Khorda Avesta

Book of Common Prayers
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CONTENTS

10. Mihr Yasht
11. Srosh Yasht Hadokht
11a. Srosh Yasht

10. Mihr Yasht (Hymn to Mithra)

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0. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced!....
Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....
I confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathushtra,
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 Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, who has a thousand ears,
ten thousand eyes, a Yazata invoked by his own name, and unto
Rama Hvastra,
Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.

Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....

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1. Ahura Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathushtra, saying: 'Verily,
when I created Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, O Spitama! I
created him as worthy of sacrifice, as worthy of prayer as myself
Ahura Mazda.
2. 'The ruffian who lies unto Mithra brings death unto the whole
country, injuring as much the faithful world as a hundred evil-doers
could do. Break not the contract, O Spitama! neither the one that
thou hadst entered into with one of the unfaithful, nor the one
that thou hadst entered into with one of the faithful who is one
of thy own faith. For Mithra stands for both the faithful and
the unfaithful.
3. 'Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, gives swiftness to the
horses of those who lie not unto Mithra.
'Fire, the son of Ahura Mazda, gives the straightest way to those
who lie not unto Mithra.
'The good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful give a
virtuous offspring to those who lie not unto Mithra.
4. 'For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice
worth being heard, namely, unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures.

'We offer up libations unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,
who gives a happy dwelling and a good dwelling to the Aryan nations.
5. 'May he come to us for help! May he come to us for ease! May
he come to us for joy! May he come to us for mercy! May he come
to us for health! May he come to us for victory! May he come to
us for good conscience! May he come to us for bliss! he, the awful
and overpowering, worthy of sacrifice and prayer, not to be deceived
anywhere in the whole of the material world, Mithra, the lord
of wide pastures.
6. 'I will offer up libations unto him, the strong Yazata, the
powerful Mithra, most beneficent to the creatures: I will apply
unto him with charity and prayers: I will offer up a sacrifice
worth being heard unto him, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,
with the Haoma and meat, with the baresma, with the wisdom of
the tongue, with the holy spells, with the speech, with the deeds,
with the libations, and with the rightly-spoken words. 'Yenhe
hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda....

