# Avesta - Visperad

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> AVESTA: VISPERAD (Extensions to the liturgy)
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> [Translated by L. H. Mills (From Sacred Books of the East, American Edition, 1898.)]
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> VISPERAD 1.
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> 1.	I announce, and (will) complete (my Yasna) to the lords of the spiritual creatures, and to the 
> lords of the earthly creatures, to the lords of those which live under the waters, and to the 
> lords of those which live upon land, to the lords of those which strike the wing, and to the 
> lords of those which roam (wild) upon the plains, to the lords of those of (home-beasts) of 
> the cloven hoof, holy lords of the ritual order.
> 2.	I announce, and I (will) complete (my Yasna) to the Yearly festivals, the lords of the ritual 
> order, to Maidyozarem, the milk-giver, the holy lord of the ritual order, and to 
> Maidyoshahem, the pasture-giver, and to Paitishahem, the corn-giver, and to Ayathrem, the 
> furtherer or breeder, the spender of the seed of males, and to Maidyarem the cold, the holy 
> lord of the ritual order, and to Hamaspathmaidyem, the especial time for ritual deeds, holy 
> lords of the ritual order.
> 3.	I announce, and I (will) complete (my Yasna) to the settlements of the future one, when the 
> future shall produce them as it were anew, and I celebrate and will complete (my Yasna) to 
> the Praises of the Yasna collected, completed, and much-offered, and to the Myazdas of the 
> saints of the ritual, male and female.
> 4.	And I announce, and will complete (my Yasna) to the Seasons, the lords of the ritual order, 
> and to the heard recital of the Ahuna-vairya, and to Righteousness the Best, to him who has 
> (?) our praise, and to the Yenhe hatam, the frequent chant of sacrifice, the holy, and ruling in 
> the ritual order.
> 5.	And I announce and complete (my Yasna) to the Gatha Ahunavaiti, the holy, ruling in the 
> ritual order, and to those women who bring forth many sons of many talents, Mazda-given, 
> and holy lords of the ritual order, and to that (chant) which has its Ahu and its Ratu (before it 
> in the Yasna).
> And I celebrate, and will complete (my sacrifice) to the Yasna Haptanghaiti, holy, and ruling 
> in the ritual order, [and to the water Ardvi Anahita].
> 6.	And I announce, and I (will) complete (my Yasna) to the Gatha Ushtavaiti, the holy, ruling 
> in the ritual order, and to the mountains which shine with holiness, the abundantly brilliant 
> and Mazda-made, the holy lords of the ritual order.
> And I announce, and (will) complete (my Yasna) to the Gatha Spenta-mainyu, the holy, 
> ruling in the ritual order; and I celebrate and will complete (my Yasna) to Verethraghna (the 
> blow of victory) Ahura-given, the holy lord of the ritual order.
> 7.	And I announce, and (will) complete (my Yasna) to the Gatha Vohu-khshathra, holy, ruling 
> in the ritual order, and to Mithra of the wide pastures, and to Raman Hvastra, the holy lords 
> of the ritual order. And I celebrate and will complete my Yasna to the Gatha Vahishtoishti, 
> the holy, ruling in the ritual order. And I celebrate and will complete my Yasna to the good 
> and pious Prayer for blessings, the benediction of the pious, and to that Yazad, the redoubted 
> and swift Curse of the wise, the holy lord of the ritual order.
> 8.	And I announce, and (will) complete (my Yasna) to the Airyema-ishyo, the holy lord of the 
> ritual order, and to the Fshusho-mathra, and to that lofty lord Hadhaokhdha, the holy lord of 
> the ritual order.
> 9.	And I announce, and (will) complete (my Yasna) to the questions asked of Ahura, and to the 
> lore of Ahura, to the Ahurian Dahvyuma (Dahyuma), and to the Ahurian Zarathushtrotema, 
> holy lords of the ritual order, and to the farm-house with its pastures which give pasture to 
> the Kine of blessed gift, and to the holy cattle-breeding man.
> 
> VISPERAD 2.
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> 1.	In this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the lords of (the ritual) which are 
> spiritual with my praise; and I desire to approach the earthly lords (as well). And I desire to 
> approach the lords of the water with my praise, and the lords of the land; and I desire to 
> approach with my praise those chiefs which strike the wing, and those which wander wild at 
> large, and those of the cloven hoof, who are chiefs of the ritual (in their turn).
