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Translated by L. H. Mills ........................................................................................................................1

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1. I announce, and (will) complete (my Yasna) to the lords of the spiritual creatures, and to the

lords of the earthly creatures, to the lords of those which live under the waters, and to the

lords of those which live upon land, to the lords of those which strike the wing, and to the

lords of those which roam (wild) upon the plains, to the lords of those of (homebeasts) of

2. I announce, and I (will) complete (my Yasna) to the Yearly festivals, the lords of the ritual

Maidyoshahem, the pasturegiver, and to Paitishahem, the corngiver, and to Ayathrem, the

furtherer or breeder, the spender of the seed of males, and to Maidyarem the cold, the holy

lord of the ritual order, and to Hamaspathmaidyem, the especial time for ritual deeds, holy

3. I announce, and I (will) complete (my Yasna) to the settlements of the future one, when the

future shall produce them as it were anew, and I celebrate and will complete (my Yasna) to

the Praises of the Yasna collected, completed, and muchoffered, and to the Myazdas of the

4. And I announce, and will complete (my Yasna) to the Seasons, the lords of the ritual order,

and to the heard recital of the Ahunavairya, and to Righteousness the Best, to him who has

(?) our praise, and to the Yenhe hatam, the frequent chant of sacrifice, the holy, and ruling in

5. And I announce and complete (my Yasna) to the Gatha Ahunavaiti, the holy, ruling in the

ritual order, and to those women who bring forth many sons of many talents, Mazdagiven,

and holy lords of the ritual order, and to that (chant) which has its Ahu and its Ratu (before it

And I celebrate, and will complete (my sacrifice) to the Yasna Haptanghaiti, holy, and ruling

6. And I announce, and I (will) complete (my Yasna) to the Gatha Ushtavaiti, the holy, ruling

in the ritual order, and to the mountains which shine with holiness, the abundantly brilliant

And I announce, and (will) complete (my Yasna) to the Gatha Spentamainyu, the holy,

ruling in the ritual order; and I celebrate and will complete (my Yasna) to Verethraghna (the

7. And I announce, and (will) complete (my Yasna) to the Gatha Vohukhshathra, holy, ruling

in the ritual order, and to Mithra of the wide pastures, and to Raman Hvastra, the holy lords

of the ritual order. And I celebrate and will complete my Yasna to the Gatha Vahishtoishti,

the holy, ruling in the ritual order. And I celebrate and will complete my Yasna to the good

and pious Prayer for blessings, the benediction of the pious, and to that Yazad, the redoubted

8. And I announce, and (will) complete (my Yasna) to the Airyemaishyo, the holy lord of the

ritual order, and to the Fshushomathra, and to that lofty lord Hadhaokhdha, the holy lord of

9. And I announce, and (will) complete (my Yasna) to the questions asked of Ahura, and to the

lore of Ahura, to the Ahurian Dahvyuma (Dahyuma), and to the Ahurian Zarathushtrotema,

holy lords of the ritual order, and to the farmhouse with its pastures which give pasture to

1. In this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the lords of (the ritual) which are

spiritual with my praise; and I desire to approach the earthly lords (as well). And I desire to

approach the lords of the water with my praise, and the lords of the land; and I desire to

approach with my praise those chiefs which strike the wing, and those which wander wild at

large, and those of the cloven hoof, who are chiefs of the ritual (in their turn).

2. In this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the holy Yearly festivals with my

praise, the lords of the ritual order, Maidyozarem, the milkgiver, and Maidyoshahem, the

pasturegiver, and Paitishahem, the corngiver, and Ayathrem the breeder, the spender of the

seed of males, Maidyarem, the cold, Hamaspathmaidyem, the especial time for ritual duties,

3. And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the future one of the settlements

with my praise, the holy lord of the ritual order, when the future one shall produce (them as

And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach all these chieftains of the ritual

with my praise whom Ahura Mazda mentioned to Zarathushtra for sacrifice and homage

4. And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach Thee, the lord, with my praise,

Thou who art Ahura Mazda, the spiritual lord and regulator of the spiritual creatures [the lord

And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach thee, Zarathushtra Spitama, with

my praise, the terrestrial (lord and regulator) of the terrestrial creation, [the lord and

5. And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the man who recites the ritual

rites with my praise, who is maintaining thus the thought well thought, and the word well

spoken, and the deed well done, and Piety the bountiful, even him who maintains the Mathra

of the Saoshyant, by whose actions the settlements are advanced in the righteous order.

