AvestaZoroastrianismAccepted ScriptureAvestanShareYashts G oS YashtDarmesteter and Mills / Sacred Books of the East - EnglishMoreVersion - 1 availableDarmesteter and Mills / Sacred Books of the EastLanguageEnglishEspañol‹Vendidad Fargard 1Vendidad Fargard 2Vendidad Fargard 3Vendidad Fargard 4Vendidad Fargard 5Vendidad Fargard 6Vendidad Fargard 7Vendidad Fargard 8Vendidad Fargard 9Vendidad Fargard 10Vendidad Fargard 11Vendidad Fargard 12Vendidad Fargard 13Vendidad Fargard 14Vendidad Fargard 15Vendidad Fargard 16Vendidad Fargard 17Vendidad Fargard 18Vendidad Fargard 19Vendidad Fargard 20Vendidad Fargard 21Vendidad Fargard 22Sirozah Sirozah 1Yashts KhorshedSirozah Sirozah 2Yashts Ormazd YashtYashts ArdibehioT 1 YashtYashts Khordad YashtYashts Aban YashtYashts Khorshed YashtYashts Mah YashtYashts Tlr YashtYashts G oS YashtYashts Mihir / Mithra YashtYashts Sraosha Yasht HadhoKhtYashts Rashn YashtYashts Bahram YashtYashts Ram YashtYashts Ashi YashtYashts Aytad YashtYashts Zamyad YashtYashts Van Ant YashtYashts Yasht FragmentYashts Vtetasp YashtNyayis Khorshed? NyayiyNyayis Mihir / Mithra NyayiyNyayis Aban NyayiyNyayis Atay NyayisYasna Yasna 28Yasna Yasna 34Yasna Yasna 30Yasna Yasna 31Yasna Yasna 32Yasna Yasna 33Yasna Yasna 43Yasna Yasna 44Yasna Yasna 11Yasna Yasna 45Yasna Yasna 46Yasna Yasna 47Yasna Yasna 48Yasna Yasna 49Yasna Yasna 50Yasna Yasna 51Yasna Yasna 60Yasna Yasna 53Yasna Yasna 1Yasna Yasna 2Yasna Yasna 3Yasna Yasna 4Yasna Yasna 5Yasna Yasna 6Yasna Yasna 7Yasna Yasna 8Yasna Yasna 9Yasna Yasna 10Yasna Yasna 12Yasna Yasna 13Yasna Yasna 22Yasna Yasna 14Yasna Yasna 15Yasna Yasna 16Yasna Yasna 17Yasna Yasna 19Yasna Yasna 18Yasna Yasna 20Yasna Yasna 21Yasna Yasna 29Yasna Yasna 23Yasna Yasna 24Yasna Yasna 25Yasna Yasna 26Yasna Yasna 27Yasna Yasna 35Yasna Yasna 36Yasna Yasna 37Yasna Yasna 38Yasna Yasna 39Yasna Yasna 40Yasna Yasna 41Yasna Yasna 42Yasna Yasna 52Yasna Yasna 54Yasna Yasna 55Yasna Yasna 56Yasna Yasna 57Yasna Yasna 58Yasna Yasna 59Yasna Yasna 61Yasna Yasna 62Yasna Yasna 65Yasna Yasna 66Yasna Yasna 68Yasna Yasna 70Yasna Yasna 71Yasna Yasna 72Visparad Visparad 1Visparad Visparad 2Visparad Visparad 11Visparad Visparad 3Visparad Visparad 4Visparad Visparad 5Visparad Visparad 7Visparad Visparad 8Visparad Visparad 9Visparad Visparad 10Visparad Visparad 12Visparad Visparad 13Visparad Visparad 14Visparad Visparad 15Visparad Visparad 16Visparad Visparad 18Visparad Visparad 19Visparad Visparad 20Visparad Visparad 21Visparad Visparad 23Afrinagan AfrinaganGahs Gah 1Gahs Gah 2Gahs Gah 3Gahs Gah 4Gahs Gah 5Miscellaneous Fragments Fragment 1Miscellaneous Fragments Fragment 2Miscellaneous Fragments Fragment 3Miscellaneous Fragments Fragment 4Miscellaneous Fragments Fragment 5Miscellaneous Fragments Miscellaneous FragmentsMiscellaneous Fragments Fragment 9›G oS YashtYashts G oS YashtListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1We sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health, the herds in health, the grown-up 1 (cattle) in health, the young ones in health; who watches well from afar, with a wide-spread and long-continued welfare¬ giving friendship; 2Who yokes teams of horses, who makes her chariot turn and its wheels sound, fat and glistening 2, strong, tail-formed, weal-possessing, health-giving, powerful to stand and powerful to turn for assistance to the faithful. 3To her did Haoshyangha, the Paradhata 3, offer up a sacrifice on the enclosure of the Hara, the beautiful height, made by Mazda, with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, and ten thousand lambs, and with an offering of libations: 4‘ Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that I may overcome all the Daevas of Mazana 4; that I may never fear and bow through terror before the Dafivas, but that all the Daevas may fear and bow in spite of themselves before me, that they may fear and flee down to darkness 5.’ 5The powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the maintainer, granted him that boon, as he was offering libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him that boon. 6For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth being heard; I will offer her a sacrifice well performed, namely, unto the powerful VASTS AND siROZAHS. Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy. We offer up libations to the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy; we offer her the Haoma and meat, the baresma, the wisdom of the tongue, the holy spells, the speech, the deeds, the libations, and the rightlyspoken words. Y en h£ h&tam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda... d 7We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health.... Who yokes teams of horses.... for assistance to the faithful 2. 8To her did Yima Khsha£ta, the good shepherd, offer up a sacrifice from the height Hukairya, with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs, and with an offering of libations: 9‘ Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that I may bring fatness and flocks down to the world created by Mazda; that I may bring immortality down to the world created by Mazda; 10‘That I may take away both hunger and thirst, from the world created by Mazda; that I may take away both old age and death, from the world created by Mazda; that I may take away both hot wind and cold wind, from the world created by Mazda, for a thousand years 3.’ 11The powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the maintainer, granted him that boon, 525-27. g6,s vast. as he was offering up libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him that boon. For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth being heard.... 12We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health.... Who yokes teams of horses.... for assistance to the faithful. 