A TRANSLITERATION OF HOSHBAAM, THE PRAYER AT DAWN AS YOU BEGIN YOUR DAY.
To be recited at dawn only.
“From Atha iman vacho drenjayoish….Spentahe Mainyeush damanam ashaonam.”
Thus, must you pray these words written underneath, which are very beneficial, giver of good health (tandarosti) you must try these; you must sing 5 Ahunavars out aloud. (Pray 5 Yatha Ahu Vairyos).
*Ahuna Vairyo (Yatha Ahu Vairyo) is the Lord of the body.
Ahuna Vairyo (Yatha Ahu Vairyo) is the Lord of the body.
Ahuna Vairyo (Yatha Ahu Vairyo) is the Lord of the body.
(Pray one Yatha Ahu Vairyo).
*Ahunem Vairim tanum paiti. Since I am transliterating the prayer and since the word ‘paiti’ actually means a ‘lord’, I preferred to do it this way.
The phrase is normally translated to say, ‘Ahunavar protects the body’. ‘Ahunavar is the lord of the body’, holds on to the essence of the word and the spirit without loss or change of meaning from the usual translations.
Pray Kemna Mazda. (Transliteration available on this blog at:
http://www.mumbaiblogg.com/zoroastrian-zen/avesta-translations/kemna-mazda-translation/
Pray 21 Yatha Ahu Vairyo.
Pray 12 Ashem Vohu.
Homage to you, O Dawn!
Homage to you, O Dawn!
Homage to you, O Dawn!
For these are, in the entire world, the highest latria
To the one/only authority over life/spirit/world, i.e. Ahura Mazda;
To wield weapons against Angre Mainyu’s Evil;
To wield weapons against cruel/furious/ wrathful demon (aeshem div), who brandishes deadly/fierce weapons;
To wield weapons against the divs of the **Mazandaran province;
To wield weapons against the entire world of the divs, the irreligious of ***Gilan province.
(Pray in silence, Baaj)
Vanquish the mal-wisdom that breaks the Law (****ghanamino); Oh Ahriman a thousand, ten thousand times cursed/condemned be.
(Pray aloud again)
Flourish O Hormazd! Custodian of splendour/wealth, glorious; flourish! The pure Ameshaspends; flourish! The brilliant Sirius star (Tishtryehe) glorious, splendorous; flourish! O pure men; flourish! O Beneficent Spirit of creation pure.
(Pray 2 Yatha Vairyo).
** Mazandaran : A province in the north of Iran adjoining Gilan is not the same Mazandaran which Rustom campaigned against and fought and killed Sohrab. Seven roads and railways were built in the beginning of last century, under the Reza Shah, to connect the northern Elbruz to the southern slopes; thereafter, Gilan and Mazandaran were together termed as ‘Shomal’ (North Iran). Mazandaran is the capital of North Iran. he name of the province literally means “the gate or valley of giants” (Avesta ‘Mazainya’ = ‘giant’). The province is variously called Tabarestan, Tabaria, Tapurestan, and Tapuria. In Armenia, the Caspian Sea is still known as Mazandaran Sea.
*** GILAN is one of the provinces situated in Region 3 of Iran. Iran has thirty-one provinces. In Latin the place is spelt ‘Guilan’.
On the southern shores of the Caspian Sea, Mazandaran lies to its west, Ardabil (another Iranian province) lies to its east, with Zanjan and Quazvin and to its south. It touches the Republicof Azerbaijan in the north. Russia lies across the Caspian Sea.
The northern part of Gilan includes the Iranian Talish (an ethnic group of people living in the region which is shared between Iran and Azerbaijan).
Its main city of Rasht, lies in the center of Gilan. Masouleh is a well known tourist destination. Bandar-e-Anzali serves as its commercial Port.(pic).
****Ghanamino means a person who has the warped wisdom to break the Law (Raasti, Tao) and also includes the temporal enacted law. Ghanamino also means an evil minded person who temporarily desists from relentless destruction of the good.
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Behram Yasht is in praise of a ‘mazdadhate’ meaning a giver of knowledge. Knowledge which assists us to live in the way and within the Law of Ahura Mazda; and thereby vanquish all evil from within and around us and make us impervious to hurt and harm. In the Behram Yasht this omniscient knowledge is described metaphorically to take on different forms from the gentle breeze and growing over time into a great invincible warrior. The ten Kardas of the Behram Yasht speak in metaphors of the growing strength of the knowledge given by Behram eternally safeguarding from all harm, the true believer and practitioner of Asha and Ashoi (rectitude) the Natural, Eternal Law of Ahura Mazda brought down to us by Zarathustra —– the ‘Ahuirish Jarthutrish’. Writers have often remarked that the ten forms of knowledge correspond to the ten avatars of Vishnu in the Puranas. I’d say, well, how different can the one and only truth and the greatest knowledge ever be?!
BEHRAM YASHT —- TRANSLITERATION
Greatness of Hormazd!
(Pray Ashem Vohu)
In the name of Khoda Hormazd Sahib who promotes /gives progress!
May his splendour/majesty and a u r a (khoreh) increase!
Eternally victorious and vanquisher of enemies, Behram Yazad (the energy of Knowledge), beautiful celestial, ceaseless helper, come to my aid!
In this world, all the evil thoughts I may have brought to my mind, ill words that I may have spoken, bad deeds that I may have done, those that I have induced or I have begun or that I have encouraged — those sins of thoughts, of words, of deeds, of my body and soul, of this world, of the next world— for these I am remorseful and abstain from them, I do penance for these by observing the three intrinsic goodness ( good thoughts good words good deeds).