6. And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the (yearly) Seasons with my

praise, the holy lords of the ritual order, and the Ahunavairya as it is recited, and Asha

Vahishta when he is lauded, and the Yenhe hatam, the frequent chant of sacrifice.

7. And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the Gatha Ahunavaiti with my

praise. And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to worship those women with my

praise who are well portioned, and of good parentage, and who are stately in their growth;

yea, I desire to approach that chant in my praise which has the Ahu and the Ratu, [for He is

And I desire to approach the heroic Yasna Haptanghaiti in my praise, the holy, and ruling in

the ritual order; and Ardvi Sura Anahita, the holy, and ruling in the ritual order.

8. And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the Gatha Ushtavaiti with my

praise, the holy, and ruling in the ritual order; and I desire to approach those mountains with

my praise which shine with holiness, abundantly glorious, Mazdamade, the holy lords of the

ritual order, and the Gatha Spentamainyu, and Verethraghna, the blow of victory, Mazda

given, the holy lord of the ritual order, and the Victorious Ascendancy (which it bestows).

9. And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the Gatha Vohukhshathra with

my praise, the holy, and ruling in the ritual order, and Mithra of the wide pastures, and

Raman Hvastra, and the Gatha Vahishtoishti, and the pious and good prayer for blessings, and

the pious and holy man, and that Yazad, the redoubted and swift curse of the wise.

10. And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the Airyemaishyo with my

praise, and the Fshushomathra, and that lofty lord, the Hadhaokhdha, holy lord(s) of the

11. And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the question asked of Ahura, and

the lore of the Lord (which he reveals in answer) and the farmhouse of the man possessed of

pastures, and the pasture produced for the Kine of blessed gift, and the holy cattlebreeding

(The Ratu answers.) I will come (and fulfill the services which fall to his charge).

(The Zaotar.) I would have the Sraoshavareza present, the wisest one, the most correct and

(The Ratu.) I will come. 2. (The Zaotar.) I would have the Firepriest to be here, and the

warrior, and the thrifty tiller of the earth, and the houselord, and the lords of the Vis and the

3. And I summon the youth of holy thoughts, words and works, and of good conscience; (yea),

the youth of good speech, given (in marriage) to his kin. And I summon the provinceranger,

4. And I summon the woman advanced in her holy thoughts, and words, and deeds, and well

subordinated, whose ruler is her lord, the holy one, who is (as) the bounteous Armaiti; (yea), I

summon even Thy wives, O Ahura ! And I summon likewise the holy man advanced in his

good thoughts, and words, and deeds, who is learned in pious lore, and innocent of the

Kayadha, and by whose deeds the settlements are furthered in the righteous order.

5. Yea, we summon you, whoever you may be, if only chiefs of the Mazdayasnians; and we

summon the Bounteous Immortals, and the pious Saoshyants (the prophets for our help), the

most correct and truthful in their speech, the most zealous, the most glorious in their

thoughts, the greatest ones, and the powerful; and we summon the Firepriests, and the

6. (The Zaotar.) As an Ahu to be (revered and) chosen, the Atarevakhsha (announcing) speaks

(The Ratu [?].) So let the Ratu from his righteousness, holy and learned, speak forth.

(The Ratu.) As an Ahu to be (revered and) chosen, the Zaotar (announcing) speaks forth to

(The Zaotar.) So let the Ratu from (his) righteousness, holy and learned, speak forth.

(The Ratu.) Thou art the announcer for us, O Firepriest! [(Pazand.) It is the Zaotar (who is

(The Zaotar.) I will come as this Zaotar, and recite the Staota Yesnya with memorized

1. (Yea,) we sacrifice to the thoughts of the mind, and to the good wisdom, and to the good and

blessed sanctity, and to the good religious knowledge, and to good health (of soul and body).

