Righteous Order, to perfect us, and to incite us. May \nSraosha (Obedience) be here present for the worship of the good waters, he the good and the \nholy, as at the first, so at the last.\n4.\tAnd so again may Sraosha, (Obedience) the good, be present here for the worship of the good \nwaters, and of the good and bountiful Immortals, and of Blessedness the good who is closely \nknit with the Righteous Order to perfect and to incite us. Yea, we worship Sraosha the blessed \nand the stately, who smites with victory, and who furthers the settlements in their advance, \nthe holy lord of the ritual order.\nYASNA 57 -- THE SROSH YASHT.\n----------------------------\n1.\tA blessing is Righteousness (called) the Best, &c.\nPropitiation be to Sraosha, Obedience the blessed, the mighty, the incarnate word of reason, \nwhose body is the Mathra, him of the daring spear, devoted to the Lord, for (his) sacrificial \nworship, homage, propitiation, and praise.\n [[1]]\n2.\tWe worship Sraosha, (Obedience, the blessed, the stately, him who smites with the blow of \nvictory, and who furthers the settlements, the holy, (ruling) as the ritual lord. Him do we \nworship, who in the creation of Mazda the first adored Ahura, with the Baresman spread, who \nworshipped the Bountiful Immortals (first), who worshipped both the protector and the \nCreator, who are (both) creating all things in the creation.\n3.\tFor his splendor and his glory, for his might, and the blow which smites with victory, I will \nworship him with the Yasna of the Yazads, with a Yasna loud intoned, him Obedience the \nblessed, with the consecrated waters, and the good Blessedness, the lofty, and Nairya-sangha, \nthe stately; and may he draw near to us to aid us, he who smites with victory, Obedience the \nblessed!\n4.\tWe worship Sraosha, Obedience the blessed, and that lofty Lord who is Ahura Mazda Himself, \nHim who has attained the most to this our ritual, Him who has approached the nearest to us \nin our celebrations. And we worship all the words of Zarathushtra, and all the deeds well done \n(for him), both those that have been done (in times gone by), and those which are yet to be \ndone (for him in times to come).\n [[2]]\n5.\tWe worship Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed and the stately, him who smites with the blow of \nvictory, who prospers the settlements, the holy ritual lord, (6) who first spread forth the \nBaresman, and the three bundles, and the five bundles, and the seven bundles, and the nine, till \nit was heaped for us knee-high, and to the middle of the thighs, for the Bountiful Immortals, \nfor their worship, and their homage, and their propitiation, and their praise.\nFor his splendor and his glory, for his might, and the blow which smites with victory, I will \nworship him with the Yasna of the Yazads, with a Yasna loud intoned, him Obedience the \nblessed, with the consecrated waters.\n [[3]]\n7.\tWe worship Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, the stately, who smites with the blow of \nvictory, who furthers the settlements, the holy ritual chief.\n8.\tWho first chanted the Gathas, the five Gathas of Zarathushtra, the Spitama, the holy (with \nthe fashion) of their metres, and after the well-constructed order of their words, together \nwith the Zand which they contain, and the questions which they utter, and the answers which \nthey give, for the Bountiful Immortals, for their sacrifice and homage, their propitiation, and \ntheir praise.\nFor his splendor and his glory, for his might....\n [[4]]\n9.\tWe worship Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed and the stately, who smites with the blow of \nvictory, and who furthers the settlements, the holy ritual chief, (10) who for the poor among \n(our) men and women built a mighty house, who after sunset, and with his leveled battle-ax, \nsmites Aeshema bloody wounds, and having struck the head, casts him lightly (?) (to the \nearth), as the stronger (smites) the weaker.\nFor his splendor and his glory, for his might....\n [[5]]\n11.\tWe worship Sraosha, Obedience the blessed and the stately, him who smites with the blow of \nvictory, who furthers the settlements, the holy ritual chief, as the energetic, and the swift, \nthe strong, the daring (and redoubted) hero, (12) who comes back from all his battles (and \ncomes from them) a conqueror, who amid the Bountiful ImmortaIs sits as companion at their \nmeeting.\nFor his splendor and his glory, for his might....\n [[6]]\n13.\tWe worship Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, who is the strongest and most persistent of the \nyouths, the most energetic, and the swiftest, who of all the youths strikes most with terror I \nfrom afar (?). [Be ye desirous, O ye Mazdayasnians! of the Yasna of Obedience the blessed.]\n14.\tFar from this house, this village, and this tribe, and from this country, the evil and destructive \nterrors (shall) depart. In the dwelling of that man in whose abode Obedience the blessed, who \nsmites victoriously, is satisfied and welcomed, there is that holy man who thus contents him \n(most) forward in the thinking better thoughts, in the speaking truthful ritual) words, and in \nthe doing holy deeds.\nFor his splendor and his glory, for his might....\n [[7]]\n15.\tWe worship Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed and the stately, who is the conqueror of the \nKayadha, and the Kaidhya, who was the smiter of the Lie-demon of the Daevas, the one \nveritably powerful, the destroyer of the world, who is the guardian and watchman over all the \nmigrations (?) of the tribes.\n16.