> 2.	In this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the holy Yearly festivals with my 
> praise, the lords of the ritual order, Maidyozarem, the milk-giver, and Maidyoshahem, the 
> pasture-giver, and Paitishahem, the corn-giver, and Ayathrem the breeder, the spender of the 
> seed of males, Maidyarem, the cold, Hamaspathmaidyem, the especial time for ritual duties, 
> the holy lords of the ritual order.
> 3.	And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the future one of the settlements 
> with my praise, the holy lord of the ritual order, when the future one shall produce (them as 
> it were anew).
> And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach all these chieftains of the ritual 
> with my praise whom Ahura Mazda mentioned to Zarathushtra for sacrifice and homage 
> because of Asha Vahishta (of Righteousness the Best).
> 4.	And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach Thee, the lord, with my praise, 
> Thou who art Ahura Mazda, the spiritual lord and regulator of the spiritual creatures [the lord 
> and regulator of the spiritual creation].
> And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach thee, Zarathushtra Spitama, with 
> my praise, the terrestrial (lord and regulator) of the terrestrial creation, [the lord and 
> regulator of the terrestrial creation].
> 5.	And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the man who recites the ritual 
> rites with my praise, who is maintaining thus the thought well thought, and the word well 
> spoken, and the deed well done, and Piety the bountiful, even him who maintains the Mathra 
> of the Saoshyant, by whose actions the settlements are advanced in the righteous order.
> 6.	And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the (yearly) Seasons with my 
> praise, the holy lords of the ritual order, and the Ahuna-vairya as it is recited, and Asha 
> Vahishta when he is lauded, and the Yenhe hatam, the frequent chant of sacrifice.
> 7.	And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the Gatha Ahunavaiti with my 
> praise. And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to worship those women with my 
> praise who are well portioned, and of good parentage, and who are stately in their growth; 
> yea, I desire to approach that chant in my praise which has the Ahu and the Ratu, [for He is 
> verily the one who has the Ahu and the Ratu, that is, Ahura Mazda].
> And I desire to approach the heroic Yasna Haptanghaiti in my praise, the holy, and ruling in 
> the ritual order; and Ardvi Sura Anahita, the holy, and ruling in the ritual order.
> 8.	And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the Gatha Ushtavaiti with my 
> praise, the holy, and ruling in the ritual order; and I desire to approach those mountains with 
> my praise which shine with holiness, abundantly glorious, Mazda-made, the holy lords of the 
> ritual order, and the Gatha Spenta-mainyu, and Verethraghna, the blow of victory, Mazda-
> given, the holy lord of the ritual order, and the Victorious Ascendancy (which it bestows).
> 9.	And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the Gatha Vohu-khshathra with 
> my praise, the holy, and ruling in the ritual order, and Mithra of the wide pastures, and 
> Raman Hvastra, and the Gatha Vahishtoishti, and the pious and good prayer for blessings, and 
> the pious and holy man, and that Yazad, the redoubted and swift curse of the wise.
> 10.	And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the Airyema-ishyo with my 
> praise, and the Fshusho-mathra, and that lofty lord, the Hadhaokhdha, holy lord(s) of the 
> ritual order.
> 11.	And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the question asked of Ahura, and 
> the lore of the Lord (which he reveals in answer) and the farm-house of the man possessed of 
> pastures, and the pasture produced for the Kine of blessed gift, and the holy cattle-breeding 
> man.
> 
> VISPERAD 3 - BEGINNING OF THE HAOMA OFFERING; ROLL-CALL OF THE PRIEST.
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> 1.	(The Zaotar speaks.) (I call for) the Havanan, and would have him here.
> (The Ratu answers.) I will come (and fulfill his duties).
> (The Zaotar speaks.) I would have the Atarevakhsha here.
> (The Ratu answers.) I will come (and fulfill the services which fall to his charge).
> (The Zaotar.) I would have the Frabaretar.
> (The Ratu.) I will come (and fulfill the services which fall to his charge).
> (The Zaotar.) I would have the Aberet present.
> (The Ratu.) I will come (for him).
> (The Zaotar.) I would have the Asnatar.
> (The Ratu.) I will come (and do the duties which he serves).
> (The Zaotar.) I would have the Raethwishkar to be here.
> (The Ratu.) I will come (for him).
> (The Zaotar.) I would have the Sraoshavareza present, the wisest one, the most correct and 
> veracious in his speech
> (The Ratu.) I will come. 2. (The Zaotar.) I would have the Fire-priest to be here, and the 
> warrior, and the thrifty tiller of the earth, and the house-lord, and the lords of the Vis and the 
> Zantu.
