The Yasna Concluding.

1 Frashaoshtra, the holy, asked the saintly Zarathustra: Answer me, O thou most eminent Zarathustra, what is in very truth the memorised recital of the rites? What is the completed delivery of the Gathas? 2. Upon this Zarathustra said: It is as follows. We worship God, the Wise Lord, with our offering, the holy lord of the order of worship; and we honour Zarathustra likewise as a holy servant of the Lord; and we remember the soul of Zarathustra, the saint. And we give thanks to God for the Bountiful Immortals, the guardians of the saints. 3. And we remember all the good heroic and bounteous souls of the saints, of the bodily world on earth, and of the mental, those in Heaven. And we honour that one of the servants of the Lord who attains the most his ends; and we give thanks for that one of the angels, servants of the Lord, who is the most strenuous, who gains the most, who reaches most to what he seeks, even that well-timed Prayer which is the prayer of that holy servant, and which has approached the nearest to us for our help.

4 We offer our praise to God, the Wise Lord, the holy lord of the order of worship, and we worship His entire creation, and we honour the Bountiful Immortals all; and we honour all the servants of the Lord. And we hold to the entire faith of those who worship the Wise Lord. And we honour all the sacred metres.

5 And we honour the entire bounteous holy word, even the entire system of the Faith set up against the devils; and we honour its complete and long descent. And we give thanks to God for all the holy angels, heavenly and earthly; and we honour all the good, heroic, and bountiful souls of the saints. 6. And we honour all the holy creatures which the Wise Lord created, and which possess the holy institutions, which were established holy in their nature, which possess the holy lore, and the holy offering, which are holy, and for the holy. And we honour all the five Gathas, the holy ones, and the entire Yasna, its flow and its ebb, and the sounding of its chants. 7. And we honour all the Praises of the Yasna, and all the words which the Wise Lord spoke, which are the most fatal to evil thoughts, and words, and deeds; (8) and which designate the evil thought, and word, and deed, and which then cut down and fell every evil thought, and word, and deed. One would think of it as when the fire cuts, sucks out, and consumes the dry wood which has been sanctified and carefully selected for its flame. And we give thanks for the strength, the victory, the glory, and the speed of all these words as they go forth for their work.

9 And we give thanks to God for all the springs of water, and for the water-streams as well, and for growing plants, and forest-trees, and for the entire land and heaven, and for all the stars, and the moon and sun, even all the lights, which are His signs. And we give thanks to God for all cattle, and the aquatic beasts, and the beasts that live on land, and all that strike the wing, and the beasts that roam the plains, and those of cloven hoof. 10. And for all Thy good and holy female creatures in the creation do we give thanks, O Thou who art the Wise Lord, the skilful maker! on account of which Thou hast made many things and good things in Thy world. And we give thanks for those male creatures in the creation which are Thine and which are meet for thanksgiving because of Righteousness the Best. And we give thanks to God for all the mountains brilliant with holiness, and for all the lakes which the Wise Lord created, and for all fires, His signs. And we give thanks for all the truthful and correctly spoken words, (11) even those which have both rewards and Piety within them. Yea, we pray to Thee for protection and shielding, for guarding and watching; and mayest Thou be to me for preparation.

I call upon the Gathas here, the bountiful holy ones, ruling in the order of worship; yea, we hold to you, O ye Gathas, for protection and shielding, for guarding and watching. Mine may ye be as a preparation. For me, for mine own soul I call, and we would hold to you for protection and for shielding, for guarding and for watching. 12. And we give thanks to God for Weal, the complete welfare, holy and ruling in its course in the order of worship; and we give thanks for Deathlessness, the immortal being of the good, holy, and ruling in the order of worship. And we give thanks for the question of the Lord, and for His lore, the holy chiefs, and for the heroic Haptanghaiti, the holy lord of the order of worship. 13. Frashaoshtra said: Let the holy Zarathustra himself seek out a friend and a protector. And I say to thee, O Zarathustra, to make to thee a friend holy beyond the holy, and truer than the true, for that is the better thing; for he is evil who is the best to the evil, and he is holy to whom the holy is a friend, (14) for these are the best of words, those which the Wise Lord spoke to Zarathustra.

And the Lord says: Do thou, O Zarathustra! pronounce these words at the last ending of thy life. 15. For if, O Zarathustra! thou shalt pronounce these words at the last ending of thy life, I, the Wise Lord, will keep thy soul away from Hell. Yea, so far away shall I hold it as is the breadth and extension of the earth, and the earth is as wide as it is long.

16 As thou dost desire, O holy one! so shalt thou be, holy shalt thou cause thy soul to pass over the Bridge; holy shalt thou come into Heaven. Thou shalt intone the Gatha Ushtavaiti, reciting the salvation hail.

17 We give thanks to God for the active man, and the man of good intent, for the hindrance of darkness, of wasting of the strength and life, and of distraction. And we give thanks for health and healing, for progress and for growth, for the hindrance of impurity, and of the diseases of the skin.

18 And we give thanks for the Yasna's ending words, for those which end the Gathas. And we give thanks for the bounteous Hymns themselves which rule in the course of worship, the holy ones.

And we give thanks for the Praise-songs of the Yasna which were the products of the world of yore; yea, we give thanks for all the Staota-Yesnya hymns. And we offer our own souls. 19-21. (See Y. VI, 14-16.) 22. I praise, invoke, and I weave my song for the good, heroic, bountiful souls of the saints, those of the house, and of the village, the district and the province, and those of the Zarathustrotemas. 23. And we give thanks to God for the fire, His sign, the holy chief of worship.

And we offer this bundle of twigs having the offering with it, and its girdle with it, and spread with sanctity, the holy chief of worship. And we give thanks to God for the waters, and for the stately Praise, and for the wise man's swift curse upon evil.

And we remember the souls of the dead, which are the souls of the saints. 24. And we give praise to that lofty Lord who is the Wise Lord Himself.

25 And we pray again for the cattle with these gifts and ceremonial actions which are the best. 26-28. (See Y. VIII, 5-7.) 29-31. (See Y. LX, 11-13.)