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Plain text of The Gatha Spenta Mainyu · Yasna 39 (For the Soul of the Cow, etc.)

1 And now we give thanks and offer sacrifice for the Cow's soul, and her created body, and we offer sacrifice for the souls of cattle who are fit to live for us, and whose we are, such as are the same to them.

2 And we remember the souls of those beasts which are tame and broken in, and of wild herds, and the souls of the saints wherever they were born, both of men and of women, whose good consciences are conquering in the strife against the evil powers, or will conquer, or have conquered.

3 And now we give thanks for the bountiful gifts of God, all the good, and both those male and those female, by their names. The males among them do we honour, ever living and ever helpful, who dwell beside the pious, and the females thus the same. 4. As Thou, O Wise Lord, hast thought and spoken, as Thou hast determined, and hast done these things effecting what is good, therefore do we offer to Thee, therefore do we ascribe to Thee our praises, and worship Thee, and bow ourselves before Thee; and therefore would we direct our prayers to Thee, O Lord, with confessions of our sin.

5 And we thus draw near to Thee together with the good kinship of our kindred, with that of Righteousness the blessed, and the good law of thrift and energy and the good Piety, the ready mind within Thy folk!