AvestaZoroastrianismAccepted ScriptureAvestanShareYashts Sraosha Yasht HadhoKhtDarmesteter 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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The Srosh Yart Hadhokht is recited every day, during any gah except the Rapitvin. A Pahlavi translation of this Yast is extant (East India Office, XII, 102; Paris, Supplement Persan, XXXIII, 259; edited in fitudes Iraniennes, II), and Anquetil mentions a Sanskrit translation. o. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced!.... Ashem Vohii: Holiness is the best of all good.... I confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathustra, one who hates the Daevas and obeys the laws of Ahura; For sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto [Havani], the holy and master of holiness.... Unto the holy, strong Sraosha, who is the incar¬ nate Word, a mighty-speared and lordly god, Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification. Yathd ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness.... Pahlavi Texts, I, 225, note); cf. Introd. to Yt. XXI. l6o VASTS AND SIROZAHS. 1We sacrifice unto the holy, tail-formed, fiendsmiting Sraosha, who makes the world increase, the holy and master of holiness. Good prayer, excellent prayer to the worlds 1, O Zarathustra! 2This it is that takes away the friendship of the fiend and fiends, of the he-fiend and of the shefiend; it turns away in giddiness their eyes, minds, ears 2, hands, feet, mouths, and tongues 3; as good prayer, withotft deceit and without harm, is Manly Courage 4, and turns away the Drug - 5. 3The holy Sraosha, the best protector of the poor, is fiend-smiting; he is the best smiter of the Drug-. The faithful one who pronounces most words of blessing is the most victorious in victory; the Mathra Spewta takes best the unseen Dru^- away. The Ahuna Vairya 6 is the best fiend-smiter among all spells; the word of truth is the fighter 7 that is the best of all fiend-smiters. The Law of the worshippers of Mazda is the truest giver of all the good things, of all those that are the offspring of the good principle; and so is the Law of Zarathustra. 4And he who should pronounce that word 8, O Zarathustra! either a man or a woman, with a mind all intent on holiness, with words all intent on i6x holiness, with deeds all intent on holiness, when he is in fear either of high waters or of the darkness of a rainy night; Or at the fords of a river, or at the branching-off of roads; Or in the meeting together of the faithful, or the rushing together of the worshippers of the Daevas 1; 5Whether on the road 2 or in the law 3 he has to fear, not in that day nor in that night shall the tormenting fiend, who wants to torment him, prevail to throw upon him the look of his evil eye, and the malice of the thief 4 5 who carries off cattle shall not reach him. 6Pronounce then that word, O Zarathustra! that word to be spoken 6, when thou fall upon the idola¬ ters 6 and thieves and Daevas rushing together. Then the malice of the wicked worshippers of the Daevas, of the Yatus and their followers, of the Pairikas and their followers, will be affrighted and rush away. Down are the Daevas! Down are the Daeva-worshippers, and they take back their mouths from biting 7. flict, according as it refers to the faithful or to the idolaters. 1.62 7And therefore we take around us the holynatured Sraosha, the holy, the fiend-smiter, as one does with shepherds’ dogs; therefore we sacrifice unto the holy-natured Sraosha, the holy, the fiendsmiter, with good thoughts, good words, and good deeds. So may the holy Sraosha, the fiend-smiter, come to us for help! 9We worship the holy Sraosha; we worship the great master, Ahura Mazda, who is supreme in holi¬ ness, who is the foremost to do deeds of holiness. We worship all the words 6 of Zarathartra, and all the good deeds, those done and those to be done. Y6»he hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda.... io e. We sacrifice unto the holy, tail-formed, fiend-smiting Sraosha, who makes the world increase, the holy and master of holiness; Who strikes the evil-doing 7 man, who strikes the evil-doing woman; who smites the fiendish SROSH YAST IiAdh6kHT. 1 63 Dru^', and is most strong and world - destroying; who maintains and looks over all this moving 1 world; 11Who, never sleeping, wakefully guards the creation of Mazda; who, never sleeping, wakefully maintains the creation of Mazda; who protects all the material world with his club uplifted, from the hour when the sun is down; 12Who never more did enjoy sleep from the time when the two Spirits made the world, namely, the good Spirit and the evil One; who every day, every night, fights with the Mazainya Daevas. 13He bows not for fear and fright before the Daevas: before him all the Daevas bow for fear and fright reluctantly, and rush away to darkness 3. For his brightness and glory, for his strength and victorious power.... 3 14Yatha ahu vairyd: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness.... We sacrifice unto the holy, tail-formed, fiend-smiting Sraosha, who makes the world increase, the holy and master of holiness; Who with peace and friendship 4 watches the Dru^y and the most beneficent Spirit: so that the Amesha- Spewtas may go along the seven Karsh - vares of the earth 6; who is the teacher of the Law 1: he himself was taught it by Ahura Mazda, the holy One. For his brightness and glory, for his strength and victorious power.... 15Yatha ahft vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness.... We sacrifice unto the holy, tail-formed, fiend-smiting Sraosha, who makes the world increase, the holy and master of holiness; Whom the holy Ahura Mazda has created to withstand Aeshma, the fiend of the wounding spear; we sacrifice unto Peace, whose breath is friendly, and unto the two withstanders of sin and guilt 2, 16The friends of the holy Sraosha; The friends of Rashnu Razhta 3; The friends of the good Law of the worshippers of Mazda; The friends of Arsd/ 4, who makes the world grow, who makes the world increase, who makes the world prosper; The friends of Ashi Vanguhi 5; The friends of the good Austi 6; The friends of the most right Wista 7; the two genii here alluded to are Anfistareta and Amuyamna, Sinlessness and Innocence, who are invoked in company with Akhjti hamvamti in Visperad VIII, 4.! See Yt. XII. 4 See Yt. XVII. « See Vend. XIX, 39. 6 See ibid. x 7. The friends of all gods; The friends of the Mathra Spewta; The friends of the fiend-destroying Law; The friends of the long-traditional teaching; The friends of the Amesha-Spewtas; The friends of ourselves, the Saoshyaw/s 1, the two-footed part of the holy creation; The friends of all the beings of the holy world. For his brightness and glory, for his strength and victorious power.... 18Yatha ahfi vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness.... We sacrifice unto the holy, tail-formed, fiend-smiting Sraosha, who makes the world increase, the holy and master of holiness; The first [Sraosha], the next, the middle, and the highest; with the first sacrifice, with the next, with the middle, and with the highest 2. We sacrifice unto all [the moments] 3 of the holy and strong Sraosha, who is the incarnate Word; 19The strong Sraosha, of the manly courage, the warrior of the strong arms, who breaks the skulls of the Daevas; who smites with heavy blows 4 and is strong to smite; the holy Sraosha, who smites with heavy blows; we sacrifice unto the crushing Ascendant of both the holy Sraosha and Arsti 1. 21We sacrifice unto the body of the holy Sraosha; We sacrifice unto the body of Rashnu Razbta; We sacrifice unto the body of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures; We sacrifice unto the body of the holy wind; We sacrifice unto the body of the good Law of the worshippers of Mazda; We sacrifice unto the body of Arstai, who makes the world grow, who makes the world increase, who makes the world prosper; We sacrifice unto the body of Ashi Vanguhi; We sacrifice unto the body of the good Wisti; We sacrifice unto the body of the most right Alsta; We sacrifice unto the bodies of all the gods; 22We sacrifice unto the body of the Mathra Spewta; We sacrifice unto the body of the fiend-destroying Law; We sacrifice unto the body of the long-traditional teaching; We sacrifice unto the bodies of the Amesha- Spe«tas; We sacrifice unto the bodies of ourselves, the Saoshya«/s, the two-footed part of the holy crea¬ tion; We sacrifice unto the bodies of all the beings of the holy world 1. For his brightness and glory, for his strength and victorious power.... 23Yatha ahft vairyd: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness.... I bless the sacrifice and prayer, the strength and vigour of the holy, strong Sraosha, who is the in¬ carnate Word, a mighty-speared and lordly god. [Give] unto that man 4 brightness and glory,.... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones! Who sacrifices to Sraosha. ‹Previous chapterYashts Mihir / Mithra YashtNext chapterYashts Rashn 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