Zend Avesta Part 02

SR No.: 007672
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1883
Total Pages: 2221
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 41 MB

Page 263

RÂM YAST.
249
XV. RẨM YAST. This Yast bears the name of Râma Hvâstra, the Genius who presides over the 21st day of the month (Sîrôzah, § 21), and is devoted to his Hamkâr, Vayu.
Regarding Râma Hvâstra, the Genius that gives good abodes and good pastures, and his connection with Vayu, see Vend. Introd. IV, and Études Iraniennes, II, 187.
This Yast can be divided into two parts. The first part ($$ 1-140) contains an enumeration of worshippers who sacrificed to Vayu : Ahura Mazda ($ 2), Haoshyangha ($ 7), Takhma Urupa ( 11), Yima ($ 15), Asi Dahâka ($ 19), Thraêtaona ($ 23), Keresâspa ($ 27), Aurvasara ($ 31), Hutaosa ($ 35), and Iranian maids ($ 39). The second part ($$ 42-58) contains a special enumeration and glorification of the many names of Vayu (&$ 42-50).
0. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced!.... Ashem Vohû: Holiness is the best of all good ....
I confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathustra, one who hates the Daêvas, and obeys the laws of Ahura ;
For sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto [Hâvani), the holy and master of holiness ....
Unto Râma Hvâstra, unto Vayu who works highly and is more powerful to afflict than all other creatures 1,
Be propitiation from me, for sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.
Yathâ ahū vairyô: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....
1. 1. I will sacrifice to the Waters and to Him who divides them? I will sacrifice to Peace, whose breath is friendly, and to Weal, both of them.
1 Cf. Sîrôzah I, 21. 2 Apãm Napât (Yt. VIII, 34) or Tistrya (Yt. VIII, 1).
Digitized by Google