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Plain text of Sirozah I

1. Ormazd

To God the Wise Lord, bright and glorious, and to His holy angels.

2. Bahman

To the Good Mind; to Peace, whose breath is friendly and who is more powerful to destroy than all other creatures; to the heavenly Wisdom, made by God; and to the Wisdom acquired through the ear, made by God.

3. Ardibehesht

To Holiness, the fairest; to the much-desired Helper, made by God; to the instrument made by God; and to the good Fruition, with eyes of love, made by God and holy.

4. Shahrevar

To the Kingdom of God; to the metals; to Mercy and Charity.

5. Sapendarmad

To the good Devotion, and to the good Righteousness with eyes of love, made by God and holy.

6. Khordad

To Wholeness, the master; to the prosperity of the seasons and to the years, the masters of holiness.

7. Murdad

To Immortality, the master; to fatness and flocks; to the plenty of corn; and to the powerful healing plant, made by God.

(At the time of the morning prayer): to God the Friend, lord of wide pastures, and to the Pleasant Pasture.

(At the time of the noon prayer): to Holiness and to the Fire, a sign of God, who is the Creator of all.

(At the time of the afternoon prayer): to God, the tall and high Lord, and to the water made by God.

(At the time of the evening prayer): to the souls of the faithful, and to the females that bring forth flocks of males, to the prosperity of the seasons; to the well-shapen and tall-formed Strength, to Victory, made by God, and to the crushing Ascendant.

(At the time of the dawn prayer): to the holy, devout, fiend-smiting angel of Obedience, who makes the world grow; to God the Just Judge, and to Righteousness, who makes the world grow, who makes the world increase.

8. The day before Adar

To the Maker, God the Wise Lord, bright and glorious, and to His holy angels.

9. Adar

To the Fire, a sign of God; to the Glory and to the Weal, made by God; to the Glory of the Aryas, made by God; to the awful Glory of the kings, made by God.

To the Fire, a sign of God; to King Husravah; to the lake of Husravah; to Mount Asnavant, made by God; to Lake Chaechasta, made by God; to the Glory of the kings, made by God.

To the Fire, a sign of God; to Mount Raevant, made by God; to the Glory of the kings, made by God.

To the Fire, the beneficent, the warrior; to God, who is a full source of Glory, who is a full source of healing.

To the Fire, a sign of God, with all fires; to the angel Nairyosangha, who dwells in the navel of kings.

10. Aban

To the good Waters, made by God; to the holy water-spring Ardvi Anahita; to all waters made by God; to all plants made by God.

11. Khorshed

To the undying, shining, swift-horsed Sun, a sign of God.

12. Mah

To the Moon that keeps in it the seed of the Bull; to the only-created Bull; to the Bull of many species.

13. Tir

To the bright and glorious star Tishtrya; to the powerful Satavaesa, made by God, who pushes waters forward; to the stars, made by God, that have in them the seed of the waters, the seed of the earth, the seed of the plants; to the star Vanant, made by God; to those stars that are seven in number, the Haptoiringas, made by God, glorious and healing.

14. Gosh

To the body of the Cow, to the soul of the Cow, to the powerful Drvaspa, made by God and holy.

15. The day before Mihir

To the Maker, God the Wise Lord, bright and glorious, and to His holy angels.

16. Mihir

To God the Friend, lord of wide pastures, who has a thousand ears and ten thousand eyes, invoked by His own name; to the Pleasant Pasture.

17. Srosh

To the holy, strong angel of Obedience, who is the embodied Word, mighty-speared and lordly.

18. Rashn

To God the Most Just Judge; to Righteousness, who makes the world grow, who makes the world increase; to the true-spoken speech, that makes the world grow.

19. Farvardin

To the awful, overpowering souls of the holy ones.

20. Bahram

To the well-shapen, tall-formed Strength; to Victory, made by God; to the crushing Ascendant.

21. Ram

To the Pleasant Pasture; to the Wind, who works highly and is more powerful to destroy than all other creatures; to that part of thee, O Wind, that belongs to the Holy Spirit; to the sovereign Sky, to the Boundless Time, to the sovereign Time of the long Period.

22. Bad

To the bounteous Wind, that blows below, above, before, and behind; to the manly Courage.

23. The day before Din

To the Maker, God the Wise Lord, bright and glorious; to His holy angels.

24. Din

To the most right Insight, made by God and holy; to the good Law of the worshippers of God.

25. Ard

To the good Reward; to the good Insight; to the good Thought; to the good Rectitude; to the Weal and Glory, made by God; to Plenty of the light chariot; to the Glory of the Aryas made by God; to the kingly Glory made by God; to that Glory that cannot be forcibly seized, made by God; to the Glory of Zarathushtra, made by God.

26. Ashtad

To Righteousness, who makes the world grow; to Mount Ushi-darena made by God, the seat of holy happiness.

27. Asman

To the high, powerful Heavens; to the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy ones.

28. Zamyad

To the bounteous Earth; to these places, to these fields; to Mount Ushi-darena, made by God, the seat of holy happiness; to all the mountains made by God that are seats of holy happiness, of full happiness; to the kingly Glory made by God; to that Glory that cannot be forcibly seized, made by God.

29. Mahraspand

To the holy, righteousness-performing Holy Word; to the Law opposed to the devils, the Law of Zarathushtra; to the long-traditional teaching; to the good Law of the worshippers of God; to the Devotion to the Holy Word; to the understanding that keeps the Law of the worshippers of God; to the knowledge of the Holy Word; to the heavenly Wisdom made by God; to the Wisdom acquired through the ear and made by God.

30. Aneran

To the eternal and sovereign luminous space; to the bright House of Song; to the sovereign place of eternal Weal; to the Chinvat bridge made by God; to the tall Lord and to the water made by God; to the healing plant of holy birth; to the pious and good Blessing; to the awful cursing thought of the wise; to all the holy angels of the heavenly world and of the material one; to the awful, overpowering souls of the faithful, to the souls of the first men of the law, to the souls of the next-of-kin; to every one invoked by his own name.