[At their (several) seasons, and with the presence of seasonable circumstances, they are

hymned.] 2. Confession is to be made for the Kine; we, Zarathushtrian Mazdayasnians,

celebrate at the sacrificial time for the Myazdaoffering, at the time for the Ratufriti, the

prayer for blessings, for the sacrificial worship, homage, propitiation, and praise of the entire

1. I come to You, O Ye Bountiful Immortals! as a praiser priest, and invoker, as a memoriser,

reciting (Your ritual), and as a chanter for Your sacrifice and homage, Your propitiation, and

Your praise; (yea, for Yours) the Bountiful Immortals, and for our preparation, (O ye holy

Saoshyants!) and for your welltimed prayer for blessings, and your sanctification, and for our

victorious smiting of our foes, beneficial (as it is) for our souls, for ours, the Saoshyants,

(with you), and holy. 2. And I make my offering to You, O Ye Bountiful Immortals, who rule

aright, and who dispose (of all) aright! (Yea), I offer You the flesh of my very body, and all

3. And I confess my belief in Thee, O Ahura Mazda! and as a Mazdayasnian of the order of

1. In accordance with the precept, with praise, and with the joyful reception of grace, with

Zaothras intelligently offered, with sacrificial words correctly spoken, I call the good Amesha

Spenta by their names of beauty; yea, I worship the Bountiful Immortals by their beautiful

names, with the blessing of the ritual Order, with the longing blessing of Righteousness the

1. We worship the (sacrificial) words correctly uttered, and Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, and

the good Ashi, (the blest order of our rites), and Nairyasangha. And we worship the

victorious Peace as the unprostrated and unmoved. And we sacrifice to the Fravashis of the

saints, and to the Chinwad Bridge, and to the Garo Nmana of Ahura, even Heaven, the best

2. And we sacrifice to that better path that leads to that Best World (as well). And we worship

Arshtat (Justice) the good, which helps the settlements to advance and flourish, benefiting

them thereby, that Arshtat which is the Mazdayasnian Faith; and (with her) we worship

Rashnu the most just, and Mithra of the wide pastures. And we worship Parendi the wealthy,

wealthy with a wealth of thoughts, with a throng of words, and with a breadth of actions, [for

she makes our persons agile (for good thoughts and words and actions)] 3. And we worship

that virile defensive Heroism which possesses men who think beforehand, and heroic men,

which is fleeter a than the fleet, stronger than the strong, which comes to him who is

endowed by God, which, when especially made theirs by men, produces one who is a freer of

the body. And we worship Sleep, the Mazdamade, the gladdener of the herd and men. 4. And

we worship those things in the creation of the holy which are the ancient institutions, those

formed before the sky, the water, the land, the plants, and the Kine of blessed gift. And we

worship the sea Vourukasha, and the stormy wind which is made by Mazda, and the shining

heaven, of old created, the firstmade earthly object of (all) the earthly world.

5. And we worship thee, the Fire, O Ahura Mazda's son! the holy lord of the ritual order, and

this Baresman, having the Zaothra with it, and the girdle with it, spread out with sanctity, the

1. With this word be Thou approached, with the proper word be Thou present here, Thou who

art Ahura Mazda, the holy, together with the good Yazads who are the Bountiful Immortals,

who rule aright, and dispose (of all) aright, together with fifty, and a hundred, and a thousand,

1. (I desire to offer my homage and my praise) to the offered Haomas and Zaothras, and to

those also which shall yet be offered, which smite victoriously, and are foes of hatred, and

following in company (as they do) with the healing virtues of sanctity, following also in

company with those of Chishti (religious knowledge), and with the remedies of Mazda, and

with those of Zarathushtra and the Zarathushtrotema, (2) and to the offered Haomas and

Zaothras which accompany those remedies which belong to the holy disciple well versed in

good devices, and accompanying those of the itinerant also versed in good devices, and

accompanying those likewise of the good Mazdayasnian Faith, and those of the pious and

beneficent Prayer for blessings, and of the pious and good veracity, and of the pious word

against unbelief, (3) for information and explanation, for preparation (?) and devotion, for

the libation and complete offering, for the complete recital of the liturgy memorized as well;

and to those Haomas which are pungent, bounteous, holy, and offered with sanctity (and for a

blessing), to those which are yet to be offered with sanctity, and which are now being

celebrated, and which are likewise in the future to be celebrated, to those which are being

pressed with sanctity, and to those which are yet to be pressed, (to these I desire to approach,

and to express my homage and my praise). 4. And I desire to express my homage and my

praise to the strength of the strong, and to the victorious blow of the mighty, to the powerful