> 3.	And I summon the youth of holy thoughts, words and works, and of good conscience; (yea), 
> the youth of good speech, given (in marriage) to his kin. And I summon the province-ranger, 
> and the itinerant of many arts, and the house-mistress.
> 4.	And I summon the woman advanced in her holy thoughts, and words, and deeds, and well 
> subordinated, whose ruler is her lord, the holy one, who is (as) the bounteous Armaiti; (yea), I 
> summon even Thy wives, O Ahura ! And I summon likewise the holy man advanced in his 
> good thoughts, and words, and deeds, who is learned in pious lore, and innocent of the 
> Kayadha, and by whose deeds the settlements are furthered in the righteous order.
> 5.	Yea, we summon you, whoever you may be, if only chiefs of the Mazdayasnians; and we 
> summon the Bounteous Immortals, and the pious Saoshyants (the prophets for our help), the 
> most correct and truthful in their speech, the most zealous, the most glorious in their 
> thoughts, the greatest ones, and the powerful; and we summon the Fire-priests, and the 
> warriors, and the diligent husbandman of the Mazdayasnian faith.
> 6.	(The Zaotar.) As an Ahu to be (revered and) chosen, the Atarevakhsha (announcing) speaks 
> forth to me.
> (The Ratu [?].) So let the Ratu from his righteousness, holy and learned, speak forth.
> (The Ratu.) As an Ahu to be (revered and) chosen, the Zaotar (announcing) speaks forth to 
> me.
> (The Zaotar.) So let the Ratu from (his) righteousness, holy and learned, speak forth.
> (The Ratu.) Thou art the announcer for us, O Fire-priest! [(Pazand.) It is the Zaotar (who is 
> meant).]
> (The Zaotar.) I will come as this Zaotar, and recite the Staota Yesnya with memorized 
> intoning, chanting, and praise.
> 
> VISPERAD 4.
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> 1.	(Yea,) we sacrifice to the thoughts of the mind, and to the good wisdom, and to the good and 
> blessed sanctity, and to the good religious knowledge, and to good health (of soul and body). 
> [At their (several) seasons, and with the presence of seasonable circumstances, they are 
> hymned.] 2. Confession is to be made for the Kine; we, Zarathushtrian Mazdayasnians, 
> celebrate at the sacrificial time for the Myazda-offering, at the time for the Ratufriti, the 
> prayer for blessings, for the sacrificial worship, homage, propitiation, and praise of the entire 
> creation of the holy (and the clean).
> 
> VISPERAD 5.
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> 1.	I come to You, O Ye Bountiful Immortals! as a praiser priest, and invoker, as a memoriser, 
> reciting (Your ritual), and as a chanter for Your sacrifice and homage, Your propitiation, and 
> Your praise; (yea, for Yours) the Bountiful Immortals, and for our preparation, (O ye holy 
> Saoshyants!) and for your well-timed prayer for blessings, and your sanctification, and for our 
> victorious smiting of our foes, beneficial (as it is) for our souls, for ours, the Saoshyants, 
> (with you), and holy. 2. And I make my offering to You, O Ye Bountiful Immortals, who rule 
> aright, and who dispose (of all) aright! (Yea), I offer You the flesh of my very body, and all 
> the blessings of my life as well.
> 3.	And I confess my belief in Thee, O Ahura Mazda! and as a Mazdayasnian of the order of 
> Zarathushtra, and in accordance with this Faith.
> 
> VISPERAD 6.
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> 1.	In accordance with the precept, with praise, and with the joyful reception of grace, with 
> Zaothras intelligently offered, with sacrificial words correctly spoken, I call the good Amesha 
> Spenta by their names of beauty; yea, I worship the Bountiful Immortals by their beautiful 
> names, with the blessing of the ritual Order, with the longing blessing of Righteousness the 
> good.
> 
> VISPERAD 7.
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> 1.	We worship the (sacrificial) words correctly uttered, and Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, and 
> the good Ashi, (the blest order of our rites), and Nairya-sangha. And we worship the 
> victorious Peace as the unprostrated and unmoved. And we sacrifice to the Fravashis of the 
> saints, and to the Chinwad Bridge, and to the Garo Nmana of Ahura, even Heaven, the best 
> world of the saints, the shining and all glorious!