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7. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, who
is truth-speaking, a chief in assemblies, with a thousand ears,
well-shapen, with ten thousand eyes, high, with full knowledge,
strong, sleepless, and ever awake;
8. 'To whom the chiefs of nations offer up sacrifices, as they
go to the field, against havocking hosts, against enemies coming
in battle array, in the strife of conflicting nations.
9. 'On whichever side he has been worshipped first in the fullness
of faith of a devoted heart, to that side turns Mithra, the lord
of wide pastures, with the fiend-smiting wind, with the cursing
thought of the wise.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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10. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake.
11. 'Whom the horsemen worship on the back of their horses, begging
swiftness for their teams, health for their own bodies, and that
they may watch with full success those who hate them, smite down
their foes, and destroy at one stroke their adversaries, their
enemies, and those who hate them,
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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12. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
13. 'Who first of the heavenly gods reaches over the Hara, before
the undying, swift-horsed sun; who, foremost in a golden array,
takes hold of the beautiful summits, and from thence looks over
the abode of the Aryans with a beneficent eye.
14. 'Where the valiant chiefs draw up their many troops in array;
where the high mountains, rich in pastures and waters, yield plenty
to the cattle; where the deep lakes, with salt waters, stand;
where wide-flowing rivers swell and hurry towards Ishkata and
Pouruta, Mouru and Haroyu, the Gava-Sughdha and Hvairizem;
15. 'On Arezahi and Savahi, on Fradadhafshu and Vidadhafshu, on
Vourubareshti and Vourujareshti, on this bright Karshvare of Hvaniratha,
the abode of cattle, the dwelling of cattle, the powerful Mithra
looks with a health-bringing eye;
16. 'He who moves along all the Karshvares, a Yazata unseen, and
brings glory; he who moves along all the Karshvares, a Yazata
unseen, and brings sovereignty; and increases strength for victory
to those who, with a pious intent, holily offer him libations.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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17. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Unto whom nobody must lie, neither the master of a house, nor
the lord of a borough, nor the lord of a town, nor the lord of
a province.
18. 'If the master of a house lies unto him, or the lord of a
borough, or the lord of a town, or the lord ofa province, then
comes Mithra, angry and offended, and he breaks asunder the house,
the borough, the town, the province; and the masters of the houses,
the lords of the boroughs, the lords of the towns, the lords of
the provinces, and the foremost men of the provinces.
19. 'On whatever side there is one who has lied unto Mithra, on
that side Mithra stands forth, angry and offended, and his wrath
is slow to relent.
20. 'Those who lie unto Mithra, however swift they may be running,
cannot overtake; riding, cannot ....; driving, cannot ..... The
spear that the foe of Mithra flings, darts backwards, for the
number of the evil spells that the foe of Mithra works out.
21. 'And even though the spear be flung well, even though it reach
the body, it makes no wound, for the number of the evil spells
that the foe of Mithra works out. The wind drives away the spear
that the foe of Mithra flings, for the number of the evil spells
that the foe of Mithra works out.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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22. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Who takes out of distress the man who has not lied unto him,
who takes him out of death.
23. 'Take us out of distress, take us out of distresses, O Mithra!
as we have not lied unto thee. Thou bringest down terror upon
the bodies of the men who lie unto Mithra; thou takest away the
strength from their arms, being angry and all-powerful; thou takest
the swiftness from their feet, the eye-sight from their eyes,
the hearing from their ears.
24. 'Not the wound of the well-sharpened spear or of the flying
arrow reaches that man to whom Mithra comes for help with all
the strength of his soul, he, of the ten thousand spies, the powerful,
all-seeing, undeceivable Mithra.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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25. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Who is lordly, deep, strong, and weal-giving; a chief in assemblies,
pleased with prayers, high, holily clever, the incarnate Word,
a warrior with strong arms;
26. 'Who breaks the skulls of the Daevas, and is most cruel in
exacting pains; the punisher of the men who lie unto Mithra, the
withstander of the Pairikas; who, when not deceived, establisheth
nations in supreme strength; who, when not deceived, establisheth
nations in supreme victory;
27. 'Who confounds the ways of the nation that delights in havoc,
who turns away their Glory, takes away their strength for victory,
blows them away helpless, and delivers them unto ten thousand
strokes; he, of the ten thousand spies, the powerful, all-seeing,
undeceivable Mithra.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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28. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Who upholds the columns of the lofty house and makes its pillars
solid; who gives herds of oxen and male children to that house
in which he has been satisfied; he breaks to pieces those in which
he has been offended,
29. 'Thou, O Mithra! art both bad and good to nations; thou, O
Mithra! art both bad and good to men; thou, O Mithra! keepest
in thy hands both peace and trouble for nations.
30. 'Thou makest houses large, beautiful with women, beautiful
with chariots, with well-laid foundations, and high above their
groundwork; thou makest that house lofty, beautiful with women,
beautiful with chariots, with well-laid foundations, and high
above its groundwork, of which the master, pious and holding libations
in his hand, offers thee a sacrifice, in which thou art invoked
by thy own name and with the proper words.
31. 'With a sacrifice, in which thou art invoked by thy own name,
with the proper words will I offer thee libations, O powerful
Mithra!
'With a sacrifice, in which thou art invoked by thy own name,
with the proper words will I offer thee libations, O most beneficent
Mithra!
'With a sacrifice, in which thou art invoked by thy own name,
with the proper words will I offer thee libations, O thou undeceivable
Mithra!
32. 'Listen unto our sacrifice, O Mithra! Be thou pleased with
our sacrifice, O Mithra! Come and sit at our sacrifice! Accept
our libations! Accept them as they have been consecrated! Gather
them together with love and lay them in the Garo-nmana!
33. 'Grant us these boons which we beg of thee, O powerful god
I in accordance with the words of revelation, namely, riches,
strength, and victory, good conscience and bliss, good fame and
a good soul; wisdom and the knowledge that gives happiness, the
victorious strength given by Ahura, the crushing Ascendant of
Asha Vahishta, and conversation (with God) on the Holy Word.
34. 'Grant that we, in a good spirit and high spirit, exalted
in joy and a good spirit, may smite all our foes; that we, in
a good spirit and high spirit, exalted in joy and a good spirit,
may smite all our enemies; that we, in a good spirit and high
spirit, exalted in joy and a good spirit, may smite all the malice
of Daevas and Men, of the Yatus and Pairikas, of the oppressors,
the blind, and the deaf.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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35. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Victory-making, army-governing, endowed with a thousand senses;
power-wielding, power-possessing, and all-knowing;
36. 'Who sets the battle a going, who stands against (armies)
in battle, who, standing against (armies) in battle, breaks asunder
the lines arrayed. The wings of the columns gone to battle shake,
and he throws terror upon the centre of the havocking host.
37. 'He can bring and does bring down upon them distress and fear;
he throws down the heads of those who lie to Mithra, he takes
off the heads of those who lie unto Mithra.
38. 'Sad is the abode, unpeopled with children, where abide men
who lie unto Mithra, and, verily, the fiendish killer of faithful
men. The grazing cow goes a sad straying way, driven along the
vales of the Mithradrujes: they stand on the road, letting tears
run over their chins.
39. 'Their falcon-feathered arrows, shot from the string of the
well-bent bow, fly towards the mark, and hit it not, as Mithra,
the lord of wide pastures, angry, offended, and unsatisfied, comes
and meets them.
'Their spears, well whetted and sharp, their long spears fly from
their hands towards the mark, and hit it not, as Mithra, the lord
of wide pastures, angry, offended, and unsatisfied, comes and
meets them.
40. 'Their swords, well thrust and striking at the heads of men,
hit not the mark, as Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, angry,
offended, and unsatisfied, comes and meets them.
'Their clubs, well falling and striking at the heads of men, hit
not the mark, as Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, angry, offended,
and unsatisfied, comes and meets them.
41. 'Mithra strikes fear into them; Rashnu strikes a counter-fear
into them; the holy Sraosha blows them away from every side towards
the two Yazatas, the maintainers of the world. They make the ranks
of the army melt away, as Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, angry,
offended, and unsatisfied, comes and meets them.
42. 'They cry unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, saying:
"O Mithra, thou lord of wide pastures! here are our fiery
horses taking us away, as they flee from Mithra; here are our
sturdy arms cut to pieces by the sword, O Mithra!"
43. 'And then Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, throws them to
the ground, killing their fifties and their hundreds, their hundreds
and their thousands, their thousands and their tens of thousands,
their tens of thousands and their myriads of myriads; as Mithra,
the lord of wide pastures, is angry and offended,
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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44. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Whose dwelling, wide as the earth, extends over the material
world, large, unconfined, and bright, a far-and-wide-extending
abode.
45. 'Whose eight friends sit as spies for Mithra, on all the heights,
at all the watching-places, observing the man who lies unto Mithra,
looking at those, remembering those who have lied unto Mithra,
but guarding the ways of those whose life is sought by men who
lie unto Mithra, and, verily, by the fiendish killers of faithful
men.
46. 'Helping and guarding, guarding behind and guarding in front,
Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, proves an undeceivable spy
and watcher for the man to whom he comes to help with all the
strength of his soul, he of the ten thousand spies, the powerful,
all-knowing, undeceivable god.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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47. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'A god of high renown and old age, whom wide-hoofed horses carry
against havocking hosts, against enemies coming in battle array,
in the strife of conflicting nations.
48. 'And when Mithra drives along towards the havocking hosts,
towards the enemies coming in battle array, in the strife of the
conflicting nations, then he binds the hands of those who have
lied unto Mithra, he confounds their eye-sight, he takes the hearing
from their ears; they can no longer move their feet; they can
no longer withstand those people, those foes, when Mithra, the
lord of wide pastures, bears them ill-will.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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49. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
50. 'For whom the Maker, Ahura Mazda, has built up a dwelling
on the Hara Berezaiti, the bright mountain around which the many
(stars) revolve where come neither night nor darkness, no cold
wind and no hot wind, no deathful sickness, no uncleanness made
by the Daevas, and the clouds cannot reach up unto the Haraiti
Bareza;
51. 'A dwelling that all the Amesha-Spentas, in one accord with
the sun, made for him in the fullness of faith of a devoted heart,
and he surveys the whole of the material world from the Haraiti
Bareza.
52. 'And when there rushes a wicked worker of evil, swiftly, with
a swift step, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, goes and yokes
his horses to his chariot, along with the holy, powerful Sraosha
and Nairyo-sangha, who strikes a blow that smites the army, that
smites the strength of the malicious.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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53. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
54. 'Who, with hands lifted up, ever cries unto Ahura Mazda, saying:
"I am the kind keeper of all creatures, I am the kind maintainer
of all creatures; yet men worship me not with a sacrifice in which
I am invoked by my own name, as they worship the other gods with
sacrifices in which they are invoked by their own names.
55. '"If men would worship me with a sacrifice in which I
were invoked by my own name, as they worship the other Yazatas
with sacrifices in which they are invoked by their own names,
then I would come to the faithful at the appointed time; I would
come in the appointed time of my beautiful, immortal life."
56. 'But the pious man, holding libations in his hands, does worship
thee with a sacrifice, in which thou art invoked by thy own age,
and with the proper words.
'With a sacrifice, in which thou art invoked by thy own name,
with the proper words will I offer thee libations, O powerful
Mithra!
'With a sacrifice, in which thou art invoked by thy own name,
with the groper words will I offer thee libations, O most beneficent
Mithra!
'With a sacrifice, in which thou art invoked by thy own name,
with the proper words will I offer thee libations, O thou undeceivable
Mithra!
57. 'Listen unto our sacrifice, 'O Mithra! Be thou pleased with
our sacrifice, O Mithra! Come and sit at our sacrifice! Accept
our libations! Accept them as they have been consecrated! Gather
them together with love and lay them in the Garo-nmana!
58. 'Grant us these boons which we beg of thee, O powerful god!
in accordance with the words of revelation, namely, riches, strength,
and victory, good conscience and bliss, good fame and a good soul;
wisdom and the knowledge that gives happiness, the victorious
strength given by Ahura, the crushing Ascendant of Asha-Vahishta,
and conversation (with God) on the Holy Word.
59. 'Grant that we, in a good spirit and high spirit, exalted
in joy and a good spirit, may smite all our foes; that we, in
a good spirit and high spirit, exalted in joy and a good spirit,
may smite all our enemies; that we, in a good spirit and high
spirit, exalted in joy and a good spirit, may smite all the malice
of Daevas and Men, of the Yatus and Pairikas, of the oppressors,
the blind, and the deaf.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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60. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Whose renown is good, whose shape is good, whose glory is good;
who has boons to give at his will, who has pasture-fields to give
at his will; harmless to the tiller of the ground, ...., beneficent;
he, of the ten thousand spies, the powerful, all-knowing, undeceivable
god.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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61. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Firm-legged, a watcher fully awake; valiant, a chief in assemblies;
making the waters flow forward; listening to appeals; making the
waters run and the plants grow up; ruling over the Karshvares;
delivering; happy; undeceivable; endowed with many senses; a creature
of wisdom;
62. 'Who gives neither strength nor vigor to him who has lied
unto Mithra; who gives neither glory nor any boon to him who has
lied unto Mithra.
63. 'Thou takest away the strength from their arms, being angry
and all-powerful; thou takest the swiftness from their feet, the
eye-sight from their eyes, the hearing from their ears.
'Not the wound of the well-sharpened spear or of the flying arrow
reaches that man to whom Mithra comes for help with all the strength
of his soul he of the ten-thousand spies, the powerful all-knowing
undeceivable god. 'For his brightness and glory, I will offer
him a sacrifice worth being heard....

