# Yashts — Yasht 1

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> Source: Avesta.org. The Yashts, Yasht 1, 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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> 1. OHRMAZD YASHT (Hymn to Ahura Mazda)
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> Translated by James Darmesteter (From Sacred Books of the
> East, American Edition, 1898.)
> 
> 0.
> May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced! May Angra Mainyu be destroyed
> by those who do truly what is the foremost wish (of God).
> 
> I praise well-thought, well-spoken, and well-done thoughts, words,
> and deeds. I embrace all good thoughts, good words, and good deeds;
> I reject all evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds.
> 
> I give sacrifice and prayer unto you, O Amesha-Spentas! even with
> the fullness of my thoughts, of my words, of my deeds, and of
> my heart: I give unto you even my own life.
> 
> I recite the 'Praise of Holiness:'
> 
> 'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good. Well is it for
> it, well is it for that holiness which is perfection of holiness!'
> 
> 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;
> 
> For sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto [Savanghi
> and Visya], the holy and masters of holiness;
> 
> For sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto the
> Masters of the days, of the periods of the day, of the months,
> of the seasons, and of the years;
> 
> Unto AHURA MAZDA, bright and glorious, be propitiation, with sacrifice,
> prayer, propitiation, and glorification.
> 
> Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness:
> the riches of Vohu-Mano shall he given to him who works in this
> world for Mazda, and wields according to the will of Ahura the
> power he gave him to relieve the poor.
> 1.
> Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: 'O Ahura Mazda, most beneficent
> Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One!
> 
> 'What of the Holy Word is the strongest? What is the most victorious?
> What is the most glorious? What is the most effective?
> 2.
> 'What is the most fiend-smiting? What is the best-healing?
> What destroyeth best the malice of Daevas and Men? What maketh
> the material world best come to the fulfillment of its wishes?
> What freeth the material world best from the anxieties of the
> heart?'
> 3.
> Ahura Mazda answered: 'Our Name, O Spitama Zarathushtra! who
> are the Amesha-Spentas, that is the strongest part of the Holy
> Word; that is the most victorious; that is the most glorious;
> that is the most effective;
> 4.
> 'That is the most fiend-smiting; that is the best-healing;
> that destroyeth best the malice of Daevas and Men: that maketh
> the material world best come to the fulfillment of its wishes;
> that freeth the material World best from the anxieties of the
> heart.'
> 5.
> Then Zarathushtra said: 'Reveal unto me that name of thine,
> O Ahura Mazda! that is the greatest, the best, the fairest, the
> most effective, the most fiend-smiting, the best-healing, that
> destroyeth best the malice of Daevas and Men;
> 6.
> 'That I may afflict all Daevas and Men; that I may afflict
> all Yatus and Pairikas; that neither Daevas nor Men may be able
> to afflict me; neither Yatus nor Pairikas.'
> 7.
> Ahura Mazda replied unto him: 'My name is the One of whom
> questions are asked, O holy Zarathushtra!
> 
> 'My second name is the Herd-giver
> 
> 'My third name is the Strong One
> 
> 'My fourth name is Perfect Holiness .
> 
> 'My fifth name is All good things created by Mazda, the offspring
> of the holy principle.
> 
> 'My sixth name is Understanding;
> 
> 'My seventh name is the One with understanding.
> 
> 'My eighth name is Knowledge;
> 
> 'My ninth name is the One with Knowledge.
> 8.
> 'My tenth name is Weal;
> 
> 'My eleventh name is He who produces weal.
> 
> 'My twelfth name is AHURA (the Lord).
> 
> 'My thirteenth name is the most Beneficent.
> 
> 'My fourteenth name is He in whom there is no harm.
> 
> 'My fifteenth name is the unconquerable One.
> 
> 'My sixteenth name is He who makes the true account.
> 
> 'My seventeenth name is the All-seeing One.
> 
> 'My eighteenth name is the healing One.
> 
> 'My nineteenth name is the Creator.
> 
> 'My twentieth name is MAZDA (the All-knowing One).
> 9.
> Worship me, O Zarathushtra, by day and by night, with offerings
> of libations well accepted I will come unto thee for help and
> joy, I, Ahura Mazda; the good, holy Sraosha will come unto thee
> for help and joy; the waters, the plants, and the Fravashis of
> the holy ones will come unto thee for help and joy.