> 2.	And we sacrifice to that better path that leads to that Best World (as well). And we worship 
> Arshtat (Justice) the good, which helps the settlements to advance and flourish, benefiting 
> them thereby, that Arshtat which is the Mazdayasnian Faith; and (with her) we worship 
> Rashnu the most just, and Mithra of the wide pastures. And we worship Parendi the wealthy, 
> wealthy with a wealth of thoughts, with a throng of words, and with a breadth of actions, [for 
> she makes our persons agile (for good thoughts and words and actions)] 3. And we worship 
> that virile defensive Heroism which possesses men who think beforehand, and heroic men, 
> which is fleeter a than the fleet, stronger than the strong, which comes to him who is 
> endowed by God, which, when especially made theirs by men, produces one who is a freer of 
> the body. And we worship Sleep, the Mazda-made, the gladdener of the herd and men. 4. And 
> we worship those things in the creation of the holy which are the ancient institutions, those 
> formed before the sky, the water, the land, the plants, and the Kine of blessed gift. And we 
> worship the sea Vouru-kasha, and the stormy wind which is made by Mazda, and the shining 
> heaven, of old created, the first-made earthly object of (all) the earthly world.
> 5.	And we worship thee, the Fire, O Ahura Mazda's son! the holy lord of the ritual order, and 
> this Baresman, having the Zaothra with it, and the girdle with it, spread out with sanctity, the 
> holy ritual chief, and we worship Apam-napat (the son of waters)
> 
> VISPERAD 8.
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> 1.	With this word be Thou approached, with the proper word be Thou present here, Thou who 
> art Ahura Mazda, the holy, together with the good Yazads who are the Bountiful Immortals, 
> who rule aright, and dispose (of all) aright, together with fifty, and a hundred, and a thousand, 
> and ten thousand, and millions, and yet more.
> 2.	And to Him who rules the best let the Kingdom be!
> 
> VISPERAD 9.
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> 1.	(I desire to offer my homage and my praise) to the offered Haomas and Zaothras, and to 
> those also which shall yet be offered, which smite victoriously, and are foes of hatred, and 
> following in company (as they do) with the healing virtues of sanctity, following also in 
> company with those of Chishti (religious knowledge), and with the remedies of Mazda, and 
> with those of Zarathushtra and the Zarathushtrotema, (2) and to the offered Haomas and 
> Zaothras which accompany those remedies which belong to the holy disciple well versed in 
> good devices, and accompanying those of the itinerant also versed in good devices, and 
> accompanying those likewise of the good Mazdayasnian Faith, and those of the pious and 
> beneficent Prayer for blessings, and of the pious and good veracity, and of the pious word 
> against unbelief, (3) for information and explanation, for preparation (?) and devotion, for 
> the libation and complete offering, for the complete recital of the liturgy memorized as well; 
> and to those Haomas which are pungent, bounteous, holy, and offered with sanctity (and for a 
> blessing), to those which are yet to be offered with sanctity, and which are now being 
> celebrated, and which are likewise in the future to be celebrated, to those which are being 
> pressed with sanctity, and to those which are yet to be pressed, (to these I desire to approach, 
> and to express my homage and my praise). 4. And I desire to express my homage and my 
> praise to the strength of the strong, and to the victorious blow of the mighty, to the powerful 
> Rectitude and Blessedness, to Chisti and the Priority for the powerful Ascendancy, and to 
> these powerful Yazads which are the Bountiful Immortals, who rule aright, and dispose of all 
> aright, ever-living, ever-helpful, who, male and female, dwell together with the Good Mind, 
> (to these I desire in my homage and my praises to approach); (5) (yea, I desire to approach 
> for homage and praises toward) our Universal Weal and Immortality, to the body of the 
> Kine, and to the Kine's Soul. (And I desire to approach) the Fire of the spoken name, and 
> toward that farm-house which is sanctified and which has fields and comfort, and mercy (for 
> the poor); (6) as a praiser with praise for the sacrifice, homage, which is this praise of Ahura 
> Mazda, of the Bountiful Immortals, and of the holy and lofty Lord, for the sacrifice, and 
> homage of the Lord that most attains his ends, and which is this praise of that blessedness 
> which has approached us, and of that well-timed prayer for blessings offered in the ritual, (7) 
> which is likewise the praise of the Mathra Spenta (the bounteous word of reason), and of the 
> Mazdayasnian Religion, and the Praises of the Yasnas, which is also that of all the lords of 
> the ritual, and of all the well-timed prayers for blessings, for the sacrifice, homage, 
> propitiation, and glorification of the entire creation of the holy (and the clean).
> 
> VISPERAD 10.
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> 1.	I desire to approach the Arezahis with my praise, and the Savahis, and Fradadhafshu, and 
> Vidadhafshu, and Vouru-bareshti, and Vouru-jareshti, and this Karshvar which is Hvaniratha. 
