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Yasna 19 ( which has only survived in a Sassanid era ( 226 – 650 CE ) Zend commentary on the Ahuna Vairya invocation ), prescribes a Path to Judgement known as the Chinvat Peretum or Chinvat bridge ( cf: As-Sirāt in Islam ), which all souls had to cross, and judgement ( over thoughts, words, deeds performed during a lifetime ) was passed as they were doing so.
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Yasna and 19
* it is tall ( Yasna 10. 21, Vendidad 19. 19 )
* it furthers healing ( Yasna 9. 16-17, 9. 19, 10. 8, 10. 9 )
So, for example, justice is administered through atar ( Yasna 31. 3, 34. 4, 36. 2, 47. 2 ), the blazing atar ( 31. 19, 51. 9 ), through the heat of atar ( 43. 4 ), through the blazing, shining, molten metal ( ayangha Khshushta, 30. 7, 32. 7, 51. 9 ).
( Yasna 9. 1, 9. 30 ; Yasht 19. 19 )
Yasna and which
Although the names are old, this opposition is a modern western-influenced development popularized by Martin Haug in the 1880s, and was in effect a realignment of the precepts of Zurvanism ( Zurvanite Zoroastrianism ), which had invented a third deity, Zurvan, in order to explain a mention of twinship ( Yasna 30. 3 ) between the moral and immoral.
He is credited with the authorship of the Yasna Haptanghaiti as well as the Gathas, hymns which are at the liturgical core of Zoroastrianism.
The liturgical texts of the Yasna, which includes the Gathas, is in Older Avestan, with short, later additions in Younger Avestan.
The other is the Vendidad Sadeh, in which the Yasna, Visperad and Vendidad are set out in alternating chapters, in the order used in the Vendidad ceremony, with no commentary at all.
: The Yasna ( from yazišn " worship, oblations ", cognate with Sanskrit yajña ), is the primary liturgical collection, named after the ceremony at which it is recited.
The Gathas are structurally interrupted by the Yasna Haptanghaiti (" seven-chapter Yasna "), which makes up chapters 35-42 of the Yasna and is almost as old as the Gathas, consists of prayers and hymns in honour of the Supreme Deity, Ahura Mazda, the Angels, Fire, Water, and Earth.
The Visparad is subdivided into 23 or 24 kardo ( sections ) that are interleaved into the Yasna during a Visperad service ( which is an extended Yasna service ).
However, there is a ceremony called the Vendidad, in which the Yasna is recited with all the chapters of both the Visparad and the Vendidad inserted at appropriate points.
Greek magos itself is derived from Old Persian maguŝ from the Avestan magâunô, i. e. the religious caste into which Zoroaster was born, ( see Yasna 33. 7: " ýâ sruyê parê magâunô " = " so I can be heard beyond Magi ").
The day on which the day-name and month-name dedications intersect is ( like all other such intersections ) dedicated to the divinity of that day / month, and is celebrated with a Jashan ( from Avestan Yasna, " worship ") in honor of that divinity.
They were later incorporated into the 72-chapter Yasna ( chapter: ha or had, from the Avestan ha ' iti, ' cut '), which in turn is the primary liturgical collection of texts within the greater compendium of the Avesta.
Also in the early texts, tangential to its role in establishing guilt, atar is the light of revelation through which Zoroaster is selected for prophet-hood, the Zarathushtra Mainyu Athra ( Yasna 31. 3 ), radiated by Wisdom / Mazda ( 43. 9 ), bearing the conviction of " Good Purpose " ( Vohu Manah, 43. 4 ; see also Amesha Spenta ), and enlightening one ’ s inner-self ( 46. 7 ).
The common noun, which also appears in the Younger Avesta ( e. g. Yasna 61. 5 Her son, when born, will not know nourishment from his mother, his body will be sun-like, and the " royal glory " of Khwarenah will be with him.
Yasna and has
: The Visperad collection has no unity of its own, and is never recited separately from the Yasna.
In the Avesta, Haoma has the entire Yašt 20 and Yasna 9-11 dedicated to it.
* the plant has stems, roots and branches ( Yasna 10. 5 ).
* it has a pliant asu ( Yasna 9. 16 ).
Unlike Vedic Yajna, Zoroastrian Yasna has " to do with water rather than fire ".
