# Yashts — Yasht 14

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> Edited by Joseph H. Peterson, 1995. Spelling has been changed to conform with
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> XIV. WARHARAN YASHT
> 
> Translated by James Darmesteter (From Sacred Books of the
> East, American Edition, 1898.)
> 
> Regarding Wargaran [Behram, Verethraghna], the Genius of Victory, see
> Vend. Introd. V, 8.
> 
> This Yasht can be divided into four parts:—
> 
> I (§§ 1-28). An enumeration of the ten incarnations in whivh
> Verethraghna appeared to Zarathushtra (as a wind, § 2; as a bull,
> § 7; as a horse, § 9; as a camel, § 11; as a boar, § 15; as a
> youth, § 17; as a raven, § 19; as a ram, § 23; as a buck, § 25;
> and as a man, § 27).
> 
> II (§§ 30-33). The power given by Verethraghna to his worshipper,
> Zarathushtra.
> 
> III (§§ 34-46). The magical powers, ascribed to the raven's
> feather, of striking terror into an army and dispersing it (the raven
> being the seventh incarnation of Verethraghna).
> 
> IV (§§ 47-64). The glorification of Verethraghna.
> 
> 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 [Hawan],
> the holy and master of holiness....
> 
> Unto Verethraghna, made by Mazda, and unto
> the crushing Ascendant;1
> 
> Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.
> 
> Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....
> 
> 1. Sirozah 1.20.
> 
> I.
> 
> 1. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura.
> 
> Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: 'Ahura Mazda, most beneficent
> Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One!
> 
> 'Who is the best-armed of the heavenly gods?'
> 
> Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is Verethraghna, made by Ahura, O Spitama
> Zarathushtra!'
> 
> 2. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, came to him first, running in
> the shape of a strong, beautiful wind, made by Mazda; he bore
> the good Glory, made by Mazda, the Glory made by Mazda, that is
> both health and strength.
> 
> 3. Then he, who is the strongest,2 said unto him:3
> 'I am the strongest
> in strength; I am the most victorious in victory; I am the most
> glorious in glory; I am the most favouring in favour; I am the
> best giver of welfare: I am the best-healing in health-giving.
> 
> 2. Verethraghna.
> 
> 3. Zarathushtra.
> 
> 4. 'And I shall destroy the malice of all the malicious, the
> malice of Daevas and men, of the 'Yatus and Pairikas, of the oppressors,
> the blind, and the deaf.
> 
> 5. 'For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice
> worth being heard; namely, unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura. We
> worship Verethraghna, made by Ahura, with an offering of libations,
> according to the primitive ordinances of Ahura; with 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.
> 
> 'Yenhe hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda....
> 
> II.
> 
> 6. 'We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura.'
> 
> Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: 'Ahura Mazda, most beneficent
> Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One!
> 
> Who is the best-armed of the heavenly gods?'
> 
> Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is Verethraghna, made by Ahura, O Spitama
> Zarathushtra!'
> 
> 7. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, came to him the second time,
> running in the shape of a beautiful bull, with yellow ears and
> golden horns; upon whose horns floated the well-shapen Strength,
> and Victory, beautiful of form, made by Ahura: thus did he come,
> bearing the good Glory, made by Mazda, the Glory made by Mazda,
> that is both health and strength.
> 
> Then he, who is the strongest, said unto him: 'I am the strongest
> in strength....,4
> 
> 'And I shall destroy the malice of all malicious....5
> 
> For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice
> worth being heard....6
> 
> 4. As above, § 3.
> 
> 5. As above, § 4.
> 
> 6. As above, § 5.
> 
> III.
> 
> 8. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura.
> 
> Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: 'Ahura Mazda, most beneficent
> Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One!
> 
> 'Who is the best-armed of the heavenly gods?'
> 
> Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is Verethraghna, made by Ahura, O Spitama
> Zarathushtra!'
> 
> 9. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, came to him the third time, running
> in the shape of a white, beautiful horse, with yellow ears and
> a golden caparison; upon whose forehead floated the well-shapen
> Strength, and Victory, beautiful of form, made by Ahura: thus
> did he come, bearing the good Glory, made by Mazda, that is both
> health and strength.