> 2. And I desire to approach the stone mortar with my praise, and the iron mortar, and the 
> cup that holds the Zaothra, and the hair (which stays the spilling 3), and Thy Baresman 
> spread with sanctity. And I desire to approach the Ahuna-vairya with my praise, and the 
> ritual prayers beside Ahuna, and the standing offices of the Mazdayasnian Faith.
> 
> VISPERAD 11.
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> 1.	To Ahura Mazda would we present our offered Haomas and that which is lifted up, as the 
> most beneficial to Verethraghna (the blow of victory) which furthers the settlements; and 
> that which is offered to the good and holy king, and that which is offered to the holy ruler 
> which rules according to, or in the ritual, and we make known our Haomas to the Bountiful 
> Immortals, and to the good waters; and we present our Haomas each to (our) own soul; and 
> we announce our Haomas in our celebration to the entire creation of the holy (and the 
> clean).
> 2.	Yea, we present these Haomas and Haoma implements, and these spread mats, and these 
> Myazdas, these stones, the first in the creation, the stone mortar brought here with the 
> yellow Haoma in it, and the iron mortar brought here with the yellow Haoma in it, this 
> Haoma-water, and this Baresman spread with sanctity, (3) these bodies, and (their) forces, 
> these striving Zaothras (that seek to find Thy grace), this holy Haoma, and the flesh, and the 
> holy man, and the saint's innate thoughts, even the Saoshyants' innate thoughts.
> And we present this fresh milk as an offering, now lifted up with sanctity, and this 
> Hadhanaepata plant, lifted up with sanctity; (4) and we offer, and present these Zaothras with 
> our celebration, having the Haoma with them, and the milk, and the Hadhanaepata, to the 
> good waters and offered up with piety. And we present the Haoma-water in our celebrations 
> to the good waters, and both the stone and the iron mortar, (5) and this branch for the 
> Baresman, and the prayer for blessings uttered at the fitting moment which has approached 
> (for our help in its order with the prayers), and the recollection and practice of the good 
> Mazdayasnian law, and the heard recital of the Gathas, the well-timed prayer for blessings as 
> it comes uttered by the saint (and for our help), and ruling (while it is spoken) as a ritual lord, 
> and these wood-billets, and the perfume even Thine, the Fire's, O Ahura Mazda's son! and all 
> good objects (which are ours), and Mazda-made, and which have the seed of sanctity (or are 
> that seed).
> 6.	Yea, these we make known and we announce in this our celebration to Ahura Mazda (as our 
> gift), and to Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, and to Ashi (who is the recompense),and to 
> Rashnu the most just, and to Mithra of the wide pastures, and to the Bountiful Immortals, and 
> the Fravashis of the saints, and to their souls, and to the Fire of Ahura Mazda, the lord, and 
> to the lofty lord (the Apam-napat?), and to the Myazda, the lord, and to the well-timed 
> prayer for blessings as it rules in the order of our prayers, for the sacrifice, homage, 
> propitiation, and adoration of the entire creation of the holy (and the clean).
> 7.	Yea, these we make known in this our celebration hereby for the Fravashi of Zarathushtra 
> Spitama, the saint, for its sacrifice, homage, propitiation, and praise, and to the (Fravashi) of 
> Anghuyu (?) who hath loved righteousness, together with all the holy Fravashis of the saints, 
> of those now dead, and of those of the living, and of those of men unborn, of the prophets 
> that shall serve us, bringing on the renovation of the completed world.
> 8-11.	(See verses 2-5.)
> 12.	Yea, we would make these known hereby in our celebrations to the Bountiful Immortals, who 
> rule aright, and who dispose (of all) aright, the ever-living, ever-helpful, who are good (?), 
> and bestowers of the good, who dwell with the Good Mind: [(Pazand) for they who are the 
> Bountiful Immortals abide with the Good Mind, they who rule aright, and dispose (of all) 
> aright, for thence they are regulated, and thence they arose, (namely,) from the Good Mind].
> 13.	And we make known these our celebrations as the more promotive for this house, for the 
> furtherance of this house, and as benefits for this house, because of the increase of this 
> household, as overcoming the restrictions which impede this household, and as overcoming 
> the harmful malice which may mar this house, to bless its herds, and its retainers, born, and 
> yet to be born, for the saints of the house as it was aforetime, of it as it stands here now, and 
> to which we likewise now belong as the Saoshyants of the provinces, (14) [which (is that we 
> are Saoshyants) for the saints who do good deeds, and of the female saints who do good deeds, 
> and of the saints who do the deeds conspicuously good, and of the females likewise thus, of 
> the saints who do good deeds upon good deeds, and of the females thus the same].