Rectitude and Blessedness, to Chisti and the Priority for the powerful Ascendancy, and to

these powerful Yazads which are the Bountiful Immortals, who rule aright, and dispose of all

aright, everliving, everhelpful, who, male and female, dwell together with the Good Mind,

(to these I desire in my homage and my praises to approach); (5) (yea, I desire to approach

for homage and praises toward) our Universal Weal and Immortality, to the body of the

Kine, and to the Kine's Soul. (And I desire to approach) the Fire of the spoken name, and

toward that farmhouse which is sanctified and which has fields and comfort, and mercy (for

the poor); (6) as a praiser with praise for the sacrifice, homage, which is this praise of Ahura

Mazda, of the Bountiful Immortals, and of the holy and lofty Lord, for the sacrifice, and

homage of the Lord that most attains his ends, and which is this praise of that blessedness

which has approached us, and of that welltimed prayer for blessings offered in the ritual, (7)

which is likewise the praise of the Mathra Spenta (the bounteous word of reason), and of the

Mazdayasnian Religion, and the Praises of the Yasnas, which is also that of all the lords of

the ritual, and of all the welltimed prayers for blessings, for the sacrifice, homage,

propitiation, and glorification of the entire creation of the holy (and the clean).

1. I desire to approach the Arezahis with my praise, and the Savahis, and Fradadhafshu, and

Vidadhafshu, and Vourubareshti, and Vourujareshti, and this Karshvar which is Hvaniratha.

2. And I desire to approach the stone mortar with my praise, and the iron mortar, and the

cup that holds the Zaothra, and the hair (which stays the spilling 3), and Thy Baresman

spread with sanctity. And I desire to approach the Ahunavairya with my praise, and the

ritual prayers beside Ahuna, and the standing offices of the Mazdayasnian Faith.

1. To Ahura Mazda would we present our offered Haomas and that which is lifted up, as the

most beneficial to Verethraghna (the blow of victory) which furthers the settlements; and

that which is offered to the good and holy king, and that which is offered to the holy ruler

which rules according to, or in the ritual, and we make known our Haomas to the Bountiful

Immortals, and to the good waters; and we present our Haomas each to (our) own soul; and

we announce our Haomas in our celebration to the entire creation of the holy (and the

2. Yea, we present these Haomas and Haoma implements, and these spread mats, and these

Myazdas, these stones, the first in the creation, the stone mortar brought here with the

yellow Haoma in it, and the iron mortar brought here with the yellow Haoma in it, this

Haomawater, and this Baresman spread with sanctity, (3) these bodies, and (their) forces,

these striving Zaothras (that seek to find Thy grace), this holy Haoma, and the flesh, and the

holy man, and the saint's innate thoughts, even the Saoshyants' innate thoughts.

And we present this fresh milk as an offering, now lifted up with sanctity, and this

Hadhanaepata plant, lifted up with sanctity; (4) and we offer, and present these Zaothras with

our celebration, having the Haoma with them, and the milk, and the Hadhanaepata, to the

good waters and offered up with piety. And we present the Haomawater in our celebrations

to the good waters, and both the stone and the iron mortar, (5) and this branch for the

Baresman, and the prayer for blessings uttered at the fitting moment which has approached

(for our help in its order with the prayers), and the recollection and practice of the good

Mazdayasnian law, and the heard recital of the Gathas, the welltimed prayer for blessings as

it comes uttered by the saint (and for our help), and ruling (while it is spoken) as a ritual lord,

and these woodbillets, and the perfume even Thine, the Fire's, O Ahura Mazda's son! and all

good objects (which are ours), and Mazdamade, and which have the seed of sanctity (or are

6. Yea, these we make known and we announce in this our celebration to Ahura Mazda (as our

gift), and to Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, and to Ashi (who is the recompense),and to

Rashnu the most just, and to Mithra of the wide pastures, and to the Bountiful Immortals, and

the Fravashis of the saints, and to their souls, and to the Fire of Ahura Mazda, the lord, and

to the lofty lord (the Apamnapat?), and to the Myazda, the lord, and to the welltimed

prayer for blessings as it rules in the order of our prayers, for the sacrifice, homage,

