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1rong, beneficent Fra- vashis of the faithful, who are the mightiest of drivers, the lightest of those driving forwards, the slowest of the retiring ^ the safest ^ of all bridges, the least- erring^ of all weapons and armsS and who never turn their backs \ 27. At once, wherever they come, we worship them, the good ones, the excellent ones, the good, the strong, the beneficent Fravashis of the faithful. They are to be invoked when the bundles of baresma are tied ; they are to be invoked in fights against foes, in battles », and there where gallant men strive to conquer foes. ^ Cf. § 40. 2 Fv6ritau: cf. frdreti=farnamijn, adej-a (Yasna VIII, 2 [4]). ' With alms (asho-dad). * Cf. § 36. 5 Doubtful. * Defensive arms. ' To flee. ' Cf. § 23. FARVARDfN YAST. 187 28. Mazda invoked them for help, when he fixed the sky and the waters and the earth and the plants ; when Spe;^ta-Mainyu fixed the sky, when he fixed the waters, when the earth, when the cattle, when the plants, when the child conceived in the womb, so that it should not die from the assaults of Vidotu, and developed in it the bones, the hair, the . . . . , the entrails, the feet, and the sexual organs \ 29. Spe;^ta-Mainyu maintained the sky, and they sustained it from below, they, the strong Fravashis, who sit in silence, gazing with sharp looks ; whose eyes and ears are powerful, who bring long joy, high and high-girded ; well-moving and moving afar, loud- snorting 2, possessing riches and a high renown. IV. 30. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful ; whose friendship is good, and who know how to benefit; whose friendship lasts long ; who like to stay in the abode where they are not harmed by its dwellers ; who are good, beautiful afar ^, health-giving, of high renown, con- quering in battle, and who never do harm first. V. 31. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful ; whose will is dreadful unto those who vex them ; powerfully working and most beneficent ; who in battle break the dread arms of their foes and haters. ^ Cf. §§ II, 22. "^ They arc compared to horses; cf. Yt. VIII, 2. ^ Their beauty is seen afar. One manuscript has ' known afar ; ' another, ' whose eyesight reaches far.' A 1 88 YASTS AND SIROZAHS. VI. 32. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful; Hberal, vaHant, and full of strength, not to be seized by thought, welfare- giving, kind, and health-giving, following with Ashi's remedies, as far as the earth extends, as the rivers stretch, as the sun rises ^ VII. 33.
2ng, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful; Hberal, vaHant, and full of strength, not to be seized by thought, welfare- giving, kind, and health-giving, following with Ashi's remedies, as far as the earth extends, as the rivers stretch, as the sun rises ^ VII. 33. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful, who gallantly and bravely fight, causing havoc, wounding^, breaking to pieces all the malice of the malicious, Daevas and men, and smiting powerfully in battle, at their wish and will. 34. You kindly deliver the Victory made by Ahura, and the crushing Ascendant, most bene- ficently, to those countries where you, the good ones, unharmed and rejoiced, unoppressed and unoffended, have been held worthy of sacrifice and prayer, and proceed the way of your wish. VIII. 35. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful, of high renown, smiting in battle, most strong, shield-bearing and harmless to those who are true, whom both the pursuing and the fleeing invoke for help : the pursuer invokes ^ All the beneficent powers hidden in the earth, in the waters, and in the sun, and which Ashi Vanguhi (Yt. XVII) imparts to man. ^ Doubtful: urvaSnaitiJ". FARVARDIN YAST, 189 them for a swift race, and for a swift race does the fleer invoke them ; 36. Who turn to that side where are faithful men, most devoted to hoHness, and where is the greatest piety, where the faithful man is rejoiced, and where the faithful man is not ill-treated \ IX. 37. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful, who form many battalions, girded with weapons ^, lifting up spears, and full of sheen; who in fearful battles come rushing along where the gallant heroes^ go and assail the Danus^. 38. There you destroy the victorious strength of the Turanian Danus ; there you destroy the malice of the Turanian Danus; through you the chiefs^ are of high intellect ^ and most successful ; they, the gallant heroes ^ the gallant Saoshya?^/s^ the gallant conquerors of the offspring of the Danus chiefs of myriads, who wound with stones ^ X. 39. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful, who rout the two wings of an army standing in battle array, who make the centre swerve, and swiftly pursue onwards, to help the faithful and to distress the doers of evil deeds. XI. 40. We worship the good, strong, beneficent 1 Cf. § 25. 2 Yasto-zayau. ^ Doubtful. * Yt. V, 72. ' Doubtful. * Hvira; see iStudes Iraniennes, II, 183. ' Cf. p. 165, note I. * Doubtful (a sab an a). I90 YA^TS AND SIROZAHS.
