Plain text of The Gatha Spenta Mainyu · Yasna 13 (Invocations and Dedications)
1 I address my invocation to God the Wise Lord. And I call to mind, among the guardians of the community, the head of the house, and the head of the village, and the head of the tribe. And I call to mind the head of the province. And the foremost of women I call to mind, in the faith of the worshippers of the Wise Lord, the blessed and good woman, her who is the holy one of human-kind. And I give thanks to God for this holy earth which bears us.
2 And I call to mind the friendly and most helpful head of the household, and the light which is the sign of the Wise Lord, and also the most energetic leaders of holy men, those who are most strenuous in their care of cattle and the fields, and the chief of the thrifty tiller of the earth. And I call to mind the steady settler of sanctity, and the chief of the charioteer.
3 And I call to mind the chief of the fire-priest by means of the most imposing sciences of the faith of the worshippers of the Wise Lord. And I call to mind the chief of the teacher, and his pupils I call to mind; yea, the leaders of each of them. I call to mind these leaders, and I give thanks to God for the bountiful gifts here, and for the prophets who shall serve us, the wisest as they are, the most scrupulous in their exactness as they utter words of doctrine and of service, the most devoted to their duties likewise, and the most glorious in their thoughts. And I call to mind the most imposing forces of the faith of the worshippers of the Wise Lord, and the fire-priests, and the charioteers, the warriors, and the thrifty tillers of the soil.
4 And to Thee, O Lord, whose bountiful gifts rule aright and dispose all aright, I offer the flesh of my very frame, and all the blessings of my life.
Thus the two spirits thought, thus they spoke, and thus they did;
5 And therefore as Thou, O Wise Lord, didst think, speak, dispose, and do all things good for us, so to Thee would we give, so would we assign to Thee our homage; so would we worship Thee with our sacrifices. So would we bow before Thee with these gifts, and so direct our prayers to Thee with confessions of our debt.
6 By the kinship of the good kindred, by that of Righteousness the good, the nature of Thy righteous servant, would we approach Thee, and by that of the good thrift-law, and of Piety the good.
7 And we would remember the Cow of blessed gift, and the holy Gayomard, and we would remember the holy Zarathushtra Spitama, the saint. Yea, that one among beings whose better service in the sacrifice God the Wise Lord knows, even those women whose better service thus is known, do we honour. Yea, both holy men and women do we honour whom God the Wise Lord knows. As the Lord is excelling, so is our leader, one who rules from the righteous Order, a creator of mental goodness, and of life's actions done for the Wise Lord; and the Kingdom is the Lord's, which to the poor may offer nurture.
A blessing is the Right called the Best; there is weal, there is weal to this man, when toward Righteousness the Best he does right.
8 We give thanks for the Ahuna-vairya prayer; and we give thanks for Righteousness the Best. And we offer sacrifice for the confession and laudation of the faith of the worshippers of the Wise Lord!