7. Yea, these we make known in this our celebration hereby for the Fravashi of Zarathushtra

Spitama, the saint, for its sacrifice, homage, propitiation, and praise, and to the (Fravashi) of

Anghuyu (?) who hath loved righteousness, together with all the holy Fravashis of the saints,

of those now dead, and of those of the living, and of those of men unborn, of the prophets

12. Yea, we would make these known hereby in our celebrations to the Bountiful Immortals, who

rule aright, and who dispose (of all) aright, the everliving, everhelpful, who are good (?),

and bestowers of the good, who dwell with the Good Mind: [(Pazand) for they who are the

Bountiful Immortals abide with the Good Mind, they who rule aright, and dispose (of all)

aright, for thence they are regulated, and thence they arose, (namely,) from the Good Mind].

13. And we make known these our celebrations as the more promotive for this house, for the

furtherance of this house, and as benefits for this house, because of the increase of this

household, as overcoming the restrictions which impede this household, and as overcoming

the harmful malice which may mar this house, to bless its herds, and its retainers, born, and

yet to be born, for the saints of the house as it was aforetime, of it as it stands here now, and

to which we likewise now belong as the Saoshyants of the provinces, (14) [which (is that we

are Saoshyants) for the saints who do good deeds, and of the female saints who do good deeds,

and of the saints who do the deeds conspicuously good, and of the females likewise thus, of

the saints who do good deeds upon good deeds, and of the females thus the same].

15. And we make these known in our celebrations to the good Fravashis of the saints which are

formidable and overwhelming in their aid. 16. And we make these known in our celebrations

hereby to Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, and to the good Blessedness, and to Nairyasangha,

and to the victorious Peace, and to Ahura Mazda's Fire, and to the lofty lord, for sacrifice,

homage, propitiation, and for praise, to the entire creation of the holy and the clean.

19. Yea, we make that known which is lifted up in offering, and which is the Avesta as the holy

Ahura Mazda directed that it should be said, and as Zarathushtra, the holy, directed, and as I,

the priest, who am acquainted with their sacrifice and homage, am now letting it be known. I

who understand the lawful and legitimate Avesta, and the ritual prescripts (20) for Your

sacrifice, homage, and propitiation, O Ye who are the Bountiful Immortals, and for our

preparation (?), and for the success of our welluttered prayer for blessings, for victory,

sanctification, and the wellbeing of our souls, (of ours), for (we are) the holy Saoshyants.

21. Yea, we make these known in our celebrations here, and we offer them to Him who is Ahura

1. For the offered Haomas which have been offered in libation to that lofty Lord Ahura Mazda

and to the holy Zarathushtra Spitama (produce) abundance in cattle and in men; and this

abundance is (as) the good Sraosha, who accompanies (us) with the great splendor of sanctity,

2. We offer the wise offerings of the Ahunavairya intoned with sanctity and yet to be intoned,

possessing their many teachings of religious wisdom (as they to), and those of the two

mortars which pour the Haomas out, and which are pushed forward with precision, and are

now in the course of being thus advanced once more. 3. (And so we teach as well the many

teachings of the religious wisdom) contained in the words correctly spoken, in the

Zarathushtrian utterances, and in the ceremonies correctly practiced, and the Baresmans

spread exactly, and the Haomas pressed correctly, and the praise, Yasnas, and the doctrines

of the Mazdayasnian Religion with their recitations, and their movements. 4. For thus they

may become to us more full of devices and of wisdom, and so we offer these wise ritual deeds

in the creation, so we impart them with their many points of meaning while we (ourselves)

still ponder them as those which Ahura Mazda, the holy One, delivered, which have (as if)

their nourishment from Vohu Manah and their growth from the Righteous Order, which are

the greatest of all beings, the best, and the most beautiful; for thus shall these be to us the

more full of wisest meaning, and more full of incitation and may we be among those (who

are) of Spenta Mainyu's world in that we are imparting (to the chosen) these precepts of the

wisest meaning and these incitations which are contained therein. 5. And full of wisest

meaning be ye two to us, O (thou) stone mortar, and (thou) the iron one, as ye are now

turned, and as ye are now being advanced, ye two mortars of the house, [and of the village, of

the tribe, and of the province, and ye who are in this house (itself), this village, tribe, and

province]; yea, in those which are ours, Mazdayasnians, who are steadfast in our worship,

who appear with our woodbillets and our perfumes, and with our supplicated blessings