(Pray ‘Fravaraane Mazdsyasno’) translation on http://www.mumbaiblogg.com/zoroastrian-zen/avesta-translations/sarosh-baaj-translation/)
KARDO 1
1) Reverence to Behram, emanated from Hormazd!
Asked Zoroaster of Hormazd:
“Hormazd, from who emanated the spirit of bounty /progress during our sojourn in the corporeal world, giver of the spirit of purity/Eternal Law/Tao,
who is the most brilliant/brightest among the venerable energies (Mino Yazads)?”
Then said Hormazd, “Behram, the giver of knowledge, O Zoroaster of the Spitmaan family!”
2) “For this (to give bounty/progress) /for him (one sojourning on this earth), Behram, the giver of knowledge (mazdadhate), first takes wing in the form of the zephyr ( a soft, great joy-giving wind) the giver of knowledge (mazdadhate); having good luster/radiance/gloss/brilliance (noor) of goodness, mazdadhate; keeping the light of spiritual strength (*khoreh), mazdadhate; remedies / cures for the physical body and also having great strength.
3) Then, therein is the greatest might/power of triumphant aggression amongst strengths/powers of triumphant aggression (irresistible aggressive force);
Amongst those who smite resistance (**Verethre), the most successful/ victorious to smite resistance;
Amongst those having k h o r e h, the holder of the strongest khoreh;
Amongst the donors/dispensers of gifts, I am the greatest donor/dispenser/receptacle of gifts;
Amongst benefits/profits/welfare/ advantage, I am the most beneficial/advantageous;
Amongst the remedies /cures I am the most efficacious remedy/ cure;
4) Thus, all ills will be vanquished; all that causes pain/harm, of the demigods/demons (div), of mortals (mashyanamcha), of wizards (yaathvaam), of fairies, of despots/ tyrant (saathraam), of those who refuse to see the truth despite having good eyes (kaoyam), those who refuse to hear the truth despite having good ears ((karafanamcha).
5) For his brilliant light and majesty, thus I worship him with praise/reverence which brings him eminence. With the ritual #Baresman, Behram, emanated from Hormazd, we venerate/ propitiate/worship in accordance with the first Laws of Ahura Mazda.
(Pray ‘Yange Hatem’)
*KHOREH (Pazend) = (Avesta) Khvarenangh. Light/halo/aura/glory stemming from the spiritual strength built in sages and holy individuals; their faces radiate a brightness (noor or halo), which is the extension of their Khoreh.
**VERETHRE = literally meaning “smiting of resistance” against the Law, which is the hypostasis (underlying-state) of ‘victory’. Therefore, Behram/Verethregano is also translated as Victorious.
# BARESMAN: The Baresman is the sacred bundle of twigs we see in frescos and pictures of religious worship. The barsam is considered “a conduit for the archetypal principles and powers to manifest their presence and receive the offerings.” it is a ritual necessity to solemnize religious ceremonies.
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“Text: Vanghucha vanghuyaoscha afrinami … the end”.
Good men, good women most acclaimed /blessed, All righteous creation— present, past and future, Energy of the righteous truth (Ashishangh) — saviour, sender of help ad nauseum against the wicked, irreligious people, evil and possessing the druj, friend to him who works with Him (Hormazd), friend who advises;
Keeper of all health giving remedies, of water, of bovine, of our souls;
Giver of health, to all who are injured /tormented, destroy the pain /trouble given by those who worship the Demons (divs). The Destroyer of pain of this house, of the pain of the householder of this house;
I laud you!
All the philanthropists and all workers towards rectitude, highest are; Giver of help for the longest time, support us (reach out to us from behind); Because of whom (Ahura Mazda), the most Majestic(Ahura Mazda), most high righteousness (Ahura Mazda), we receive from the pure Ameshaspends (ability) to praise them (those philanthropists and workers for rectitude), to worship them (Yasnemcha), to offer latria to/ invoke them (Vahmemcha), to make them happy (Khushnaothriacha), to praise/glorify them (Farastaicha). To propagate/ establish this reverence (nmanhe), to propagate/establish the World Order/Eternal Law born of Staota (colour vibrations), to face all evil born of Staota* (here Staota would mean the bad deeds done in the manifested world), I extol the judicious/ one who the good sense (hudao) has, to follow the Eternal Law.
Rule thou, O Hormazd as per your will, towards good fortune/prosperity/ health (Ushtacha), as you may like to (Khshaesha), over all that is under your sway (Damanam); rule over the waters, rule over plant world, rule over all the good that has the seed / originates in the principles of the Eternal /Natural Law
(Asha); as You wish, rule over ‘Asha endowed (Asha sanctified) legitimate gifts/phenomenon.
May a ruler, not a man of druj (dravantem**), rule at will and righteous be,
May he who troubles and makes unhappy, be supplanted (hamisto) by the beneficent one (spentahe) and fail to rule/ not to be able to rule (dethroned).
Worthy of the right (Hakashaya), persons like me (who am Zoroaster), the foremost in/ head of the household, village, town, will guide the words, acts and deeds in accordance with this religion which is Ahuirish Jarthutrish. ***
So that this joy our minds fill, our souls best, with heavenly glory be, bodies be best in this world; so that we may meet Hormazd without impediments (Akaoschoit= having atoned for all evil).
The best World Order, the Ultimate Eternal Law, enables one to see You, nearer to You we come, always have Your companionship. (Pray one Ashem Vohu)
The best world order, the ultimate Eternal Law enables one to see you, nearer to you we come, always have your companionship. (Pray one Ashem Vohu).