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64. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Who takes possession of the beautiful, wide-expanding law, greatly
and powerfully and whose face looks over all the seven Karshvares
of the earth;
65. 'Who is swift amongst the swift, liberal amongst the liberal,
strong amongst the strong, a chief of assembly amongst the chiefs
of assemblies; increase-giving, fatness-giving, cattle-giving,
sovereignty-giving, son-giving, cheerfulness-giving, and bliss-giving.
66. 'With whom proceed Ashi Vanguhi, and Parendi on her light
chariot, the awful Manly Courage, the awful kingly Glory, the
awful sovereign Sky, the awful cursing thought of the wise, the
awful Fravashis of the faithful, and he who keeps united together
the many faithful worshippers of Mazda.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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67. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Who drives along on his high-wheeled chariot, made of a heavenly
substance, from the Karshvare of Arezahi to the Karshvare of Hvaniratha,
the bright one; accompanied by the wheel of sovereignty, the Glory
made by Mazda, and the Victory made by Ahura;
68. 'Whose chariot is embraced by the great Ashi Vanguhi; to whom
the Law of Mazda opens a way, that he may go easily; whom four
heavenly steeds, white, shining, seen afar, beneficent, endowed
with knowledge, swiftly carry along the heavenly space, while
the cursing thought of the wise pushes it forward;
69. 'From whom all the Daevas unseen and the Varenya fiends flee
away in fear. Oh! may we never fall across the rush of the angry
lord, who goes and rushes from a thousand sides against his foe,
he, of the ten thousand spies, the powerful, all-knowing, undeceivable
god.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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70. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Before whom Verethraghna, made by Ahura, runs opposing the foes
in the shape of a boar, a sharp-toothed he-boar, a sharp-jawed
boar, that kills at one stroke, pursuing, wrathful, with a dripping
face; strong, with iron feet, iron fore-paws, iron weapons, an
iron tail, and iron jaws;
71. 'Who, eagerly clinging to the fleeing foe, along with Manly
Courage, smites the foe in battle, and does not think he has smitten
him, nor does he consider it a blow till he has smitten away the
marrow and the column of life, the marrow and the spring of existence.
72. 'He cuts all the limbs to pieces, and mingles, together with
the earth, the bones, hair, brains, and blood of the men who have
lied unto Mithra.
'For his brightness and glory, we offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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73. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Who, with hands lifted up, rejoicing, cries out, speaking thus:
74. '"O Ahura Mazda, most beneficent spirit! Maker of the
material world, thou Holy One!
'"If men would worship me with a sacrifice in which I were
invoked by my own name, as they worship the other gods with sacrifices
in which they are invoked by their own names, then I should come
to the faithful at the appointed time; I should come in the appointed
time of my beautiful, immortal life."
75. 'May we keep our field; may we never be exiles from our field,
exiles from our house, exiles from our borough, exiles from our
town, exiles from our country.
76. 'Thou dashest in pieces the malice of the malicious, the malice
of the men of malice: dash thou in pieces the killers of faithful
men!
'Thou hast good horses, thou hast a good chariot: thou art bringing
help at every appeal, and art powerful.
77. 'I will pray unto thee for help, with many consecrations,
with good consecrations of libations; with many offerings, with
good offerings of libations, that we, abiding in thee, may long
inhabit a good abode, full of all the riches that can be wished
for.
78. 'Thou keepest those nations that tender a good worship to
Mithra, the lord of wide pastures; thou dashest in pieces those
that delight in havoc. Unto thee will I pray for help: may he
come to us for help, the awful, most powerful Mithra, the worshipful
and praiseworthy, the glorious lord of nations.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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79. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Who made a dwelling for Rashnu, and to whom Rashnu gave all his
soul for long friendship;
80. 'Thou art a keeper and protector of the dwelling of those
who lie not: thou art the maintainer of those who lie not. With
thee hath Verethraghna, made by Ahura, contracted the best of
all friendships, and thus it is how so many men who have lied
unto Mithra, even privately, lie smitten down on the ground.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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81. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Who made a dwelling for Rashnu, and to whom Rashnu gave all his
soul for long friendship;
82. 'To whom Ahura Mazda gave a thousand senses and ten thousand
eyes to see. With those eyes and those senses, he watches the
man who injures Mithra, the man who lies unto Mithra. Through
those eyes and those senses, he is, undeceivable, he, of the ten
thousand spies, the powerful, all-knowing, undeceivable god.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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83. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Whom the lord of the country invokes for help, with hands uplifted;
'Whom the lord of the town invokes for help, with hands uplifted;
84. 'Whom the lord of the borough invokes for help, with hands
uplifted;
'Whom the master of the house invokes for help, with hands uplifted;
'Whom the .... in danger of death invokes for help, with hands
uplifted;
'Whom the poor man, who follows the good law, when wronged and
deprived of his rights, invokes for help, with hands uplifted.
85. 'The voice of his wailing reaches up to the sky, it goes over
the earth all around, it goes over the seven Karshuares, whether
he utters his prayer in a low tone of voice or aloud.
86. 'The cow driven astray invokes him for help, longing for the
stables:
'"When will that bull, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,
bring us back, and make us reach the stables? when wilt he turn
us back to the right way from the den of the Druj where we were
driven?"
87. 'And to him with whom Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, has
been satisfied, he comes with help; and of him with whom Mithra,
the lord of wide pastures, has been offended, he crushes down
the house, the borough, the town, the province, the country.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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88. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'To whom the enlivening, healing, fair, lordly golden-eyed Haoma
offered up a sacrifice on the highest of the heights, on the Haraiti
Bareza, he the undefiled to one undefiled, with undefiled baresma,
undefiled libations, and undefiled words;
89. 'Whom the holy Ahura Mazda has established as a priest, quick
in performing the sacrifice and loud in song. He performed the
sacrifice with a loud voice, as a priest quick in sacrifice and
loud in song, a priest to Ahura Mazda, a priest to the Amesha-Spentas.
His voice reached up to the sky; went over the earth all around,
went over the seven Karshvares.
90. 'Who first lifted up Haomas, in a mortar inlaid with stars
and made of a heavenly substance. Ahura Mazda longed for him,
the Amesha-Spentas longed for him, for the well-shaped body of
him whom the swift-horsed sun awakes for prayer from afar.
91. 'Hail to Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, who has a thousand
ears and ten thousand eyes! Thou art worthy of sacrifice and prayer:
mayest thou have sacrifice and prayer in the houses of men! Hail
to the man who shall offer thee a sacrifice, with the holy wood
in his hand, the baresma in his hand, the holy meat in his hand,
the holy mortar in his hand, with his hands well-washed, with
the mortar well-washed, with the bundles of baresma tied up, the
Haoma uplifted, and the Ahuna Vairya sung through.
92. 'The holy Ahura Mazda confessed that religion and so did Vohu-Mano,
so did Asha-Vahishta, so did Khshathra-Vairya, so did Spenta-Armaiti,
so did Haurvatat and Ameretat; and all the Amesha-Spentas longed
for and confessed his religion. The kind Mazda conferred upon
him the mastership of the world; and [so did they] who saw thee
amongst all creatures the right lord and master of the world,
the best cleanser of these creatures.
93. 'So mayest thou in both worlds, mayest thou keep us in both
worlds, O Mithra, lord of wide pastures! both in this material
world and in the world of the spirit, from the fiend of Death,
from the fiend Aeshma, from the fiendish hordes, that lift up
the spear of havoc, and from the onsets of Aeshma, wherein the
evil-doing Aeshma rushes along with Vidotu, made by the Daevas.
94. 'So mayest thou, O Mithra, lord of wide pastures! give swiftness
to our teams, strength to our own bodies, and that we may watch
with full success those who hate us, smite down our foes, and
destroy at one stroke our adversaries, our enemies and those who
hate us.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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95. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Who goes over the earth, all her breadth over, after the setting
of the sun, touches both ends of this wide, round earth, whose
ends tie afar, and surveys everything that is between the earth
and the heavens,
96. 'Swinging in his hands a club with a hundred knots, a hundred
edges, that rushes forwards and fells men down; a club cast out
of red brass, of strong, golden brass; the strongest of all weapons,
the most victorious of all weapons;
97. 'From whom Angra Mainyu, who is all death, flees away in fear;
from whom Aeshma, the evil-doing Peshotanu, flees away in fear;
from whom the long-handed Bushyasta flees away in fear; from whom
all the Daevas unseen and the Varenya fiends flee away in fear.
98. 'Oh! may we never fall across the rush of Mithra, the lord
of wide pastures, when in anger! May Mithra, the lord of wide
pastures, never smite us in his anger; he who stands up upon this
earth as the strongest of all gods, the most valiant of all gods,
the most energetic of all god , the swiftest of all gods, the most
fiend-smiting of all gods, he, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures.