1. According to the ritual we worship Ahura Mazda; according to the ritual we worship the

Bountiful Immortals; and we sacrifice to the sacrificial word correctly spoken, and to every

Mathra (as to a sacred word of reason). And we sacrifice to Zarathushtra, him who is

especially the possessor of the Mathra; and we sacrifice to the 'blessings for the saints'; and

2. Also we worship the three principal (chapters) uttered (in the Yasna) without addition or

omission; and we worship the three principal ones without addition or omission; we worship

the three commencing ones entire without addition or omission. And we worship the entirety

of the three principal ones without addition or omission; and their Has, their metrical lines,

their words, and their word structure [and their recital, memorizing, chanting, and their

1. (We worship Ahura Mazda, the holy Lord of the ritual order; and we sacrifice to the Gatha

Ahunavaiti) with its measures, and wordstructure, and its Zand, with its questions and

counterquestions, with its words and its metric feet. And we sacrifice to these as wellrecited,

and now in the course of being recited, as wellworshipped, and now in the course of being

used in worship. 2. (Yea, we sacrifice to it) in its own 'wisdom;, in its own 'clearness', in its

own 'loving intention', in its sovereignty, and its own ritual order, and its 'acquired boon',

which is also that given by Ahura Mazda for the promotion of piety, for that thought which

3. Also we worship the Ahunavairya, the holy lord of the ritual order, the holy lord with its

Ahu and its Ratu [(Pazand); for He is the one with the title Ahu and Ratu, who is Ahura

Mazda]. 4. And we sacrifice to the constituent parts of the Gatha Ahunavaiti, to its chapters,

and its metrical lines, its words, and wordstructure, [and to its heardrecital, and memorized

1. Hold your feet in readiness, and your two hands, and your understandings, O ye

Zarathushtrian Mazdayasnians! for the welldoing of lawful deeds in accordance with the

sacred Order, and for the avoidance of the unlawful and evil deeds which are contrary to the

ritual. Let the good deeds for the furtherance of husbandry be done here. Render ye the needy

rich. 2. Let Sraosha (Obedience) be present here for the worship of Ahura Mazda, the most

helpful, and the holy, who is so desired by us in the pronunciation, and for the service, and

the pondering of the Yasna Haptanghaiti, for the heart's devotion to it, for its memorization,

and its victorious and holy recital (or for the victorious saint), without addition or omission,

(3) which has been intoned, and which shall yet be uttered as great, powerful, smiting with

victory, separate from harmful malice, for the pronunciation of victorious words for Ahura

1. And we worship the Fire here, Ahura Mazda's son, and the Yazads having the seed of fire in

them, and the Rashnus having the seed of fire in them; and we worship the Fravashis of the

saints. And we worship Sraosha who smites with victory, and the holy man, and the entire

creation of the holy (and the clean). 2. And we worship the Blessedness and the Fravashi of

Zarathushtra Spitama, the saint. And we worship the saints and their blessed Fravashis (as of

one). And we worship all their Fravashis (as considered each apart), and those of the saints

within the Province, and those of the saints without the Province, yea, we worship the

Fravashis of holy men and holy women (wherever they may be, those devoted to the Order

of the Faith). And we sacrifice to those whose (service) for us in the Yasna Ahura Mazda, the

holy, has known as the better, and of these Zarathushtra is the living chief and master. And

we sacrifice to the fields and the waters, the lands and the plants, and to the constituent parts

of the Yasna Haptanghaiti, its chapters, its metered lines, its words, and word structure.

1. And we strive after the good thoughts, words, and deeds inculcated in the Yasna Haptanghaiti.

A blessing is the Right (called) the Best, (there is) weal; (there is) weal for this (man) when

1. We worship Ahura Mazda with the ushta. And we worship the Amesha Spenta with the ushta,

and the holy man, the saint. And we worship the prior world of the holy (and of the clean)

with an ushta, and the state of weal and salvation for the holy man (the saint).