The best world order, the ultimate Eternal Law enables one to see you, nearer to you we come, always have your companionship. (Pray one Ashem Vohu).
(Pray) Ahmairasche. (Translation elsewhere in this bloghttp://www.mumbaiblogg.com/zoroastrian-zen/avesta-translations/avesta-sarosh-baaj-part-iv-translation/).
(Pray) Hazangaram. (Translation elsewhere in this bloghttp://www.mumbaiblogg.com/tag/hazem-garem/).
(Pray) Jashme Avange Mazda. (Translation elsewhere in this bloghttp://www.mumbaiblogg.com/zoroastrian-zen/avesta-translations/jasme-avange-mazda/).
(Pray) Kerfeh Mazda. (Translation elsewhere in this bloghttp://www.mumbaiblogg.com/zoroastrian-zen/avesta-translations/avesta-sarosh-baaj-part-iv-translation/).
*(For further on the meaning of Staota, See: http://www.mumbaiblogg.com/zoroastrian-zen/avesta-translations/avesta-sarosh-yasht-hadokht-nirang-uses/)
** DARVAND literally means a creature born of a child of an angel and a human, a demi-god most often of a male celestial and an earthly woman. Darvand is a corruption of the Avesta word ‘dregvant’ means ‘wicked’/ ‘unethical’ as against ‘ashavan’ or righteous.
*** For understanding ‘Ahuirish Jarthutrish’ click on:
http://www.mumbaiblogg.com/zoroastrian-zen/avesta-translations/jasme-avange-mazda/
And further on: http://www.mumbaiblogg.com/zoroastrian-zen/avesta-translations/avesta-sarosh-baaj-part-ii-translation/
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To be recited at dawn only and at no other time.
“From Atha iman vacho drenjayoish….Spentahe Mainyeush damanam ashaonam.”
Thus, must you pray these words written underneath, which are very beneficial, giver of good health (tandarosti) you must try these; you must sing 5 Ahunavars out aloud. (Pray 5 Yatha Ahu Vairyos).
*Ahuna Vairyo (Yatha Ahu Vairyo) is the Lord of the body.
Ahuna Vairyo (Yatha Ahu Vairyo) is the Lord of the body.
Ahuna Vairyo (Yatha Ahu Vairyo) is the Lord of the body.
(Pray one Yatha Ahu Vairyo).
*Ahunem Vairim tanum paiti. Since I am transliterating the prayer and since the word ‘paiti’ actually means a ‘lord’, I preferred to do it this way.
The phrase is normally translated to say, ‘Ahunavar protects the body’. ‘Ahunavar is the lord of the body’, holds on to the essence of the word and the spirit without loss or change of meaning from the usual translations.
Pray Kemna Mazda. (Transliteration available on this blog at:
Pray 21Yatha Ahu Vairyo.
Pray 12 Ashem Vohu.
Homage to you, O Dawn!
Homage to you, O Dawn!
Homage to you, O Dawn!
For these are, in the entire world, the highest latria to:
The one and only authority over life/spirit/world, Ahura Mazda;
Wield weapons against Angre Mainyu’s Evil;
Wield weapons against cruel/furious/ wrathful demon (aeshem div), who brandishes deadly/fierce weapons;
To wield weapons against the divs of the **Mazandaran province; 
To wield weapons against the entire world of the divs, the irreligious of the ***Gilan province.
(Pray in silence, Baaj)
Vanquish the mal-wisdom that breaks the Law (****ghanamino); Oh Ahriman a thousand, ten thousand times cursed/condemned be.
(Pray aloud again)
Flourish O Hormazd! Custodian of splendour/wealth, glorious; flourish! The pure Ameshaspends; flourish! The brilliant Sirius star (Tishtryehe) glorious, splendorous; flourish! O pure men; flourish! O Beneficent Spirit of creation pure.
(Pray 2 Yatha Vairyo).
** Mazandaran: A province in the north of Iran adjoining Gilan is not the same
Mazandaran which Rustom campaigned against and fought and killed Sohrab. Seven roads and railways were built in the beginning of last century, under the Reza Shah, to connect the northern Elbruz to the southern slopes; thereafter, Gilan and Mazandaran were together termed as ‘Shomal’ (North Iran). Mazandaran is the capital of North Iran. The name of the province literally means “the gate or valley of giants” (Avesta ‘Mazainya’ = ‘giant’). The province is variously called Tabarestan, Tabaria, Tapurestan, and Tapuria. In Armenia, the Caspian Sea is still known as Mazandaran Sea.
*** GILAN is one of the provinces situated in Region 3 of Iran. Iran has thirty-
one provinces. In Latin the place is spelt ‘Guilan’.
(Map pic)
On the southern shores of the Caspian Sea, Mazandaran lies to its west; Ardabil (another Iranian province) lies to its east, with Zanjan and Qazvin and to its south. It touches the Republic of Azerbaijan in the north. Russia lies across the Caspian Sea.
The northern part of Gilan includes the Iranian Talish (an ethnic group of people living in the region which is shared between Iran and Azerbaijan). Its main city of Rasht lies in the center of Gilan.
Mausuleh is a well-known tourist destination. Bandar-E-Anzali ia the commercial port.
****Ghanamino means a person who has the warped wisdom to break the Law (Raasti, Tao) and also includes one who breaks the temporal enacted law of a Nation. Ghanamino also means an evil minded person who does not desist from relentless destruction of the good.
………….to be continued.
