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Appendix C - Fire in the Older Avesta

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2020

Arash Zeini
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Freie Universität Berlin
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Y 31.3 yąm dā̊mainiiū āϑrācā aṣ̌ācā cōiš rānōibiiā xṣ̌nūtəm

hiiat̰uruuatəm ⁺cazdōŋhuuadəbiiō tat̰nə̄mazdā vīduuanōi vaocā

hizuuā ϑβahiiā ā̊ŋhō yā juuaṇtō vīspə̄ṇg vāuraiiā

The satisfaction which you created with (your) spirit and assigned to both parties by means of the fire and aṣ̌a;

that agreement which is for (your) followers. For us to know that, speak, O Wise one,

with the tongue of your mouth, by which I might retain all the living.

Y 31.19 gūštā yə̄maṇtā aṣ̌əm ⁺ahūm.biš vīduuā̊ahurā

ərəžuxδāi vacaŋhąm xšaiiamnō hizuuō vasō

ϑβā āϑrā suxrā mazdā vaŋhāu vīdātā rąnaiiā̊

The healer of the existence, the knowledgeable one who conceives aṣ̌a, has listened, O Lord,

he who at will has command over (his) tongue for the straight utterance of words

at (the time of ) the good distribution to both parties by means of your red fire, O Wise one.

Y 34.4 at̰tōi ātrə̄m ahurā aojōŋhuuaṇtǝm aṣ̌ā usə̄mahī

asīštīm ə̄mauuaṇtǝm stōi rapaṇtē ciϑrā.auuaŋhǝm

at̰mazdā daibišiiaṇtē zastāištāiš dǝrǝštā.aēnaŋhǝm

Thus, O Lord, we wish your strong fire, the swiftest (and) most powerful, to be a

brilliant support to the supporting one in accordance with aṣ̌a,

but, O Wise One, a visible harm to the hostile one by means of its hands.

Y 43.4 at̰ϑβā mə̄ṇghāi taxməmcā spəṇtəm mazdā

hiiat̰tā zastā yā tū hafṣ̌ī auuā̊

yā̊dā̊aṣ̌īš drəguuāitē aṣ̌āunaēcā

ϑβahiiā garəmā āϑrō aṣ̌ā.aojaŋhō

hiiat̰mōi vaŋhə̄uš hazə̄jimat̰manaŋhō

Then, I shall realise that you are brave and bounteous, O Wise one,

because you sustain support by that hand by which

you hold the rewards which are for the truthful ones and the deceitful ones,

by the heat of your fire, strong through aṣ̌a,

when the force of good thought shall come to me.

Y 43.9 spəṇtəm at̰ϑβā mazdā ⁺mə̄ŋ́ghī ahurā

hiiat̰mā vohū pairī.jasat̰manaŋhā

ahiiā fərasə̄m kahmāi vīuuīduiiē vaṣ̌ī

at̰ā ϑβahmāi āϑrē rātąm nəmaŋhō

aṣ̌ahiiā mā yauuat̰isāi maniiāi

Then, I realise that you are bounteous, O Wise Lord,

when he approached me with good thought.

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Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity
The Pahlavi Version of the Yasna Haptaŋhāiti
, pp. 368 - 370
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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