2. And we worship that lifelong state of blessedness (for the holy) which is the evil man's

calamity; yea, we worship his eternal salvation, and with the salvation prayer. And we

sacrifice to every saint who exists, who is now coming into existence, and who shall exist in

1. We worship Ahura Mazda the bountiful; and we worship the Bountiful Immortals (saying the

Spenta). And we sacrifice to the bountiful saint, and to the bountiful anticipative

understanding Also we sacrifice to the good and bountiful Armaiti (the ready mind). And we

worship her together with the bountiful creatures in the creation of the pure. And we sacrifice

to the holy creatures who have intelligence as their first, (to those foremost in their mind).

And we worship the omniscient understanding, and Him who is Ahura Mazda (Himself). 2.

And we sacrifice to the shining sun, which is the highest of the high; yea, we worship the sun

together with the Bountiful Immortals, and the Mathras with their good ceremonies. Also we

sacrifice to the glorious achievements, and to this glory (which we have gained). And we

sacrifice to the herds which have the Fire and its blessings. Also we worship the holy benefit

which is so widely diffused, and that wisdom which is the bounteous Armaiti, whose are the

laws of the Righteous Order, and of those holy creatures who have Righteousness as their

1. (Homage to the Gatha Vohukhshathra! We sacrifice to the Vohukhshathra), (the good

kingdom) even the Khshathravairya, the kingdom to be desired; and we sacrifice to the iron

founding, and to the (sacrificial) words correctly spoken which smite (the foe) with victory,

And we worship that reward and that health, that healing and that progress, that growth and

that victorious smiting (2) which are between the Vohukhshathra and the Vahishtoishti, (and

which are acquired by us) by the memorized recital of the good thoughts, good words, and

good deeds, for the withstanding of evil thoughts, and words, and deeds; yea, for the undoing

of all treacherous thoughts (directed) against me, and of all false words, and unfair deeds. 3.

[And we sacrifice to the later Yasna, the heroic Haptanghaiti, (and which as it recurs

1. We strive earnestly, and we take up our Yasna and our homage to the good waters, and to the

fertile fruittrees (which bear as of themselves), and to the Fravashis of the saints; yea, we

take up our Yasna, and our homage earnestly to those beings which are (so) good, the waters,

and the trees, and the Fravashis of the saints, (2) and to the Kine, and to Gaya (Maretan),

and to the Mathra Spenta (the bounteous wordofreason), the holy, which works (within and

for us with effect), to these we take up our Yasnas and our homage with earnest zeal, and to

Thee, O Ahura Mazda I and to thee, O Zarathushtra, we do the same; and to thee, O lofty

lord (the Apamnapat), and to the Bountiful Immortals. 3. And we sacrifice to the listening

(that hears our prayers) and to that mercy, and to the hearing of (our spoken) homage, and

to that mercy which is (shown in response to our offered) praise. And we sacrifice to the

fraraiti vidushe, which is contained in the piece hvadaenaish ashaonis; and we sacrifice to 'the

good praise which is without hypocrisy, and which has no malice (as its end)'; and we sacrifice

to the later Yasna and to its offering; and we sacrifice to the chapters of the later Yasna, and

1. With this chant (fully) chanted, and which is for the Bountiful Immortals and the holy

Saoshyants (who are the prophets who shall serve us), and by means of these (ceremonial)

actions, which are (of all) the best, we desire to utter our supplications for the Kine. It is that

chant which the saint has recognized as good and fruitful of blessed gifts, and which the sinner

does not know. May we never reach that (illluck that the sinner) may outstrip us (in our

chanting), not in the matter of a plan (thought out), or of words (delivered), or ceremonies

1. We worship Ahura Mazda as the best (worship to be offered in our gifts). We worship the

Righteousness the Best). And we sacrifice to those (prayers) which are evident as the best;

Also we sacrifice to that best wish, which is that of Asha Vahishta, and we worship Heaven,

which is the best world of the saints, bright and all glorious; and we sacrifice likewise to that

best approach which leads to it. 2. And we sacrifice to that reward, health, healing,

furtherance, and increase, and to that victory which is within the two, the Ahunavairya and

the Airyemaishyo, through the memorized recital of the good thoughts, words, and deeds

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