]]>In the Avesta the Sarosh Baaj is one consolidated prayer, I have broken it into parts for better comprehension of the things we appeal for to the Ultimate, every morning when we pray the Sarosh Baaj.
Sarosh Baaj part IV, consists of transliteration of the Yasnemcha Vahmemcha, Hazem Garem, ‘Kerfe Mazda’.
On reading the entire Sarosh Baaj prayers in English, one understands that after a Zoroastrian sings the praise of Sarosh Yazad and boldly professes through Fravarane Mazdeyasno, his faith in the religion handed down by Ahura Mazda and propagated by the Prophet Zoroaster, the adherent turns to Ahura Mazda for succour against persecution, both personal and religious, and abjures the destructive mind emanating from the evil of Ahriman and Angre Mainyu (Kemna Mazda).
Then in Yasnemcha Vahmemcha, the Zoroastrian asks Ahura Mazda for strength, and enlightenment to follow the Right Path (Asha) to prosperity.
Next, the Zoroastrian believer declares his delight in having professed the Zoroastrianism by articulating his desire to be born within the religion time and time again, ad nauseam.
For his piety and sticking to the Path of Asha, the adherent of Zoroastrianism appeals to Ahura Mazda for the blessings of the various Energies that originate in Him.
‘YASNEMCHA VAHMEMCHA’
To me, the brilliance and strong aura, physical strength, bodily comforts, success in this world, wealth of all happiness, children with innate intelligence, longest life ever, enlightenment born of holiness and purity, and attainment of the heaven with all the comforts/happiness . May my wish be fulfilled!
‘HAZEM GAREM’
A Thousand heavenly births; Ten thousand heavenly births; A Thousand heavenly births; Ten thousand heavenly births; A Thousand heavenly births; Ten thousand heavenly births.
‘JASHME AVANGE MAZDA’
Come to my aid O Hormazd! Succour me the aid of: The innately pure/ good, beautiful, Um (energy that imbues courage), Behram Yazad issued forth from Hormazd, 
Vannati Upartat (energy that oversees environment), Mino Ram (nourishes/ induces of nourishment in food), Vaey Yazad (who works in exists in the upper layers of the atmosphere), O Vaey Yazad, that part of you that is concerned with the birth of the Spentomino, The Sky that acts in accordance with the natural laws of creation, Limitless existence (infinity), The Guaranteed Perpetuity.
‘KERFE MAZDA’
For the Liberation, as my sins so may I in return, receive the reward for the essence of my deeds, for the love of the soul sent to all on the seven continents, the reward is as per spiritual merit to all the pious — tremendous amount of purity/ holiness (Ashoi), as wide as the earth, as long as the river and as exalted as Khorshed May the pious live long! May my wish be fulfilled!
At the end of this entire sequence of prayers for the Sarosh Baaj, Zoroastrians pray the ‘Tandarosti’ for the well being of self, family, friends in particular and the cosmos in general.
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I am doing the Sarosh Baaj in parts at the request of many readers .
Sarosh Baaj is the prayer Parsi children learn immediately after they learn the ‘Kusti’ prayers. Every morning, after doing the Kusti, every Zoroastrian prays the Sarosh Baaj. This prayer may be recited at any time of the day or night. However, the recitation of the ‘Geh’ in ‘Fravarane Mazdayasno’ will change depending on the time of the day. The Sarosh Baaj is a prayer to the Ameshaspand (energies ) that protect and heal and give prosperity. Check out the translation/transliteration of Haptan Yasht also, on this Blog.
From “Paname Yazdaan……pa patet hom.”
The greatness of Hormazd!
In the name of Khoda Hormazd Sahib who promotes /give progress!
May his splendour/majesty and *a u r a (khoreh) increase!
Pure Sarosh! Strong, made up entirely of sounds/prayers, wielder of therapeutic appliances, bearer of victorious weapons, the general of Ahura Mazda Khodai, come to my aid! I do penance for all my sins and become cleansed.
in this world, all the evil thoughts I may have brought to my mind, ill words that I may have spoken, bad deeds that I may have done, those that I have induced or I have begun or that I have encouraged — those sins of thoughts, of words, of deeds, of my body and soul, of this world, of the next world— for these I am remorseful and abstain from them, I do penance for these by observing the three intrinsic goodness ( good thoughts good words good deeds).
*AURA: All creation has an aura from natural to man-made goods.
From time immemorial, man has been in awe of the phenomenon of the aura, investing it with great spiritual value and importance. It has been the constant endeavour of humans to prove the existence of this energy which they call the ‘subtle body’.
Since the 1890s, man had been trying to photograph this phenomenon. Simply put, the aura is natural heat emanating from a body producing subtle images . This aura of a body will change with the internal changes in the body. We have
SEE THE DIFFENCE IN THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE EMNATIONS.
already seen in Sarosh Yasht Hadokth Ni Nirang that any vibrations (sound) appear to have colours depending on the length of the waves of that body’s vibrations or vibratory level. All creation, generates and radiates electromagnetic energy, photons of light, scents, sounds, heat, in keeping with the internal state of it’s body. These radiations contain a wealth of information about the body in question.
Therefore the energy emanating from a body will also have colour in
keeping with the waves that make up that particular energy.
In 1939, Russian electrician Semyon Davidovich Kirlian and his wife, Valentina, accidentally discovered that energy can be photographed. This ‘Kirlian Photography’ uses 50,000 volts and a broad range of frequencies, ultra low current to make visible invisible energy fields , giving us unique insights.