> 
> Then he, who is the strongest, said unto him: 'I am the strongest
> in strength....
> 
> 'And I shall destroy the malice of all malicious....'
> 
> For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice
> worth being heard....
> 
> IV.
> 
> 10. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura.
> 
> Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: 'Ahura Mazda, most beneficent
> Spirit, Maker of the material world, 'Who is the best-armed of
> the heavenly gods?'
> 
> Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is Verethraghna, made by Ahura, O Spitama
> Zarathushtra!'
> 
> 11. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, came to him the fourth time,
> running in the shape of a burden-bearing7 camel,
> sharp-toothed,8
> swift ....,9 stamping forwards, long-haired, and living in the
> abodes of men;10
> 
> 12. Who of all males in rut shows greatest strength and greatest
> fire, when he goes to his females. Of all females those are best
> kept whom a burden-bearing camel keeps, who has thick forelegs
> and large humps, ....,11 quick-eyed, long-headed, bright, tall,
> and strong;
> 
> 13. Whose piercing look goes afar ....,12
> even in the dark of the night; who throws white foam
> along his mouth; well-kneed, well-footed,
> standing with the countenance of an all-powerful master:
> 
> Thus did Verethraghna come, bearing the good Glory made by Mazda, the
> Glory made by Mazda....
> 
> 7. Doubtful (vadharôish).
> 
> 8. Doubtful (dadãsôish).
> 
> 9. ? Urvatô; cf. § 19.
> 
> 10. Tame, domesticated.
> 
> 11. ? Smarshnô.
> 
> 12. ? Haitahê.
> 
> V.
> 
> 14. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura.
> 
> Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: 'Ahura Mazda, most beneficent
> Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One!
> 
> 'Who is the
> best-armed of the heavenly gods?'
> 
> Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is
> Verethraghna, made by Ahura, O Spitama Zarathushtra!'
> 
> 15. 'Verethraghna, made by Ahura, came to him the fifth time,
> running in the shape of a boar, opposing the foes, a sharp-toothed
> he-boar, a sharp-jawed boar, that kills at one stroke, pursuing,
> wrathful, with a dripping face,13 strong, and swift to run, and
> rushing all around.14
> 
> Thus did Verethraghna come, bearing the good Glory made by Mazda,
> the Glory made by Mazda.
> 
> 13. Cf. Yt10.70.
> 
> 14. Or better, rushing before. Cf. Yt10.127.
> 
> VI.
> 
> 16. We sacrifice unto Verethragna, made by Ahura.
> 
> Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: 'Ahura Mazda,
> most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the material world,
> thou Holy One!
> 
> 'Who is the best-armed of the heavenly gods?'
> 
> Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is Verethraghna,
> made by Ahura, O Spitama Zarathushtra!'
> 
> 17. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, came to him the sixth time, running
> in the shape of a beautiful youth of fifteen, shining, clear-eyed,
> thin-heeled.
> 
> Thus did Verethraghna come, bearing the good Glory made by Mazda,
> the Glory made by Mazda....
> 
> VII.
> 
> 18. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura.
> 
> Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: 'Ahura Mazda, most beneficent
> Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One!
> 
> 'Who is the best-armed of the heavenly gods?'
> 
> Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is Verethraghna, made by Ahura, O Spitama
> Zarathushtra!'
> 
> 19. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, came to him the seventh time,
> running in the shape of a raven
> that ...15 below and ...15 above,
> and that is the swiftest of all birds, the lightest of the flying
> creatures.
> 
> 20. He alone of living things, — he or none, —
> overtakes the flight
> of an arrow, however well it has been shot. He flies up joyfully
> at the first break of dawn, wishing the night to be no more, wishing
> the dawn, that has not yet come, to come.16
> 
> 21. He grazes the hidden ways17
> of the mountains, he grazes the
> tops of the mountains, he grazes the depths of the vales, he grazes
> the summits18 of the trees, listening to the voices of the birds.
> 
> Thus did Verethraghna come, bearing the good Glory made by Mazda,19
> the Glory made by Mazda.
> 
> 15. ? Urvatô, pishatô.
> 
> 16. The raven was sacred to Appollo. The priests of the sun in Persia
> are said to have been named ravens (Porphyry). Cf. Georgica I, 45.
