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Plain text of The Gatha Spenta Mainyu · Yasna 27 (Prelude to the Chief Recital of the Ahuna-vairya)

1 This is to render glory to Him who is of all the greatest, our Lord and Master, even God the Wise Lord. And this is to smite the wicked Satan, and to smite Wrath of the bloody spear, and the great evil powers, and to smite all the wicked deceiving powers.

2 And this is to further God the Wise Lord, the resplendent, the glorious, to further His bountiful gifts, and the influences of the star Tishtrya, the resplendent, the glorious, and to the furtherance of the holy man, and of all the bountiful and holy creatures of the Bounteous Spirit.

3-5. The plants are crushed, O Wise Lord, Kingdom and Righteousness, O ye Lords! Good is Obedience, who accompanies the sacrifice with the great glory, and may he be present affording strenuous help.

7 We are offering saving acts of wisdom and of worship with the sacred gift of the Ahuna-vairya intoned with sanctity, and of the two mortars here brought forward with holy act, and with that of the correctly uttered words likewise; and therefore may they be to us the more saving in their wise significance.

13 As the Lord is excellent, so is the leader who rules from his sanctity, a creator of mental goodness, and of life's actions done for the Wise Lord; and the Kingdom is for the Lord, which to the poor may offer a nurturer. 14. What is Your Kingdom, Your riches; how may I be Your own in my actions, to nourish Your poor, O Wise Lord? Beyond; yea, beyond all we declare You, far from evil powers and the accursed crawling mortals!

15 We give thanks for the Ahuna-vairya. We give thanks for Righteousness the Best, the most beautiful, the bountiful gift of God.