3f evil deeds. XI. 40. We worship the good, strong, beneficent 1 Cf. § 25. 2 Yasto-zayau. ^ Doubtful. * Yt. V, 72. ' Doubtful. * Hvira; see iStudes Iraniennes, II, 183. ' Cf. p. 165, note I. * Doubtful (a sab an a). I90 YA^TS AND SIROZAHS. Fravashis of the faithful ; awful, overpowering, and victorious, smiting in battle, sorely wounding, blow- ing away (the foes), moving along to and fro, of good renown, fair of body, godly of soul, and holy ; who give victory to their invoker, who give boons to their lover, who give health to the sick man ^ ; 41. Who give good glory to him who worships them with a sacrifice, as that man did worship them, the holy Zarathui'tra, the chief of the material world, the head of the two-footed race, in whatever struggle he had to enter, in whatever distress he did fear ; 42. Who, when well invoked, enjoy bliss in the heavens ; who, when well invoked, come forward from the heavens, who are the heads ^ of that sky above, possessing the well-shapen Strength, the Vic- tory made by Ahura, the crushing Ascendant, and Welfare ^, the wealth-bringing, boon-bringing, holy, well fed, worthy of sacrifice and prayer in the per- fection of holiness. 43. They shed Satavaesa* between the earth and the sky, him to whom the waters belong ^ who listens to appeals and makes the waters flow and the plants grow up, to nourish animals and men, to nourish the Aryan nations, to nourish the five kinds of animals", and to help the faithful '^. 44. Satavaesa comes down and flows between the earth and the sky, he to whom the waters be- long, who listens to appeals and makes the waters and the plants grow up, fair, radiant, and full of ' Cf. § 24. ^ 'The chief creatures;' cf. Gah II, 8, * Saoka; cf. Sirozah I, 3, note. * Cf. Yt. VIII, 9, and 34, note. " Ta/-apem. " See above, p. 182, note 2. ' Cf. 'f 10. A FARVARDIN YA^T. I9I light, to nourish animals and men, to nourish the Aryan nations, to nourish the five kinds of animals, and to help the faithful. XII. 45. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful ; with helms of brass, with weapons of brass, with armour ^ of brass ; who struggle in the fights for victory in garments of light, arraying the battles and bringing them for- wards, to kill thousands of Daevas. When the wind blows from behind them ^ and brings their breath unto men, 46. Then men know where blows the breath of victory : and they pay pious homage unto the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful, with their hearts prepared and their arms uplifted. 47.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1rong, beneficent Fra- vashis of the faithful, who are the mightiest of drivers, the lightest of those driving forwards, the slowest of the retiring ^ the safest ^ of all bridges, the least- erring^ of all weapons and armsS and who never turn their backs \ 27. At once, wherever they come, we worship them, the good ones, the excellent ones, the good, the strong, the beneficent Fravashis of the faithful. They are to be invoked when the bundles of baresma are tied ; they are to be invoked in fights against foes, in battles », and there where gallant men strive to conquer foes. ^ Cf. § 40. 2 Fv6ritau: cf. frdreti=farnamijn, adej-a (Yasna VIII, 2 [4]). ' With alms (asho-dad). * Cf. § 36. 5 Doubtful. * Defensive arms. ' To flee. ' Cf. § 23. FARVARDfN YAST. 187 28. Mazda invoked them for help, when he fixed the sky and the waters and the earth and the plants ; when Spe;^ta-Mainyu fixed the sky, when he fixed the waters, when the earth, when the cattle, when the plants, when the child conceived in the womb, so that it should not die from the assaults of Vidotu, and developed in it the bones, the hair, the . . . . , the entrails, the feet, and the sexual organs \ 29. Spe;^ta-Mainyu maintained the sky, and they sustained it from below, they, the strong Fravashis, who sit in silence, gazing with sharp looks ; whose eyes and ears are powerful, who bring long joy, high and high-girded ; well-moving and moving afar, loud- snorting 2, possessing riches and a high renown. IV. 30. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful ; whose friendship is good, and who know how to benefit; whose friendship lasts long ; who like to stay in the abode where they are not harmed by its dwellers ; who are good, beautiful afar ^, health-giving, of high renown, con- quering in battle, and who never do harm first. V. 31. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful ; whose will is dreadful unto those who vex them ; powerfully working and most beneficent ; who in battle break the dread arms of their foes and haters. ^ Cf. §§ II, 22. "^ They arc compared to horses; cf. Yt. VIII, 2. ^ Their beauty is seen afar. One manuscript has ' known afar ; ' another, ' whose eyesight reaches far.' A 1 88 YASTS AND SIROZAHS. VI. 32. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful; Hberal, vaHant, and full of strength, not to be seized by thought, welfare- giving, kind, and health-giving, following with Ashi's remedies, as far as the earth extends, as the rivers stretch, as the sun rises ^ VII. 33.
