AvestaZoroastrianismAccepted ScriptureAvestanShareYashts Ormazd 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? 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What is the most victorious? What is the most glorious? What is the most effective? 2‘ What is the most fiend-smiting? What is the best-healing? What destroyeth best the malice of Daevas and Men? What maketh the material world best come to the fulfilment of its wishes®? What freeth the material world best from the anxieties of the heart 6?’ YASTS AND SIRdZAHS. 3Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Our Name, O Spitama Zarathustra! who are the Amesha-Spe«tas, that is the strongest part of the Holy Word; that is the most victorious; that is the most glorious; that is the most effective; 4‘That is the most fiend-smiting; that is the best¬ healing; that destroyeth best the malice of Daevas 'and Men; that maketh the material world best come to the fulfilment of its wishes; that freeth the material world best from the anxieties of the heart.’ 5Then Zarathmtra said: ‘ Reveal unto me that name of thine, O Ahura Mazda! that is the greatest, the best, the fairest, the most effective, the most fiend-smiting, the best-healing, that destroyeth best the malice of Daevas and Men; 6‘ That I may afflict all Daevas and Men; that I may afflict all Yatus and Pairikas 1; that neither Daevas nor Men may be able to afflict me; neither Yatus nor Pairikas.’ 7Ahura Mazda replied unto him: ‘My name is the One of whom questions are asked 2, O holy Zarathustra! ‘ My second name is the Herd-giver 3. ‘ My third name is the Strong One 4. (Phi. tr.); vitarkawSm asti mushakatara (Sansk. tr.); ^ La. (Pers. tr,).! As the revealer of the law, which is generally expounded by a process of questions from Z.arathurtra and answers from Ahura. The revelation itself is called spewtd frasna, ‘ the holy, questions’ (Vendidad XXII, 19). ‘My fourth name is Perfect Holiness 1. ‘My fifth name is All good things created by Mazda, the offspring of the holy principle. ‘ My sixth name is Understanding 2; ‘My seventh name is the One with under¬ standing. ‘My eighth name is Knowledge; ‘ My ninth name is the One with Knowledge. 8‘ My tenth name is Weal; ‘ My eleventh name is He who produces weal. ‘ My twelfth name is Ahura (the Lord) 3. ‘ My thirteenth name is the most Beneficent. ‘My fourteenth name is He in whom there is no harm 4 *. ‘Myfifteenth name is the unconquerable One. ‘My sixteenth name is He who makes the true account 6. ‘My seventeenth name is the All-seeing One. ‘ My eighteenth name is the healing One. ‘My nineteenth name is the Creator. ‘ My twentieth name is Mazda (the All-knowing One). 9‘Worship me, O Zarathustra, by day and by tr.); praka/am gawanakaras kila puwyapapayos sankhyam aham karomi (Sansk. tr.). Cf. Yasna XXXII, 6, b. night, with offerings of libations well accepted 1. I will come unto thee for help and joy, I, Ahura Mazda; the good, holy Sraosha will come unto thee for help and joy; the waters, the plants, and the Fravashis of the holy ones will come unto thee for help and joy. io. ‘If thou wantest, O Zarathustra, to destroy the malice of Daevas and Men, of the Yatus and Pairikas, of the oppressors, of the blind and of the deaf 2, of the two-legged ruffians 3, of the two-legged Ashemaoghas 4 5, of the four-legged wolves; xi. ‘And of the hordes with the wide front, with the many spears s, with the straight spears, with the spears uplifted, bearing the spear of havock; then, recite thou these my names every day and every night. drafra,"has preserved the two meanings. The Sanskrit translation has.rastra, the Persian has AL*. 12‘I am the Keeper 1; I am the Creator and the Maintainer 2; I am the Discerner 3; I am the most beneficent Spirit. ‘ My name is the bestower of health; my name is the best bestower of health. ‘My name is the Athravan 4; my name is the most Athravan-like of all Athravans. ‘ My name is Ahura (the Lord). ‘My name is the Holy; my name is the most H oly. ‘My name is the Glorious; my name is the most Glorious. ‘My name is the Full-seeing; my name is the Fullest-seeing. ‘My name is the Far-seeing; my name is the Farthest-seeing. 