NIRANG OF SAROSH YASHT VADI — USES
TRANSLITERATION OF THE TEXT OF THE NIRANG and its USES:
May Sarosh Yazad protect us!
May the Aura and Glory of the pure Sarosh increase! May He always be strong and victorious!
The saviour of all souls;
Guardian of the souls of all men;
The righteous sentry watching over all who abide by the Eternal Law (Tao); May Sarosh safeguard, all day and night, all through every month of the year (mahe-o-shabaan), us Iranians, all first teachers/ancient sages/early disciples of Zoroaster/ pre-Zoroastrian teachers of religion (Paoiryo-dakeshaan), all born on this earth, laymen, all *idolaters who wear the Kusti (*Taaziaan, ** baste kustiaan), Zoroastrians and all noble (Nikaan) and pure persons of the seven continents. May Sarosh Yazad preserve us!
TEXT:
“Gorje khoreh awazaayaad,
Sarosh asho, tagi, pirozgar baad,
Dastagire ravaan, hamaa tan paasbaan,
Ashoaan asho negehdaar;
Roz maah o shabaan, hame Iraaniaan,
O paoiryo-dakeshaan gehaan daamaan,
Behdinaan, *taaziaane **baste kushtiaan,
Zarathushtiaan nikaan o paakaane
Haft keshvar zamin,
Sarosh yazad panaah baad.
Pray one Ashem Vohu . (The Nirang is to be recited thrice).
USES: The Nirang like the Sarosh Yasht (Vadi) itself helps to keep in balance a person’s psyche (Mithra). If the Nirang is prayed before going to sleep, while in the subconscious state of sleep, the forces of thought are regulated and balanced.
1.for a sound sleep;
2. to have a healthy mind and body;
3. to psychological ailments;
4. Cleanse the home of disturbing /bad /evil vibrations.
NOTE:
Sarosh Yazad variously described as protector, preserver, guard, guardian, shield, minder, mask (as in shield/covering), defender, armament, armour, bodyguard, is the only energy who may be invoked in two latria (Yashts).
It is believed that praying the Nirang just before going to bed protects one from the onslaught of Ahriman and his dark forces. Many people pray it at the entrance door of the house before locking up for the night. It is believed that it keeps all evil out and brings good vibrations to the home.
While the Sarosh Yasht Hadokht may be prayed only during Day-light hours, the Vadi Yasht must be recited only between sunset and mid-night, in the Avisutram Geh. It is the recommended duty to all Zoroastrians to pray this Yasht every night. Sarosh Yazad comforts, guides and protects from darkness of circumstance and of the mind every soul within the living and the released soul after death.
Therefore, He is prayed to at night, to protect a Zoroastrian from the dangers of the dark vibrations of the night until dawn.
*the meaning of the words ‘Taaziaan, baste kustiaan’ in the Nirang have been debated through the years. I have personally been very uncomfortable with the interpretation of ‘Taaziaan’ as ‘Arabs’ or ‘Taazian’ being interpreted as ‘a wearer of the crown’; arising from the present day word ‘Taj’.
So, I decided to break up the phrase into separate words and discovered the word ‘taazian’ occurs in the Rustom Nameh in the chapter where Zaal rallies Rustom to avenge the death of his (Zaal’s) grandfather, Narimaan (father of Saam) by destroying the fort at Mount Sepand and its idol worshipping occupants (the pagan Devyasna). The word ‘taaziaan’ is used for these idolaters:
“Ba khune Nariman kamar-ra be-band;
Berav taaziaan taa ba Kuh-e- Sepand”
‘Ba Khune Nariman’ [regarding the murder of Narimaan],
‘Kamar-ra be-bund’ [gird/tighten your belt/girdle];
‘Berav’ [despoil/ debase, (this word ‘berav’ though otherwise obsolete is still found in the English dictionary and interpreted as “to spatter with dirt or filth; especially: to defile with excrement” in other words, to sully/degrade/despoil/dishonour)]
‘Taaziaan’ [the idolaters [as the occupants of the Mount Sepand were idol worshipping Devyasna and since Zaal is referring to them in the conversation, I would translate the word as ‘idolaters’]
‘taa ba Kuh-e-Sepand’ [hasten you (therefore) to Mount Sepand)]
Its steep incline and the narrow path leading upwards for almost three miles left any besieging army open to fatal assaults from the defending forces. This gave Fort of Mount Sepand the reputation of being invincible. Under orders from King Faredoon, Narimaan’s attempt to conquer the bastion resulted in his death under the boulder cast downhill by the idolaters.
**bastem/basta means bound/tied/ imprisoned.
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NIRANG OF ARDIBESHT YASHT
TRANLITERATION OF THE TEXT OF THE NIRANG:
Dadaar the sustainer of this world is omnipotent, omniscient, the keeper of all, the one who rewards and the guardian.
Ahriman is nothing, is shallow (doltish/unskilled/naive) and incapable.
Hormazd is the creator, Ahriman the destroyer.
Dadaar is holy, Ahriman is impious/ unholy.
May Ahriman be destroyed!
May Ahriman be shunned!
May Ahriman be ousted/ repelled.
May Ahriman be broken!
May Ahriman be ruined!
This religion of Zoroaster is the best /foremost (avval).
Hormazd is the acme/ exalted sage, strong, meritorious, and granter of prosperity.
(Pray one Ashem Vohu).
