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Yasna

The Avesta's liturgy of worship, with the Gāthās, the hymns ascribed to Zarathustra himself, at its heart.

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  1. 01Yasna 1The Sacrifice Commences↗
  2. 02Yasna 2The Sacrifice Continues↗
  3. 03Yasna 3The Yasna Advances to the Naming of the Objects of Propitiation↗
  4. 04Yasna 4The Offering Takes Place↗

Yasna, tr. L. H. Mills
L. H. Mills, 1887

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L. H. Mills's translation (1887). The Gāthās are among the hardest texts in any ancient language, and many of Mills's readings, including the words he supplies in parentheses, are conjectural. Modern translations differ substantially.

The Zend-Avesta, Part III: The Yasna, Visparad, Âfrînagân, Gâhs, and Miscellaneous Fragments, translated by L. H. Mills. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 31, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. · Source ↗

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