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The Opening Yasna

iving death afar; pray to me, O Spitama, prepare me for the taste. Praise me so that also the other Saoshyants [benefactors] may praise me2. 3 Thereupon spake Zarathushtra: Unto Haoma be the praise. What man, O Haoma! first prepared thee for the corporeal wor

The Closing Yasna

, heroic, bountiful Fravashis of the saints from Gaya Maretan [Gayomard] (the first created) to the Saoshyant, the victorious. (Y26.10) 28 We worship Verethraghna, the Ahura-made, the victorious blow; and we worship the Saoshyant, who smites with victory; and

Srosh Yasht Hadokht

s of the longtraditional teaching; The friends of the Amesha-Spentas; The friends of ourselves, the Saoshyants1, the two-footed part of the holy creation; The friends of all the beings of the holy world. For his brightness and glory, for his strength and victo

Frawardin Yasht

the Fravashis of the faithful, O Spitama! are those of the men of the primitive law or those of the Saoshyants not yet born, who are to restore the world. Of the others, the Fravashis of the living faithful are more powerful, O Zarathushtra! than those of the

Ard Yasht

and powerful; 2 The daughter of Ahura Mazda, the sister of the Amesha-Spentas, who endows all the Saoshyants6 with the enlivening intelligence; she also brings heavenly wisdom at her wish, and comes to help him who invokes her from near and him who invokes h

Zam Yasht

sacrifice unto the awful kingly Glory, made by Mazda .... 89 That will cleave unto the victorious Saoshyant and his helpers, when he shall restore the world, which will (thenceforth) never grow old and never die, never decaying and never rotting, ever living

VISPERAD 2.

l spoken, and the deed well done, and Piety the bountiful, even him who maintains the Mathra of the Saoshyant, by whose actions the settlements are advanced in the righteous order. 6. And in this Zaothra with this Baresman I desire to approach the (yearly) Sea

VISPERAD 3 - BEGINNING OF THE HAOMA OFFERING; ROLL-CALL OF THE PRIEST.

u may be, if only chiefs of the Mazdayasnians; and we summon the Bounteous Immortals, and the pious Saoshyants (the prophets for our help), the most correct and truthful in their speech, the most zealous, the most glorious in their thoughts, the greatest ones,

VISPERAD 5.

ion, and Your praise; (yea, for Yours) the Bountiful Immortals, and for our preparation, (O ye holy Saoshyants!) and for your well-timed prayer for blessings, and your sanctification, and for our victorious smiting of our foes, beneficial (as it is) for our so

VISPERAD 11.

grace), this holy Haoma, and the flesh, and the holy man, and the saint's innate thoughts, even the Saoshyants' innate thoughts. And we present this fresh milk as an offering, now lifted up with sanctity, and this Hadhanaepata plant, lifted up with sanctity; (

VISPERAD 22.

ERAD 22. 1. With this chant (fully) chanted, and which is for the Bountiful Immortals and the holy Saoshyants (who are the prophets who shall serve us), and by means of these (ceremonial) actions, which are (of all) the best, we desire to utter our supplicati

FARGARD 1. Sixteen perfect lands created by Ahura Mazda, and as many plagues created by Angra Mainyu.

hmanical and Buddhist religion. The Pairika Khnathaiti will be destroyed at the end of the world by Saoshyant, the unborn son of Zarathushtra (when all false religions vanish before the true one; Vd19.5). — Sama Keresaspa, the Garshasp of later tradition, is

FARGARD 19.

smite the Nasu, a creature of the Daeva; I will smite the Pairika Knathaiti,759 till the victorious Saoshyant come up to life760 out of the lake Kasava [Kasaoya],761 from the region of the dawn, from the regions of the dawn.’ 6. Again to him said the Maker

YAZISHN HĀ XX known as FRĀMRAOT

athacha39 zbayente40 ashaone41 ashem42 chinasti43, yathacha44 khshmāvōya45 ashem46 chinasti47 yat saoshyantaēibyō48; thrāyō49 tkaēsha50. Vīspem51 vachō52 fravākem53 haurūm54, vachō55 Ahurahe Mazdāo56. (4) Mazdāo57 frāmraot58: chīm59 frāmraōt

SROSH YASHT HĀDOKHT

e60, hakhaya61 dareghayāo62 upayanayāo63, hakhaya64 Ameshanām Spentanām65, hakhaya66 ahmākem67 saoshyantām68 yat69 bipaitishtanām70ashaonām71, hakhaya72 vīspayāo73 ashaonō74 stōish75. (15) We praise9 the beautiful3, victorious4, bringing-prosperit

FARVARDIN YASHT

ma16, yāo17 paoiryanām18 tkaēshanām19, yāo20 vā21 narām22 azātanām23 frashō-charethrām24 saoshyantām25. Āat26 anyaēshām27 fravashayō28 jvanām29 narām30 ashaonām31 aojyehīsh32 Zarathushtra33, yatha34 iristanām35 Spitama36. (18) Āat37 yō3

HOM YASHT LARGE

frāmām45 hunvanguha46 khvaretēe47; avi mām48 staomaine49 stūidhi50, yatha51 mā52 aparachit53 Saoshyantō54 stavān55. (1) During2 the Hāvan1 Gāh3 Hom5 (yazata) came to4 (the Prophet) Zarathushtra7 (who was) purifying9 asbthe fire8 and (was) chanting1

SIROZĀ YASHT

ririthushām ashaonām, yāoscha jvantām ashaonām, yāoscha narām azātanām frashō-charethrām Saoshyantām. (7) Idha iristanām urvānō yazamaide, yāo ashaonām fravashayō. Vīspanām ahmya nmāne nabānazdishtanām para-iristanām aēthrapaitinām a

KARDĀ TO BE RECITED IN MEMORY OF THE DEPARTED ONES

shaonām16 yāoscha17 jvantām18 ashaonām19, yāoscha20 narām21 azātanām22 frashōcharethrām23 saoshyantām24. (5) We worship79 the Fravashi78 of the righteous77 awhGayomard75-76. We worship here82 the holiness84 of the Holy83 Spitaman81 Zarathushtra80 a

DĪN-NO KALAMO (in Avesta) - THE ZOROASTRIAN CREED (Yasna Hā 12)

āvaranō60 kavā Vishtāspō61, yāvaranā62 Frashaoshtrā63 Jāmāspā64; yāvaranō65 kashchit66 saoshyantām67 haithyāvarezām68 ashāunām69, tā varenāchā70 tkaēshācha71. (7) Of what faith42 (are) the waters43, of what46 faith (are) well-created48

Farvardin Yasht to be recited along with the Kardāh of “Stum” in the sacred memory of the souls of the departed ones.