TEXT:
“Daadaar-e jehaadaar tavaanaa O daanaa, O parvartaar O aafridegaar, O kerfegar, O avakhshidaar! Ahereman hich naadaan, O natavaanad ba hich chiz nashahed. Ahura Mazda daadaari; Ahereman marochinidaari. Daadaar paak, ahereman naapaak, ahereman khaak shavad, ahereman dur shavad, ahereman dafeh shavad, ahereman shekasteh shavad, ahereman halaak shavad. Avval din Zarathushti paak; Ahura Mazda buland kavi beh, awazuni”. Pray one Ashaone Ashem Vohu . (The Nirang is to be recited thrice).
USES: 1. Very powerful prayer for healing in all conditions wards off all evil things from the body of the afflicted; wards off all negativism from your mind.
2. To keep you away all maladies from your life.
3. To help you to always believe in the Power of Dadaar Ahura Mazda especially in very difficult times.
4. When you are despondent especially when you feel the justice is not done by Dadaar Ahura Mazda to the evil persons who has inflicted pain and anguish upon you and other innocent
5. for chest Pains. 
6.for ear Ache.
7. for fevers.
8. for headaches.
9. for overall health.
10. For problems with lactation.
11. For problems with one’s legs.
12. Nasal problems.
13. Problems during pregnancy.
14. Stomach Aches.
NOTE:
Ardibesht is Pehelvi for the original Avesta words ‘Asha Vahishta’ representing the energy of fire, both spiritual and temporal including visible and tangible fires like the flame, tangible fires like the sunlight and light from other astral bodies, and also, the invisible, intangible cosmic energies like the life giving energy which permeates every quark, electron and atom. In Zoroastrianism, therefore, Asha Vahishta is the energy nourishing and guiding the entire creation towards its pre-ordained phenomena for occurrence in and at its pre-ordained time.
Asha is the natural Law of this Universal creation, the Tao, the Dao. It is, thus, understood as The Truth, the Righteousness the following of the Divine order on which the Universe runs like the change of seasons, the day/night cycle, ‘all that goes up must come down’, rotation and revolution of astral spheres and such other phenomena over which we as humans have little or no control. Vahishta mean the very best.
It therefore stands to reason that invoking Ardibesht Ameshaspend is to invoke all other energies in their most primal form, in their earliest, initial stages ; be these energies of light, sound, sensation or any other. In Zoroastrianism, Ardibesht Ameshaspend epitomizes the beginning and so, the
interrelationship of all energy.
The energies that devolve from Ardibesht , in direct descent, would then be energies like Behram Yazad (energies that hew down resistance put up by Ahriman and Angre Manyu), Adar Yazad (Fire manifested on earth).
The second month of the Zoroastrian year is dedicated to Ardibesht and the third day of every month.
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VANANT YASHT — TRANSLITERATION.
*Vanant Yasht is prayed to banish **Kharfestar (see meaning below) and harmful animals from our lives. Vanant is considered a guardian of goodness. It is believed that praying the Vanant Yasht is a potent remedy in fighting evil. The literal meaning of Vanant is ‘conqueror’ and Vanant Yasht is the liturgy of it.
The Transliteration
From “Paname Yazdaan……pa patet hom.”
The greatness of Hormazd!
In the name of Khodai Hormazd Sahib who promotes /give progress!
May his splendour/majesty and aura (khoreh) increase!
Created by Hormazd, the holy Vanant stars, foremost in purity come to my aid!
I do penance for all my sins and become cleansed.
In this world, all the evil thoughts I may have brought to my mind, ill words that
I may have spoken, bad deeds that I may have done, those that I have induced or I have begun or that I have encouraged — those sins of thoughts, of words, of deeds, of my body and soul, of this world, of the next world— for these I am remorseful and abstain from them, I do penance for these by observing the three intrinsic goodness ( good thoughts good words good deeds).
‘Fravaraane Mazdsyasno’
A Promise (fravarane) to the Mazdayasne religion
I, the brave follower of Hormazd, follower of the Path revealed by Zoroaster, renounce the Demons (Div also means senses), a person who behaves in accordance with the way/command of Hormazd (the Geh is prayed here) promise (Fravaraane) in order to please, offer latria (highest worship to the divine) and laud Vanant stars created by Hormazd to worship, to sing his praises, propitiate his greatness, laud him so that, the great spirit/ meaning of ‘Yatha Ahu Vairyo’ be revealed to me; the pure sage /expert, the learned ‘Atha Rathush Asha Chit Hasha’, be revealed to me.
We glorify the holy Vanant stars, the foremost in purity (Ashoi); created by Hormazd. I extol Vanant the praiseworthy, the illustrious, that bestows health, 
has the courage to combat the despised and worst of **Khrafstar (destructive creatures from another timeline or creation cycle) produced by Angre Manyu, who is to be shunned. (During prayers we clap here once).
We glorify the holy Vanant stars, the foremost in purity (Ashoi); created by Hormazd. I extol Vanant the praiseworthy, the illustrious, that bestows health, has the courage to combat the despised and worst of **Khrafstar (destructive creatures from another timeline or creation cycle) produced by Angre Manyu, who is to be shunned. (During prayers we clap here twice).
We glorify the holy Vanant stars, the foremost in purity (Ashoi); created by Hormazd. I extol Vanant the praiseworthy, the illustrious, that bestows health, has the courage to combat the despised and worst of **Khrafstar (destructive creatures from another timeline or creation cycle) produced by Angre Manyu, who is to be shunned. (During prayers we clap here thrice).
(To be prayed silently, ‘Baaj ma’)
I clamp shut the laws (mouth) of all rat and cat species (rodents and feline), so they cannot harm/damage my house. Let good health be celebrated! I invoke Hormazd, ***Faredoon, that Faredoon who is the son of Aathavyaan, I invoke his bloodline (****Kovat) and his aura (Khoreh). (Clap 3 times).