14‘ Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that I may overcome A.si Dahaka, the three-mouthed, the three-headed, the six-eyed, who has a thousand senses, that most powerful, fiendish "Drag, that demon, baleful to the world, the strongest Drug that Angra Mainyu created against the mate¬ rial world, to destroy the world of the good principle; and that I may deliver his two wives, Savanghavai and ErenavaA who are the fairest of body amongst women, and the most wonderful creatures in the world 1.’ 15The powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the maintainer, granted him that boon, as he was offering up libations, giving gifts, sacri¬ ficing, and entreating that she would grant him that boon. For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth being heard.... YASTS AND sfROZAHS. 16We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy, who keeps flocks in health.... Who yokes teams of horses.... for assistance to the faithful. 18‘ Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that I may bind the Turanian murderer, Franghrasyan 3, that I may drag him bound, that I may bring him bound unto king Husravah, that king Husravah may kill him, behind the ATae^asta lake 4, the deep lake of salt 5 waters, to avenge the murder of his father Syavarshana 0, a man, and of Aghraeratha, a semi-man 7.’ rath) was a brother of Afrasyab’s; he was a righteous man, and Afrasyab killed him for his having saved the Iranian king Minokihr with his army, when captive in the Padashkhvar mountains (Bundahif XXXI, 21). Yet he is still living as an immortal in the land of Saukavastan, under the name of Gdpatshah (the king of the bulls); ‘ from foot to mid-body he is a bull, and from mid-body to 19The powerful Drvdspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the maintainer, granted him that boon, as he was offering up libations, giving gifts, sacri¬ ficing, and entreating that she would give him that boon. For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth being heard.... 20We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health.... Who yokes teams of horses.... for assistance to the faithful. 22‘ Grant me this boon, Ogood, most beneficent Drvaspa! that I may kill the Turanian murderer, Franghrasyan, behind the A'a&£asta lake, the deep lake of salt waters, to avenge the murder of my father Syavarshana, a man, and of Aghraeratha, a semi-man 2.’ 23The powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the maintainer, granted him that boon, as he was offering up libations, giving gifts, sacrithe top he is a man; at all times he stays on the sea-shore, and always performs the worship of God, and always pours holy-water into the sea’ (Minokhired LXII, 31 seq., tr. West; Bund. XXIX, 5); according to Bund. XXXI, 20, Aghrerath was not Gopatshah, he was his father. Cf. Yt. XIX, 93. 1X6 VASTS AND SIR.6 zAHS. ficing, and entreating that she would grant him that boon. For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth being heard.... 24We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health.... Who yokes teams of horses.... for assistance to the faithful. 26‘ O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! grant me this boon, that I may bring the good and noble Hutaosa 1 2 to think according to the law, to speak according to the law, to do according to the law, that she may spread my Mazdean law and make it known, and that she may bestow beautiful praises upon my deeds.’ 27The strong Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the maintainer, granted him that boon, as he was offering up libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him that boon. For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth being heard.... ii 7 28We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health.... Who yokes teams of horses.... for assistance to the faithful. 30‘ Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that I may put to flight A-sta-aurva/z^, the son of Vlspa-thaurv6-asti, the all-afflicting, of the brazen helmet, of the brazen armour, of the thick neck, behind whom seven hundred camels.... 2; that I may put to flight the /Ayaona murderer, Are.ga.taspa 3; that I may put to flight Dardnika 4, the wor¬ shipper of the Daevas; 31And that I may smite Tathravazd 5 of the bad law; that I may smite Spiavauruska 4, the wor¬ shipper of the Daevas; and that I may bring unto the good law the nations of the Varedhakas and of the Hv yaonas 6; and that I may smite of the Hv yaona nations their fifties and their hundreds, their hun¬ dreds and their thousands, their thousands and their tens of thousands, their tens of thousands and their myriads of myriads. 32The strong Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the maintainer, granted him that boon, as he was offering up libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him that boon. For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth being heard; I will offer her a sacrifice well performed, namely, unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy. We offer up libations to the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy; we offer her the Haoma and meat, the baresma, the wisdom of the tongue, the holy spells, the speech, the deeds, the libations, and the rightly-spoken words. Yathfl ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holi¬ ness.... I bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and vigour of the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy. Ashem Vohfi: Holiness is the best of all good.... [Give] unto that man brightness and glory, give him health of body,.... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones. ‹Previous chapterYashts Tlr YashtNext chapterYashts Mihir / Mithra Yasht›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public-domain 1880/1883/1887 English translation