\tWho sleeplessly and vigilant guards the creatures of Ahura, who sleeplessly and with vigilance \nsaves them, who with halberd raised on high guards all the corporeal world after setting of the \nsun, (17) who has never slept in quiet since the two Spirits made the worlds, [the bounteous \nand the evil one] who guards the homes of Asha, who battles all (?) the days long and the \nnights with all the Daevas [(Pazand) the Mazanian], (18) nor terror-stricken does he turn in \naffright before (their power); but before him all the Daevas turn in affright against their will, \nand rush to darkness in their fear.\nFor his splendor and his glory, for his might....\n [[8]]\n19.\tWe worship Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, whom Haoma worshipped on the highest height \nof high Haraiti, he Haoma, the reviver, and the healer, the beautiful, the kingly, of the golden \neye, (20) of the gracious words, of the warning and the guarding words, who intones our \nhymns on every side, who possesses understanding and of every brilliant form, which abounds \nin many an explanation and revelation of the word, who has the first place in the Mathra. \nFor his splendor and his glory, for his might....\n [[9]]\n21.\tWe worship Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, whose house stands with its thousand pillars, as \nvictorious, on the highest height of high Haraiti, self-lighted from within, star-studded from \nwithout, (22) to whom the Ahuna-vairya has come, the ax of victory, and the Haptanghaiti, \nand the Fshusho-mathra which smites with victory, and all the Yasna sections.\nFor his splendor and his glory, for his might....\n [[10]]\n23.\tWe worship Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, by whose might and victorious power, and wise \nconduct, and (full) knowledge, the Bountiful Immortals descend upon this earth of seven \nquarters.\n24.\tWho as teacher of the law will stride forth upon this earth with its dwellers in the body, and \nruling as he will.\nAnd in this Religion, Ahura Mazda has been confessed with faith, and the Good Mind likewise \nwith Him, and Righteousness the Best, and Khshathra-vairya, and Piety the Bounteous, and \nthe Universal Weal and Immortality; and the question to the Lord is asked, and Mazda's lore \n(is written).\n25.\tO Sraosha (Obedience), thou blessed one, and stately! protect us for the lives; yea, for both, \n(for that) of this world which is corporeal, and for the world of mind, against unhappy death, \nand the remorseless Wrath of rapine, against the hosts with ill-intent, who lift their bloody \nspears against us; yea, against their assaults whom the Wrath-demon will set on, and Vidhatu, \ndemon-made. 26. Therefore may'st thou, O Sraosha, the blessed and the stately! grant \nswiftness to our teams, soundness to our bodies, and abundant observation of our foes, and \ntheir smiting (as we mark them), and their sudden death.\nFor his splendor and his glory, for his might....\n [[11]]\n27.\tWe worship Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, whom four racers draw in harness, white and \nshining, beautiful, and powerful, quick to learn, and fleet, obeying before speech, heeding \norders from the mind, with their hoofs of horn gold-covered, (28) fleeter than (our) horses, \nswifter than the winds, more rapid than the rain(-drops as they fall); yea, fleeter than the \nclouds, or well-winged birds, or the we shot arrow as it flies, (29) which overtake these swift \nones all, as they fly after them pursuing, but which are never overtaken when they flee, \nwhich plunge away from both the weapons (hurled on this side and on that) and draw Sraosha \nwith them, the good Sraosha and the blessed; which from both the weapons (those on this side \nand on that) bear the good Obedience the blessed, plunging forward in their zeal, when he \ntakes his course from India on the East, and when he lights down in the West.\nFor his splendor and his glory, for his might....\n [[12]]\n30.\tWe worship Obedience the blessed and the stately, who though lofty and so high, yea, even to \nthe girdle, yet stoops to Mazda's creatures, (31) who thrice within the day, and three times of \na night, will drive on to that Karshvar Hvaniratha, called the luminous, as he holds in both \nthe hands and poizes his knife-like battle-ax, which flies as of itself, and to cleave the Daevas' \nskulls, (32) to hew down Angra Mainyu, the wicked, and to hew down Rapine of the bloody \nspear, to hew down the Daevas of Mazendran, and every Demon-god.\nFor his splendor and his glory, for his might....\n [[13]]\n33.\tWe worship Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed and the stately, him who smites with victory, \nboth here and not here, and on this entire earth. And we worship all the (gifts) of Sraosha \n(Obedience) the blessed, the mighty, and the strong, whose body is the Mathra. \nYea, we worship (all the martial gifts) of Sraosha (Obedience) the mighty, both armed with \nshielding armor, and a warrior strong of hand, skull-cleaver of the Daevas, conquering the \nendowments of the conqueror, the holy conqueror of the conqueror, and (his) victorious \npowers, and he Ascendancy which it bestows, and we worship this Ascendancy of Sraosha's \n(the same which conquers theirs); and that of Arshti do we praise as well. 34. And every \nhouse by Sraosha guarded do we worship, wherein the blessed friendly Sraosha is befriended \nand made welcome, where the holy man is far advanced (?) in holy thoughts, and righteous \nwords and deeds. \nFor his splendor and his glory, for his might, which smites with victory, I will worship him \nwith the Yasna of the Yazads, with a Yasna loud-intoned, him Obedience the blessed, with the \nconsecrated waters, and the good Blessedness, the lofty, and Nairya-sangha, the stately, and \nmay he come to us to aid us, he who smites with victory, Obedience the blessed!\nYASNA 58 -- THE FSHUSHO MATHRA.\n-------------------------------\n1.