# Yashts — Yasht 18

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> Source: Avesta.org. The Yashts, Yasht 18, 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): Ashtad Yasht
> 
> 18. ASHTAD YASHT
> 
> 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 Glory of the Aryans, made by Mazda,
> 
> Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.
> 
> Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....
> 1.
> Ahura Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathushtra, saying: 'I made
> the Aryan Glory, rich in food, rich in flocks, rich in wealth,
> rich in Glory; provided with full store of intelligence, with
> full store of money, to withstand Need, and to withstand enemies.
> 2.
> 'It destroys Angra Mainyu, who is all death; it destroys Aeshma,
> the fiend of the wounding spear; it destroys the yellow Bushyasta;
> it destroys the contagion of Aekha; it destroys the fiend of death,
> Apaosha; it destroys the non-Aryan nations.
> 3.
> 'And I made the great Ashi Vanguhi; she comes in, amid the
> family; she comes in, inside the fine royal palace.
> 4.
> 'Let Ashi, with fulness of welfare, follow the man who gladdens
> the faithful with his gifts! she comes in, inside his family;
> she comes in, inside his fine royal palace.
> 
> 'With all sorts of flocks, with all victory, with all intelligence,
> with all Glory, the great Ashi Vanguhi puts one foot inside his
> family; she comes in, inside his fine royal palace.
> 5.
> 'Horses multiply a thousandfold, flocks multiply a thousandfold;
> and so does his virtuous offspring, (as) the bright, glorious
> star Tishtrya moves on equally, and so does the strong wind made
> by Mazda, and so does the Glory of the Aryas.
> 6.
> 'And they bring increase on the tops of all mountains, down
> the depths of all vales; they bring increase to all the growing
> plants, the fair, the golden-hued. And they bring (away) the contagion
> of Aekha, they bring (away) the fiend of death, Apaosha.
> 7.
> 'Hail to the bright and glorious star Tishtrya Hail to the
> strong wind, made by Mazda! Hail to the Glory of the Aryas!
> 
> 'Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....
> 
> 'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....
> 8.
> 'We worship the Ahuna Vairya.
> 
> 'We worship Asha-Vahishta, the fairest Amesha-Spenta.
> 
> 'We worship the rightly-spoken Words, fiend-smiting and healing.
> 
> 'We worship the healing, well-spoken Words, the fiend-smiting.
> 
> 'We worship the Mathra Spenta and the Law of Mazda, and (piety)
> that delights in Haoma.
> 
> 'We worship the Glory of the Aryas.
> 
> 'Yenhe hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda....
> 9.
> '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 Glory of the Aryas, made by Mazda.
> 
> 'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....
> 
> '[Give] unto that man brightness and glory, .... give him the
> bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones.'
> 
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