> 15.	And we make these known in our celebrations to the good Fravashis of the saints which are 
> formidable and overwhelming in their aid. 16. And we make these known in our celebrations 
> hereby to Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, and to the good Blessedness, and to Nairya-sangha, 
> and to the victorious Peace, and to Ahura Mazda's Fire, and to the lofty lord, for sacrifice, 
> homage, propitiation, and for praise, to the entire creation of the holy and the clean.
> 17-18.	(=Vr10.1-2.)
> 19.	Yea, we make that known which is lifted up in offering, and which is the Avesta as the holy 
> Ahura Mazda directed that it should be said, and as Zarathushtra, the holy, directed, and as I, 
> the priest, who am acquainted with their sacrifice and homage, am now letting it be known. I 
> who understand the lawful and legitimate Avesta, and the ritual prescripts (20) for Your 
> sacrifice, homage, and propitiation, O Ye who are the Bountiful Immortals, and for our 
> preparation (?), and for the success of our well-uttered prayer for blessings, for victory, 
> sanctification, and the well-being of our souls, (of ours), for (we are) the holy Saoshyants.
> 21.	Yea, we make these known in our celebrations here, and we offer them to Him who is Ahura 
> Mazda, of all the greatest, the master and the Lord.
> 
> VISPERAD 12.
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> 1.	For the offered Haomas which have been offered in libation to that lofty Lord Ahura Mazda 
> and to the holy Zarathushtra Spitama (produce) abundance in cattle and in men; and this 
> abundance is (as) the good Sraosha, who accompanies (us) with the great splendor of sanctity, 
> and may he be here with energetic effort (to aid us in our worship).
> 2.	We offer the wise offerings of the Ahuna-vairya intoned with sanctity and yet to be intoned, 
> possessing their many teachings of religious wisdom (as they to), and those of the two 
> mortars which pour the Haomas out, and which are pushed forward with precision, and are 
> now in the course of being thus advanced once more. 3. (And so we teach as well the many 
> teachings of the religious wisdom) contained in the words correctly spoken, in the 
> Zarathushtrian utterances, and in the ceremonies correctly practiced, and the Baresmans 
> spread exactly, and the Haomas pressed correctly, and the praise, Yasnas, and the doctrines 
> of the Mazdayasnian Religion with their recitations, and their movements. 4. For thus they 
> may become to us more full of devices and of wisdom, and so we offer these wise ritual deeds 
> in the creation, so we impart them with their many points of meaning while we (ourselves) 
> still ponder them as those which Ahura Mazda, the holy One, delivered, which have (as if) 
> their nourishment from Vohu Manah and their growth from the Righteous Order, which are 
> the greatest of all beings, the best, and the most beautiful; for thus shall these be to us the 
> more full of wisest meaning, and more full of incitation and may we be among those (who 
> are) of Spenta Mainyu's world in that we are imparting (to the chosen) these precepts of the 
> wisest meaning and these incitations which are contained therein. 5. And full of wisest 
> meaning be ye two to us, O (thou) stone mortar, and (thou) the iron one, as ye are now 
> turned, and as ye are now being advanced, ye two mortars of the house, [and of the village, of 
> the tribe, and of the province, and ye who are in this house (itself), this village, tribe, and 
> province]; yea, in those which are ours, Mazdayasnians, who are steadfast in our worship, 
> who appear with our wood-billets and our perfumes, and with our supplicated blessings 
> [(Pazand) for so may they be to us, the more full of wisest teaching].
> 
> VISPERAD 13.
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> 1.	According to the ritual we worship Ahura Mazda; according to the ritual we worship the 
> Bountiful Immortals; and we sacrifice to the sacrificial word correctly spoken, and to every 
> Mathra (as to a sacred word of reason). And we sacrifice to Zarathushtra, him who is 
> especially the possessor of the Mathra; and we sacrifice to the 'blessings for the saints'; and 
> we worship the 'hail' addressed to the Bountiful Immortals.
> 2.	Also we worship the three principal (chapters) uttered (in the Yasna) without addition or 
> omission; and we worship the three principal ones without addition or omission; we worship 
> the three commencing ones entire without addition or omission. And we worship the entirety 
> of the three principal ones without addition or omission; and their Has, their metrical lines, 
> their words, and their word structure [and their recital, memorizing, chanting, and their 
> steadfast offering].