> 10.
> 'If thou wantest, O Zarathushtra, to destroy the malice of
> Daevas and Men, of the Yatus and Pairikas, of the oppressors,
> of the blind and of the deaf, of the two-legged ruffians, of the
> two-legged Ashemaoghas, of the four-legged wolves;
> 11.
> 'And of the hordes with the wide front, with the many spears,
> with the straight spears, with the spears uplifted, bearing the
> spear of havock; then, recite thou these my names every day and
> every night.
> 12.
> 'I am the Keeper; I am the Creator and the Maintainer; I am
> the Discerner; I am the most beneficent Spirit.
> 
> 'My name is the bestower of health; my name is the best bestower
> of health.
> 
> 'My name is the Athravan; my name is the most Athravan-like of
> all Athravans.
> 
> 'My name is Ahura (the Lord)
> 
> 'My name is Mazdau (the all-knowing).
> 
> 'My name is the Holy; my name is the most Holy.
> 
> 'My name is the Glorious; my name is the most Glorious.
> 
> 'My name is the Full-seeing; my name is the Fullest-seeing.
> 
> 'My name is the Far-seeing; my name is the Farthest-seeing.
> 13.
> 'My name is the Protector; my name is the Well-wisher; my
> name is the Creator; my name is the Keeper; my name is the Maintainer.
> 
> 'My name is the Discerner; my name is the Best Discerner.
> 
> 'My name is the Prosperity-producer; my name is the Word of Prosperity.
> 
> 'My name is the King who rules at his will; my name is the King
> who rules most at his will.
> 
> 'My name is the liberal King; my name is the most liberal King.
> 14.
> 'My name is He who does not deceive; my name is He who is
> not deceived.
> 
> 'My name is the good Keeper; my name is He who destroys malice;
> my name is He Who conquers at once; my name is He who conquers
> everything; my name is He who has shaped everything.
> 
> 'My name is All weal; my name is full weal; my name is the Master
> of weal.
> 15.
> 'My name is He who can benefit at his wish; my name is He
> who can best benefit at his wish.
> 
> 'My name is the Beneficent One; my name is the Energetic One;
> my name is the most Beneficent.
> 
> 'My name is Holiness; my name is the Great One; my name is the
> good Sovereign; my name is the Best of Sovereigns.
> 
> 'My name is the Wise One; my name is the Wisest of the Wise; my
> name is He who does good for a long time.
> 16.
> 'These are my names.
> 
> 'And he who in this material world, O Spitama Zarathushtra! shall
> recite and pronounce those names of mine either by day or by night;
> 17.
> 'He who shall pronounce them, when he rises up or when he
> lays him down; when he lays him down or when he rises up; when
> he binds on the sacred girdle [[kusti]] or when he unbinds the sacred girdle;
> when he goes out of his dwelling-place, or when he goes out of
> his town, or when he goes out of his country and comes into another
> country:
> 18.
> 'That man, neither in that day nor in that night, shall be
> wounded by the weapons of the foe who rushes Aeshma-like and is
> Druj-minded; not the knife, not the cross-bow, not the arrow,
> not the sword, not the club, not the sling-stone shall reach and
> wound him.
> 19.
> 'But those names shall come in to keep him from behind and
> to keep him in front, from the Druj unseen, from the female Varenya
> fiend, from the evil-doer bent on mischief, and from that fiend
> who is all death, Angra Mainyu. It will be as if there were a
> thousand men watching over one man.
> 20.
> '"Who is he who will smite the fiend in order to maintain
> thy ordinances? Teach me clearly thy rules for this world and
> for the next, that Sraosha may come with Vohu-Mano and help whomsoever
> thou pleasest."
> 21.
> 'Hail to the Glory of the Kavis! Hail to the Airyanem Vaejah!
> Hail to the Saoka, made by Mazda! Hail to the waters of the Daitya!
> Hail to Ardvi, the undefiled well! Hail to the whole world of
> the holy Spirit!
> 
> 'Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord...
> 
> 'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....
> 22.
> 'We worship the Ahuna Vairya. We worship Asha-Vahishta, most
> fair, undying, and beneficent. We worship Strength and Prosperity
> and Might and Victory and Glory and Vigour. We worship Ahura Mazda,
> bright and glorious.
