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Yas And ITs. Xx. Vanant Yast

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"The Zend Avesta, Part Ii (sbe23)\", James Darmesteter, tr. [1882],

p. 310

Xx. Vana
\"N"T" YA"S"T.

This Ya"s"t ought to follow immediately after the Tr Ya"s"t, as it is derived from the same Srzah formula; the one in which Ti"s"trya is invoked along with Vana"n"t" and Haptiri"n"ga (Srzah, 13). It is a mere supplement to that Ya"s"t. On Vana"n"t", see p. 97, note 6.

\"0. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced!....

Ashem Voh: Holiness is the best of all good...

I
confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathu"s"tra, one who hates the Davas and obeys the laws of Ahura;

For sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto [Hvani], the holy and master of holiness....

Unto the star Vana"n"t", made by Mazda,

Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.

Yath ah vairy: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....

1.
We sacrifice unto the star Vana"n"t", made by Mazda, the holy and master of holiness.

I will sacrifice unto Vana"n"t", strong, invoked by his own name 1, healing, in order to withstand the accursed and most foul Khrafstras 2 of the most abominable Angra Mainyu.

2.
Yath ah vairy: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....

I
bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and vigour of the star Vana"n"t", made by Mazda.

Ashem Voh: Holiness is the best of all good....

[Give] unto that man 3 brightness and glory,.... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones.

Footnotes

310:1
See p. 13, note 2.

310:2
The reptiles and other Ahrimanian creatures (Venddd, Introd. V, 11) which are destroyed by the rain (Bund. Vii, 7).

310:3 Who sacrifices to Vana"n"t".

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