\t(Introduction.) (To the increase of our homage and praise of God) we offer this service \nwhich, as our defense, may shield us, which is worship with its beneficent results; and \nBlessedness is with it of a verity, and Piety as well. [ (Pazand) and of this worship the results \nhere mentioned are the well-thought thought, the word well spoken, and the deed well done]; \nand let this our worship shelter us from the Daeva and from the evil-minded man. 2. And to \nthis worship do we confide our settlements and persons for protection and care, for guarding, \nand for oversight; (3) and in this worship will we abide, O Ahura Mazda! and with joy. \nIn this worship do we exercise our choices; and to it will we approach, and to it will we \nbelong; yea, to revering worship will we confide our settlements and persons for protection, \nand for care, for guarding, and for oversight, to such worship as is the praise of such as You.\nMATHRA.\n4.\tThe owner of herds is the righteous (one), and he is victorious when he strikes, and thus he is \nthe best; [(Pazand) we therefore offer (this) service (for herd-owners)] for the herd-owner is \nthe father of the Kine by the help of him who follows the ritual order: and he is the father of \nthe holy man as well, and of the sanctified creation. He is in verity the bestower of blessings, \nand to him, O Ye Bountiful Immortals! we render, (and his do we make) Your greatness, Your \ngoodness, and Your (spiritual) beauty, and let this man, the cattle-owner, approach to guard \nover us; and may he be our watchman together with the Righteous Order, and with store for \nour nourishment and full generous liberality, together with sharing of the goods, with \ngentleness, and with Ahura Mazda's sacred Fire!\n5.\tO Ye Bountiful Immortals! as Ye have made us, so do Ye save us, holy men, and saintly \nwomen (as we are, and steadfast in the faith)l. Save us, O Ye Bountiful Immortals! Ye who \nrule aright, and who dispose (of all) aright, for none other do I know, save You; then with \nYour Righteousness do Ye save us.\n6.\tAnd we offer hereby our thoughts, and words, and actions, our herds, and men, to the \nBountiful Spirit. And may the creative stars of Ahura Mazda, the Creator, shine down on us, \nand round about us with full herds and healthy settlements, with healthy herds and healthy \nmen, and with all in vigor, and endowed with the blessing of the Lord. 7. Praise to Thee, O \nFire of Ahura Mazda I may'st thou come to (us in) the greatest one of the engrossing \ninterests for the help of the great (effort), for the joy-producing grace of the great (interest \nof our cause); grant us both Weal and Deathlessness!\n8.\tWe sacrifice to the entire collection of the Praises of the Yasna, with the careful structure of \ntheir language which has reached the most its object. And we offer (our homage) in our \ncelebrations to Thy body, O Ahura Mazda! the most beautiful of forms, these stars, and to \nthat one, the highest of the high [(Pazand) such as the sun was called]. Yea, we worship the \nPraises of the Yasna which were the production of the world of old.\nYASNA 59 - MUTUAL BLESSINGS.\n----------------------------\n1-17.\t(See Y17.1-17.)\n18-27.\t(See Y26.1-1O.)\n28.\tWe worship Verethraghna, the Ahura-made, the victorious blow; and we worship the \nSaoshyant, who smites with victory; and we sacrifice to this Baresman with its Zaothra and \nits girdle (which is its band) and which is spread with sanctity. And we sacrifice to (our) own \nsoul(s), and to (our) own Fravashi(s).\n29.\t(See Y17.19.)\n30.\t(The Ratu speaks): O thou good (servant of the Lord)! may that be thine which is better than \nthe good; may'st thou acquire that which is (thine) own in the Zaothra; may'st thou attain to \nthat reward which the Zaotar has been obtaining, who is far advanced in his good thoughts, \nand words, and deeds.\n31.\t(The Zaotar speaks): May that happen to you (likewise) which is better than the good, and \nmay that not happen which is worse than the evil, and may that likewise not be my lot. 32. \nAs (our) Ahu (is) excellent, so (is our) Ratu (one who rules) from his Righteousness, a creator \nof mental goodness, and of life's actions done for Mazda, and the Kingdom (is) to Ahura \nwhich to the poor will offer a nurturer. A blessing is Asha called the Best, &c. We sacrifice to \nthe Ahuna-vairya; we sacrifice to Asha Vahishta the most beautiful, the Bountiful Immortal. \nAnd we sacrifice to the Fshusho-mathra, the by-spoken. And we sacrifice to the entire \ncollection of the Praises of the Yasna; (yea), to the Yasna Praises which were instituted in \nthe world of yore.\nYASNA 60 - PRAYERS FOR THE DWELLING OF THE SACRIFICER.\n------------------------------------------------------\n1.\tThus that better than the good may he approach, who shows to us straight paths of profit \nappertaining to this bodily life and to the mental likewise, in the eternal (?) realms where \ndwells Ahura; yea, may he approach it, who is Thy worthy servant, and good citizen, O Great \ngiver Lord!\n2.\tMay these blessings approach this house, which are the wise perceptions of the saints, the \nsacred blessings bestowed through the ritual, their guileless characteristics, together with their \nrecognition of what is due; and may the Righteous Order appear for this village, and the \nDivine Sovereign Power, together with the benefit and glorious welfare (which ensues),\n3.\tAnd with these the long enduring prominence of this Religion of Ahura's, the Zarathushtrian \nFaith. And may the Kine be now with greatest speed within (the farm-yard of) this house, \nmost speedily may the rewarded sanctity and the strength of the holy man be here, most \nspeedily as well Ahura's lore. 4. And may the good and heroic and bountiful Fravashis of the \nsaints come here, and may they go hand in hand with us with the healing virtues of (their) \nblessed gifts as wide-spread as the earth, as far-spread as the rivers, as high-reaching as the \nsun, for the furtherance of the better men, for the hindrance of the hostile, and for the \nabundant growth of riches and of glory.