# Yashts — Yasht 9

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> Source: Avesta.org. The Yashts, Yasht 9, 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): GOSH YASHT (Drvasp Yasht)
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> 9. GOSH YASHT (Drvasp Yasht).
> 
> Translated by James Darmesteter (From Sacred Books of the
> East, American Edition, 1898.)
> 
> For an audio recording, please see
> Soli Dastur's youtube channel. .
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> 0.
> May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced! May Angra Mainyu be afflicted!....
> 
> 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, satisfaction, and glorification unto Havani,
> the holy and master of holiness.
> 
> Unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy,
> 
> Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.
> 
> Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....
> 
> [1]
> 
> 1.
> We sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and
> holy, who heeps the flocks in health, the herds in health, the
> grown-up (cattle) in health, the young ones in health; who watches
> well from afar, with a wide-spread and long-continued welfare-giving
> friendship;
> 2.
> Who yokes teams of horses, who makes her chariot turn and
> its wheels sound, fat and glistening, strong, tall-formed, weal-possessing,
> health-giving, powerful to stand and powerful to turn for assistance
> to the faithful.
> 3.
> To her did Haoshyangha, the Paradhata, offer up a sacrifice
> on the enclosure of the Hara, the beautiful height, made by Mazda,
> with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, and ten thousand
> lambs, and with an offering of libations:
> 4.
> 'Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that
> I may overcome all the Daevas of Mazana; that I may never fear
> and bow through terror before the Daevas, but that all the Daevas
> may fear and bow in spite of themselves before me, that they may
> fear and flee down to darkness.'
> 5.
> The powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the
> maintainer, granted him that boon, as he was offering libations,
> giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant
> him that boon.
> 6.
> For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice
> worth being heard; I will offer her a sacrifice well performed,
> namely, unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy. We
> offer up libations to the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and
> holy; we offer her 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....
> 
> [2]
> 
> 7.
> We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by
> Mazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health....
> 
> Who yokes teams of horses .... for assistance to the faithful.
> 8.
> To her did Yima Khshaeta, the good shepherd, offer up a sacrifice
> from the height Hukairya, with a hundred male horses, a thousand
> oxen, ten thousand lambs, and with an offering of libations:
> 9.
> 'Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that
> I may bring fatness and flocks down to the world created by Mazda;
> that I may bring immortality down to the world created by Mazda;
> 10.
> 'That I may take away both hunger and thirst, from the world
> created by Mazda; that I may take away both old age and death,
> from the world created by Mazda; that I may take away both hot
> wind and cold wind, from the world created by Mazda, for a thousand
> years.'
> 11.
> The powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the
> maintainer, granted him that boon, as he was offering lipbations,
> giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant
> him that boon.
> 
> For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth
> being heard....
> 
> [3]
> 
> 12.
> We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by
> Mazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health....
> 
> Who yokes teams of horses .... for assistance to the faithful.
> 13.
> To her did Thraetaona, the heir of the valiant Athwya clan,
> offer up a sacrifice in the four-cornered Varena, with a hundred
> male horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs, and with an
> offering of libations:
> 14.
> 'Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that
> I may overcome Azhi Dahaka, the three-mouthed, the three-headed,
> the six-eyed, who has a thousand senses, that most powerful, fiendish
> Druj, that demon, baleful to the world, the strongest Druj that
> Angra Mainyu created against the material world, to destroy the
> world of the good principle; and that I may deliver his two wives,
> Savanghavack and Erenavach, who are the fairest of body amongst
> women, and the most wonderful creatures in the world.'
> 15.
> The powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvasya, the
> maintainer, granted him that boon, as he was offering up libations,
> giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant
> him that boon.
> 
> For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth
> being heard....
> 
> [4]
> 
> 16.
> We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by
> Mazda and holy, who keeps flocks in health....
> 
> Who yokes teams of horses .... for assistance to the faithful.
> 17.
> To her did Haoma offer up a sacrifice, Haoma, the enlivening,
> the healing, the beautiful, the lordly, with golden eyes, upon
> the highest height of the Haraiti Bareza. He begged of her a boon
> saying:
> 18.
> 'Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that
> I may bind the Turanian murderer Franghrasyan, that I may drag
> him bound, that may bring him bound unto king Husravah, that king
> Husravah may kill him, behind the Chaechasta lake, the deep lake
> of salt waters, to avenge the murder of his father Syavarshana,
> a man, and of Aghraeratha, a semi-man.'
> 19.
> The powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the
> maintainer, granted him that boon, as he was offering up libations,
> giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would give
> him that boon.
> 
> For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth
> being heard....
> 
> [5]
> 
> 20.
> We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by
> Mazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health....
> 
> Who yokes teams of horses .... for assistance to the faithful.
> 21.
> To her did the gallant Husravah, he who united the Arya nations
> into one kingdom, offer up a sacrifice, behind the Chaechasta
> lake, the deep lake of salt waters, with a hundred male horses,
> a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs, and an offering of libations:
> 22.
> 'Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that
> I may kill the Turanian murderer, Franghrasyan, behind the Chaechasta
> lake, the deep lake of salt waters, to avenge the murder of my
> father Syavarshana, a man, and of Aghraeratha, a semi-man.'
> 23.
> The powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the
> maintainer, granted him that boon, as he was offering up libations,
> giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant
> him that boon.
> 
> For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth
> being heard....
> 
> [6]
> 
> 24.
> We offer up a sacrifice unlo the powerful Drvaspa, made by
> Mazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health....
> 
> Who yokes teams of horses .... for assistance to the faithful,
> 25.
> To her did the holy Zarathushtra offer up a sacrifice in the
> Airyana Vaejah, by the good river Daitya, 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. He begged of her a boon, saying:
> 26.
> 'O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! grant me this boon, that
> I may bring the good and noble Hutaosa to think according to the
> law, to speak according to the law, to do according to the law,
> that she may spread my Mazdean law and make it known, and that
> she may bestow beautiful praises upon my deeds.'
> 27.
> The strong Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the maintainer,
> granted him that boon, as he was offering up libations, giving
> gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him that
> boon.
> 
> For her brightness and glory, I wiII offer her a sacrifice worth
> being heard....
> 
> [7]
> 
> 28.
> We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvaspa, made by
> Mazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health....
> 
> Who yokes teams of horses .... for assistance to the faithful.
> 29.
> To her did the tall Kavi Vistaspa offer up a sacrifice behind
> the waters of the river Daitya, with a hundred male horses, a
> thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs, and with an offering of libations:
> 30.
> 'Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvaspa! that
> I may put to flight Ashta-aurvant, the son of Vispa-thaurvo-asti,
> the all-afflicting, of the brazen helmet, of the brazen armour,
> of the thick neck, behind whom seven hundred camels ....; that
> I may put to flight the Hvyaona murderer, Arejat-aspa; that I
> may put to flight Darshinika, the worshipper of the Daevas;
> 31.
> And that I may smite Tathravant of the bad law; that I may
> smite Spinjaurushka, the worshipper of the Daevas; and that I
> may bring unto the good law the nations of the Varedhakas and
> of the Hvyaonas; and that I may smite of the Huyaona nations 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.
> 32.
> The strong Drvaspa, made by Mazda, the holy Drvaspa, the maintainer,
> granted him that boon, as he was offering up libations, giving
> gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him that
> boon.
> 
> For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice worth
> being heard; I will offer her a sacrifice well performed, namely,
> unto the powerful Drvaspa made by Mazda and holy. We offer up
> libations to the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy; we
> offer her 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.
> 
> Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....
> 
> I bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and vigour
> of the powerful Drvaspa, made by Mazda and holy.
> 
> 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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