> 
> 17. Reading vîgâtavô.
> 
> 18. Doubtful.
> 
> 19. The royal Glory (khwarrah, Av. khwarenah) is described flying in the
> shape of a raven, Yt19.35.
> 
> VIII.
> 
> 22. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura.
> 
> Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: 'Ahura Mazda, most beneficent
> Spirit, Maker of the material world. thou Holy One!
> 
> Who is the
> best-armed of the heavenly gods?'
> 
> Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is Verethraghna, made by Ahura, O Spitama
> Zarathushtra!'
> 
> 23. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, came to him the eighth time,
> running in the shape of a wild, beautiful ram, with horns bent
> round.20
> 
> Thus did Verethraghna come, bearing the good Glory made by Mazda,21
> the Glory made by Mazda....
> 
> 20. Doubtful.
> 
> 21. While Ardashir, the founder of the Sasanian dynasty, was flying
> from Ardavan, a beautiful wild ram ran after him and overtook him,
> and Ardavan understood from this that the kingly Glory had left
> him and had passed over to his rival (Shah Nameh, Ardashir;
> Karnamag-i Ardashir 3.11-15,
> tr. Noeldeke, p. 45.)
> 
> IX.
> 
> 24. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura.
> 
> Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: 'Ahura Mazda, most beneficent
> Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One!
> 
> 'Who is the best-armed of the heavenly gods?'
> 
> Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is Verethraghna, made by Ahura, O Spitama Zarathushtra!'
> 
> 25. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, came to him the ninth time, running
> in the shape of a beautiful, fighting buck, with sharp horns.
> 
> Thus did Verethraghna come, bearing the good Glory made by Mazda,
> the Glory made by Mazda....
> 
> X.
> 
> 26. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura.
> 
> Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: 'Ahura Mazda, most beneficent
> Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One!
> 
> 'Who is the best-armed of the heavenly gods?'
> 
> Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is Verethraghna, made by Ahura, O Spitama
> Zarathushtra!'
> 
> 27. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, came to him the tenth time, running
> in the shape of a man, bright and beautiful, made by Mazda: he
> held a sword with a golden blade, inlaid with all sorts of ornaments.
> 
> Thus did Verethraghna come, bearing the good Glory made by Mazda,
> the Glory made by Mazda.
> 
> XI.
> 
> 28. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura, who makes virility,
> who makes death, who makes resurrection, who possesses peace,
> who has a free way.
> 
> Unto him did the holy Zarathushtra offer up a sacrifice, [asking]
> for victorious thinking, victorious speaking, victorious doing,
> victorious addressing, and victorious answering.
> 
> 29. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, gave him the fountains of manliness,22
> the strength of the arms, the health of the whole body, the sturdiness
> of the whole body, and the eye-sight of the Kara fish,23 that lives
> beneath the waters and can measure24 a rippling of the water, not
> thicker than a hair, in the Rangha whose ends lie afar, whose
> depth is a thousand times the height of a man.25
> 
> For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice
> worth being heard....
> 
> 22. Erezi, Pahl. gond (Old Zand-Pahlavi Dictionary, p. 11).
> 
> 23. See Vd. 19.22.
> 
> 24. Possibly, perceive.
> 
> 25. Cf. Yt. 16.7 and Bundashishn 18.6: 'those fish ...
> know the scratch of a needle's point (or better hole) by which the
> water shall increase, or by which it is diminished' (tr. West).
> 
> XII.
> 
> 30. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura, who makes virility,
> who makes death, who makes resurrection, who possesses peace,
> who has a free way.
> 
> Unto him did the holy Zarathushtra offer up a sacrifice, [asking]
> for victorious thinking, victorious speaking, victorious doing,
> victorious addressing, and victorious answering.
> 
> 31. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, gave him the fountains of manliness,
> the strength of the arms, the health of the whole body, the sturdiness
> of the whole body, and the eye-sight of the male horse, that,
> in the dark of the night, in its first half26
> and through the rain,
> can perceive a horse's hair lying on the ground and knows whether
> it is from the head or from the tail.
> 
> For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice
> worth being heard....