\n5.\tMay Sraosha (Obedience) conquer disobedience within this house, and may peace triumph \nover discord here, and generous giving over avarice, reverence over contempt, speech with \ntruthful words over lying utterance. May the Righteous Order gain the victory over the \nDemon of the Lie.\n6.\tAs in this (house) the Bountiful Immortals seek for good Yasnas and good praises from the \nblessed Sraosha (who governs here), and as they seek for (one) good sacrifice and act of \nhomage (more especially their own) which is a good offering (to them) for (our) salvation, \nand a good offering in praise, together with a long continued offering of the entire self, (7) \nlet not then (their) brilliant glory ever desert this house, nor the bright abundance, nor an \nillustrious offspring legitimately born, nor that long continued companionship which is the \nfurtherance of that good blessedness which teaches concerning glory.\n8-10.\t(= Y8.5-7).\n11.\tIn order that our minds may be delighted, and our souls the best, let our bodies be glorified as \nwell, and let them; O Mazda! go likewise openly (unto Heaven) as the best world of the saints \nas devoted to Ahura, (12) and accompanied by Asha Vahishta (who is Righteousness the \nBest), and the most beautiful! And may we see Thee, and may we, approaching, come around \nabout Thee, and attain to entire companionship with Thee! And we sacrifice to the Righteous \nOrder, the best, the most beautiful, the bounteous Immortal!\nYASNA 61.\n---------\n1.\tLet us peal forth the Ahuna-vairya in our liturgy between the heaven and earth, and let us \nsend forth the Asha Vahishta in our prayer the same, and the Yenhe hatam. And let us send \nforth in our liturgies between the heaven and earth the pious and good prayer of the pious \nman for blessings, (2) for the encounter with, and for the displacement of Angra Mainyu with \nhis creatures which are likewise evil as he is, for he is filled with death (for those whom he has \nmade). Aye, let us send that petition forth for the encounter with, and for the dislodgment of \nthe Kahvaredhas and o@ the individual Kahvaredha the male, and the female (to the last \nindividual of each), (3) and for the encounter with, and the dislodgment of the Kayadhas, and \nof the individual Kayadhians, male and female, and of the thieves and robbers, of the Zandas, \nand the sorcerers, of the covenant breakers, and of those who tamper with the covenants. 4. \nYea, we send it forth for the encounter with, and for the overthrow of the murderers of the \nsaints, and of those who hate and torment us for our Faith, and of those who persecute the \nritual, and the tyrant full of death. Yea, let us peal them forth for the encounter with and the \noverthrow of the wicked, O Zarathushtra Spitama! whoever they may be, whose thoughts, \nand words, and works are not congenial to the holy ritual laws.\n5.\tAnd how shall we drive the Demon of the Lie from hence from us? Aye, how shall we, the \nprophets who are yet to serve and save (thy people), drive the Druj from hence, so that we, \nhaving power over her as being utterly without power, may drive her hence with blow from \nthe seven Karshvars, for the encounter with, and for the dislodgment of the entire evil world?\nYASNA 62 - TO THE FIRE.\n----------------------\n1.\tI offer my sacrifice and homage to thee, the Fire, as a good offering, and an offering with our \nhail of salvation, even as an offering of praise with benedictions, to thee, the Fire, O Ahura \nMazda's son! Meet for sacrifice art thou, and worthy of (our) homage. And as meet for \nsacrifice, and thus worthy of our homage, may'st thou be in the houses of men (who worship \nMazda). Salvation be to this man who worships thee in verity and truth, with wood in hand, \nand Baresman ready, with flesh in hand, and holding too the mortar. 2. And may'st thou be \n(ever) fed with wood as the prescription orders. Yea, may'st thou have thy perfume justly, \nand thy sacred butter without fail, and thine andirons regularly placed. Be of full-age as to thy \nnourishment, of the canon's age as to the measure of thy food, O Fire, Ahura-Mazda's son! 3. \nBe now aflame within this house; be ever without fail in flame; be all ashine within this house; \nbe on thy growth within this house; for long time be thou thus to the furtherance of the \nheroic (renovation), to the completion of (all) progress, yea, even till the good heroic \n(millennial) time when that renovation shall have become complete. 4. Give me, O Fire, \nAhura Mazda's son! a speedy glory, speedy nourishment, and speedy booty, and abundant \nglory, abundant nourishment, abundant booty, an expanded mind, and nimbleness of tongue \nfor soul and understanding, even an understanding continually growing in its largeness, and \nthat never wanders, and long enduring virile power, (5) an offspring sure of foot, that never \nsleeps on watch [not for a third part of the day, or night], and that rises quick from bed, and \nlikewise a wakeful offspring, helpful to nurture, or reclaim, legitimate, keeping order in men's \nmeetings, (yea,) drawing men to assemblies through their influence and word, grown to power, \nskillful, redeeming others from oppression, served by many followers, which may advance my \nline (in prosperity and fame), and (my) Vis, and my Zantu, and (my) province, (yea, an \noffspring) which may deliver orders to the Province as (firm and righteous rulers). 