NIRANG OF THE VANANT YASHT AND ITS USES.

TRANLITERATION OF THE TEXT OF THE NIRANG:

All tribulation, and the demigods/demons, and the falsehoods, and the fairies, and the Witches/she demons, and the magicians, and the infections (bad winds) , 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 psychological problems (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.

Pray one Ashem Vohu. (Recite the Nirang thrice).

TEXT:

“Kul balā dafe shavad, O dīv O daruj O pari O kaftaar O seheraan, O baad akhtahed akhi darde shekam haft andām, khalale Shaitaan O khaatir pareshaan, O khalale demaagh shaitaan khaatir pareshaan baad; O dar nazar barvizan taa didne navasht O maanand hamchunin balaa dafe shavad.

Pray one Ashem Vohū (Recite the Nirang thrice).

USES: The text of the Nirang gives one an idea of where, when and why it may be prayed. However, to spell it out…..

1. To be rid of:

noxious and harmful creatures,

filthy and stinking creatures,

creatures like reptiles, scorpions, insects, ants, wasps, rats, midges, locust, lice, fleas

mad monstrous spirits that plagued the pre-historic world

creatures from another cycle of creation bringing ruin and destruction to the present world

souls living in limbo or any conscious force that manifests inappropriately/improperly

Maliciously clever, corrupt, half-witted intelligence or distorted wisdom

Stagnant energy that has stopped progressing. In Zoroastrian lore, all that has stopped evolving or progressing has no further place in creation.

2. To eradicate all evil that can be transformed or destroyed with knowledge and wisdom.

3. To defeat the invincible.

NOTE: Vanant, in Zoroastrianism, is the underlying substance, fundamental reality of the ‘Star of the West’, a binary multiple star system in the Constellation, Scorpius. 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. It is also variously equated with Vega in the constellation Lyra in the Western Hemisphere and Formal haut in the Southern.

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 and is a companion of Tishtriya (Teshtar sitaara).

For further explanations, see the notes under transliteration of Vanant Yasht in this blog.

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.

In Czech it means to forge, to hammer.

Nirangs from the various Yashts in the Avesta are the sum total of the preceding Yasht presented in a concise form. where a Zoroastrian is really running short of time and needs to invoke a particular enenrgy, he may pray the Nirang of the required Yasht.

when my mother, in the last ten days of her life  was in a coma, a dasturji advised me to pray the Ardibehest Yasht ni Nirang three times in her ear during my short few minutes permitted in the ICU.

NIRANG OF HORMAZD YASHT

TEXT:

Oh Dadaar Hormazd! I abjure the destructive Ahriman and the demigods (divs).I have no doubts (I am certain) about resurgence and eternal/ultimate existence. (Beyond the body).

NOTE: In this short Nirang of Hormazd Yasht, one declares one’s faith in Ahura Mazda and repudiates Ahriman, declaring one’s belief in resurgence/resurrection and eternal existence beyond the body.

USE: 1. for developing one’s aura; 2. Protection against enemies and evil; 3. curing diseases.

NIRANG OF ARDIBESHT YASHT

TEXT:

Dadaar the sustainer of this world is omnipotent, omniscient, the keeper of all, the rewarder and the guardian.

Ahriman is nothing, is shallow (doltish/unskilled/naive) and can do nothing.

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 /first rate (avval).

Hormazd is the acme/ exalted sage, strong, meritorious, and granter of prosperity.

USES: 1. Very powerful prayer for healing in all conditions wards off all evil things from the body of the afflicted; wards off all negativities from your mind

2. To keep you away all maladies from your life.

3. To help you to always believe in the Power of Dadar Ahura Mazda especially in very difficult times.

4. When you are despondent especially when you feel the justice is not done by Dadar Ahura Mazda to the evil persons who has inflicted pain and anguish upon you and other innocent

NIRANG OF SAROSH YASHT HODATH

TEXT:

May the majestic glory and brilliance increase of Sarosh the pure, strong , whose body is made up entirely of prayers (m a n t h r a v a n i),  keeper of nourishing instruments , wielder of victorious weapons , the first amongst all creation, come to my aid !

So let it be! (May my above prayer be answered!) (Aedunbaad).

NOTE: Sarosh Yasht Hadokht is to be prayed in the daylight only, like in Haavan, Rapithvan or Uziren gehs. Nirang to be recited before going to sleep it protects us from all kind of onslaughts of Ahriman. MIND is not active Ahriman with his evil workers of dark forces are waiting for to catch us off guard.
USES: 1. For Curing Psychological ailments can 2. To develop our Khoreh

NIRANG OF Sarosh Yasht Vadi

 TEXT:

 May the majestic glory and brilliance of the pure Sarosh increase! May he always be strong and victorious!

The saviour of all souls, preserver of one’s genetic heredity /the religious, guardian of all men, of the good/righteous, Sarosh, may he grant his Protection/refuge/shelter,  all day and night, all through every month of the year to all Iranis, ancient sages/ a pre-Zoroastrian teacher of religion

(Paryodakesho) born on this earth, laymen, all Arabs who wear the Kushti, Zoroastrians and all good and holy persons of the seven continents.

NOTE: 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.

USES: 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.

NIRANG OF HOM YASHT

TEXT:

I cause to shun, beat and make ineffective/immobilize the alien/bizarre tenor of your character ; the very mold of you demigods, falsehoods/germs, magicians and fairies by the use of the Ephideris Vulgaris (Haoma plant)  and the great fire/the youngest branch of the tree in heaven (barsam) and the religion of the true faith (raast) and correct (daroost) and good which Dadar Hormazd to my mind has taught/revealed (chashid).

NOTE: Haoma or Hom is the healing energy and also the name given to the healing herb, Ephideris Vulgaris.

It is said that at least four Persian heroes who had reputable sons had invoked Hom —- Vivanghat had Jamshid; Athwya had Faridun; Thrita had two, Urvakhsh and Kersasp; and Pourushasp had Zoroaster.

USES: 1. To prevent diseases  ; 2. To have good health and keep away death ; 3.helps begat good progeny; 4. To vanquish lies or enemies or any hostility; 5.To obtain true knowledge/strength/prosperity/progress/ victory/ health and longevity; 6. To be able to recognize and become aware of evil; 7. Ability to battle evil or enemies; 7. For spiritual knowledge; 8. (women) To get good husbands; 9.To make powerless a tyrant or powerful persecutor or one who is depriving you of your lawful rights or possessions e.g. robber; 10. Destroy the power of magic or other invisible onslaughts.

NIRANG OF VANANT YASHT

TEXT:

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.

NOTE: Vanant, in Zoroastrianism, is the underlying substance, fundamental reality of the ‘Star of the West’, a binary multiple star system in the Constellation, Scorpius. 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 for 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 and is a companion of Tishtriya (Teshtar sitaara).

USES: Vanant Yasht is prayed to be rid of :  a. noxious and harmful creatures, b. filthy and stinking creatures, c. creatures like reptiles, scorpions , insects, ants, wasps, rats, midges, locust, lice, fleas, d. mad monstrous spirits that plagued the pre-historic world; e. creatures from a  another cycle of creation bringing ruin and destruction to the present world; f. souls living in limbo or any conscious force that manifests inappropriately/improperly; g. maliciously clever, corrupt, half-witted intelligence or distorted wisdom; h. Stagnant energy that has stopped progressing. In Zoroastrian lore, all that has stopped evolving or progressing has no further place in creation.

2. To be rid of all evil that can be transformed or destroyed with knowledge and wisdom.

3. To defeat the invincible.

For further explanations on Vanant, see the notes under transliteration of Vanant Yasht in this blog.