'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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99. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'From whom all the Daevas unseen and the Varenya fiends flee away
in fear.
'The lord of nations, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, drives
forward at the right-hand side of this wide, round earth, whose
ends lie afar.
100. 'At his right hand drives the good, holy Sraosha; at his left
hand drives the tall and strong Rashnu; on all sides around him
drive the waters, the plants, and the Fravashis of the faithful.
101. 'In his might, he ever brings to them falcon-feathered arrows,
and, when diving, he himself comes there, where are nations,
enemy to Mithra, he, first and foremost, strikes blows with his
club on the horse and his rider; he throws fear and fright upon
the horse and his rider.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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102. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'The warrior of the white horse, of the sharp spear, the tong
spear, the quick arrows; foreseeing and clever;
103. 'Whom Ahura Mazda has established to maintain and look over
all this moving world, and who maintains and looks over all this
moving world; who, never sleeping, wakefully guards the creation
of Mazda; who, never sleeping, wakefully maintains the creation
of Mazda;
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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104. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Whose long arms, strong with Mithra-strength, encompass what
he seizes in the easternmost river and what he beats with the
westernmost river, what is by the Sanaka of the Rangha and what
is by the boundary of the earth.
105. 'And thou, O Mithra! encompassing all this around, do thou
reach it, all over, with thy arms.
'The man without glory, led astray from the right way, grieves
in his heart; the man without glory thinks thus in himself: "That
careless Mithra does not see all the evil that is done, nor all
the lies that are told."
106. 'But I think thus in my heart:
'"Should the evil thoughts of the earthly man be a hundred
times worse, they would not rise so high as the good thoughts
of the heavenly Mithra;
'"Should the evil words of the earthly man be a hundred times
worse, they would not rise so high as the good words of the heavenly
Mithra;
'"Should the evil deeds of the earthly man be a hundred times
worse, they would not rise so high as the good deeds of the heavenly
Mithra;
107. '"Should the heavenly wisdom in the earthly man be a
hundred times greater, it would not rise so high as the heavenly
wisdom in the heavenly Mithra;
''And thus, should the ears of the earthly man hear a hundred
time better, he would not hear so well as the heavenly Mithra,
whose ear hears well who has a thousand senses, and sees every
man that tells a lie."
'Mithra stands up in his strength, he drives in the awfulness
of royalty, and sends from his eyes beautiful looks that shine
from afar, (saying):
108. '"Who will offer me a sacrifice? Who will lie unto me? Who
thinks me a god worthy of a good sacrifice? Who thinks me worthy
only of a bad sacrifice? To whom shall I, in my might, impart
brightness and glory? To whom bodily health? To whom shall I,
in my might, impart riches and full weal? Whom shall I bless by
raising him a virtuous offspring?
109. '"To whom shall I give in return, without his thinking
of it, the awful sovereignty, beautifully. arrayed, with many
armies, and most perfect; the sovereignty of an all-powerful tyrant,
who fells down heads, valiant, smiting, and unsmitten; who orders
chastisement to be done and his order is done at once, which he
has ordered in his anger?"
'O Mithra! when thou art offended and not satisfied, he soothes
thy mind, and makes Mithra satisfied.
110. '"To whom shall I, in my might, impart sickness and death?
To whom shall I impart poverty and sterility? Of whom shall I
at one stroke cut off the offspring!
111. '"From whom shall I take away, without his thinking of
it, the awful sovereignty, beautifully arrayed, with many armies,
and most perfect; the sovereignty of an all-powerful tyrant, who
fells down heads, valiant, smiting, and unsmitten; who orders
chastisement to be done and his order is done at once, which he
has ordered in his anger."
'O Mithra! while thou art satisfied and not angry, he moves thy
heart to anger, and makes Mithra unsatisfied.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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112. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'A warrior with a silver helm, a golden cuirass, who kills with
the poniard, strong, valiant, lord of the borough. Bright are
the ways of Mithra, by which he goes towards the country, when,
wishing well, he turns its plains and vales to pasture grounds,
113. 'And then cattle and males come to graze, as many as he wants.