6. And \nmay'st thou grant me, O Fire, Ahura Mazda's Son! that whereby instructors may be (given) \nme, now and for evermore, (giving light to me of Heaven) the best life of the saints, brilliant, \nall glorious. And may I have experience of the good reward, and the good renown, and of the \nlong forecasting preparation of the soul. 7. The Fire of Ahura Mazda addresses this \nadmonition to all for whom he cooks the night and morning (meal). From all these, O \nSpitama! he wishes to secure good care, and healthful care (as guarding for salvation), the care \nof a true praiser. 8. At both the hands of all who come by me, I, the Fire, keenly look: What \nbrings the mate to his mate (thus I say to him), the one who walks at large, to him who sits at \nhome? [We worship the bounteous Fire, the swift-driving charioteer.]\n9.\tAnd if this man who passes brings him wood brought (with good measure that is) with sacred \ncare, or if he brings the Baresman spread with sanctity, or the Hadhanaepata plant, then \nafterwards Ahura Mazda's Fire will bless him, contented, not offended, and in (its) satisfaction \n(saying thus). 10. May a herd of kine be with thee, and a multitude of men, may an active \nmind go with thee, and an active soul as well. As a blest soul may'st thou live through thy life, \nthe nights which thou shall live. This is the blessing of the Fire for him who brings it wood \n(well) dried, sought out for flaming, purified with the earnest blessing of the sacred ritual \ntruth. 11. We strive after the flowing on of the good waters, and their ebb as well, and the \nsounding of their waves, desiring their propitiation; I desire to approach them with my praise.\n12.\t(= Y3.24-25).\nYASNA 63.\n---------\n(See Y15.2; Y66.2; Y38.3.)\nYASNA 64.\n---------\n(See Y46.3; Y50.6-11.)\nYASNA 65 - TO ARDVI SURA ANAHITA, AND THE WATERS.\n-------------------------------------------------\n1.\tI will praise the water Ardvi Sura Anahita, the efficacious against the Daevas, devoted to \nAhura's lore, and to be worshipped with sacrifice within the corporeal world, furthering all \nliving things (?) and holy, helping on the increase and improvement of our herds and \nsettlements, holy, and increasing our wealth, holy, and helping on the progress of the \nProvince, holy (as she is)? 2. (Ardvi Sura Anahita) who purifies the seed of all male beings, \nwho sanctifies the wombs of all women to the birth, who makes all women fortunate in labor, \nwho brings all women a regular and timely flow of milk, (3) (Ardvi Sura Anahita) with a \nvolume sounding from afar, which is alone equal in its bulk to all the waters which flow forth \nupon earth, which flows down with mighty volume from high Hukairya to the sea Vouru-\nkasha. 4. And all the gulfs in Vouru-kasha are stirred (when it falls down), all the middle doth \nwell up when Ardvi Sura Anahita rushes in, when she plunges foaming into them, she, whose \nare a thousand tributaries, and a thousand outlets, and each as it flows in, or rushes out, is a \nforty days' ride in length to a rider mounted well.\n5.\tAnd the (chief) outlet to this one water (Ardvi Sura Anahita) goes apart, dividing to all the \nseven Karshvars. And this outlet to my river, Ardvi Sura Anahita, bears off its water always \nin summer and in winter. This my river purifies the seed of men, and wombs of women, and \nwomen's milk.\n6.\tLet the saints' Fravashis now draw near, those of the saints who live, or have lived, of those \nborn, or yet to be born; yea, let them come near which have borne these waters up stream \nfrom the nearest ones (that lie below as the outlet pours away) 7. Let not our waters be for \nthe man of ill intent, of evil speech, or deeds, or conscience; let them not be for the offender \nof a friend, not for an insulter of a Magian, nor for one who harms the workmen, nor for one \nwho hates his kindred. And let not our good waters (which are not only good, but) best, and \nMazda-made, help on the man who strives to mar our settlements which are not to be \ncorrupted, nor him who would mar our bodies, (our) uncorrupted (selves), (8) nor the thief, or \nbludgeon-bearing ruffian who would slaughter the disciples, nor a sorcerer, nor a burrier of \ndead bodies, nor the jealous, nor the niggard, nor the godless heretic who slays disciples, nor \nthe evil tyrant among men. Against these may our waters come as torments. As destructive \nmay these come (?), may they come to him who has done those first (foul evils), as to him \nwho does the last.\n9.\tO waters! rest still within your places while the invoking priest shall offer.\nShall not the invoker make offering to these good waters, and with the inculcated words? \n(And how shall this be done?) Shall he not be tongue-fettered, if he offers else than with the \nritual? Shall (not) the words be so delivered as the Aethrapaiti teaches? Where shall the \nblessings be (inserted)? Where the supplications with confessions? Where the gifts of those \nthat offer? 10. (It shall be only thus) as Ahura Mazda showed before to Zarathushtra, and as \nZarathushtra taught the corporeal worlds (the men on earth)! Thou shalt pray the first \npetition to the waters, O Zarathushtra, and after that thou shalt offer the Zaothras to the \nwaters, sanctified, and sought out with pious care; and thou shalt pronounce these words (as \nfollows, thus): (11) O ye waters, I beseech of you this favor; and grant ye me this great one in \nwhose bestowal ye flow down to me for the bettering (of my state), with a never-failing truth. \nO ye waters, I beseech of you for wealth of many kinds (which gives) power (to its holder), \nand for an offspring self-dependent whom multitudes will bless, and for whose wasting, or \ndefeat, or death, or vengeful punishment, or overtaking, no one prays.\n12.\tAnd this do I beseech of you, O waters, this, O ye lands, and this, ye plants! This wealth and \noffspring I beseech of You, O Ye Bountiful Immortals, who rule aright, who dispose (of all) \naright, O Ye good beings, male and female, givers of good things; and this I beseech of you, O \nye beneficent, mighty, and overwhelming Fravashis of the saints, and this (of thee), O Mithra \nof the wide pastures, and this of thee, O blest and stately Sraosha; and of thee, O Rashnu the \nmost just, and of thee, O Fire, Ahura Mazda's son; and of thee, O lofty lord, the royal Apam-\nnapat, of the fleet horses; aye, of You all, ye Yazads, bestowers of the better gifts and holy. \n13. And this do ye therefore grant me, O ye holy waters, and ye lands!\n14.\tAnd grant me likewise what is still greater than this all, and still better than this all, and more \nbeautiful, and more exceeding precious (and that is, Immortality and Welfare), O Ye Yazads, \nholy and ruling mightily, and powerful at once, and grant it speedily according to this Gathic \n(?) word: (Yea), by veritable grace let that be done (?) for us which is most promotive of our \nweal. 15. And according to this further word again: Grant me, Thou who art maker of the \nKine, the plants, and the waters, Immortality and likewise Weal, O Ahura Mazda, Thou most \nbounteous Spirit. And grant me these two eternal gifts through Thy Good Mind in the \ndoctrine.\n16-18.\t(See Y15.2; Y56.3-4.)\nYASNA 66 - TO THE AHURIAN ONE.\n------------------------------\n1.\tI am now offering this Zaothra here with sanctity, together with the Haoma and the flesh, \nand the Hadhanaepata lifted up with sacred regularity as to thee, O Ahurian One, for the \npropitiation of Ahura Mazda, of the Bountiful Immortals, of Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, \nand of the Fire of Ahura Mazda, the ritual's lofty lord.\n2.\t(=Y7,5-19.)\n3.\t(=Y22, Y28.24-27.)\nYASNA 67.\n---------\n1-4.\t(See Y23.1-4, replacing 'I desire to approach with sanctity' by 'I offer with sanctity;' see also \nY7.24.)\n5-7.\t(See Y38.3-5.)\nYASNA 68 - TO THE AHURIAN ONE, AND THE WATERS.\n----------------------------------------------\n1.\tWe offer this to thee, O Ahurian (daughter) of Ahura! as a help (?) for life. If we have \noffended thee, let this Zaothra then attain to thee (for satisfaction), for it is thine with its \nHaoma, and its milk, and its Hadhanaepata. 2. And may'st thou approach to me for milk and \nfor libation, a Zaothra! as health, for healing, and for progress, for growth and in preparation \nfor ceremonial merit, for good renown, for equanimity and for that victory which makes the \nsettlements advance.\n3.\tYea, we worship thee with sacrifice, O thou Ahurian (daughter) of Ahura with the Zaothras of \nthe good thought; and we worship, O Ahura, one with the Zaothras of the good word and deed \n(4) for the enlightenment of the thoughts, and words, and actions, for preparation for the \nsoul, for the settlement's advance, and to prepare the saints endowed with ritual merit.\n5.\tAnd grant me, O thou Ahurian One! Heaven, and to have an offspring manly and legitimate, \nwho may promote my house, my village, my tribe and province, and the authority thereof.\n6.\tWe sacrifice to thee, O thou Ahurian one! And we sacrifice to the sea Vouru-kasha, and to all \nwaters upon earth, whether standing, or running, or waters of the well, or spring-waters which \nperennially flow, or the drippings of the rains, or the irrigations of canals. 7. With this hymn \nfrom the (spirit of) the Yasna do we worship thee, and with the homage which it offers as it \nis the most legitimate Yasna, and homage of them (all) because of Righteousness the Best. \nWe sacrifice to the good waters, and to the best, which Mazda created. 8. And we sacrifice to \nthe two, to the milk and to the libation, which make the waters flow, and the plants sprout \nforth, opposing therein the Dragon Daeva-made, for the arrest of that cheat the Pairika, and \nto contradict the insulting malice of the Ashemaogha (the disturber and destroyer of our \nFaith), and of the unholy tyrant full of death, and of the human Daeva (worshipper) of \nhateful malice (and intent).\n9.\tAnd may'st thou hear our sacrificial chants O thou Ahurian (daughter) of Ahura! Yea, be \npropitiated by our Yasna, O Ahurian one! and so may'st thou be present at our Yasna; may'st \nthou come to us to help, as we chant our full-offered Yasht with the full offering of Zaothras.\n10.\tIf any man shall sacrifice to you, O ye good waters, the Ahurian ones of Ahura! with the best \nand most fitting Zaothras offered piously, (11) to that man ye give both splendor and glory, \nwith health and vigor of the body and prominence of form; yea, to him ye give possessions \nwhich entail abundant glory, and a legitimate scion, and a long enduring life, and (Heaven at \nthe last), the best life of the saints, shining, all glorious. 12. And to me also do ye now give it, \nto me who am offering this Yasna as a priest.\n(Response.) And to us Mazdayasnians who are likewise offering sacrifice, do ye grant (both \nthe desire and knowledge of the path that is correct), to us colleagues, and disciples, \nAethrapaitis and Aethryas, men and women as well as children, and maidens of the field, (13) \nwho think good only, for the overwhelming of oppression and of malice in the raids of the \ninvader, and in face of foes who hate. Grant to us both the desire of, and the knowledge of \nthat straightest path, the straightest because of Righteousness, and of (Heaven) the best life \nof the Saints, shining, all glorious. As the Ahu is excellent, so is the Ratu (one who rules) \nfrom the Righteous Order, a creator of mental goodness and of life's actions done for Mazda. \nAnd the kingdom (is) for Ahura, which to the poor may offer nurture.\n14.\t(The Zaotar speaks): I beseech with my benediction for a safe abode, for a joyful and a long \nabode for the dwellers in this village from whence these Zaothras (which I offer come). And I \npray in my benediction for a safe abode, and a quiet and a joyful one, and a long abiding to \nevery Mazdayasnian village, and for a succor even with my wants, for a succor with \nsalutations of salvation, and for one with praises, O Fire! and for thee, O Ahurian one of \nAhura! do I ask the fullest Yasht.