Thanksgiving for the Waters.

1 We offer this to Thee, O Lord, as a help for life. If we have offended Thee, let this offering then attain to Thee for satisfaction, for it is Thine with its Haoma, and its milk, and its Hadhanaepata. 2. And mayest Thou accept it from me for milk and for libation, as health, for healing, and for progress, for growth and in preparation for ceremonial merit, for good renown, for equanimity, and for that victory which makes the settlements advance.

3 Yea, we worship Thee with offering, O Lord, with the offerings of the good thought; and we worship, O Lord, with the offerings of the good word and deed (4) for the enlightenment of the thoughts, and words, and actions, for preparation for the soul, for the settlement's advance, and to prepare the saints endowed with merit of worship.

5 And grant me, O Lord! Heaven, and to have an offspring manly and legitimate, who may promote my house, my village, my tribe and province, and the authority thereof.

6 We offer to Thee, O Lord! And we give thanks to God for the sea Vouru-kasha, and for all waters upon earth, whether standing, or running, or waters of the well, or spring-waters which perennially flow, or the drippings of the rains, or the irrigations of canals. 7. With this hymn from the spirit of the Yasna do we worship Thee, and with the homage which it offers as it is the most legitimate Yasna, and homage of them all because of Righteousness the Best. We give thanks to God for the good waters, and for the best, which the Wise Lord created. 8. And we give thanks for the two, for the milk and for the libation, which make the waters flow, and the plants sprout forth, opposing therein the Dragon made by the devils, for the arrest of that cheat the sorceress, and to contradict the insulting malice of the destroyer of our Faith, and of the unholy tyrant full of death, and of the human servant of devils of hateful malice and intent.

9 And mayest Thou hear our chants of offering, O Lord! Yea, be propitiated by our Yasna, O Lord! and so mayest Thou be near at our Yasna; mayest Thou come to us to help, as we chant our full-offered Yast, with the full offering of devotions.

10 If any man shall offer to God, giving thanks for the good waters, with the best and most fitting offerings offered piously, (11) to that man Thou givest both splendour and glory, with health and vigour of the body and prominence of form; yea, to him Thou givest possessions which entail abundant glory, and a legitimate scion, and a long enduring life, and Heaven at the last, the best life of the saints, shining, all glorious. 12. And to me also do Thou now give it, to me who am offering this Yasna as a priest.

Response. And to us who worship the Wise Lord, who are likewise offering sacrifice, do Thou grant both the desire and knowledge of the path that is correct, to us colleagues, and disciples, priests and their pupils, men and women as well as children, and maidens of the field, (13) who think good only, for the overwhelming of oppression and of malice in the raids of the invader, and in face of foes who hate. Grant to us both the desire of, and the knowledge of that straightest path, the straightest because of Righteousness, and of Heaven, the best life of the Saints, shining, all glorious. As the Lord is excellent, so is the master 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 God's, which to the poor may offer nurture.

14 The priest speaks: I beseech with my benediction for a safe abode, for a joyful and a long abode for the dwellers in this village from whence these offerings which I offer come. And I pray in my benediction for a safe abode, and a quiet and a joyful one, and a long abiding to every village of the worshippers of the Wise Lord, and for a succour even with my wants, for a succour with salutations of salvation, and for one with praises, O Lord! and to Thee, O Lord, do I ask the fullest Yast.

15 And I pray for healing and for healthfulness for this province. And I pray for it with my blessing for you pious men, for all. And I pray for him who is saintly with true goodness, whosoever he may be, between heaven and the earth, for a thousand healing remedies, and for ten thousand of the same.

16-19. (See Y. VIII, 5-8.) 20. Thus may it happen as I pray. 21. And by this may I gain that blessing, the good Blessedness, our sanctity rewarded. And we address, and we invoke religious zeal and capability, and we give thanks for the waters with our Yasna thus: O Lord, Who madest the good waters! since they are Thine, do Thou, as Thou art asked, grant splendour and grant glory, Thou who art well able so to give; and do Thou, O Lord, grant once more that helpful blessing which was gained from Thee of old!

22 Praise be to God, the Wise Lord, and to the Bountiful Immortals, His angels. Praise be to the Friend of the wide pastures. Praise to the fleet-horsed sun, the sign of God. Praise to the star which we so name, and with this sun, the eyes of the Wise Lord, His signs. Praise to God for the cattle, the herds of blessed gift. Praise to God for the first man, and for the soul of Zarathustra, first of saints; yea, praise to the entire creation of the holy and the clean, to those now living, and to those just passing into life, and to those of days to come. 23. And do Thou then, O Lord, as in answer to these our prayers and songs of praise, cause us to prosper to salvation through Thy Good Mind, the Sovereign Power, and Thy Righteous Order, in Thy worship and law!