I clamp shut the jaws of snake and his ilk (reptiles); so that they cannot 
harm/damage my house. Let good health be celebrated! I invoke Hormazd, ***Faredoon, that Faredoon who is the son of Aathavyaan, I invoke his bloodline (****Kovat) and his aura (Khoreh). (Clap 3 times).
I clamp shut the jaws of the wolf and all its ilk (canine), known-unknown all 
wolves (canine) and cats (feline) so that they do not harm/damage my house. Let good health be celebrated! I invoke Hormazd, ***Faredoon, that Faredoon who is the son of Aathavyaan, I invoke his bloodline (****Kovat) and his aura (Khoreh). (Clap 3 times).
“Ahura Mazda Khodai avazuni marhum…..rasanad aedunbad”.
O Hormazd Khodai, the one to give growth/ progress to men, mankind, to all other creation, to all who participate /share in the good religion! I, an adherent of the Mazda Yasni religion have been already informed/ forewarned /told to always walk on the Path of Righteousness. So let it be!
“Yasnemcha vahmemcha…….Vanant Sitara”
I laud the Vanant Star, worthy of latria, well reputed, with intelligence to be victorious.
For meaning of Ahmai Rasche, Hazangaram, Jashme Avange Mazda and Kerfeh Mazda please refer to the Transliteration given under Sarosh Baaj on this Blog
“Roj neknaam….staomi ashem.”
This well reputed day, this holy day, celebrated/ felicitous day of ————–(name), celebrated/felicitous month of ———–(name), Geh _________(name), homage to the creator who brought this universe into be in being.
“Gorze khoreh avazyad……aedunbaad”
May the aura increase of the Vanant Star! Brave, victorious, (Star) raise my courage to attain victory in being aware of and following the Path. May the fame of the good Zoroastrian (Mazda Yasni) religion and its awareness spread throughout the seven continents. So let it be!
“Man aano ……avavyad shudan.”
I must/should go there; I must/should go there; I must/should go there.
“Dadaare gehaan din…..Anahite ashaone.” (To face south when praying)
The religion revealed by Zoroaster was given by Hormazd, the creator. O the sanctified (ashaum), super-strong (sevishte), immaculate (Ananhite), Ardvisur (well-known Iranian river) I offer prayers to you! (Pray Ashem Vohu).
O the meritorious, created by Dadaar Hormazd. (Pray Ashem Vohu).
O virtuous soul (urvaire vanguhi), homage! (Pray Ashem Vohu).
“Vanantem Sitarem…yazamaide.”
O the Vanant Star, created by Mazda, endowed with righteousness (Ashvanem), most fit disciple, we celebrate you! (Pray Ashem Vohu).
O the Vanant Star, whose creator is Hormazd, sanctified by righteousness, by Asha (righteousness/eternal law) grow splendidly exalted. (Pray Ashem Vohu).
NIRANG:
All tribulation, and the demigods/demons, and the falsehoods, and the fairies,
and the Witches/she demons, and the magicians, and the bad winds (infection), and the pains, and stomach aches and pains of the seven joints in the body, and the evil emanating from Satan, and anguish (pain of the heart), and mental pains, and the vibrations that cause malaise of the mind, and the evil eye, and the temptation that arises from becoming aware of evil persons, and all such trials;
May these be vanquished and become impotent.
* Vanant, In Zoroastrianism, is the hypostasis (underlying substance, fundamental reality) of the ‘Star of the West’, a binary multiple star system in the Constellation, Scorpious. The star system is variously recognized as Altair, Fomalhaut, Vega, Sargas or Kappa Scorpii/Girtab . Girtab or Vanant is the 83rd brightest star in the night sky and can be seen with the naked eye; it is a pulsating blue Giant. The mass and radius of the primary star in the system is about 7 times that of our Sun in both cases.
Unlike the other energies, there is no month or day dedicated to Vanant; it is invoked with other astral phenomena every month on the second and third day.
Tishtriya (Teshtar sitaara) and Vanant are constant companions.
The only other divinity with no such dedication is Drvaspa
Vanant is perhaps an adaptation of the Sumero-Akkadian ‘Vanand’ and perhaps because of and during the Achamenid Empire’s proximity to Babylon
Vannati Upartat in Zoroastrianism, are the energies which protect the environment, animals and plants. Strangely, Hindi still retains the word Vanant meaning Jungles, or the boundary of the jungle, maidaan, field or battle field.
In Armenia people still use ‘Vanant’ as a name for a male child.
In the USA, ‘Vanant’ was a family name and not that of an individual. This was discovered in the 1940s during a search of the USA Census Record
The Census had records of their Vanant ancestors including their day to day life — like hours worked per week, level of education, veteran status, employers, and more. In the 1880s, the most common Vanant occupation in the USA was that of a Farmer. A 100% of Vanants were Farmers.
**Khrafstar : In its simplest connotation means “Most hideous noxious 
creature, most filthy and most stinking”; like, frogs, reptiles, scorpions , insects, ants, wasps, rats, midges, locust, lice, fleas which are harmful or repulsive — creations of the Ahriman. Predators were not included in the term. Khrafstar also denoted mad monstrous spirits that plagued the pre-historic world.
Traditionally, the word denoted creatures from another cycle of creation bringing ruin and destruction to the present world. These are creatures believed to exist in limbo (somewhere between Spirit and Material Worlds).
