Yasna
Translated by L. H. Mills
The Yasna and Gathas in L. H. Mills’s translation.
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The opening
YASNA XXIX.
(Homage to you, O Sacred Gâthas!)
1. Unto you (O Ahura and Asha!) the Soul of the Kine (our sacred herds and folk) cried aloud: For whom did ye create me, and by whom did ye fashion me? On me comes the assault of wrath, and of violent power, the blow of desolation, audacious insolence, and (thievish) might. None other pasture-giver have I than you, therefore do ye teach me good (tillage) for the fields (my only hope of welfare )!
Ahura speaks.
2. Upon this the Creator of the Kine (the holy herds) asked of Righteousness : How (was) thy guardian for the Kine (appointed) by thee when, as having power (over all her fate), ye made her? (In what manner did ye secure) for her, together with pasture, a cattle-chief who was both skilled and likewise energetic? Whom did ye select as her (life’s) master who might hurl back the fury of the wicked ?
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About this edition
- The words
- L. H. Mills's English translation, copied word for word.
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- Left out
- A preface, foreword or afterword
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 2 places
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 2 places
- The source website's menus, layout and notices, in 2 places
- Printed ornaments and dividers
- Darmesteter's combined locator ‘YASNA XLIX, 12-L.’ groups the source-labelled stanzas ‘Y. XLIX, 12’ and ‘Y. L, 1’
- Darmesteter's chapter summary or commentary before the numbered liturgical text (56 blocks)
- Darmesteter's cross-reference to another Yasna, printed in the text