1 That best prayer has been answered, the prayer of Zarathushtra Spitama, that God the Wise Lord might grant him those boons, the most wished-for, which flow from the good Order: even a life that is prospered for eternal duration; and also those who had deceived him, may He likewise grant them to become disciples of the good faith in word and in deed.

2 And may King Vishtaspa, and the Spitama of Zarathushtra's household, and Frashaoshtra too with them, offer devotion to the Wise Lord in thought, word, and deed, and confessions of faith as they render Him praise, making straight paths for our going, even that faith of the Saviour which the Lord will found.

3 And him will they give thee, O Pouruchista, youngest of the daughters of Zarathushtra, descendant of Haechataspa and of Spitama: him will they give thee as a help in the true service of the Good Mind, of Righteousness and of the Wise Lord, as a chief and a guardian. Counsel well then together with the mind of Piety, most bountiful and devout; and act with just action.

4 I will love him and vie with him, since from my father he gained me. For the master and the toilers, and for the lord-kinsman, be the Good Mind's bright blessing, the pure for the pure ones, and to me be the insight which I gain from his counsel. May the Wise Lord grant it, the Lord, for a good conscience for ever.

5 Counsels for the marrying I speak to you maidens, to you, I who know them; and heed ye my sayings: by these laws of the faith which I utter obtain ye the life of the Good Mind, on earth and in heaven. And to you, bride and bridegroom: let each one cherish the other in righteousness; thus alone shall the home-life be happy to each.

6 Thus real are these things, ye men and ye women! Protecting from the demon of the Lie, I guard over my faithful, and so grant progress in weal and in goodness. And the hatred of the Lie, with the hatred of her bondsmen, I pray to be removed from the body, and so would I expel it. For to those who bear the evil wind, and bring it to power, its shame mars the glory. To these evil harmers of the truth it comes by these means. Ye thus slay the life of the mind if ye follow its courses.

7 But yours be the recompense, O ye righteous women, of this great cause. For while lustful desire, heart-inflamed, goes down from the body to where the spirit of evil reaches to ruin, still ye bring forth the champion to help on the cause, and thus conquer temptation. So your last word is a cry of triumph.

8 And thus let the sinners by these means be foiled; and consumed be they likewise. Let them shriek in their anger. With good kings let our champion deliver the smiter as a captive in battle, giving peace to our dwellings and peace to our hamlets. Let him charge those deceivers, chaining death as the strongest; and swift be the issue.

9 Through false believers the tormentor makes Thy helpers refusers; those who once helped our heroes shall no longer give succour. The estranged thus desires, and the reprobate wills it, with the will that he harbours, to conquer our honour. Where is then the righteous Lord who will smite them from life, and beguile them of license? O Wise Lord, Thine is that power which will banish and conquer. And Thine is the Kingdom; and by it Thou bestowest the highest of blessings on the righteous poor!