In an intangible sense it has been translated as a conscious force which
manifests inappropriately/improperly — a monstrosity, a maliciously clever, corrupt, half-witted, or intelligence, distorted wisdoms or visions of bygone era –creations of the Ahriman and Angre Manyu; Stagnant energy that has stopped progressing. In Zoroastrian lore, all that has stopped evolving or progressing has no further place in creation. The word is a precursor to the Middle Persian word ‘Druj’ also translated as falsehood.
In the descending line of evil, Khrafstars are lesser than the Div but a greater evil thanHumans. This evil can be transformed or destroyed with knowledge and wisdom. It is not invincible.
After the Muslims conquered Iran, ‘Khrafstar’ included wild animals which meaning is entirely contrary to the ancient lore and understanding. ‘Yašn-e ḵarafstra koshuun’ a ‘feast of destroying Vermin’ with ‘ḵarafstraḡāns’ (rods to kill vermin), was an annual tradition at the start of summer. The entire town was then disinfected and the dead vermin treated with drugs to decompose.
Christianity has brought the Khrafstar to our era as the animals used in witch craft and omens. The ‘Malleus Maleficarum’ (the Hammer of the Witches), the legal and theological document (c. 1486) the standard handbook on witchcraft is based on the idea of Khrafstar in Middle Zoroastrianism.
***Faredoon. Ancient texts speak of Faredoon, son of Aathavyaan, as an expert in all the Nirangs. Through these Nirangs he was able to prevent all harm and mischief to himself and deterred all the divs and druj from affecting him. Some texts acclaim him as a prophet.
****Kovat. I have translated Kovat as bloodline or ancestry or lineage. The word still remains and is in use in the Finnish, Czech and the Russian languages from amongst the Indo-Germanic group of languages. I give the meanings hereunder:
In Russian it means Forged, made from.
In Finnish it means heavy –handed, (object) hard, (person) hard, strict, harsh, (noise) loud, (blow) hard, heavy, (thirst, hunger) severe, (ammunition) live, pornography – hardcore.
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Jashme Avange Mazda is the last prayer amongst those prayed when tying the Kusti. Jashme Avange Mazda is prayed immediately after the three rear knots of the Kusti are tied by a Zoroastrian. After the Zoroastrian has promised his faith and loyalty to the practice of monotheism, in this ultimate Kusti Prayer, the Jashme Avange Mazda, he reiterates his faith in the religion, and admits to the world at large that he follows the Path of Ahura Mazda
THE TRANSLITERATION
O Dadaar Hormazd, come to my aid! I am a Mazdayasne (believer in the religion of the Mazda Yasnis , monotheist, as against the Dev Yasni, polytheists), as a Mazdayasne Zoroastrian, as one who raises his voice in praise and one who invokes faith, I love you/ my preference is you.
I laud the thoughts that are thought by the pious (Nek vichaar), I laud the 
words that are spoken by the pious, I laud the deeds that are done in piety, I laud the Mazdayasni Din that vanquishes all hostility, that causes men to relinquish their weapons, instills self confidence and makes them follow the Path ( Raasti).
Of all the religions existing today or those that will come hereafter, *Hormazdi Zoroastrianism (Av: ‘Ahuirish Jarthutrish’) is the greatest, best and purest.
I acknowledge openly that all nature/ creation is from Hormazd.
To know this is to praise the Mazdayasne Din.
*‘Ahuirish Jarthutrish: The ultimate object of a Zoroastrian life is to strive towards world order, progress and ultimate perfection of the world through the three tenets —
1) Good thoughts good words good deeds;
2) There is no path other than the path of Asha i.e. Raasti. There are always the two opposing forces both in cosmology and morals; the idea is to choose the Raasti, the Path of Ashoi;
3) Do the right not because one derives material advantage from it but 
because it is the thing to do including, protecting the Environment. Zoroastrians believe that everything He created is pure and should be treated with love and respect.
Zoroastrian Mazdayasni faith believes that there is one, and only one, universal, transcendent, supreme being, Ahura Mazda meaning ‘the Wise Lord’; Almighty but not omnipotent. He is the creator ‘Asha’, truth/order justice. — The Creative force in the cosmos.
Ahriman, the destructive force in the Cosmos and the morally evil ‘Druj’, chaos, falsehood and disorder, does not emanate from Ahura Mazda. In fact, He creates no evil; consequently, the much debated idea of cosmological dualism in Zoroastrianism among scholars. Angre Mainyu and his Akem Mana (evil 
thinking) is the opposite of Spenta Mainyu. The entire cosmos, including each and every human being (read Zoroastrian), has a role to play in the resulting conflict between this good and evil. Ahura Mazda has manifested his supreme victory over Ahriman by articulating the Ahuna Vairyo.
The Zoroastrian divinity is a being within the limits of possible experience or knowledge, this has given rise to some scholars describing the religion ‘as a belief in an immanent self-creating universe with consciousness as its special attribute’. Thereby causing Zoroastrianism to be defined as pantheistic, a doctrine that equates God with the forces and laws of the universe.
Ahura Mazda works through the Spenta Mainyu , good spirits/bounteous immortals. The creation, in its turn, experiences this created Universe through 
the seven primary Ameshaspends and the entire host of the Yazads (Worthy of Worship) guided by Ameshaspends. Each Yazad is founded on a moral or physical aspect of creation.
It is these Ameshaspends and Yazads (that stand under and support the Zoroastrian Wise Lord, Ahura Mazda) and the host of energies that is the foundation of the Zoroastrian divinity.
Zoroaster, himself is not worshiped. To the Zoroastrians, he is the prophet of God who taught man of Asha and Raasti.
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