13‘My name is the Protector; my name is the Well-wisher; my name is the Creator; my name is the K eeper; my name is the Maintainer. ‘My name is the Discerner; my name is the Best Discerner. ‘My name is the Prosperity-producer 5; my name is the Word of Prosperity 6. ‘ My name is the King who rules at his will; s 1 1 can know what is useful and what is hurtful ’ (ibid.). VASTS AND SIRdZAHS. my name is the King who rules most at his will. ‘ My name is the liberal King 1; my name is the most liberal King. 14‘ My name is He who does not deceive; my name is He who is not deceived. ‘My name is the good Keeper; my name is He who destroys malice; my name is He who con¬ quers at once; my name is He who conquers everything; my name is He who has shaped everything 2. ‘ My name is All weal; my name is Full weal; my name is the Master of weal. 15‘My name is He who can benefit at his wish; my name is He who can best benefit at his wish. ‘ My name is the Beneficent One; my name is the Energetic One; my name is the most Bene¬ ficent. ‘ My name is Holiness; my name is the Great One; my name is the good Sovereign; my name is the Best of Sovereigns. ‘My name is the Wise One; my name is the Wisest of the Wise; my name is He who does good for a long time. 16‘ These are my names. ‘ And he who in this material world, O Spitama Zarathustra! shall recite and pronounce those names of mine 3 either by day or by night; 17‘He who shall pronounce them, when he rises up or when he lays him down; when he lays him down or when he rises up; when he binds on the sacred girdle 1 or when he unbinds the sacred girdle; when he goes out of his dwelling-place, or when he goes out of his town, or when he goes out of his country and comes into another country; 18‘That man, neither in that day nor in that night, shall be wounded by the weapons of the foe who rushes Aeshma-like 2 and is Dru^-minded; not the knife, not the cross-bow, not the arrow, not the sword, not the club, not the sling-stone 3 shall reach and wound him. 19‘But those names shall come in to keep him from behind and to keep him in front 4, from the Dru^ - unseen, from the female Varenya fiend 5 6, from the evil-doer 8 bent on mischief 7, and from that fiend who is all death, Angra Mainyu. It will be as if there were a thousand men watching over one man 8. 20‘ “ Who is he who will smite the fiend in order to maintain thy ordinances? Teach me clearly thy s Akavd, £akav6, ishavo, kareta, vazra, translated kartari, /Sakra, s ara, rastrikl, va^ra. VASTS AND s!r6zAIIS. rules for this world and for the next, that Sraosha may come with Vohu-Mano and help whomsoever thou pleasest 1.” 21‘ Hail to the Glory of the Kavis 2! Hail to the Airyanem Vad^ah 3! Hail to the Saoka 4, made by Mazda! Hail to the waters of the Daitya 5 6! Hail to Ardvi 8, the undefiled well! Hail to the whole world of the holy Spirit! ‘ Yatha ahfi vairyo: The will of the Lord..., 7 ‘Ashem Vohfi: Holiness is the best of all good.... 8 22‘We worship the Ahuna Vairya 9. We worship Asha-Vahbta, most fair, undying, and beneficent 10. We worship Strength and Prosperity and Might and Victory and Glory and Vigour 11. We worship Ahura Mazda, bright and glorious. ‘ Yenghe hdtam 12: All those beings 13 of whom Ahura Mazda knows the goodness 14 for a sacrifice (Honover), from the first words in it; ahu vairyd. See above, p. 23. [performed] in holiness, all those beings, males 1 and females 2 3, do we worship. 23‘Yatha ahfi vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness.... ‘ I bless the sacrifice and the prayer unto Ahura Mazda, bright and glorious, and his strength and vigour V (Bahman Yart 4.) 