Yasna and only
Thus, in Zoroaster's revelation, Ahura Mazda was perceived to be the creator of only the good ( Yasna 31. 4 ), the " supreme benevolent providence " ( Yasna 43. 11 ), that will ultimately triumph ( Yasna 48. 1 ).
Haug also interpreted the concept of a free will of Yasna 45. 9 as an accommodation to explain where Angra Mainyu came from since Ahura Mazda created only good.
Peter Clark in Zoroastrianism: An Introduction to an Ancient Faith ( 1998, Brighton ) suggests the Gathas and older Yasna texts would not have retained their old-language qualities if they had only been orally transmitted.
In a wider sense, the term Khordeh Avesta includes all material other than the Yasna, the Visparad and the Vendidad, as it is only the ceremonies contained in these three books that are reserved for the priests.
At this juncture, as in the Yasna Haptanghaiti ( the seven-chapter Yasna that structurally interrupts the Gathas and is linguistically as old as the Gathas themselves ), atar is still — with only one exception — an abstract concept simply an instrument, a medium, of the Creator and is not yet the divinity ( yazata ) of heat and light that atar was to become in the later texts.
Yasna and survived
The finishing of Haoma in Zoroastrianism may be glimpsed from the Avesta ( particularly in the Hōm Yast, Yasna 9 ), and Avestan language * hauma also survived as middle Persian hōm.
Yasna and 226
For, " the man who sacrifices unto fire with fuel in his hand, with the Baresman in his hand, with milk in his hand, with the mortar for crushing the branches of the sacred Haoma in his hand, is given happiness " ( Yasna 62. 1 ; Nyashes 5. 7 ) 1912 | pages = 180 – 226
Yasna and –
In Yasna 28. 1 – 28. 7, Zoroaster appeals to Mazda for several boons, including the power to vanquish their foes for Vishtaspa and himself.
Yasna and commentary
Book 9 is a commentary on the gathic prayers of Yasna 27 and Yasna 54.
Yasna and on
For the three days that it rests on Earth, righteous souls sit at the head of their body, chanting the Ustavaiti Gathas with joy, while a wicked person sits at the feet of the corpse, wails and recites the Yasna.
However, the language spoken by Zoroaster, Old Avestan, used for composing the Yasna Haptanghaiti and the Gathas, on archaeological and linguistic grounds, is dated to have been spoken probably in the first half of the 2nd millennium BCE.
* it grows on the mountains, ' swiftly spreading ', ' apart on many paths ' ( Yasna 9. 26, 10. 3-4 et al.
) ' to the gorges and abysses ' ( Yasna 10-11 ) and ' on the ranges ' ( Yasna 10. 12 )
So also Zoroaster's injunction to always pray in the presence of atar — either towards the sun, or towards their own hearths — so as to better concentrate their devotions on asha, righteousness, and the virtue that should be striven for ( Yasna 43. 9, see also Boyce, 1975: 455 ).
Yasna and ),
Mithra is described in the Zoroastrian Avesta scriptures as, " Mithra of wide pastures, of the thousand ears, and of the myriad eyes ,"( Yasna 1: 3 ), " the lofty, and the everlasting ... the province ruler ,"( Yasna 1: 11 ), " the Yazad ( divinity ) of the spoken name "( Yasna 3: 5 ), and " the holy ,"( Yasna 3: 13 )
It finds earliest mention in the Atharva Veda ( 1000 BC ), vi 97, 1, ( source Monier Williams ) though pouring into the ritual fire was known as early as in the ( c. 1400 BC ) and it the closely related Zoroastrian religion ( Yasna Haptaŋhāiti ).
Yasna and all
: The Visperad ( from vîspe ratavo, "( prayer to ) all patrons ") is a collection of supplements to the Yasna.
Yasna and had
Although Zurvanism had died out by the 10th century the critical question of the " twin brothers " mentioned in Yasna 30. 3 remained, and Haug's explanation provided a convenient defence against Christian missionaries who disparaged the Parsis ( Indian Zoroastrians ) for their ' dualism '.
Yasna and they
Asha Vahishta < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s association with atar is however carried forward, and they are often mentioned together ( Yasna 62. 3, Nyashes 5. 9, etc .).
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