> 
> 26. Cf. Yt. 15.10, and Bundahishn 19.32: 'Regarding the Arab
> horse, they say that if, in a dark night, a single hair occurs
> on the groound, he sees it' (tr. West).
> 
> XIII.
> 
> 32. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura, who makes virility,
> who makes death, who makes resurrection, who possesses peace,
> who has a free way.
> 
> Unto him did the holy Zarathushtra sacrifice, [asking] for victorious
> thinking, victorious speaking, victorious doing, victorious addressing,
> and victorious answering.
> 
> 33. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, gave him the fountains of virility,
> the strength of the arms, the health of the whole body, the sturdiness
> of the whole body, and the eye-sight of the vulture with a golden
> collar,27 that, from as far as nine districts,
> can perceive a piece
> of flesh not thicker than the fist, giving just as much light
> as a needle gives, as the point of a needle gives.28
> 
> For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice
> worth being heard....
> 
> 27. Possibly the Gypaetus, the vautour doré.
> 
> 28. 'Even from his highest flight, he (the vulture) sees when
> flesh the size of a fist is on the ground' (Bund. 19.31; tr. West).
> Cf. Horapollo.
> 
> XIV.
> 
> 34. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura.
> 
> Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: 'Ahura Mazda, most beneficent
> Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One!
> 
> 'If I have a curse thrown upon me, a spell told upon me by the
> many men who hate me, what is the remedy for it?'
> 
> 35. Ahura Mazda answered: 'Take thou a feather of that
> bird with ...29 feathers, the Varenjana,
> O Spitama Zarathushtra! With that feather thou shalt
> rub thy own body,30 with that feather thou shalt
> curse back thy enemies.
> 
> 36. 'If a man holds a bone of that strong bird, or a feather of
> that strong bird, no one can smite or turn to flight that fortunate
> man. The feather of that bird of birds brings him help; it brings
> unto him the homage of men, it maintains in him his glory.
> 
> 37. 'Then the sovereign, the lord of countries, will no longer
> kill his30 hundreds, though he is a killer of men;
> the ....31 will
> not kill at one stroke; he alone smites and goes forwards.
> 
> 38. 'All tremble before him who holds the feather, they tremble
> therefore before me; all my enemies tremble before me and fear
> my strength and victorious force and the fierceness established
> in my body.
> 
> 39. 'He32 carries the chariot of the lords; he carries the chariots
> of the lordly ones, the chariots of the sovereigns. He carried
> the chariot of Kavi Usa;33 upon his wings runs
> the male horse,34
> runs the burden-bearing camel, runs the water of the river.
> 
> 40. 'Him rode the gallant Thraetaona, who smote Azhi Dahaka, the
> three-mouthed, the three-headed, the six-eyed, who had 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.35
> 
> 'For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice
> worth being heard....
> 
> 29. Pesho-parena. The Varenjana is the same bird as the Varaghna,
> the raven.
> 
> 30. The feather of the Varenjana plays here the same part as the
> Simurgh's feather in the <>Shah Nameh. When Rudabah's flank
> was opened to bring forth Rustam, her would was healed by rubbing it with
> a Simurgh's feather; Rustam, wounded to death by Isfendyar, was cured
> in the same manner.
> 
> 31. Of him who holds that feather.
> 
> 32. ? Va&ecirc;sa&ecirc;pa.
> 
> 33. That bird.
> 
> 34. Kai Kaus; when he tried to ascend to heaven on a throne carried by eagles
> (Journal Asiatique, 1881, I, 513).
> 
> 35. A metaphor to exppress the swiftness of the wind, of the camel,
> and of the rivers.
> 
> Cf. Yt. 5.34.
> 
> XV.
> 
> 41. 'We sacrifice to Verethraghna, made by Ahura.
> 
> 'Verethraghna confounds the glory of this house with its wealth
> in cattle. He is like that great bird, the Saena;36
> he is like the big clouds, full of water, that beat the mountains.
> 
> 'For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice
> worth being heard....
> 
> 36. The Simurgh; see above, note 30.
> 
> XVI.
> 
> 42. 'We sacrifice to Verethraghna, made by Ahura.'
> 
> Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: 'Ahura Mazda, most beneficent
> Spirit, Maker of the material world thou Holy One!
> 
> 'Where is it
> that we must invoke the name of Verethraghna, made by Ahura? Where
> is it that we must praise him? That we must humbly praise him?'
> 
> 43. Ahura Mazda answered: 'When armies meet together in full array,
> O Spitama Zarathushtra! (asking) which of the two is the party
> that conquers and is not crushed, that smites and is not smitten;
> 
> 44. 'Do thou throw37 four feathers38 in the way.
> Whichever of the
> two will first worship the well-shapen Strength, and Verethraghna,
> beautiful of form. made by Mazda, on his side will victory stand.
> 
> 45. 'I will bless Strength and Victory, the two keepers, the two
> good keepers, the two maintainers; the two who ...,39 the two who
> ...39 the two who ...39;
> the two who forgive, the two who strike off,
> the two who forget.40
> 
> 46. 'O Zarathushtra! let not that spell be shown to any one, except
> by the father to his son, or by the brother to his brother from
> the same womb, or by the Athravan to his pupil.41
> These are words
> that are awful and powerful, awful and assembly-ruling, awful
> and victorious, awful and healing: these are words that save the
> head that was lost and chant away the uplifted weapon.'
> 
> 37. Doubtful.
> 
> 38. Or an arrow feathered with four Varenjana's feathers.
> 
> 39. &Acirc;-dhwaozhen, v&icirc;-dhwaozen, fra-dhwaozen.
> 
> 40. &Acirc;marezen, cf. Pers. &acirc;marzidan; v&icirc;marezen, cf. Yt. 1.2;
> fra marezen, cf. Pers. farmush.
> 
> 41. Cf. Yt. 4.10.
> 
> XVII.
> 
> 47. We sacrifice to Verethraghna, made by Ahura: who goes along
> the armies arrayed, and goes here and there asking, along with
> Mithra and Rashnu:
> 'Who is it who lies unto Mithra? Who is it who
> thrusts [his oath] against Rashnu?42
> To whom shall I, in my might, impart illness and death?'43
> 
> 48.44 Ahura Mazda said: 'If men sacrifice unto
> Verethraghna, made by Ahura, if the due sacrifice
> and prayer is offered unto him
> just as it ought to be performed in the perfection of holiness,
> never will a hostile horde enter the Aryan countries, nor any
> plague, nor leprosy, nor venomous plants, nor the chariot of a
> foe, nor the uplifted spear of a foe.
> 
> 49.45 Zarathushtra asked: 'What is then, O Ahura Mazda! the sacrifice
> and invocation in honour of Verethraghna, made by Ahura, as it
> ought to be performed in the perfection of holiness?'
> 
> 50. Ahura Mazda answered: 'Let the Aryan nations bring libations
> unto him; let the Aryan nations tie bundles of baresma for him;
> let the Aryan nations cook for him a head of cattle, either white,
> or black, or of any other colour, but all of one and the same
> colour.
> 
> 51. 'Let not a murderer take of those offerings, nor a whore,
> nor a ...., who does not sing the Gathas, who spreads death in
> the world and withstands the law of Mazda, the law of Zarathushtra.
> 
> 52. 'If a murderer take of those offerings, or a whore, or a ....,
> who does not sing the Gathas, then Verethraghna, made by Ahura,
> takes back his healing virtues.
> 
> 53. 'Plagues will ever pour upon the Aryan nations; hostile hordes
> will ever fall upon the Aryan nations; the Aryans will be smitten
> by their fifties and their hundreds, by their hundreds and their
> thousands, by their thousands and their tens of thousands, by
> their tens of thousands and their myriads of myriads.'
> 
> 54. There Verethraghna, made by Ahura, proclaimed thus: 'The Soul
> of the Bull,46 the wise creature, does not receive from man due
> sacrifice and prayer; for now the Daevas and the worshippers of
> the Daevas make blood flow and spill it like water;
> 
> 55. 'For now the Vyambura47 Daevas and the worshippers of the Daevas
> bring to the fire the plant that is called Haperesi, the wood
> that is called Nemetka;48
> 
> 56. '(Therefore) when the Vyambura Daevas and the worshippers
> of the Daevas bow their backs, bend their waists, and arrange
> all their limbs,49 they think they will smite and smite not, they
> think they will kill and kill not; and then the (?Vyambura) Daevas
> and the worshippers of the Daevas have their minds confounded
> and their eyes made giddy.'50
> 
> For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice
> worth being heard....
