# Yashts — Yasht 6

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> Source: Avesta.org. The Yashts, Yasht 6, translation: L.H. Mills / J. Darmesteter (Sacred Books of the East, 1880-1887), Avesta.org. License: Public domain (translation predates 1928).
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> AVESTA: KHORDA AVESTA (English): Khwarshed Yasht ('Hymn to the Sun')
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> 6. KHWARSHED YASHT ("Hymn to the Sun")
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> Translated by James Darmesteter, From Sacred Books of the
> East, American Edition, 1898.
> 
> 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 the undying, shining, swift-horsed Sun;
> 
> Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.
> 
> Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....
> 1.
> We sacrifice unto the undying, shining, swift-horsed Sun.
> 
> When the light of the sun waxes warmer, when the brightness of
> the sun waxes warmer, then up stand the heavenly Yazatas, by hundreds
> and thousands: they gather together its Glory, they make its Glory
> pass down, they pour its Glory upon the earth made by Ahura, for
> the increase of the world of holiness, for the increase of the
> creatures of holiness, for the increase of the undying, shining,
> swift-horsed Sun.
> 2.
> And when the sun rises up, then the earth, made by Ahura,
> becomes clean; the running waters become clean, the waters of
> the wells become clean, the waters of the sea become clean, the
> standing waters become clean; all the holy creatures, the creatures
> of the Good Spirit, become clean.
> 3.
> Should not the sun rise up, then the Daevas would destroy
> all the things that are in the seven Karshvares, nor would the
> heavenly Yazatas find any way of withstanding or repelling them
> in the material world.
> 4.
> He who offers up a sacrifice unto the undying, shining, swift-horsed
> Sun -- to withstand darkness, to withstand the Daevas born of darkness,
> to withstand the robbers and bandits, to withstand the Yatus and
> Pairikas, to withstand death that creeps in unseen -- offers it
> up to Ahura Mazda, offers it up to the Amesha-Spentas, offers
> it up to his own soul. He rejoices all the heavenly and worldly
> Yazatas, who offers up a sacrifice unto the undying, shining,
> swift-horsed Sun.
> 5.
> I will sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, who
> has a thousand ears, ten thousand eyes.
> 
> I will sacrifice unto the club of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures,
> well struck down upon the skulls of the Daevas.
> 
> I will sacrifice unto that friendship, the best of all friendships,
> that reigns between the moon and the sun.
> 6.
> For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice
> worth being heard, namely, unto the undying, shining, swift-horsed
> Sun. Unto the undying, shining, swift-horsed Sun we offer up the
> libations, the Haoma and meat, the baresma, the wisdom of the
> tongue, the holy spells, the speech, the deeds, the libations,
> and the rightly-spoken words.
> 
> Yenghe hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda....
> 7.
> Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....
> 
> I bless the sacrifice and the invocation, and the strength and
> vigour of the undying, shining, swift-horsed Sun.
> 
> Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....
> 
> Give unto that man brightness and glory, give him health of body,
> .... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy
> Ones.
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