Yasna XIV. Dedications

The Zend Avesta, Part III (SBE31), L.H. Mills, tr. [1886], at sacred-texts.com

YASNA XIV (SP. XV).

DEDICATIONS.

1. I will come to You, O Ye Bountiful Immortals! as a praiser and a priest, and an invoker and sacrificer, as a memorising reciter and a chanter, for Your sacrifice and homage, which are to be offered to You, the Bountiful Immortals, and for our dedication and sanctification; (yea, for ours) who are the holy prophets (destined to benefit the saints).

2. And to You, O Ye Bountiful Immortals ^2a! would I dedicate the flesh of my very body ³, and all the blessings of a prospered life ⁴.

3. In this Zaothra with this Baresman, I desire to

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approach the holy Yazads with my praise ¹, and all the holy lords of the ritual order at their times, Hâvani at his time, and Sâvanghi and Vîsya at their times. 4. I confess myself a Mazdayasnian, and of Zarathustra's order ².

5. The Zaotar speaks: As an Ahû (revered and) chosen, the Zaotar (?) speaks forth to me (?).

The Ratu speaks: As an Ahû (revered and) to be chosen, the Zaotar speaks forth to me.

The Zaotar: So let the Ratu from his Righteousness, holy and learned, speak forth!

Footnotes

253:2a Elsewhere with verbal difference.

253:3 See Y. XXXIII, 14.

253:4 Verses 1, 2 are Gâthic.

254:1 See Y. II, 18.

254:2 See Y. III, 24, 25.