> 
> 42. Against truth.
> 
> 43. Cf. Yt. 10.108 seq.
> 
> 44. § 48; cf. Yt. 8.56.
> 
> 45. §§ 49-53 = Yt. 8.57-61.
> 
> 46. Goshorun or Drvaspa; see Yt. 9. The destruction of any living
> being is an injury to Drvaspa.
> 
> 47. ? Vy&acirc;mbura.
> 
> 48. The Haperesi and the Nemetka are probably some species of green
> wood; it is forbidden to put green wood in the fire as it
> kills it, and injures the Genius of Water at the same time.
> 
> 49. In order to strike.
> 
> 50. The general meaning of the last four clauses is that the
> impious are defeated.
> 
> XVIII.
> 
> 57. We sacrifice to Verethraghna, made by Ahura.
> 
> I offer up Haoma, who saves one's head;51
> I offer up the victorious Haoma; I offer him up, the good
> protector; I offer up Haoma, who is a protector to my
> body, as a man who shall drink of him shall
> win and prevail52 over his enemies in battle;
> 
> 58. That I may smite this army, that I may smite down this army,
> that I may cut in pieces this army that is coming behind me.
> 
> For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice
> worth being heard....
> 
> 51. ? S&acirc;iri-baoghem; cf. § 46.
> 
> 52. Nivazaiti; literally, swallow (? fr&ocirc;t &ocirc; bun burtan, Vd. 5.8 [26]).
> 
> XIX.
> 
> 59. We sacrifice to Verethraghna, made by Ahura.
> 
> The prince and his son and his sons who are chiefs of myriads53
> offer him up a bright ...54 [saying]: 'He is strong, and Victorious
> is his name; he is victorious, and Strong is his name;'
> 
> 60. That I may be as constantly victorious as any one of all the
> Aryans;55 that I may smite this army, that I may smite down this
> army, that I may cut in pieces this army that is coming behind
> me.
> 
> For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice
> worth being heard....
> 
> 53. Cf. Yt. 5.85.
> 
> 54. ? As&acirc;nem sigh&ucirc;ir&ecirc;.
> 
> 55. Cf. Yt. 5.69.
> 
> XX.
> 
> 61. We sacrifice to Verethraghna, made by Ahura.
> 
> Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....
> 
> In the ox is our strength, in the ox is our need;56
> in the ox is
> our speech, in the ox is our victory; in the ox is our food, in
> the ox is our clothing; in the ox is tillage, that makes food
> grow for us.
> 
> For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice
> worth being heard....
> 
> 56. From Y. 10.20 (62), where, instead of the words, 'in the ox
> is our strength (amem), in the ox is our need,' the text has, 'in the
> ox is his need, in the ox is our need,' meaning, 'when we give
> him his need (water and grass), he gives us our need (milk and
> calves),' (Pahl. tr.).
> 
> XXI.
> 
> 62. We sacrifice to Verethraghna, made by Ahura;
> 
> Who breaks the columns asunder, who cuts the columns to pieces,
> who wounds the columns, who makes the columns shake; who comes
> and breaks the columns asunder, who comes and cuts the columns
> to pieces, who comes and wounds the columns, who comes and makes
> the columns shake, both 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 unto him a sacrifice
> worth being heard....
> 
> XXII.
> 
> 63. We sacrifice to Verethraghna, made by Ahura.
> 
> When Verethraghna, made by Ahura, binds the hands, confounds the
> eye-sight, takes the hearing from the ears of the Mithradrujes57
> marching in columns, allied by cities, they can no longer move
> their feet, they can no longer-withstand.
> 
> For his brightness and glory I will offer unto him a sacrifice
> worth being heard....
> 
> 64. 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 Verethraghna, made by Mazda; and of the crushing Ascendant.
> 
> Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....
> 
> [Give] unto that man58 brightness and glory, .... give him the bright,
> all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones.
> 
> 57. See p. 120, note 2.
> 
> 58. Who shall offer a sacrifice to Verethraghna.
> 
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