\n15.\tAnd I pray for (?) Raman Hvastra for this Province, and for healthfulness and healing. And I \npray for it with my blessing for you pious men, for all. And I pray for him who is saintly with \n(true) goodness, whosoever he may be, between heaven and the earth, for a thousand healing \nremedies, and for ten thousand of the same.\n16-19.\t(See Y8.5-8.)\n20.\tThus may it happen as I pray. 21. And by this may I gain (that) blessing, the good \nBlessedness (our sanctity rewarded). And we address, and we invoke religious zeal and \ncapability, and the waters with our Yasna thus: O ye good waters! since (they are) yours, do \nye, as you are asked, grant splendor and grant glory, ye who are well able so to give; and do \nye, O ye waters! grant (once more) that helpful blessing which was gained from you of old!\n22.\tPraise (be) to Ahura Mazda, and to the Bountiful Immortals. Praise (be) to Mithra of the \nwide pastures. Praise to the fleet-horsed sun. Praise to (the star which so we name, and with \nthis sun) Ahura Mazda's eyes. Praise to the Kine (the herds of blessed gift). Praise to Gaya \n(Maretan) and to the Fravashi of Zarathushtra (first of) saints; yea, praise to the entire \ncreation of the holy (and the clean), to those now living, and to those just passing into life, \nand to those of days to come 23. And do Thou then Ahura, as in answer to these our prayers \nand songs of praise, cause us to prosper to salvation through Thy Good Mind, the Sovereign \nPower, and Thy Righteous Order (in Thy ritual and law)!\nYASNA 69.\n---------\n(This chapter is composed of fragments: see Y15.2 and Y51.1 and 22.)\nYASNA 70 - TO THE BOUNTIFUL IMMORTALS, AND THE INSTITUTIONS OF RELIGION.\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n1.\tI would worship these (the Bountiful Immortals) with my sacrifice, those who rule aright, and \nwho dispose (of all) aright, and this one (especially) I would approach with my praise, (Ahura \nMazda). He is thus hymned (in our praise-songs). Yea, we worship in our sacrifice that deity \nand lord, who is Ahura Mazda, the Creator, the gracious helper, the maker of all good things; \nand we worship in our sacrifice Zarathushtra Spitama, that chieftain (of the rite).\n2.\tAnd we would declare those institutions established for us, exact (and undeviating as they are). \nAnd I would declare forth those of Ahura Mazda, those of the Good Mind, and of Asha \nVahishta (who is Righteousness the Best), and those of Khshatra-vairya (the Realm to be \ndesired), and those of the Bountiful Aramaiti (the Piety within us), and those of Weal and \nImmortality, and those which appertain to the body of the Kine, and to the Kine's soul, and \nthose which appertain to Ahura Mazda's Fire, (3) and those of Sraosha (Obedience) the \nblessed, and of Rashnu the most just, and those of Mithra of the wide pastures, and of (the \ngood and) holy Wind, and of the good Mazdayasnian Religion, and of the good and pious \nPrayer for blessings, and those of the good and pious Prayer which frees one from belying, \nand the good and pious Prayer for blessing against unbelieving words. 4. (And these we would \ndeclare) in order that we may attain unto that speech which is uttered with (true) religious \nzeal, or that we may be as prophets of the provinces, that we may succor him who lifts his \nvoice (for Mazda), that we may be as prophets who smite with victory, the befriended of \nAhura Mazda, and persons the most useful to Him, holy men (indeed) who think good \nthoughts, and speak good words, and do good deeds. 5. That he may approach us with the \nGood Mind, and that (our souls) may advance in good, let it thus come; yea, 'how may my \nsoul advance in good? let it thus advance.' \n--------------------\n6.\tWe praise the flood and ebb of the good waters, and their roar, and that high Ahura, the royal \nApam-napat, the glittering one, of the fleet horses; and this for the sacrifice, and homage, \nand propitiation, and praise of the entire holy creation; and may Sraosha (Obedience) be here \n(to aid us).\n7.\t(Yea), we sacrifice to Sraosha, Obedience the blessed.\nYASNA 71 - THE YASNA CONCLUDING.\n--------------------------------\n1.\tFrashaoshtra, the holy, asked the saintly Zarathushtra: Answer me, O thou most eminent \nZarathushtra, what is (in very truth) the memorized recital of the rites?\nWhat is the completed delivery of the Gathas?\n2.\tUpon this Zarathushtra said: (It is as follows.) We worship Ahura Mazda with our sacrifice \n(as) the holy lord of the ritual order; and we sacrifice to Zarathushtra likewise as to a holy \nlord of the ritual order; and we sacrifice also to the Fravashi of Zarathushtra, the saint. And \nwe sacrifice to the Bountiful Immortals, (the guardians) of the saints. 3. And we sacrifice to \n(all) the good heroic and bounteous Fravashis of the saints, of the bodily (world on earth), \nand of the mental (those in Heaven). And we worship that one of ritual lords who attains the \nmost his ends; and we sacrifice to that one of the Yazads, lords of the ritual order, who is the \nmost strenuous, who gains the most, who reaches most to what he seeks, even that well-timed \nPrayer which is the prayer of that holy ritual lord, and which has approached the nearest (to \nus for our help).\n4.\tWe sacrifice to Ahura Mazda, the holy lord of the ritual order, and we worship His entire \nbody, and we worship the Bountiful Immortals all; and we worship all the ritual lords. And we \nsacrifice to the entire Mazdayasnian Faith. And we worship all the sacred metres.\n5.