'May Mithra and Ahura, the high gods, come to us for help, when
the poniard lifts up its voice aloud, when the nostrils of the
horses quiver, when the poniards ...., when the, strings of the
bows whistle and shoot sharp arrows; then the brood of those whose
libations are hated fall smitten to the ground, with their hair
torn off.
114. 'So mayest thou, O Mithra, lord of wide pastures! give swiftness
to our teams, strength to our own bodies, and that we may watch
with full success those who hate us, smite down our foes, and
destroy at one stroke our adversaries, our enemies, and those
who hate us.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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115. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake.
'O Mithra, lord of wide pastures! thou master of the house, of
the borough, of the town, of the country, thou Zarathushtrotema!
116. 'Mithra is twentyfold between two friends or two relations;
'Mithra is thirtyfold between two men of the same group;
'Mithra is fortyfold between two partners;
'Mithra is fiftyfold between wife and husband;
'Mithra is sixtyfold between two pupils (of the same master);
'Mithra is seventyfold between the pupil and his master;
'Mithra is eightyfold between the son-in-law and his father-in-law;
'Mithra is ninetyfold between two brothers;
117. 'Mithra is a hundredfold between the father and the son;
'Mithra is a thousandfold between two nations;
'Mithra is ten thousandfold when connected with the Law of Mazda,
and then he will be every day of victorious strength.
118. 'May I come unto thee with a prayer that goes lowly or goes
highly! As this sun rises up above the Hara Berezaiti and then
fulfils its career, so may I, O Spitama! with a prayer that goes
lowly or goes highly, rise up above the will of the fiend Angra
Mainyu!
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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119. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake,
'Offer up a sacrifice unto Mithra, O Spitama! and order thy pupils
to do the same.
'Let the worshipper of Mazda sacrifice unto thee with small cattle,
with black cattle, with flying birds, gliding forward on wings.
120. 'To Mithra all the faithful worshippers of Mazda must give
strength and energy with offered and proffered Haomas, which the
Zaotar proffers unto him and gives in sacrifice. Let the faithful
man drink of the libations cleanly prepared, which if he does,
if he offers them unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, Mithra
will be pleased with him and without anger.'
121. Zarathushtra asked him: 'O Ahura Mazda! how shall the faithful
man drink the libations cleanly prepared, which if he does and
he offers them unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, Mithra
will be pleased with him and without anger?'
122. Ahura Mazda answered: 'Let them wash their bodies three days
and three nights; let them undergo thirty strokes for the sacrifice
and prayer unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures. Let them wash
their bodies two days and two nights; let them undergo twenty
strokes for the sacrifice and prayer unto Mithra, the lord of
wide pastures. Let no man drink of these libations who does not
know the staota yesnya: Vispe ratavo.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacriace worth
being heard....

