# Yashts — Yasht 4

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> Source: Avesta.org. The Yashts, Yasht 4, 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): 4. Hordad Yasht
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> 4. HORDAD 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
> [Hawan], the holy and master of holiness ....
> 
> Unto Haurvatat, the master; unto the prosperity of the
> seasons and unto the years, the masters of holiness,
> Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and
> glorification.
> Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of
> holiness....
> We sacrifice unto Haurvatat, the Amesha-Spenta; we sacrifice
> unto the prosperity of the seasons; we sacrifice unto the years,
> the holy and masters of holiness.
> 
> 1.Ahura Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathushtra, saying: 'I
> created for the faithful the help, the enjoyments, the comforts,
> and the pleasures of Haurvatat. We unite them with him who would
> come up to thee as one of the Amesha-Spentas, as he would come to
> any of the Amesha-Spentas, Vohu-Mano, Asha-Vahishta,
> Khshathra-Vairya, Spenta-Armaiti, Haurvatat, and Ameretat.
> 
> 2.'He who against the thousands of thousands of those Daevas,
> against their ten thousands of ten thousands, against their
> numberless myriads would invoke the name of Haurvatat, as one of
> the Amesha-Spentas, he would smite the Nasu, he would smite
> Hashi, he would smite Bashi, he would smite Saeni, he would
> smite Buji.
> 
> 3.'I proclaim the faithful man as the first [of men]; if I
> proclaim the faithful man as the first [of men], then Rashnu
> Razishta, then every heavenly Yazata of male nature in company
> with the Amesha-Spentas will free the faithful man
> 
> 4.'From the Nasu, from Hashi, from Gashi, from Saeni, from
> Buji; from the hordes with the wide front, from the hordes with
> the many spears uplifted, from the evil man who oppresses, from
> the willful sinner, from the oppressor of men, from the Yatu,
> from the Pairika, from the straying way.
> 
> 5.'How does the way of the faithful turn and part from the way
> of the wicked?'
> Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is when a man pronouncing my
> spell, either reading or reciting it by heart, draws the furrows
> and hides there himself, [saying]:
> 
> 6.'"I will smite thee, O Druj! whomsoever thou art, whomsoever
> thou art amongst the Drujes that come in an open way, whomsoever
> thou art amongst the Drujes that come by hidden way, whomsoever
> thou art amongst the Drujes that defile by contact; whatsoever
> Druj thou art, I smite thee away from the Aryan countries;
> whatsoever Druj thou art, I bind thee; I smite thee down, O Druj!
> I throw thee down below, O Druj!"
> 
> 7.'He draws [then] three furrows: I proclaim him one of the
> faithful; he draws six furrow: I proclaim him one of the
> faithful; he draws nine furrows: I proclaim him one of the
> faithful.
> 
> 8.'The names of those (Amesha-Spentas) smite the men turned to
> Nasus by the Drujes: the seed and kin of the deaf are smitten,
> the scornful are dead, as the Zaotar Zarathushtra blows them
> away to woe, however fierce, at his will and wish, as many as he
> wishes.
> 
> 9.'From the time when the sun is down he smites them with
> bruising blows; from the time when the sun is no longer up, he
> deals deadly blows on the Nasu with his club struck down, for the
> propitiation and glorification of the heavenly gods.
> 
> 10.'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 in black
> hair, devoted to the good law, who, devoted to the good law,
> holy and brave, stills all the Drujes.
> 
> 11.'For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a
> sacrifice worth being heard, namely, unto Haurvatat, the
> Amesha-Spenta. Unto Haurvatat, the Amesha-Spenta, 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.
> 12.
> '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 Haurvatat, the master; of the prosperity of the seasons
> and of the years, the masters of holiness.
> '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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