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Plain text of The Gatha Spenta Mainyu · Visparad XI

1 To God, the Wise Lord, would we present our offered Haomas and that which is lifted up, as the most beneficial to Victory, the blow of victory which furthers the settlements; and that which is offered to the good and holy king, and that which is offered to the holy ruler which rules according to the order of worship, and we make known our Haomas for the Bountiful Immortals, and for the good waters; and we present our Haomas each for our own soul; and we announce our Haomas in our celebration for the entire creation of the holy and the clean.

2 Yea, we present these Haomas and Haoma-implements, and these spread mats, and these offerings, these stones, the first in the creation, the stone mortar brought here with the yellow Haoma in it, and the iron mortar brought here with the yellow Haoma in it, this Haoma-water, and this bundle of twigs spread with sanctity, (3) these bodies, and their forces, these striving offerings that seek to find Thy grace, this holy Haoma, and the flesh, and the holy man, and the saint's innate thoughts, even the Saviours' innate thoughts.

And we present this fresh milk as an offering, now lifted up with sanctity, and this Hadhanaepata plant, lifted up with sanctity; (4) and we offer, and present these offerings with our celebration, having the Haoma with them, and the milk, and the Hadhanaepata, in thanksgiving for the good waters and offered up with piety. And we present the Haoma-water in our celebrations in thanksgiving for the good waters, and both the stone and the iron mortar, (5) and this branch for the twigs, and the prayer for blessings uttered at the fitting moment which has approached for our help in its order with the prayers, and the recollection and practice of the good law of those who worship the Wise Lord, and the heard recital of the Gathas, the well-timed prayer for blessings as it comes uttered by the saint for our help, and ruling while it is spoken, and these wood-billets, and the perfume, even the fire's, His sign, and all good objects which are ours, and made by the Wise Lord, and which have the seed of sanctity.

6 Yea, these we make known and we announce in this our celebration to God, the Wise Lord, as our gift, and in remembrance of blessed Obedience, and of Recompense, and of Justice the most just, and of Friendship of the wide pastures, and of the Bountiful Immortals, and the souls of the saints, and of the light of the Wise Lord, the lord, and of the lofty Lord, and for the feast, the lord, and the well-timed prayer for blessings as it rules in the order of our prayers, for the worship, homage, propitiation, and adoration of the entire creation of the holy and the clean. 7. Yea, these we make known in this our celebration hereby in memory of the soul of Zarathustra Spitama, the saint, for its honour and praise, and of him who hath loved righteousness, together with all the holy souls of the saints, of those now dead, and of those of the living, and of those of men unborn, of the prophets that shall serve us, bringing on the renovation of the completed world. 8-11, see verses 2-5.

12 Yea, we would make these known hereby in our celebrations to the Bountiful Immortals, who rule aright, and who dispose all aright, the ever-living, ever-helpful, who are good, and bestowers of the good, who dwell with the Good Mind, for they who are the Bountiful Immortals abide with the Good Mind, they who rule aright, and dispose all aright, for thence they are regulated, and thence they arose, namely, from the Good Mind of God. 13. And we make known these our celebrations as the more promotive for this house, for the furtherance of this house, and as benefits for this house, because of the increase of this household, as overcoming the restrictions which impede this household, and as overcoming the harmful malice which may mar this house, to bless its herds, and its retainers, born, and yet to be born, for the saints of the house as it was aforetime, of it as it stands here now, and to which we likewise now belong as the Saviours of the provinces, (14) which is that we are Saviours for the saints who do good deeds, and for the female saints who do good deeds, and for the saints who do the deeds conspicuously good, and for the females likewise thus, for the saints who do good deeds upon good deeds, and for the females thus the same. 15. And we make these known in our celebrations in memory of the good souls of the saints which are formidable and overwhelming in their aid. 16. And we make these known in our celebrations hereby for blessed Obedience, and the good Blessedness, and the stately Praise, and the victorious Peace, and for the light of the Wise Lord, and the lofty Lord, for worship, homage, propitiation, and for praise, to the entire creation of the holy and the clean. 17, 18 = Visp. X, 1, 2.

19 Yea, we make that known which is lifted up in offering, and which is the Avesta as the holy Wise Lord directed that it should be said, and as Zarathustra, the holy, directed, and as I, the priest, who am acquainted with their worship and homage, am now letting it be known. I who understand the lawful and legitimate Avesta, and the prescripts of worship (20) for Your worship, homage, and propitiation, O Ye who are the Bountiful Immortals, and for our preparation, and for the success of our well-uttered prayer for blessings, for victory, sanctification, and the well-being of our souls, of ours, for we are the holy Saviours.

21 Yea, we make these known in our celebrations here, and we offer them to Him who is the Wise Lord, of all the greatest, the master and the Lord.