> 
> VISPERAD 14.
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> 1.	(We worship Ahura Mazda, the holy Lord of the ritual order; and we sacrifice to the Gatha 
> Ahunavaiti) with its measures, and word-structure, and its Zand, with its questions and 
> counter-questions, with its words and its metric feet. And we sacrifice to these as well-recited, 
> and now in the course of being recited, as well-worshipped, and now in the course of being 
> used in worship. 2. (Yea, we sacrifice to it) in its own 'wisdom;, in its own 'clearness', in its 
> own 'loving intention', in its sovereignty, and its own ritual order, and its 'acquired boon', 
> which is also that given by Ahura Mazda for the promotion of piety, for that thought which 
> originates from the 'heart-devoted self'.
> 3.	Also we worship the Ahuna-vairya, the holy lord of the ritual order, the holy lord with its 
> Ahu and its Ratu [(Pazand); for He is the one with the title Ahu and Ratu, who is Ahura 
> Mazda]. 4. And we sacrifice to the constituent parts of the Gatha Ahunavaiti, to its chapters, 
> and its metrical lines, its words, and word-structure, [and to its heard-recital, and memorized 
> recital, its continuous and its steadfast offering].
> 
> VISPERAD 15.
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> 1.	Hold your feet in readiness, and your two hands, and your understandings, O ye 
> Zarathushtrian Mazdayasnians! for the well-doing of lawful deeds in accordance with the 
> sacred Order, and for the avoidance of the unlawful and evil deeds which are contrary to the 
> ritual. Let the good deeds for the furtherance of husbandry be done here. Render ye the needy 
> rich. 2. Let Sraosha (Obedience) be present here for the worship of Ahura Mazda, the most 
> helpful, and the holy, who is so desired by us in the pronunciation, and for the service, and 
> the pondering of the Yasna Haptanghaiti, for the heart's devotion to it, for its memorization, 
> and its victorious and holy recital (or for the victorious saint), without addition or omission, 
> (3) which has been intoned, and which shall yet be uttered as great, powerful, smiting with 
> victory, separate from harmful malice, for the pronunciation of victorious words for Ahura 
> Mazda's Fire.
> 4-5.	(=Vr9.6-7.)
> 
> VISPERAD 16.
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> 1.	And we worship the Fire here, Ahura Mazda's son, and the Yazads having the seed of fire in 
> them, and the Rashnus having the seed of fire in them; and we worship the Fravashis of the 
> saints. And we worship Sraosha who smites with victory, and the holy man, and the entire 
> creation of the holy (and the clean). 2. And we worship the Blessedness and the Fravashi of 
> Zarathushtra Spitama, the saint. And we worship the saints and their blessed Fravashis (as of 
> one). And we worship all their Fravashis (as considered each apart), and those of the saints 
> within the Province, and those of the saints without the Province, yea, we worship the 
> Fravashis of holy men and holy women (wherever they may be, those devoted to the Order 
> of the Faith). And we sacrifice to those whose (service) for us in the Yasna Ahura Mazda, the 
> holy, has known as the better, and of these Zarathushtra is the living chief and master. And 
> we sacrifice to the fields and the waters, the lands and the plants, and to the constituent parts 
> of the Yasna Haptanghaiti, its chapters, its metered lines, its words, and word structure.
> 
> VISPERAD 17.
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> 1.	And we strive after the good thoughts, words, and deeds inculcated in the Yasna Haptanghaiti. 
> A blessing is the Right (called) the Best, (there is) weal; (there is) weal for this (man) when 
> toward Righteousness Best (there is) right.
> 
> VISPERAD 18.
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> 1.	We worship Ahura Mazda with the ushta. And we worship the Amesha Spenta with the ushta, 
> and the holy man, the saint. And we worship the prior world of the holy (and of the clean) 
> with an ushta, and the state of weal and salvation for the holy man (the saint).
> 2.	And we worship that life-long state of blessedness (for the holy) which is the evil man's 
> calamity; yea, we worship his eternal salvation, and with the salvation prayer. And we 
> sacrifice to every saint who exists, who is now coming into existence, and who shall exist in 
> future.
> 
> VISPERAD 19.
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> 1.	We worship Ahura Mazda the bountiful; and we worship the Bountiful Immortals (saying the 
> Spenta). And we sacrifice to the bountiful saint, and to the bountiful anticipative 
> understanding Also we sacrifice to the good and bountiful Armaiti (the ready mind). And we 
> worship her together with the bountiful creatures in the creation of the pure. And we sacrifice 
> to the holy creatures who have intelligence as their first, (to those foremost in their mind). 
