Yasht

Yasht

The _ae. Yashts (" _ae. Yašt"s) are a collection of twenty-one hymns in Younger Avestan. Each of these hymns invokes a specific Zoroastrian divinity or concept. "Yasht" chapter and verse pointers are traditionally abbreviated as "Yt."

The word "yasht" derives from Avestan "yešti", "worship by praise," and several hymns of the "Yasna" liturgy that "worship by praise" are - in tradition - also nominally called "yasht"s. These "hidden" Yashts are: the "Barsom Yasht" ("Yasna" 2), another "Hom Yasht" in "Yasna" 9-11, the "Bhagan Yasht" of "Yasna" 19-21, a hymn to Ashi in "Yasna" 52, another Sarosh "Yasht" in "Yasna" 57, the praise of the (hypostasis of) "prayer" in "Yasna" 58, and a hymn to the Ahurani in "Yasna" 68. Since these are a part of the primary litury, they do not count among the twenty-one hymns of the "Yasht" collection.

All the hymns of the "Yasht" collection "are written in what appears to be prose, but which, for a large part, may originally have been a (basically) eight-syllable verse, oscillating between four and thirteen syllables, and most often between seven and nine."harvnb|Kellens|1989|p=38.]

Most of the "yazata"s that the individual "Yasht"s are in praise of also have a dedication in the Zoroastrian calendar. The exceptions are Drvaspa and Vanant.

The twenty-one "yasht"s of the collection are: (notes follow)

Notes:

References

Bibliography

*: 35-44.

Further reading

* [http://www.avesta.org/ka/ka_tc.htm#yashts English language translations of the "Yasht"s] from citation|last=Darmesteter|first=James|title=Sacred Books of the East|volume=23|editor-last=Müller|editor-first=Friedrich Max |year=1898 |location=New York|publisher=OUP


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