> 
> 'Yenghe hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda knows the
> goodness for a sacrifice [performed] in holiness, all those beings,
> males and females, do we worship.
> 23.
> 'Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....
> 
> 'I bless the sacrifice and the prayer unto Ahura Mazda, bright
> and glorious, and his strength and vigour.'
> 
> (Bahman Yasht.)
> 
> 24.
> 'O Zarathushtra! keep thou for ever that man who is friendly
> [to me] from the foe unfriendly [to me]! Do not give up that friend
> unto the stroke (of the foe), unto vexations to be borne; wish
> no harm unto that man who would offer me a sacrifice, be it ever
> so great or ever so small, if it has reached unto us, the Amesha-Spentas.
> 25.
> 'Here is Vohu-Mano, my creature, O Zarathushtra! here is Asha-Vahishta,
> my creature, O Zarathushtra! here is Khshathra-Vairya, my creature,
> O Zarathushtra! here is Spenta-Armaiti, my creature, O Zarathushtra!
> here are Haurvatat and Ameretat, who are the reward of the holy
> ones, when freed from their bodies, my creatures, O Zarathushtra!
> 26.
> 'Thou knowest this, and how it is, O holy Zarathushtra! from
> my understanding and from my knowledge; namely, how the world
> first began, and how it will end.
> 
> 'A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies!
> 
> 'A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies!
> 
> 'A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies!
> 27.
> '[We worship] the well-shapen, tall-formed Strength; Verethraghna,
> made by Ahura; the crushing Ascendant, and Spenta-Armaiti.
> 28.
> 'And with the help of Spenta-Armaiti, break ye asunder their
> malice, turn their minds astray, bind their hands, make their
> knees quake against one another, bind their tongues.
> 
> 'When, O Mazda! shall the faithful smite the wicked? When shall
> the faithful smite the Druj? When shall the faithful smite the
> wicked?'
> 29.
> Then Zarathushtra said: 'I threw you back into the earth,
> and by the eyes of Spenta-Armaiti the ruffian was made powerless.
> 30.
> 'We worship the powerful Gaokerena, made by Mazda; the powerful
> Gaokerena, made by Mazda.
> 31.
> 'We worship the memory of Ahura Mazda to keep the Holy Word.
> 
> 'We worship the understanding of Ahura Mazda, to study the Holy
> Word.
> 
> 'We worship the tongue of Ahura Mazda, to speak forth the Holy
> Word.
> 
> 'We worship the mountain that gives understanding, that preserves
> understanding; [we worship it] by day and by night, with offerings
> of libations well-accepted.
> 32.
> 'We worship that creation [of Ahura's], Spenta-Armaiti; and
> the holy creations of that creature and of Asha [Vahishta], that
> are foremost in holiness.
> 
> 'Here I take as lord and master the greatest of all, Ahura Mazda;
> to smite the fiend Angra Mainyu; to smite Aeshma of the wounding
> spear; to smite the Mazainya fiends; to smite all the Daevas and
> the Varenya fiends; to increase Ahura Mazda, bright and glorious;
> to increase the Amesha-Spentas; to increase the star Tishtrya,
> the bright and glorious; to increase the faithful men; to increase
> all the holy creatures of the beneficent Spirit.
> 
> 'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....
> 33.
> '[Give] unto that man brightness and glory, give him health
> of body, give him sturdiness of body, give him victorious strength
> of body, give him full welfare of wealth, give him a virtuous
> offspring, give him long, long life, give him the bright, all-happy,
> blissful abode of the holy Ones.
> 
> May it come according to my blessing!
> 
> 'A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies! (three times.)
> 
> 'Come to me for help, O Mazda!
> 
> 'We worship the well-shapen, tall-formed Strength, and Verethraghna,
> made by Mazda, and the crushing Ascendant.
> 
> 'We worship Rama Hvastra, and Vayu who works highly and is more
> powerful to destroy than all other creatures. That part of thee
> do we worship, O Vayu, that belongs to Spenta Mainyu. We worship
> the sovereign Sky, the boundless Time, and the sovereign Time
> of the long Period.
> 
> 'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....'
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