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Plain text of Khorshed Nyayish (continued)

5 Hail to Ahura Mazda [GOD the Wise Lord]!

Hail to the Amesha-Spentas [angels]!

Hail to Mithra [GOD's angel], the lord of wide pastures!

Hail to the Sun [GOD's sign], the swift-horsed!

Hail to the two eyes of Ahura Mazda [His signs, the sun and the moon]!

Hail to the Bull [GOD's creation]!

Hail to Gaya [Gaya Maretan, the first man]!

Hail to the Fravashi [soul] of the holy Spitama Zarathushtra!

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 [Holy Spirit of GOD]! has come to an end!

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

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

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

7 We sacrifice [to GOD, remembering] 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 [GOD], the two great [ones], come to us for help [by GOD's leave]!

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

8 We sacrifice unto [GOD, Maker of] Tishtrya, whose sight is sound.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Maker of] Tishtrya; we sacrifice unto [GOD, Giver of] the rains of Tishtrya.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Maker of] Tishtrya, bright and glorious.

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

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Maker of] Tishtrya, the bright and glorious star.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We sacrifice unto all the holy gods [angels] of the material world [to GOD alone].

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Maker of] our own soul.

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Maker of] our own Fravashi [soul].

We sacrifice unto [GOD, Maker of] the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis [souls] of the holy Ones.

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

10 I confess myself a worshipper of Mazda [GOD], a follower of Zarathushtra ....

Unto [GOD, Maker 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, Maker 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.