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123. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'To whom Ahura Mazda offered up a sacrifice in the shining Garo-nmana.
124. 'With his arms lifted up towards Immortality, Mithra, the
lord of wide pastures, drives forward from the shining Garo-nmana,
in a beautiful chariot that drives on, ever-swift, adorned with
all sorts of ornaments, and made of gold.
125. 'Four stallions draw that chariot, all of the same white color,
living on heavenly food and undying. The hoofs of their fore-feet
are shod with gold, the hoofs of their hind-feet are shod with
silver; all are yoked to the same pole, and wear the yoke and
the cross-beams of the yoke, fastened with hooks of Khshathra
vairya to a beautiful....
126. 'At his right hand drives Rashnu-Razishta, the most beneficent
and most well-shapen.
'At his left hand drives the most upright Chista, the holy one,
bearing libations in her hands, clothed with white clothes, and
white herself; and the cursing thought of the Law of Mazda.
127. 'Close by him drives the strong cursing thought of the wise
man, opposing foes in the shape of a boar, a sharp-toothed he-boar,
a sharp- jawed boar, that kills at one stroke, pursuing, wrathful,
with a dripping face, strong and swift to run, and rushing all
around.
'Behind him drives Atar, all in a blaze, and the awful kingly
Glory.
128. 'On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,
stand a thousand bows well-made, with a string of cow gut; they
go through the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly
space upon the skulls of the Daevas.
129. 'On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,
stand a thousand vulture-feathered arrows, with a golden mouth,
with a horn shaft, with a brass tail, and well-made. They go through
the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space upon
the skulls of the Daevas.
130. 'On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,
stand a thousand spears well-made and sharp-piercing. They go
through the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space
upon the skulls of the Daevas.
'On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,
stand a thousand steel-hammers, two-edged, well-made. They go
through the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space
upon the skulls of the Daevas.
131. 'On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,
stand a thousand swords, two-edged and well-made. They go through
the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space upon
the skulls of the Daevas.
'On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,
stand a thousand maces of iron, well-made. They go through the
heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space upon the
skulls of the Daevas.
132. 'On a side of the chariot of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,
stands a beautiful well-falling club, with a hundred knots, a
hundred edges, that rushes forward and fells men down; a club
cast out of red brass, of strong, golden brass; the strongest
of all weapons, the most victorious of all weapons. It goes through
the heavenly space, it falls through the heavenly space upon the
skulls of the Daevas.
133. After he has smitten the Daevas, after he has smitten down
the men who lied unto Mithra, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,
drives forward through Arezahe and Savahe, through Fradadhafshu
and Vidadhafshu, through Vourubareshti and Vouru-jareshti, through
this our Karshvare, the bright Hvaniratha.
134. 'Angra Mainyu, who is all death, flees away in fear; Aeshma,
the evil-doing Peshotanu, flees away in fear; the long-handed
Bushyasta flees away in fear; all the Daevas unseen and the Varenya
fiends flee away in fear.
135. 'Oh! may we never fall across the rush of Mithra, the lord
of wide pastures, when in anger! May Mithra, the lord of wide
pastures, never smite us in his anger; he who stands up upon this
earth as the strongest of all gods, the most valiant of all gods,
the most energetic of all gods, the swiftest of all gods, the
most fiend-smiting of all gods, he, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures.