> And we worship the omniscient understanding, and Him who is Ahura Mazda (Himself). 2. 
> And we sacrifice to the shining sun, which is the highest of the high; yea, we worship the sun 
> together with the Bountiful Immortals, and the Mathras with their good ceremonies. Also we 
> sacrifice to the glorious achievements, and to this glory (which we have gained). And we 
> sacrifice to the herds which have the Fire and its blessings. Also we worship the holy benefit 
> which is so widely diffused, and that wisdom which is the bounteous Armaiti, whose are the 
> laws of the Righteous Order, and of those holy creatures who have Righteousness as their 
> first.
> 
> VISPERAD 20.
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> 1.	(Homage to the Gatha Vohu-khshathra! We sacrifice to the Vohu-khshathra), (the good 
> kingdom) even the Khshathra-vairya, the kingdom to be desired; and we sacrifice to the iron-
> founding, and to the (sacrificial) words correctly spoken which smite (the foe) with victory, 
> and which hold the Daevas subject.
> And we worship that reward and that health, that healing and that progress, that growth and 
> that victorious smiting (2) which are between the Vohu-khshathra and the Vahishtoishti, (and 
> which are acquired by us) by the memorized recital of the good thoughts, good words, and 
> good deeds, for the withstanding of evil thoughts, and words, and deeds; yea, for the undoing 
> of all treacherous thoughts (directed) against me, and of all false words, and unfair deeds. 3. 
> [And we sacrifice to the later Yasna, the heroic Haptanghaiti, (and which as it recurs 
> becomes) the holy ritual chief.]
> 
> VISPERAD 21.
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> 1.	We strive earnestly, and we take up our Yasna and our homage to the good waters, and to the 
> fertile fruit-trees (which bear as of themselves), and to the Fravashis of the saints; yea, we 
> take up our Yasna, and our homage earnestly to those beings which are (so) good, the waters, 
> and the trees, and the Fravashis of the saints, (2) and to the Kine, and to Gaya (Maretan), 
> and to the Mathra Spenta (the bounteous word-of-reason), the holy, which works (within and 
> for us with effect), to these we take up our Yasnas and our homage with earnest zeal, and to 
> Thee, O Ahura Mazda I and to thee, O Zarathushtra, we do the same; and to thee, O lofty 
> lord (the Apam-napat), and to the Bountiful Immortals. 3. And we sacrifice to the listening 
> (that hears our prayers) and to that mercy, and to the hearing of (our spoken) homage, and 
> to that mercy which is (shown in response to our offered) praise. And we sacrifice to the 
> fraraiti vidushe, which is contained in the piece hvadaenaish ashaonis; and we sacrifice to 'the 
> good praise which is without hypocrisy, and which has no malice (as its end)'; and we sacrifice 
> to the later Yasna and to its offering; and we sacrifice to the chapters of the later Yasna, and 
> to its metrical lines, its words, and word-structure.
> 
> VISPERAD 22.
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> 1.	With this chant (fully) chanted, and which is for the Bountiful Immortals and the holy 
> Saoshyants (who are the prophets who shall serve us), and by means of these (ceremonial) 
> actions, which are (of all) the best, we desire to utter our supplications for the Kine. It is that 
> chant which the saint has recognized as good and fruitful of blessed gifts, and which the sinner 
> does not know. May we never reach that (ill-luck that the sinner) may outstrip us (in our 
> chanting), not in the matter of a plan (thought out), or of words (delivered), or ceremonies 
> (done), nor yet in any offering whatever when he (?) approaches (us for harm).
> 
> VISPERAD 23.
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> 1.	We worship Ahura Mazda as the best (worship to be offered in our gifts). We worship the 
> Amesha Spenta (once more, and as) the best. We worship Asha Vahishta (who is 
> Righteousness the Best). And we sacrifice to those (prayers) which are evident as the best; 
> that is, the Praises of the Yasnas.
> Also we sacrifice to that best wish, which is that of Asha Vahishta, and we worship Heaven, 
> which is the best world of the saints, bright and all glorious; and we sacrifice likewise to that 
> best approach which leads to it. 2. And we sacrifice to that reward, health, healing, 
> furtherance, and increase, and to that victory which is within the two, the Ahuna-vairya and 
> the Airyema-ishyo, through the memorized recital of the good thoughts, words, and deeds 
> (which they enjoin).
>
> — *Avesta - Visperad*