XX. Vana<I>n</I><I>t</I> Ya<I>s</I>t

The Zend Avesta, Part II (SBE23), James Darmesteter, tr. [1882], at sacred-texts.com

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XX. VANANT YAST.

This Yast ought to follow immediately after the Tîr Yast, as it is derived from the same Sîrôzah formula; the one in which Tistrya is invoked along with Vanant and Haptôiringa (Sîrôzah, § 13). It is a mere supplement to that Yast. On Vanant, see p. 97, note 6.

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

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

I confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathustra, one who hates the Daêvas and obeys the laws of Ahura;

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

Unto the star Vanant, made by Mazda,

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

Yathâ ahû vairyô: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness . . . .

1. We sacrifice unto the star Vanant, made by Mazda, the holy and master of holiness.

I will sacrifice unto Vanant, 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. Yathâ ahû vairyô: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness . . . .

I bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and vigour of the star Vanant, made by Mazda.

Ashem Vohû: 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 (Vendîdâd, Introd. V, 11) which are destroyed by the rain (Bund. VII, 7).

310:3 Who sacrifices to Vanant.