'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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136. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'For whom white stallions, yoked to his chariot, draw it, on one
golden wheel, with a full shining axle.
137. 'If Mithra takes his libations to his own dwelling, "Happy
that man, I think," - said Ahura Mazda,- "O holy Zarathra!
for whom a holy priest, as pious as any in the world, who is the
Word incarnate, offers up a sacrifice unto Mithra with bundles
of baresma and with the [proper] words.
'"Straight to that man, I think, will Mithra come, to visit
his dwelling,
138. '"When Mithra's boons will come to him, as he follows
God's teaching, and thinks according to God's teaching.
'"Woe to that man, I think," - said Ahura Mazda, - "O
holy Zarathushtra! for whom an unholy priest, not pious, who is
not the Word incarnate, stands behind the baresma, however full
may be the bundles of baresma he ties, however long may be the
sacrifice he performs."
139. 'He does not delight Ahura Mazda, nor the other Amesha-Spentas,
nor Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, he who thus scorns Mazda,
and the other Amesha-Spentas, and Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,
and the Law, and Rashnu, and Arstat, who makes the world grow,
who makes the world increase.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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140. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake.
'I will offer up a sacrifice unto the good Mithra, O Spitama!
unto the strong, heavenly god, who is foremost, highly merciful,
and peerless; whose house is above, a stout and strong warrior;
141. 'Victorious and armed with a well-fashioned weapon, watchful
in darkness and undeceivable. He is the stoutest of the stoutest,
he is the strongest of the strongest, he is the most intelligent
of the gods, he is victorious and endowed with Glory: he, of the
ten thousand eyes, of the ten thousand spies, the powerful, all-knowing,
undeceivable god.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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142. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, ....
sleepless, and ever awake;
'Who, with his manifold knowledge, powerfully increases the creation
of Spenta Mainyu, and is a well-created and most great Yazata,
self-shining like the moon, when he makes his own body shine;
143. 'Whose face is flashing with light like the face of the star
Tistrya; whose chariot is embraced by that goddess who is foremost
amongst those who have no deceit in them, O Spitama! who is fairer
than any creature in the world, and full of light to shine. I
will worship that chariot, wrought by the Maker, Ahura Mazda,
inlaid with stars and made of a heavenly substance; (the chariot)
of Mithra, who has ten thousand spies, the powerful, all-knowing,
undeceivable god.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth
being heard....

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144. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, who
is truth-speaking, a chief in assemblies, with a thousand ears,
well-shapen, with a thousand eyes, high, with full knowledge,
strong, sleepless, and ever awake.
'We sacrifice unto the Mithra around countries;
'We sacrifice unto the Mithra within countries;
'We sacrifice unto the Mithra in this country;
'We sacrifice unto the Mithra above countries;
'We sacrifice unto the Mithra under countries;
'We sacrifice unto the Mithra before countries;
'We sacrifice unto the Mithra behind countries.
145. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra and Ahura, the two great, imperishable,
holy gods; and unto the stars, and the moon, and the sun, with
the trees that yield up baresma. We sacrifice unto Mithra, the
lord of all countries.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice
worth being heard, namely, unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures.

'Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....

'I bless the sacrifice and p yer, and the strength and vigor
of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, who has a thousand ears,
ten thousand eyes, a Yazata invoked by his own name; and that
of Rama Hvastra.
'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....
'[Give] unto that man brightness and glory, .... give him the
bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones!'

11. Srosh Yasht Hadokht

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May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced!....
Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....
I confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathushtra,
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 incarnate Word, a mighty-speared
and lordly god,
Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.

Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....

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1
We sacrifice unto the holy, tall-formed, fiend-smiting Sraosha,
who makes the world increase, the holy and master of holiness.

Good prayer, excellent prayer to the worlds, O Zarathushtra!
2
This it is that takes away the friendship of the fiend and
fiends, of the he-fiend and of the she-fiend; it turns away in
giddiness their eyes, minds, ears, hands, feet, mouths, and tongues;
as good prayer, without deceit and without harm, is Manly Courage,
and turns away the Druj.
3
The holy Sraosha, the best protector of the poor, is fiend-smiting;
he is the best smiter of the Druj.
The faithful one who pronounces most words of blessing is the
most victorious in victory; the Mathra Spenta takes best the unseen
Druj way. The Ahuna Vairya is the best fiend-smiter among all
spells; the word of truth is the fighter 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 Zarathushtra.
4
And he who should pronounce that word, O Zarathushtra! either
a man or a woman with a mind all intent on holiness, with words
all intent on 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;
5
Whether on the road or in the law 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 who carries off cattle shall not reach
him.
6
Pronounce then that word, O Zarathushtra! that word to be
spoken, when thou fall upon the idolaters 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
And therefore we take around us the holy-natured Sraosha,
the holy, the fiend-smiter, as one does with shepherds' dogs;
therefore we sacrifice unto the holy-natured Sraosha, the holy,
the fiend-smiter, with good thoughts, good words, and good deeds.
8
For his brightness and glory, for his strength and victorious
power, for his offering sacrifices unto the gods, I will offer
him a sacrifice worth being heard. I will offer up libations unto
the holy Sraosha, unto the great Ashi Vanguhi, and unto Nairyo-sangha,
the tall-formed.
So may the holy Sraosha, the fiend-smiter, come to us for help!
9
We worship the holy Sraosha; we worship the great master,
Ahura Mazda, who is supreme in holiness, who is the foremost to
do deeds of holiness.
We worship all the words of Zarathushtra, and all the good deeds,
those done and those to be done.
Yenhe hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda....

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10
We sacrifice unto the holy, tall-formed fiend-smiting Sraosha,
who makes the world increase, the holy and master of holiness
;
Who strikes the evil-doing man, who strikes the evil-doing woman;
who smites the fiendish Druj, and is most strong and world-destroying;
who maintains and looks over all this moving world;
11
Who, 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;
12
Who 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.
13
He 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.
For his brightness and glory, for his strength and victorious
power....

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Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....

We sacrifice unto the holy, tall-formed, fiend-smiting Sraosha,
who makes the world increase, the holy and master of holiness;

Who with peace and friendship watches the Druj and the most beneficent
Spirit: so that the Amesha-Spentas may go along the seven Karshvares
of the earth; who is the teacher of the Law: he himself was taught
it by Ahura Mazda, the holy One.
For his brightness and glory, for his strength and victorious
power....

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15
Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....

We sacrifice unto the holy, tall-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,
16
The friends of the holy Sraosha;
The friends of Rashnu Razista;
The friends of the good Law of the worshippers of Mazda;
The friends of Arstat, who makes the world grow, who makes the
world increase, who makes the world prosper;
The friends of Ashi Vanguhi;
The friends of the good Chisti;
The friends of the most right Chista;
17
The friends of all gods;
The friends of the Mathra Spenta;
The friends of the fiend-destroying Law;
The friends of the long-traditional teaching;
The friends of the Amesha-Spentas;
The friends of ourselves, the Saoshyants, 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....

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Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of tbe Lord is the law of holiness....

We sacrifice unto the holy, tall-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. We sacrifice unto all [the moments] of the holy and
strong Sraosha, who is the incarnate Word;
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The strong Sraosha, of the manly courage, the warrior of the
strong arms, who breaks the skulls of the Daevas; who smites with
heavy blows 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 Arshti.
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We sacrifice for all the houses protected by Sraosha, where
the holy Sraosha is dear and friendly treated and satisfied, as
well as the faithful man, rich in good thoughts, rich in good
words, rich in good deeds.
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We sacrifice unto the body of the holy Sraosha;
We sacrifice unto the body of Rashnu Razishta;
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 Arshtat, 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 Chisti;
We sacrifice unto the body of the most right Chista;
We sacrifice unto the bodies of all the gods;
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We sacrifice unto the body of the Mathra Spenta;
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-Spentas;
We sacrifice unto the bodies of ourselves, the Saoshyants, the
two-footed part of the holy creation;
We sacrifice unto the bodies of all the beings of the holy world.

For his brightness and glory, for his strength and victorious
power....
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Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....

I bless the sacrifice and prayer, the strength and vigor of the
holy, strong Sraosha, who is the incarnate Word, a mighty-speared
and lordly god
[Give] unto that man brightness and glory, ... give him the bright,
all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones!

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