24‘ O Zarathustra! keep thou for ever that man who is friendly [to me] from the foe unfriendly [to me]! Do not give up that friend unto the stroke (of the foe), unto vexations to be borne; wish no harm unto that man who would offer me a sacrifice, be it ever so great or ever so small, if it has reached unto us, the Amesha-Spe^tas. 251 Here is Vohu-Mano, my creature, O Zarathustra! here is Asha-VahLrta, my creature, O Zarathustra! here is Khsathra-Vairya, my creature, O Zarathustra! here is Spe^ta-Armaiti, my creature, O Zarathustra! here are Haurvata^ and Amereta/, who are the reward of the holy ones 5, when freed from their bodies, my creatures, O Zarathmtra! 26‘ Thou knowest this, and how it is, O holy Zarathuitra! from my understanding and from my knowledge; namely, how the world first began 6, and how it will end 7. ‘ A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies 1! ‘ A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies! ‘ A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies! 27‘[We worship] the well-shapen, tail-formed Strength; Verethraghna, made by Ahura; the crush¬ ing Ascendant 2, and Spe^ta-Armaiti. 28‘ And with the help of Spe;zta-Armaiti, break ye 3 asunder their 4 malice, turn their minds astray, bind their hands, make their knees quake against one another, bind their tongues*. ‘ When, O Mazda! shall the faithful smite the wicked 6? When shall the faithful smite the Dru^"? When shall the faithful smite the wicked?’ 29Then Zarathustra said: ‘ I threw you back into the earth 7, and by the eyes of Spe«ta-Armaiti 8 the ruffian was made powerless 9. 30‘ We worship the powerful Gaokerena 10, made by Mazda; the powerful Gaokerena, made by Mazda. 31‘ We worship the memory of Ahura Mazda, to keep the Holy Word. ‘ We worship the tongue of Ahura Mazda, to speak forth the Holy Word. paragraph. said to have obliged the Daevas to hide themselves in the earth. ‘ We worship the mountain that gives under¬ standing, that preserves understanding 1; [we worship it] by day and by night, with offerings of libations well-accepted 2. 32‘We worship that creation [of Ahura’s], Spe#ta- Armaiti; and the holy creations of that creature and of Asha [Vahhta], that are foremost in holiness®. ‘ Here I take as lord and master 4 the greatest of all, Ahura Mazda; to smite the fiend Angra Mainyu; to smite A&sma of the wounding spear 5; to smite the M&zainya fiends 6; to smite all the Daevas and the Varenya fiends 6; to increase Ahura Mazda, ‘A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies! (three times; cf. above, § 26.) We worship the Fravashi of the man whose name is Asm6hvanvant ■, then I will worship the Fravashis of the other holy ones who were strong of faith ’ (Yt. XXII, 37). Asmb-hvarwant was one of the first followers of Zarathustra, and with his name begins the enumeration of the Fravashis (Yt. XIII, 96). Then follows § 30, and then again § 31 with the Ashem Vohu; and then the additional passage, ‘Weworship....,’is repeated twice. bright and glorious; to increase the Amesha-Spe?ztas; to increase the star TLstrya 1, the bright and glorious; to increase the faithful men; to increase all the holy creatures of the Beneficent Spirit. ‘Ashem Vohft: Holiness is the best of all good.... 2 33‘[Give] unto that man 3 brightness and glory, give him health of body, give him sturdiness of body, give him victorious strength of body, give him full welfare of wealth, give him a virtuous 4 offspring, give him long, long life, give him the bright, allhappy, blissful abode of the holy Ones 6. ‘ May it come according to my blessing 6! ‘ A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies 7! (three times.) ‘ Come to me for help, O Mazda! ‘We worship the well-shapen, tail-formed Strength, and Verethraghna, made by Mazda, and the crushing Ascendant 8. ‘We worship Rama AAastra, andVayu who works highly and is more powerful to destroy than all other creatures. That part of thee do we worship, O Vayu, that belongs to Spewta Mainyu. We wor¬ ship the sovereign Sky, the boundless Time, and the sovereign Time of the long Period 9. ‘Ashem Vohft: Holiness is the best of all good....’ ‹Previous chapterSirozah Sirozah 2Next chapterYashts ArdibehioT 1 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