\tAnd we worship the entire bounteous Mathra, even the entire system of the Faith set up \nagainst the Daevas; and we worship its complete and long descent. And we sacrifice to all the \nholy Yazads, heavenly and earthly; and we worship all the good, heroic, and bountiful \nFravashis of the saints.\n6.\tAnd we worship all the holy creatures which Mazda created, and which possess the holy \ninstitutions, which were established holy in their nature, which possess the holy lore, and the \nholy sacrifice, which are holy, and for the holy, and to be worshipped by the holy. And we \nworship all the five Gathas, the holy ones, and the entire Yasna [its flow and its ebb, and the \nsounding (of its chants)]. 7. And we sacrifice to all the Praises of the Yasna, and to all the \nwords which Mazda spake, which are the most fatal to evil thoughts, and words, and deeds; (8) \nand which designate the evil thought, and word, and deed, and which then cut down and fell \nevery evil thought, and word, and deed. [(Pazand.) One would think of it as when the fire \ncuts, sucks out, and consumes the dry wood which has been sanctified and carefully selected \n(for its flame).] And we sacrifice to the strength, the victory, the glory, and the speed of all \nthese words (as they go forth for their work). 9. And we sacrifice to all the springs of water, \nand to the water-streams as well, and to growing plants, and forest-trees, and to the entire \nland and heaven, and to all the stars, and to the moon and sun, even to all the lights without \nbeginning (to their course). And we sacrifice to all cattle, and to the aquatic beasts, and to the \nbeasts that live on land, and to all that strike the wing, and to the beasts that roam the plains, \nand to those of cloven hoof. 1O. And to all Thy good and holy female (creatures) in the \ncreation do we sacrifice, (O Thou who art) Ahura Mazda the skillful maker! on account of \nwhich Thou hast made many things and good things (in Thy world). And we sacrifice to those \nmale creatures in the creation which are Thine and which are meet for sacrifice because of \nAsha Vahishta (of Righteousness the Best). And we sacrifice to all the mountains brilliant \nwith holiness, and to all the lakes which Mazda created, and to all fires]. And we sacrifice to \nall the truthful and correctly spoken words, (11) even those which have both rewards and \nPiety within them. Yea, we worship (you) for protection and shielding, for guarding and \nwatching; and may ye be to me for preparation.\nI call upon the Gathas here, the bountiful holy ones, ruling in the ritual order; yea, we \nsacrifice to you, (O ye Gathas!) for protection and shielding, for guarding and watching. Mine \nmay ye be as a preparation. For me, for (mine) own soul I call on (you), and we would \nworship (you) for protection and for shielding, for guarding and for watching. 12. And we \nsacrifice to Weal, the complete welfare, holy and ruling in its course in the ritual order; and \nwe sacrifice to Deathlessness (the immortal being of the good), holy, and ruling in the ritual \norder. And we sacrifice to the question of the Lord; and to His lore, the holy chiefs, and to \nthe heroic Haptanghaiti, the holy lord of the ritual order. 13. (Frasha.) Let the holy \nZarathushtra himself seek out a friend and a protector. And I say to thee (O Zarathushtra!) \nto make to thee a friend holy beyond the holy, and truer than the true, for that is the better \nthing; for he is evil who is the best to the evil, and he is holy to whom the holy is a friend, \n(14) for these are the best of words, those which Ahura Mazda spoke to Zarathushtra. \nAnd do thou, O Zarathushtra! pronounce these words at the last ending of (thy) life. 15. For \nif, O Zarathushtra! thou shalt pronounce these words at the last ending of (thy) life I, Ahura \nMazda, will keep your soul away from Hell. Yea, so far away shall I hold it as is the breadth \nand extension of the earth [(Pazand) and the earth is as wide as it is long].\n16.\tAs thou dost desire, O holy (one)! so shalt thou be, holy shalt thou-cause (thy) soul to pass \nover the Chinvat Bridge; holy shalt thou come into Heaven. Thou shalt intone the Gatha \nUshtavaiti, reciting the salvation hail.\n17.\tWe sacrifice to the active man, and to the man of good intent, for the hindrance of darkness, \nof wasting of the strength and life, and of distraction. And we sacrifice to health and healing, \nto progress and to growth, for the hindrance of impurity, and of the diseases of the skin.\n18.\tAnd we sacrifice to the (Yasna's) ending words, to those which end the Gathas. And we \nsacrifice to the bounteous Hymns themselves which rule in the ritual course, the holy ones.\nAnd we sacrifice to the Praise-songs of the Yasna which were the products of the world of \nyore; yea, we sacrifice to all the Staota-Yesnya hymns. And we sacrifice to (our) own soul \nand to (our) Fravashi.\n19-21.\t(See Y6.14-16.)\n22.\tI praise, invoke, and I weave my song to the good, heroic, bountiful Fravashis of the saints, \nto those of the house, and of the village, the district and the province, and to those of the \nZarathushtrotemas. 23. And we sacrifice to the Fire, Ahura Mazda's son, the holy ritual chief.\nAnd we sacrifice to this Baresman haying the Zaothra with it, and its girdle with it, and spread \nwith sanctity, the holy ritual chief. And we sacrifice to Apam-napat, and to Nairya-sangha, \nand to that Yazad, the wise man's swift Curse.\nAnd we sacrifice to the souls of the dead, [which are the Fravashis of the saints] 24. And we \nsacrifice to that lofty Lord who is Ahura Mazda Himself.\n25.\tAnd we pray (again) for the Kine (once more) with these gifts and (ceremonial) actions \nwhich are the best.\n26-28.\t(See Y8.5-7.)\n29-31.\t(See Y60.11-13.)\nYASNA 72.\n---------\n(See Y61.)","title":"AVESTA: YASNA (Sacred Liturgy and Gathas/Hymns of Zarathushtra)","type":"page"}