1 Homage to the Gatha Vohu-khshathra! We give thanks to God for the good kingdom, even the kingdom to be desired; and we give thanks for the founding of iron, and for the sacrificial words correctly spoken which smite the foe with victory, and which hold the devils subject.

And we praise that reward and that health, that healing and that progress, that growth and that victorious smiting (2) which are between the Vohu-khshathra and the Vahishtoishti, and which are acquired by us by the memorised recital of the good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, for the withstanding of evil thoughts, and words, and deeds; yea, for the undoing of all treacherous thoughts directed against me, and of all false words, and unfair deeds. 3. And we give thanks to God for the later Yasna, the heroic Haptanghaiti, which as it recurs becomes the holy chief of worship.