2ng, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful; Hberal, vaHant, and full of strength, not to be seized by thought, welfare- giving, kind, and health-giving, following with Ashi's remedies, as far as the earth extends, as the rivers stretch, as the sun rises ^ VII. 33. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful, who gallantly and bravely fight, causing havoc, wounding^, breaking to pieces all the malice of the malicious, Daevas and men, and smiting powerfully in battle, at their wish and will. 34. You kindly deliver the Victory made by Ahura, and the crushing Ascendant, most bene- ficently, to those countries where you, the good ones, unharmed and rejoiced, unoppressed and unoffended, have been held worthy of sacrifice and prayer, and proceed the way of your wish. VIII. 35. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful, of high renown, smiting in battle, most strong, shield-bearing and harmless to those who are true, whom both the pursuing and the fleeing invoke for help : the pursuer invokes ^ All the beneficent powers hidden in the earth, in the waters, and in the sun, and which Ashi Vanguhi (Yt. XVII) imparts to man. ^ Doubtful: urvaSnaitiJ". FARVARDIN YAST, 189 them for a swift race, and for a swift race does the fleer invoke them ; 36. Who turn to that side where are faithful men, most devoted to hoHness, and where is the greatest piety, where the faithful man is rejoiced, and where the faithful man is not ill-treated \ IX. 37. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful, who form many battalions, girded with weapons ^, lifting up spears, and full of sheen; who in fearful battles come rushing along where the gallant heroes^ go and assail the Danus^. 38. There you destroy the victorious strength of the Turanian Danus ; there you destroy the malice of the Turanian Danus; through you the chiefs^ are of high intellect ^ and most successful ; they, the gallant heroes ^ the gallant Saoshya?^/s^ the gallant conquerors of the offspring of the Danus chiefs of myriads, who wound with stones ^ X. 39. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful, who rout the two wings of an army standing in battle array, who make the centre swerve, and swiftly pursue onwards, to help the faithful and to distress the doers of evil deeds. XI. 40. We worship the good, strong, beneficent 1 Cf. § 25. 2 Yasto-zayau. ^ Doubtful. * Yt. V, 72. ' Doubtful. * Hvira; see iStudes Iraniennes, II, 183. ' Cf. p. 165, note I. * Doubtful (a sab an a). I90 YA^TS AND SIROZAHS.
3f evil deeds. XI. 40. We worship the good, strong, beneficent 1 Cf. § 25. 2 Yasto-zayau. ^ Doubtful. * Yt. V, 72. ' Doubtful. * Hvira; see iStudes Iraniennes, II, 183. ' Cf. p. 165, note I. * Doubtful (a sab an a). I90 YA^TS AND SIROZAHS. Fravashis of the faithful ; awful, overpowering, and victorious, smiting in battle, sorely wounding, blow- ing away (the foes), moving along to and fro, of good renown, fair of body, godly of soul, and holy ; who give victory to their invoker, who give boons to their lover, who give health to the sick man ^ ; 41. Who give good glory to him who worships them with a sacrifice, as that man did worship them, the holy Zarathui'tra, the chief of the material world, the head of the two-footed race, in whatever struggle he had to enter, in whatever distress he did fear ; 42. Who, when well invoked, enjoy bliss in the heavens ; who, when well invoked, come forward from the heavens, who are the heads ^ of that sky above, possessing the well-shapen Strength, the Vic- tory made by Ahura, the crushing Ascendant, and Welfare ^, the wealth-bringing, boon-bringing, holy, well fed, worthy of sacrifice and prayer in the per- fection of holiness. 43. They shed Satavaesa* between the earth and the sky, him to whom the waters belong ^ who listens to appeals and makes the waters flow and the plants grow up, to nourish animals and men, to nourish the Aryan nations, to nourish the five kinds of animals", and to help the faithful '^. 44. Satavaesa comes down and flows between the earth and the sky, he to whom the waters be- long, who listens to appeals and makes the waters and the plants grow up, fair, radiant, and full of ' Cf. § 24. ^ 'The chief creatures;' cf. Gah II, 8, * Saoka; cf. Sirozah I, 3, note. * Cf. Yt. VIII, 9, and 34, note. " Ta/-apem. " See above, p. 182, note 2. ' Cf. 'f 10. A FARVARDIN YA^T. I9I light, to nourish animals and men, to nourish the Aryan nations, to nourish the five kinds of animals, and to help the faithful. XII. 45. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful ; with helms of brass, with weapons of brass, with armour ^ of brass ; who struggle in the fights for victory in garments of light, arraying the battles and bringing them for- wards, to kill thousands of Daevas. When the wind blows from behind them ^ and brings their breath unto men, 46. Then men know where blows the breath of victory : and they pay pious homage unto the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful, with their hearts prepared and their arms uplifted. 47.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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