I. Khorshed Nyayish

1 (Hail unto [GOD, Lord of] the Sun, the swift-horsed! May Ahura Mazda [GOD the Wise Lord] be rejoiced!)

Hail unto Thee, O Ahura Mazda, in the threefold way! (Hail unto Thee) before all other creatures!

Hail unto you, O Amesha-Spentas [angels], who are all of you of one accord with the Sun!

May this prayer come unto Ahura Mazda! May it come unto the Amesha-Spentas [as witnesses]! May it come unto the Fravashis [souls] of the holy Ones! May it come unto the Sovereign Vayu [GOD the Disposer] of the long Period!

2 (Hail unto [GOD, Lord of] the Sun, the swift-horsed!)

May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced! May Angra Mainyu [Satan] be destroyed! by those who do truly what is the foremost wish (of GOD).

I recite the ‘Praise of Holiness’.

3 I praise well-thought, well-spoken, and well-done thoughts, words, and deeds. I embrace all good thoughts, good words, and good deeds; I reject all evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds.

4 I give sacrifice and prayer unto [GOD before] you, O Amesha-Spentas! even with the fulness of my thoughts, of my words, of my deeds, and of my heart: I give unto [GOD] even my own life.

I recite the ‘Praise of Holiness’.

5 Hail to Ahura Mazda!

Hail to the Amesha-Spentas!

Hail to Mithra [the angel of the covenant], the lord of wide pastures!

Hail to [GOD, Lord of] the Sun, the swift-horsed!

Hail to the two [signs] of Ahura Mazda!

Hail to the Bull [GOD’s creation]!

Hail to Gaya [the first man]!

[Peace upon] the Fravashi of the holy Spitama Zarathustra!

Hail to the whole of the holy creation that was, is, or will be!

May I grow in health of body through Vohu-Mano [good thought], Khshathra [dominion], and Asha [righteousness], and come to that luminous space, to that highest of all high things, when the world, O Spenta Mainyu [GOD the Bountiful]! has come to an end!

Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good ....

6 We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] the bright, undying, shining, swift-horsed Sun.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, who is truth-speaking, a chief in assemblies, with a thousand ears, [perfect], with ten thousand eyes, high, with full knowledge, strong, sleepless, and ever awake.

7 We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] Mithra, the lord of all countries, whom Ahura Mazda made the most glorious of all the gods [angels] in the world unseen.

So may Mithra and Ahura, [the angel and his Lord,] come to us for help!

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] the bright, undying, shining, swift-horsed Sun.

8 We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] Tistrya, whose sight is sound.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] Tistrya; we sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] the rains of Tistrya.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] Tistrya, bright and glorious.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] the star Vanant, made by Mazda.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] Tistrya, the bright and glorious star.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] the sovereign sky.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] the boundless Time.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] the sovereign Time of the long Period.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] the beneficent, well-doing Wind.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] the most upright Kista, made by Mazda and holy.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] the good Law of the worshippers of Mazda.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] the way of content.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] the golden instrument.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] Mount Saokanta, made by Mazda.

9 We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] all the holy gods [angels] of the world unseen.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] all the holy gods of the material world.

We sacrifice [to GOD, for the sake of] our own soul.

We sacrifice [to GOD, for the sake of] our own Fravashi.

We sacrifice [to GOD, for the sake of] the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the holy Ones.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Lord of] the bright, undying, shining, swift-horsed Sun.

10 I confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathustra ....

Unto [GOD, Lord of] the bright, undying, shining, swift-horsed Sun;

Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification ....

Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good ....

(We sacrifice) unto [GOD, Lord of] the Ahurian waters, the waters of Ahura, with excellent libations, with finest libations, with libations piously strained.

Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good ....

(Give) unto that man brightness and glory, give him health of body, .... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones.