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  - Aogemadaeca
  - Afrin-i Zartosht
  - Bd30V16z
  - DkB131
  - Frahang-i Oim
  - Fragm. Darmesteter
  - Fragm. Gray
  - Fragm. Westergaard
  - Hadhokht Nask
  - Nirangistan
  - Pursishniha
  - Vicharkart-i Denik
  - Vaetha Nask
  - Vishtasp Yasht
 
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 AOGEMADAECA
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 [Translated by James Darmesteter, Sacred Books of the East, American Edition, 1898, Vol. III, pg 372 ff.
 'The Aogemadaeca,' says Dastur Jamaspji,' is a treatise that inculcates a sort of serene resignation to death.' It 
 is a sermon on death, originally written in Pahlavi, but preserved to us in a Parsi transcription; in which 
 original Avesta texts are developed or paraphrased. These Avesta quotations amount to twenty-nine, of 
 which twenty-four are new. A good edition of the Parsi text, with a Sanskrit translation, based upon a 
 manuscript of A. D. 1497, has been published by Prof. Geiger (Erlangen, 1879). Dastur Jamaspji possesses 
 two Pahlavi retranscriptions of an independent Parsi manuscript, which contain useful corrections and 
 additions. We have thought it necessary to give here a complete translation of the treatise, as the Avesta 
 quotations by themselves do not present either a continuous or a complete text. Unlike the Avesta in the 
 Nirangistan, they are not the principal, but only the secondary text.]
 
 1.	Aogemaideca usmahica visamadaeca [Y41.5] ('We come, rejoice, and submit').
 (Parsi translation:) I come, I accept, I resign;
 2. (Parsi gloss:)	I come into this world, I accept evil, I resign myself to death;
 3.	Shato-manau vahishto-urvano ('With the mind in joy and the soul in bliss'):
 (Gloss:) In joy is he who realises the wish of his soul.
 4.	May the accursed Gana Mainyo be smitten, destroyed, and broken, he who has no knowledge, 
 who has evil knowledge, who is full of death,
 5.	Who destroys the body of the immortal soul!
 6.	May the immortal soul have its share in Paradise!
 7.	And may the pleasure and comfort that will dissipate the pain of the immortal soul come to 
 us!
 8.	At the fourth dawn, may the holy, strong Sraosha, and Rashn Rast, and the good Vae, and 
 Ashtad the victorious, and Mihr of the rolling country-side, and the Fravashis of the 
 righteous, and the other virtuous spirits come to meet the soul of the blessed one,
 9.	And make the immortal soul pass over the Chinvad bridge easily, happily, and fearlessly!
 10.	And may Vahman, the Amshaspand, intercede for the soul of the blessed one,
 11.	And introduce it to Ohrmazd and the Amshaspands!
 12.	Usehihstad Vohu-Mano; haca gatvo zaranyo-kereto ('Up rises Vohu-Mano from his golden 
 throne').
 13.	He will take the blessed one by the hand,
 14.	And make him rejoice as much as does the man who rejoices most when on the pinnacle of 
 nobility and glory.
 15.	And the Fravashis of the righteous will bring to the soul of the blessed those blessed aliments 
 that are made at the time of Maidyo-zarm:
 16.	Hvarethanam he beretam zaremayehe raoghnahe ('Let them bring unto him the butter of 
 Maidhyoi-zaremaya!').
 	Aliments of waters, wine, sugar, and honey!
 17.	Yatha va erezato paiti, yatha va zaranyo paiti, yatha va kacid gaonanam ('Of silver, or gold, 
 or any other kind').
 	The Amshaspand Vahman will give to the soul of the blessed one clothes embroidered with 
 gold and a golden throne;
 18.	And the demon Ahriman will be powerless to inflict any harm or damage on the soul of the 
 blessed one.
 19.	Pasca parairistim daeva drvanto duzhdaungho baodhem avatha frateresenti, yatha maeshi 
 vehrkavaiti vehrkad haca frateresaiti ('The wicked evil- doing Daevas tremble at his perfume 
 after death, as doth a sheep on which a wolf is pouncing').
 	As the sheep, on which the wolf is pouncing, tremble at the odour of the wolf, so these Drujes 
 tremble at the perfume of the blessed one.
 20.	For whosoever has been born and whosoever shall be born must act in such a way that, when 
 the moment comes to leave this world, he may have Paradise as his portion and Garothman 
 as his reward.
 21.	There is a passage in which Ohrmazd said to Zarathushtra: 'I created, O Spitama 
 Zarathushtra! good renown and salvation of the soul;'
 22.	(That is to say, good renown in this world and salvation of the soul in the next).
 	And in case of doubt we must consider as being saved,
 23.	Him who, for all we have seen and known, has been a believer in body and soul, and has 
 rejoiced Ohrmazd and afflicted Ahriman,
 24.	And whoever has had this for his main object, or has been the source of this benefit, that 
 from him should flow prosperity and joy, and from him should flow no harm and no pain.
 	And there is a passage in which the soul says to the body:
 25.	Aad mam tanvo ithyejanguhaiti manya manangha humatem.
 	O thou, my perishable body, think good thoughts with thy mind!
 26.	Aad mam tanvo ithyejanguhaiti hizva mruidhi hukhtem.
 	O thou, my perishable body, speak good words with thy tongue!
 27.	Aad mam tanvo ithyejanguhaiti zastaeibya vareza hvarestem shyaothanem.
 	O thou, my perishable body, do good deeds with thy hands!
 28.	Ma mam tanvo ithyejanguhaiti angrai vaire fraspayois yim khrvantem aithivantem, yim 
 daevim afraderesavantem frakerentad angro mainyus pouru-mahrko bunem angheus 
 temanghahe yad ereghato daozanghahe.
 	O thou, my perishable body, do not throw me down into the Var of Angra Mainyu, terrible, 
 dreadful, (frightful), dark, undiscernible (for the darkness there is so dense that it can be 
 grasped with the hand), which Gana Mainyu fabricated at the bottom of the dark world of 
 endless hell.
 29.	There is a passage in which Ohrmazd says to Zarathushtra:
 30.	I created, O Spitama Zarathustra! the stars, the moon, the sun, and the red burning fire, the 
 dogs, the birds, and the five kinds of animals; but, better and greater than all, I created the 
 righteous man who has truly received from me the Praise of Asha in the good Religion.
 31.	But without any reason men adhere to that evil guide, Passion, created by the demons; so that 
 they do not think of Fate,
 32.	And by the bent of their nature they forget death.
 33.	They do not keep in mind the working of Time and the transientness of the body,
 34.	They ever go wandering about on the way of desire,
 35.	They are tossed in doubt by evil Passion,
 36.	They clothe themselves with spite, in the course of strife, for the sake of vanishing goods;
 37.	They are intoxicated with pride in their youth,
 38.	And shall be full of regrets at the end of their time.
 39.	For if one say: 'On this earth of the seven Karshvares there is somebody going to die,' 
 everybody ought to think: 'Perhaps it is I,'
 40.	Had he sense enough to know that every creature that has been created and has had existence 
 shall die, and that the unseen, deceiving Astivihad comes for every one.
 41.	Hamaschid paro avangho isente mashya-kaungho ('All men wish for supplies').
 	(Now) when a man sets out on a journey, he takes provisions with him;
 42.	If it be for one day's march, he takes provisions for two days;
 43.	If it be for two days' march, he takes provisions for three;
 44.	If it be for ten days' march, he takes provisions for fifteen;
 45.	And he thinks that he will come back in health to his well-beloved friends, parents, and 
 brethren.
 46.	How then is it that men take no provisions for that unavoidable journey,
 47.	On which one must go once for all, for all eternity?
 48.	Chim aoshanghau aoshanguhaiti astem isaiti tanva, kim uruna, kim frazainti, chim va 
 gaethahvo mahrkathem? 
 	How is it that a mortal can wish for another mortal the annihilation of his body (that his 
 body should be no more), or of his soul (that his soul should be damned), or death for his 
 children or for his cattle (that his cattle should perish), if he has sense enough to know that 
 he himself is mortal?
 49.	Anamarezhdiko zi asti havai marezhdikai. 
 	For he is pitiless to himself (he does not pity himself) and none of the others shall pity him.
 50.	Blind are all those who, on this earth, do not follow the religion, do not benefit the living, 
 and do not commemorate the dead.
 51.	Oiuim tad va .... ayare ajasaiti, Spitama Zarathushtra! aeva va khshapa ('For there comes a 
 day, O Spitama Zarathustra! or a night').
 	There comes a day, O Spitama Zarathustra! or a night, when the master leaves the cattle, or 
 the cattle leave the master, or the soul leaves that body full of desires;
 52.	But his virtue, which is of all existences the greatest, the best, the finest, never parts from a 
 man.
 53.	Ayare amithnaiti juye tanush frayaere ayan bavaiti hubadhro hupaitiznato, adha apare ayan 
 duzhathrem ('Every day the living man ought to think that in the forenoon he is happy and 
 in credit; in the afternoon disgrace may come').
 	Every day every living body ought to think (for that may happen any day): in the forenoon I 
 am happy, rich, in credit (that is to say, well treated by the king);
 54.	And every day other people eagerly wish him evil; that he should be torn away from his 
 palace, that he should have his head cut off and his wealth seized upon. Every day the living 
 body is thrown for food to the birds that fly in the empty sky.
 55.	This is the way of things on this earth.
 56.	Deusgdatayau fraeshta drvanto duzdaungho ('It is ignorance that ruins most people, those 
 ill-informed').
 	It is ignorance that ruins most people, those ill-informed; both amongst those who have died, 
 and those who shall die.
 57.	Aad mraod Ahuro Mazdau frakeresto Asto-vidhotush zirijau (read zivijau?) apairiayo ('Ahura 
 Mazda said: Astovidhotush has been created a destroyer of the living and one whom none 
 escape ).
 	Ohrmazd said: Astivihad has been created for the destruction of mortals (when the mortals 
 see him, they tremble so much that they are unable to struggle with the Druj) and no one 
 escapes him (as said before).
 58.	Yahmad hacha naechish bungayad aoshanguhatam mashyanam ('From whom not one of 
 mortal men can escape').
 	From whom not one of mortal men can escape; no one has escaped to this day, and no one 
 will escape hereafter.
 59.	Noid aethrapatayo, noid danhupatayo, noid sasevishtau, noid asevishtau ('Neither 
 aethrapaitis, nor chiefs of countries, neither well-doers, nor evil-doers').
 	Neither the herbed (the Mobedan Mobed), nor the chief of the country (the King of kings), 
 neither well-doers, nor evil-doers.
 60.	Noid usyastacho, noid niya ('Neither those who run up, nor those who go down').
 	Neither those who run up (those who fly in the empty sky), like Kahos; with all his strength 
 and kingly glory, he could not escape from Astivihad.
 61.	Nor those who go down deep (who hide themselves under the earth), like Afrasyab the Turk, 
 who made himself an iron palace under the earth, a thousand times the height of a man, with 
 a hundred columns;
 62.	In that palace he made the stars, the moon, and the sun go round, making the light of day.
 63.	In that palace he did everything at his pleasure,
 64.	And he lived the happiest life.
 65.	With all his strength and witchcraft, he could not escape from Astivihad.
 66.	Naedha frakanem anhau zemo yad pathanayau skarenayau duraeparayau.
 	Nor he who dug this wide, round earth, with extremities that lie afar, like Dahak,
 67.	Who went from the East to the West, searching for immortality and did not find it.
 68.	With all his strength and power, he could not escape from Astivihad.
 69.	Anye angheush frasho-charethrau ('Except the producers of the world of resurrection').
 	Thus until the author of the resurrection, Saoshyos: until Saoshyos comes, no one shall 
 escape from Astivihad.
 70.	To every one comes the unseen, deceiving Astivihad,
 71.	Who accepts neither compliments, nor bribe,
 72.	Who is no respecter of persons,
 73.	And ruthlessly makes men perish.
 74.	And this glorious One must go the way he never went,
 75.	See what he never saw,
 76.	And discuss with him whom no one can deceive or mislead.
 77.	Pairithwo bavaiti pantau yim danush paiti fra bunad tachintish; hau did aevo apairithwo, yo 
 vayaosh anamarezhdikahe: --
 	The way may be traversed which is barred by a river springing from the deep; but one way 
 cannot be traversed, namely, the way of the pitiless Vayu.
 78.	Pairithwo bavaiti pantau yim azhish paiti gaustavau, aspanghadho, viranghadho, viraja, 
 anamarezhdika; hau did aevo apairithwo, yo vayaosh anamarezhdikahe:
 	The way may be traversed which is barred by a serpent as big as an ox, horse-devouring, man-
 devouring, man-killing, and pitiless; but one way cannot be traversed, namely, the way of the 
 pitiless Vayu.
 79.	Pairithwo bavaiti pantau yim aresho paiti akhshaeno anamarezhdiko; hau did aevo 
 apairithwo, yo vayaosh anamarezhdikahe: 
 	The way may be traversed which is barred by a brown bear, [with a white forehead, man-
 killing, and] pitiless; but one way cannot be traversed, namely, the way of the pitiless Vayu.
 80.	Pairithwo bavaiti pantau yim mashyo gadho paiti aevojano anamarezhdiko; hau did aevo 
 apairithwo, yo vayaosh anamarezhdikahe: -- The way may be traversed which is defended by 
 a highwayman who kills at one stroke, (who stops the way and lets no one pass alive); but 
 one way cannot be traversed, namely, the way of the pitiless Vayu.
 81.	Pairithwo bavaiti pantau yo haenayau chakhra-vaityau vyazdayau; hau did aevo 
 apairithwo, yo vayaosh anamarezhdikahe:
 	The way may be traversed which is held by a horde armed with discs, and uplifted spears (that 
 is, carrying spears to pierce men); but one way cannot be traversed, namely, the way of the 
 pitiless Vayu.
 81 bis.	Aad mraod Ahuro Mazdau: dushkhratum apairi gaetham athravayad gatham.
 	[This incomplete quotation is found only in the Pahlavi transcription, with a corrupt 
 paraphrase as follows: 'Ohrmazd said, "The man without intelligence (that is, with a bad 
 intelligence) ... who has not sung the Gathas (that is, who has not performed the sacrifice; cf 
 Nirang. 41) has no good renoun on this earth nor bliss in heaven (cf. 21, 22)..."']
 82.	Yatha drvau gaom isti, uta drvau aspem isti, uta drvau maeshinem yavanghem isti: 
 	The wicked acquire cattle, the wicked acquire horses, the wicked acquire sheep and corn; but 
 the wicked tyrant does not acquire a store of good deeds.
 83.	Seek ye for a store of good deeds, O Zarathushtra, men and women! for a store of good deeds 
 is full of salvation, O Zarathustra!
 84.	Pasnush gavo, pasnush aspa, pasnush erezhatem zaranim, pasnush naro chiryo takhmo:
 	(For) the ox turns to dust, the horse turns to dust, silver and gold turn to dust, the valiant 
 strong man turns to dust; [the bodies of all men mingle with the dust. What do not mingle 
 with the dust are the Ashem-vohu which a man recites in this world and his almsgiving to the 
 holy and righteous].
 85.	For if there were or could be any escape from death, the first of the world, Gayomard, king of 
 the Mountain, [would have escaped],
 86.	Who for three thousand years kept the world free from death and old age, from hunger, 
 thirst, and evil;
 87.	Yet, when death came over him, he delivered up his body and could not struggle with death.
 88.	Or there was Hoshang, the Peshdadian,
 89.	Who destroyed two-thirds of all the evil creatures of Ahriman;
 90.	Yet, when death came over him, he delivered up his body and could not struggle with death.
 91.	Or there was Tahmuraf, the well-armed, the son of Vivanghat,
 92.	Who made the Demon of demons, Gana Mainyo, his steed, and extorted from him the seven 
 kinds of writing;
 93.	Yet, when death came over him, he delivered up his body and could not struggle with death.
 94.	Or there was Jim, the Shed, the good shepherd, the son of Vivanghat; (he was Shed, that is to 
 say, shining; he was a good shepherd, that is to say, he kept in good condition troops of men 
 and herds of animals);
 95.	Who, for 616 years, 6 months and 13 days, kept this world free from death and old age, and 
 kept away greed and need from the creation of Ohrmazd;
 96.	Yet, when death came over him, he delivered up his body and could not struggle with death.
 97.	Or there was Dahak, he of the evil religion, who kept the world under his tyranny during a 
 thousand years, less one day,
 98.	And introduced into the world many ways of witchcraft and evil-doing;
 99.	Yet, when death came over him, he delivered up his body and could not struggle with death.
 100.	Or there was Fredun, the Athwyan,
 101.	Who smote and bound Azi Dahak, that great evil-doer; he put in chains the Devs of 
 Mazandaran, and introduced into the world a number of talismans;
 102.	Yet, when death came over him, he delivered up his body and could not struggle with death.
 103.	I am grateful to the Lord Ohrmazd.
 104.	I think thus in a grateful spirit: the beast of burden does not throw off its burden: fate has 
 come, it cannot be thrown away.
 105.	May the blessed one have Paradise as his portion!
 106.	As to the righteous man who has come to this banquet, who has shared this banquet, may he 
 for each step get nearer to the bright Paradise, the all-happy Garothman, by twelve hundred 
 steps!
 107.	When he is approaching it, may his merits increase!
 108.	When he is leaving it, may his sin be uprooted!
 109.	May righteousness and goodness prevail!
 110.	May his soul enter the Garothman!
 111.	I am one of the righteous.
 	Atha jamyad: May it happen according to this wish of mine!
 	Humatanam. All the good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, done or to be done, here or 
 elsewhere, we seize upon and we transmit them, that we may be in the number of the 
 righteous.
 
 
 Afrin Paighambar Zartusht
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 [Translated by James Darmesteter (From Sacred Books of the East, American Edition, 1898.)]
 
 1.	'I am a pious man, who speaks words of blessing.'
 'Thou appearest unto me full of Glory.'
 And Zarathushtra spake unto king Vishtaspa, saying: 'I bless thee, O man! O lord of the 
 country! with the living of a good life, of an exalted life, of long life. May thy men live long! 
 May thy women live long! May sons be born unto thee of thy own body!
 2.	'Mayest thou have a son like Jamaspa, and may he bless thee as (Jamaspa blessed] Vishtaspa 
 (the lord) of the country!
 'Mayest thou be most beneficent, like ...
 'Mayest thou be fiend-smiting, like Thraetaona!
 'Mayest thou be strong, like Jamaspa!
 'Mayest thou be well-armed, like Takhma-Urupa!
 3.	'Mayest thou be glorious, like Yima Khshaeta, the good shepherd! 
 'Mayest thou be instructed with a thousand senses, like Azhi Dahaka, of the evil law!
 'Mayest thou be awful and most strong, like Keresaspa!
 'Mayest thou be a wise chief of assemblies, like Urvakhshaya! 
 'Mayest thou be beautiful of body and without fault, like Syavarshana!
 4.	'Mayest thou be rich in cattle, like an Athwyanide!
 'Mayest thou be rich in horses, like Pourushaspa!
 'Mayest thou be holy, like Zarathushtra Spitama!
 'Mayest thou be able to reach the Rangha, whose shores lie afar, as Vafra Navaza was!
 'Mayest thou be beloved by the gods and reverenced by men.
 5.	May ten sons be born of you! In three of them mayest thou be an Athravan! In three of 
 them mayest thou be a warrior! In three of them mayest thou be a tiller of the ground! And 
 may one be like thyself, O Vishtaspa!
 6.	'Mayest thou be swift-horsed, like the Sun!
 'Mayest thou be resplendent, like the moon!
 'Mayest thou be hot-burning, like fire!
 'Mayest thou have piercing rays, like Mithra!
 'Mayest thou be tall-formed and victorious, like the devout Sraosha!
 7.	'Mayest thou follow a law of truth, like Rashnu!
 'Mayest thou be a conqueror of thy foes, like Verethraghna, made by Ahura!
 Mayest thou have fulness of welfare, like Rama Hvastra!
 'Mayest thou be freed from sickness and death, like king Husravah!
 8.	'Then the blessing goes for the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones.
 'May it happen unto thee according to my blessing!
 "Let us embrace and propagate the good thoughts, good words, and good deeds that have been 
 done and that will be done here and elsewhere, that we may be in the number of the good.
 Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness ....
 'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good ....
 '[Give] unto that man brightness and glory, .... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode 
 of the holy Ones.'
 
 
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 	ntit zn dn }b pasu vnra xshathrb ahmbt ashbunt mazishtya dn shbttish mcnaybt dasishtem 
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 	Surely, a ruler of beasts and men assures to himself extremely little greatness by his wisdom 
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 [Translated by James Darmesteter (From Sacred Books of the East, American Edition, 1898.)]
 1.	Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: 'O Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the 
 material world, thou Holy One!
 'What is the only word in which is contained the glorification of all good things, of all the 
 things that are the offspring of the good principle?'
 2.	Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is the praise of Holiness (Asha: the Ashem Vohu), O Spitama 
 Zarathushtra!
 3.	'He who recites the praise of Holiness, in the fullness of faith and with a devoted heart, 
 praises me, Ahura Mazda; he praises the waters, he praises the earth, he praises the cattle, he 
 praises the plants, he praises all good things made by Mazda, all the things that are the 
 offspring of the good principle.
 4.	'For the reciting of that word of truth, O Zarathushtra! the pronouncing of that formula, the 
 Ahuna Vairya, increases strength and victory in one's soul and piety.
 5.	'For that only recital of the praise of Holiness is worth a hundred khshnaothras of the beings 
 of Holiness, when delivered while going to sleep, a thousand when delivered after eating, ten 
 thousand when delivered during cohabitation, or any number when delivered in departing this 
 life.'
 6.	'What is the one recital of the praise of Holiness that is worth ten others in greatness, 
 goodness, and fairness?'
 7.	Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is that one, O holy Zarathushtra! that a man delivers when eating 
 the gifts of Haurvatat and Ameretat, at the same time professing good thoughts, good words, 
 and good deeds, and rejecting evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds.'
 8.	'What is the one recital of the praise of Holiness that is worth a hundred others in greatness, 
 goodness, and fairness?'
 9.	Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is that one, O holy Zarathushtra! that a man delivers while 
 drinking of the Haoma strained for the sacrifice, at the same time professing good thoughts, 
 good words, and good deeds, and rejecting evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds.'
 10.	'What is the one recital of the praise of Holiness that is worth a thousand others in greatness, 
 goodness, and fairness?'
 11.	Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is that one, O holy Zarathushtra! that a man delivers when 
 starting up from his bed or going to sleep again, at the same time professing good thoughts, 
 good words, and good deeds, and rejecting evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds.'
 12.	'What is the one recital of the praise of Holiness that is worth ten thousand others in 
 greatness, goodness, and fairness?'
 13.	Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is that one, O holy Zarathushtra! that a man delivers when waking 
 up and rising from sleep, at the same time professing good thoughts, good words, and good 
 deeds, and rejecting evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds.'
 14.	'What is the one recital of the praise of Holiness that is worth this Karshvare of ours, 
 Hvaniratha, with its cattle and its chariots, without its men, in greatness, goodness, and 
 fairness?'
 15.	Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is that one, O holy Zarathushtra! that a man delivers in the last 
 moments of his life, at the same time professing good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, 
 and rejecting evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds.'
 16.	'What is the one recital of the praise of Holiness that is worth all that is between the earth 
 and the heavens, and this earth, and that luminous space, and all the good things made by 
 Mazda at are the offspring of the good principle in greatness, goodness, and fairness?'
 17.	Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is that one, O holy Zarathushtra! that a man delivers to renounce 
 evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds.'
 
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 1.	Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: 'O Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the 
 material world, thou Holy One!
 'When one of the faithful departs this life, where does his soul abide on that night?'
 Ahura Mazda answered:
 2.	'It takes its seat near the head, singing the Ushtavaiti Gatha and proclaiming happiness: 
 "Happy is he, happy the man, whoever he be, to whom Ahura Mazda gives the full 
 accomplishment of his wishes!" On that night his soul tastes as much of pleasure as the whole 
 of the living world can taste.'
 3.	-'On the second night where does his soul abide?'
 4.	Ahura Mazda answered: 'It takes its seat near the head, singing the Ushtavaiti Gatha and 
 proclaiming happiness: "Happy is he, happy the man, whoever he be, to whom Ahura Mazda 
 gives the full accomplishment of his wishes!" On that night his soul tastes as much of 
 pleasure as the whole of the living world can taste.'
 5.	-'On the third night where does his soul abide?'
 6.	Ahura Mazda answered: 'It takes its seat near the head, singing the Ushtavaiti Gatha and 
 proclaiming happiness: "Happy is he, happy the man, whoever he be, to whom Ahura Mazda 
 gives the full accomplishment of his wishes!" On that night his soul tastes as much of 
 pleasure as the whole of the living world can taste.'
 7.	At the end of the third night, when the dawn appears, it seems to the soul of the faithful, one 
 as if it were brought amidst plants and scents; it seems as if a wind were blowing from the 
 region of the south, from the regions of the south, a sweet-scented wind, sweeter-scented 
 than any other wind in the world.
 8.	And it seems to the soul of the faithful one as if he were inhaling that wind with the nostrils, 
 and he thinks: 'Whence does that wind blow, the sweetest-scented wind I ever inhaled with my 
 nostrils?'
 9.	And it seems to him as if his own conscience were advancing to him in that wind, in the 
 shape of a maiden fair, bright, white-armed, strong, tall-formed, high-standing, thick-
 breasted, beautiful of body, noble, of a glorious seed, of the size of a maid in her fifteenth 
 year, as fair as the fairest things in the world.
 10.	And the soul of the faithful one addressed her, asking: 'What maid art thou, who art the 
 fairest maid I have ever seen?'
 11.	And she, being his own conscience, answers him: 'O thou youth of good thoughts, good words, 
 and good deeds, of good religion, I am thy own conscience!
 'Everybody did love thee for that greatness, goodness, fairness, sweet-scentedness, victorious 
 strength and freedom from sorrow, in which thou dost appear to me;
 12.	'And so thou, O youth of good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, of good religion! didst 
 love me for that greatness, goodness, fairness, sweet-scentedness, victorious strength, and 
 freedom from sorrow, in which I appear to thee.
 13.	'When thou wouldst see a man making derision and deeds of idolatry, or rejecting (the poor) 
 and shutting his door, then thou wouldst sit singing the Gathas and worshipping the good 
 waters and Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda, and rejoicing the faithful that would come from 
 near or from afar.
 14.	'I was lovely and thou madest me still lovelier; I was fair and thou madest me still fairer; I was 
 desirable and thou madest me still more desirable; I was sitting in a forward place and thou 
 madest me sit in the foremost place, through this good thought, through this good speech, 
 through this good deed of thine; and so henceforth men worship me for my having long 
 sacrificed unto and conversed with Ahura Mazda.
 15.	'The first step that the soul of the faithful man made, placed him in the Good-Thought 
 Paradise;
 'The second step that the soul of the faithful man made, placed him in the Good-Word 
 Paradise;
 'The third step that the soul of the faithful man made, placed him in the Good-Deed Paradise;
 'The fourth step that the soul of the faithful man made, placed him in the Endless Lights.'
 16.	Then one of the faithful, who had departed before him, asked him, saying: 'How didst thou 
 depart this life, thou holy man? How didst thou come, thou holy man! from the abodes full of 
 cattle and full of the wishes and enjoyments of love? From the material world into the world 
 of the spirit? From the decaying world into the undecaying one? How long did thy felicity 
 last?'
 17.	And Ahura Mazda answered: 'Ask him not what thou askest him, who has just gone the dreary 
 way, full of fear and distress, where the body and the soul part from one another.
 18.	'[Let him eat] of the food brought to him, of the oil of Zaremaya: this is the food for the 
 youth of good thoughts, of good words, of good deeds, of good religion, after he has departed 
 this life; this is the food for the holy woman, rich in good thoughts, good words, and good 
 deeds, well-principled and obedient to her husband, after she has departed this life.'
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 19.	Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: ' O Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the 
 material world, thou Holy One!
 'When one of the wicked perishes, where does his soul abide on that night?'
 20.	Ahura Mazda answered: 'It rushes and sits near the skull, singing the Kima Gatha (Y46), O 
 holy Zarathushtra!
 '"To what land shall I turn, O Ahura Mazda? To whom shall I go with praying?"
 'On that night his soul tastes as much of suffering as the whole of the living world can taste.'
 21.	-'On the second night, where does his soul abide?'
 22.	Ahura Mazda answered: 'It rushes and sits near the skull, singing the Kima Gatha, O holy 
 Zarathushtra! "To what land shall I turn, O Ahura Mazda? To whom shall I go with praying?" 
 'On that night his soul tastes as much of suffering as the whole of the living world can taste.'
 23.	-'On the third night, where does his soul abide?'
 24.	Ahura Mazda answered: 'It rushes and sits near the skull, singing the Kima Gatha, O holy 
 Zarathushtra! "To what land shall I turn, O Ahura Mazda? To whom shall I go with praying?" 
 'On that night his soul tastes as much of suffering as the whole of the living world can taste.'
 25.	At the end of the third night, O holy Zarathushtra! when the dawn appears, it seems to the 
 soul of the faithful one as if it were brought amidst snow and stench, and as if a wind were 
 blowing from the region of the north, from the regions of the north, a foul-scented wind, the 
 foulest-scented of al] the winds in the world.
 26-32.	And it seems to the soul of the wicked man as if he were inhaling that wind with the nostrils, 
 and he thinks: 'Whence does that wind blow, the foulest-scented wind that I ever inhaled with 
 my nostrils?'
 33.	The first step that the soul of the wicked man made laid him in the Evil-Thought Hell;
 The second step that the soul of the wicked man made laid him in the Evil-Word Hell;
 The third step that the soul of the wicked man made laid him in the Evil-Deed Hell;
 The fourth step that the soul of the wicked man made laid him in the Endless Darkness.
 34.	Then one of the wicked who departed before him addressed him, saying: 'How didst thou 
 perish, O wicked man? How didst thou come, O fiend! from the abodes full of cattle and full 
 of the wishes and enjoyments of love? From the material world into the world of the Spirit? 
 From the decaying world into the undecaying one? How long did thy suffering last?'
 35.	Angra Mainyu, the lying one, said 'Ask him not what thou askest him, who has just gone the 
 dreary way, full of fear and distress, where the body and the soul part from one another.
 36.	'Let him eat of the food brought unto him, of poison and poisonous stench: this is the food, 
 after he has perished, for the youth of evil thoughts, evil words, evil deeds, evil religion after 
 he has perished; this is the food for the fiendish woman, rich in evil thoughts, evil words, and 
 evil deeds, evil religion, ill-principled, and disobedient to her husband.
 37.	'We worship the Fravashi of the holy man, whose name is Asmo-hvanvant; then I will 
 worship the Fravashis of the other holy Ones who were strong of faith.
 38.	'We worship the memory of Ahura Mazda, to keep the Holy Word. 
 'We worship the understanding of Ahura Mazda, to study the Holy Word.
 'We worship the tongue of Ahura Mazda, to speak forth the Holy Word.
 'We worship the mountain that gives understanding, that preserves understanding; [we 
 worship it] by day and by night, with offerings of libations well-accepted.
 39.	'O Maker! how do the souls of the dead, the Fravashis of the holy Ones, manifest 
 themselves?'
 40.	Ahura Mazda answered: 'They manifest themselves from goodness of spirit and excellence of 
 mind.'
 41.	Then towards the dawning of the dawn, that bird Parodarsh, that bird Kareto-dasu hears the 
 voice of the Fire.
 42.	Here the fiendish Bushyasta, the long-handed, rushes from the region of the north, from the 
 regions of the north, speaking thus, lying thus: 'Sleep on, O men! Sleep on, O sinners! Sleep 
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 [Translated by James Darmesteter (From Sacred Books of the East, American Edition, 1898.)]
 
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 1.	'I am a pious man, who speaks words of blessing,' thus said Zarathushtra to the young king 
 Vishtaspa. - 'She appears to me full of Glory, O Zarathushtra!' - 'O young king Vishtaspa! [I 
 bless thee] with the living of a good life, of an exalted life, of a long life. May thy men live 
 long! May thy women live long! May sons be born unto thee of thy own body!
 2.	'Mayest thou thyself be holy, like Zarathushtra.
 'Mayest thou be rich in cattle, like an Athwyanide!
 'Mayest thou be rich in horses, like Pourushaspa!
 'Mayest thou have a good share of bliss, like king Husravah!
 'Mayest thou have strength to reach the Rangha, whose way lies afar, as Vafra Navaza did.
 3.	'May ten sons be born of thy own body! three as Athravans, three as warriors, three as tillers 
 of the ground! May one of them be like Jamaspa, that he may bless thee with great and ever 
 greater happiness!
 4.	'Mayest thou be freed from sickness and death, like Pesho-tanu. 
 'Mayest thou have piercing rays, like Mithra!
 'Mayest thou be warm, like the moon!
 'Mayest thou be resplendent, like fire!
 'Mayest thou be long-lived, as long-lived as an old man can be!
 5.	'And when thou hast fulfilled a duration of a thousand years, [mayest thou obtain] the bright, 
 all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones!
 Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good ....
 
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 6.	'Give him strength and victory! Give him welfare in cattle and bread!' thus said Zarathushtra 
 to the young king Vishtaspa! 'Give him a great number of male children, praisers [of God] and 
 chiefs in assemblies, who smite and are not smitten, who smite at one stroke their enemies, 
 who smite at one stroke their foes, ever in joy and ready to help.
 7.	'Ye gods of full Glory, ye gods of full healing, let your greatness become manifest!'
 8.	Zarathushtra addressed him, saying: 'O young king Vishtaspa! May their greatness become 
 manifest as it is called for!
 'Ye Waters, impart and give your Glory to the man who offers you a sacrifice!
 'This is the boon we beg (for thee) of Ashi Vanguhi, of Rata, with eyes of love.'
 9.	Parendi, of the light chariot, follows: 'Mayest thou become manifest unto him, the young 
 king Vishtaspa!
 'May plenty dwell in this house, standing upon high columns and rich in food! Thou wilt 
 never offer and give bad food to a priest: for a priest must be to thee like the brightest 
 offspring of thy own blood.'
 10.	Zarathushtra spake unto him: 'O young king Vishtaspa!
 'He who supports the Law of the worshippers of Mazda, as a brother or as a friend, he who 
 treats her friendly in any way, looks to keep off want of food from her.'
 11.	The holy Zarathushtra preached that law to Frashaostra and Jamaspa: 'May ye practise 
 holiness and thrive, O young Frashaostra (and Jamaspa)!'
 12.	Thus said Ahura Mazda unto the holy Zarathushtra, and thus again did Zarathushtra say unto 
 the young king Vishtaspa: 'Have no bad priests or unfriendly priests; for bad priests or 
 unfriendly priests will bring about much harm, and, though thou wish to sacrifice, it will be to 
 the Amesha-Spentas as if no sacrifice had been offered. 
 'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good ....
 
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 13.	'When I teach thee, that thou mayest do the same to thy son, O Vishtaspa! receive thou well 
 that teaching; that will make thee rich in children and rich in milk; rich in seed, in fat, in 
 milk'.
 14.	'Thus do we announce unto thee, Ahura Mazda, and Sraosha, and Ashi, and the Law of the 
 worshippers of Mazda, with the whole of all her hymns, with the whole of all her deeds, with 
 the whole of her performances; the Law of Mazda, who obtains her wishes, who makes the 
 world grow, who listens to the songs and rejoices the faithful man at his wish; who protects 
 the faithful man, who maintains the faithful man;
 15.	From whom come the knowledge of holiness and the increase in holiness of the world of the 
 holy Principle, and without whom no faithful man can know holiness.
 'To thee come every Havanan, every Atarevakhsha, every Frabaretar, every Aberet, every 
 Asnatar, every Rathwishkar, every Sraosha-varez (priestly offices);
 16.	'Every priest, every warrior, every husbandman; every master of a house, every lord of a 
 borough, every lord of a town, every lord of a province;
 17.	'Every youth of good thoughts, good words, good deeds, and good religion; every youth who 
 speaks the right words; every one who performs the next-of-kin marriage; every itinerant 
 priest; every mistress of a house; every wandering priest, obedient to the Law.
 18.	'To thee come all the performers (of holiness), all the masters of holiness, who, to the 
 number of three and thirty, stand next to Havani, being masters of holiness.
 19.	'May they be fully protected in thee, O young king Vishtaspa! While thou smitest thy 
 adversaries, thy foes, those who hate thee, a hundred times a hundred for a hundred, a 
 thousand-times a thousand for a thousand, ten thousand times ten thousand for ten thousand, 
 myriads of myriads for a myriad.
 20.	'Proclaim thou that word, as we did proclaim it unto thee! 
 'O Maker of the good world! Ahura Mazda, I worship thee with a sacrifice, I worship and 
 forward thee with a sacrifice, I worship this creation of Ahura Mazda.'
 21.	The young king Vishtaspa asked Zarathushtra: 'With what manner of sacrifice shall I worship, 
 with what manner of sacrifice shall I worship and forward this creation of Ahura Mazda?'
 22.	Zarathushtra answered: 'We will make it known unto thee, O young king Vishtaspa!
 'Go towards that tree that is beautiful, high-growing, and mighty amongst the high-growing 
 trees, and say thou these words: "Hail to thee! O good, holy tree, made by Mazda! Ashem 
 Vohu!"
 23.	'Let the faithful man cut off twigs of baresma, either one, or two, or three: let him bind them 
 and tie them up according to the rites, being bound and unbound according to the rites. 
 'The smallest twig of Haoma, pounded according to the rules, the smallest twig prepared for 
 sacrifice, gives royalty to the man (who does it).'
 Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good ....
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 24.	Zarathushtra said: 'O young king Vishtaspa! Invoke Ahura Mazda, who is full of Glory, Ahura 
 Mazda, and the sovereign Heaven, the boundless Time, and Vayu who works highly.
 25.	'Invoke the powerful Wind, made by Mazda, and Fate.
 'Repeat thou those words, that the god invoked may give thee the boon wished for; that thou, 
 strong, and belonging to the creation of the good Spirit, mayest smite and take away the Druj 
 and watch with full success those who hate thee; smite down thy foes, and destroy at one 
 stroke thy adversaries, thy enemies, and those who hate thee.
 26.	'Proclaim thou those prayers: they will cleanse thy body from deeds of lust, O young king 
 Vishtaspa!
 'I will worship thee, O Fire, son of Ahura Mazda, who art a valiant warrior. He falls upon the 
 fiend Kunda, who is drunken without drinking, upon the men of the Druj, the slothful ones, 
 the wicked Daeva-worshippers, who live in sin.
 27.	'He trembles at the way made by Time and open both to the wicked and to the righteous.
 'They tremble at the perfume of his soul, as a sheep does on which a wolf is falling.
 28.	'Reciting the whole collection of the Staota Yesnya prayers brings one up all the way to the 
 blessed Garo-nmana, the palace beautifully made. That indeed is the way.
 29.	'That man does not follow the way of the Law, O Zarathushtra! who commits the Baodho-
 (varshta) crime with a damsel and an old woman,' said Zarathushtra to the young king 
 Vishtaspa.
 'Let him praise the Law, O Spitama Zarathushtra! and long for it and embrace the whole of 
 the Law, as an excellent horse turns back from the wrong way and goes along the right one, 
 smiting the many Drujes.
 30.	'Go forward with praises, go forward the way of the good Mazdean law and of all those who 
 walk in her ways, men and women.
 He who wishes to seize the heavenly reward, will seize it by giving gifts to him who holds up 
 (the Law) to us in this world here below ....
 31.	'Let him give (the Law) to him who is unfriendly to her, that he may become friendly.
 'Wash thy hands with water, not with gomez, and let thy son, who will be born of thy wife, do 
 the same.
 'Thus thy thought will be powerful to smite him, who is not so; thy speech will be powerful to 
 smite him, who is not so; thy deed will be powerful to smite him.
 32.	'"Hear me! Forgive me!" - We, the Amesha-Spentas, will come and show thee, O 
 Zarathushtra! the way to that world to long glory in the spiritual world, to long happiness of 
 the soul in Paradise;
 33.	'To bliss and Paradise, to the Garo-nmana of Ahura Mazda, beautifully made and fully 
 adorned, when his soul goes out of his body through the will of fate, when I, Ahura Mazda, 
 when I, Ahura Mazda, gently show him his way as he asks for it
 'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good ....
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 34.	'They will impart to thee full brightness and Glory.
 'They will give him quick and swift horses, and good sons.
 'He wishes to go to the Law, the young king Vishtaspa,'
 Zarathushtra said, 'Let him who is unfriendly to her become a follower of the Law of Mazda, 
 such as we proclaim it.
 35.	'Proclaim thou ever (unto the poor).' Ever mayest thou wait here for the refuse that is 
 brought unto thee, brought by those who have profusion of wealth!" Thus the Druj will not 
 fall upon thee and throw thee away; thou wilt wield kingly power there.
 36.	'The Law of Mazda will not deliver thee unto pain. Thou art entreated (for charity) by the 
 whole of the living world, and she is ever standing at thy door in the person of thy brethren 
 in the faith beggars are ever standing at the door of the stranger, amongst those who beg for 
 bread.
 'Ever will that bread be burning coal upon thy head.
 'The good, holy Rata, made by Mazda, goes and nurses thy bright offspring.'
 37.	Zarathushtra addressed Vishtaspa, saying: 'O young king Vishtaspa! The Law of Mazda, O my 
 son! will give thy offspring the victorious strength that destroys the fiends.
 'Let no thought of Angra Mainyu ever infect thee, so that thou shouldst indulge in evil lusts, 
 make derision and idolatry, and shut (to the poor) the door of thy house.
 38.	'Atar thus blesses the man who brings incense to him, being pleased with him and not angry, 
 and fed as he required: "May herds of oxen grow for thee, and increase of sons! May fate and 
 its decrees bring thee the boons thou wishest for! Therefore do thou invoke and praise (me) 
 excellently in this glorious world! That I may have unceasing food, full of the glory of Mazda 
 and with which I am well pleased."
 39.	'O Mazda! take for thyself the words of our praise: of these words I speak and speak again, 
 the strength and victorious vigour, the power of health and healing, the fulness, increase, and 
 growth. 
 'Bring it together with the words of hymns up to the Garo-nmana of Ahura Mazda. He will 
 first enter there. Therefore do thou pronounce these prayers.
 'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good ....
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 40.	'Converse ye with the Amesha-Spentas,' said Zarathushtra unto the young king Vishtaspa, 
 'and with the devout Sraosha, and Nairyo-sangha, the tall-formed, and Atar, the son of Ahura 
 Mazda, and the well-desired kingly Glory.
 41.	'Men with lustful deeds address the body; but thou, all the night long, address the heavenly 
 Wisdom; but thou, all night long, call for the Wisdom that will keep thee awake.
 'Three times a day raise thyself up and go to take care of the beneficent cattle.
 42.	'Of these men may the lordship belong to the wisest of all beings, O Zarathushtra! May their 
 lord belong to the wisest, O Zarathushtra! Let him show them the way of holiness, let him 
 show them at once the way thereto, which the Law of the worshippers of Mazda enters 
 victoriously. Thus the soul of man, in the joy of perfect holiness, walks over the bridge, 
 known afar, the powerful Chinvat-bridge, the well-kept, and kept by virtue.
 43.	'How the worlds were arranged was said to thee first, O Zarathushtra! Zarathushtra said it 
 again to the young king Vishtaspa; therefore do thou praise him who keeps and maintains the 
 moon and the sun. 
 He who has little friendship for the Law, I have placed him down below to suffer.'
 44.	Thus said Angra Mainyu, he who has no Glory in him, who is full of death: 'This is an 
 unbeliever, let us throw him down below; this is a liar, or a traitor to his relatives, and like a 
 mad dog who wounds cattle and men; but the dog who inflicts wounds pays for it as for wilful 
 murder.
 The first time he shall smite a faithful man, the first time he shall wound a faithful man, he 
 shall pay for it as for wilful murder.
 Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good ....
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 45.	'Mayest thou receive, O holy young king Vishtaspa! (a house) with a hundred ...., ten 
 thousand large windows, ten thousand small windows, all the year long, O holy Vishtaspa! 
 never growing old, never dying, never decaying, never rotting, giving plenty of meat, plenty 
 of food, plenty of clothes to the other worshippers of Mazda.
 46.	'May all boons be bestowed upon thee, as I proclaim it unto thee! May the Amesha-Spentas 
 impart to thee their brightness and glory and plenty! May they give him quick and swift 
 horses and good sons, strong, great in all things, powerful to sing the hymns.
 47.	'He wields his power according to the wish of Ahura Mazda, the Good Spirit, and for the 
 destruction of the Evil Spirit, whichever of two men goes quicker to perform a sacrifice (to 
 Ahura); but if he chooses to perform the sacrifice and prayer to us not in the right way, he 
 does not wield the right power, he will not reign.
 48.	'He will receive bad treatment in the next world, though he has been the sovereign of a 
 country, with good horses to ride and good chariots to drive. Give royalty to that man, O 
 Zarathushtra! who gives royalty unto thee with good will.
 49.	'Thou shalt keep away the evil by this holy spell: "Of thee [O child!] I will cleanse the birth 
 and growth; of thee [O woman!] I will make the body and the strength pure; I make thee a 
 woman rich in children and rich in milk; a woman rich in seed, in milk, and in offspring. For 
 thee I shall make springs run and flow towards the pastures that will give food to the child."
 50.	'Do not deliver me into the hands of the fiend; if the fiend take hold of me, then fever with 
 loss of all joy will dry up the milk of the good Spenta-Armaiti. The fiend is powerful to 
 distress, and to dry up the milk of the woman who indulges in lust and of all females.
 51.	'The perfume of fire, pleasant to the Maker, Ahura Mazda, takes them away from afar; ...; 
 and all those that harm the creation of the Good Spirit are destroyed;
 52.	'Whom Mithra, and Rashnu Razishta, and the Law of the worshippers of Mazda wish to be 
 taken far away, longing for a man who is eager to perform and does perform the ceremonies 
 he has been taught; ...
 'Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good .... (8)
 53.	'The words of the Vahishtoishti Gatha are to be sung: "Happy is he, O holy Vishtaspa, happy 
 the man, whoever he be, to whom Ahura Mazda gives the full accomplishment of his wishes." 
 'Where does his soul abide on that night?'
 54.	Ahura Mazda answered: ' O my son, Frashaostra! It takes its seat near the head, singing the 
 Ushtavaiti Gatha and proclaiming happiness: "Happy is he, happy the man whoever he be!" 
 'On the first night, his soul sits in Good Words; on the second night, it sits in Good Deeds; on 
 the third night, it goes along the ways (to Garo-nmana).
 55.	'At the end of the third night, O my son, Frashaostra! when the dawn appears, it seems to the 
 soul of the faithful one as if it were brought amidst plants [and scents: it seems as if a wind 
 were blowing from the region of the south, from the regions of the south], a sweet-scented 
 wind, sweeter-scented than any other wind in the world, and it seems to his soul as if he were 
 inhaling that wind with the nose, and it asks, saying: "Whence does that wind blow, the 
 sweetest-scented wind I ever inhaled with my nose?"
 56.	'And it seems to him as if his own conscience were advancing to him in that wind, in the 
 shape of a maiden fair, bright, white-armed, strong, tall-formed, high-standing, thick-
 breasted, beautiful of body, noble, of a glorious seed, of the size of a maid in her fifteenth 
 year, as fair as the fairest things in the world.
 57.	'And the soul of the faithful one addressed her, asking: "What maid art thou, who art the 
 fairest maid I have ever seen?"
 58.	'And she, being his own conscience, answers him: "O thou youth, of good thoughts, good 
 words, and good deeds, of good religion! I am thy own conscience.
 "Everybody did love thee for that greatness, goodness, fairness, sweet-scentedness, victorious 
 strength, and freedom from sorrow, in which thou dost appear to me; [and so thou, O youth 
 of good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, of good religion! didst love me for that 
 greatness, goodness, fairness, sweet-scentedness, victorious strength, and freedom from 
 sorrow, in which I appear to thee.
 59.	'"When thou wouldst see a man] making derision and deeds of idolatry, or rejecting (the poor) 
 and shutting (his door), then, thou wouldst sit, singing the Gathas, and worshipping the good 
 waters, and Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda, and rejoicing the faithful that would come from 
 near or from afar.
 60.	'"I was lovely, and thou madest me still lovelier; I was fair, and thou madest me still fairer; I 
 was desirable, and thou madest me still more desirable; I was sitting in a forward place, and 
 thou madest me sit in the foremost place, through this good thought, through this good 
 speech, through this good deed of thine; and so henceforth men worship me for my having 
 long sacrificed unto and conversed with Ahura Mazda."
 61.	'The first step that the soul of the faithful man made, placed him in the Good-Thought 
 Paradise; the second step that the soul of the faithful man made, placed him in the Good-
 Word Paradise; the third step that the soul of the faithful man made, placed him in the Good-
 Deed Paradise; the fourth step that the soul of the faithful man made, placed him in the 
 Endless Light.
 62.	'Then one of the faithful, who had departed before him, asked, saying: "How didst thou depart 
 this life, thou holy man? How didst thou come, thou holy man! from the abodes full of cattle 
 and full of the wishes and enjoyments of love? from the material world into the world of the 
 spirit? from the decaying world into the undecaying one? How long did thy felicity last?"'
 63.	And Ahura Mazda answered: 'Ask him not what thou askest him, who has just gone the dreary 
 way, full of fear and distress, when the body and the soul part from one another.
 64.	'[Let him eat] of the food brought to him, of the oil of Zaremaya: this is the food for the 
 youth of good thoughts, of good words, of good deeds, of good religion, after he has departed 
 this life; this is the food for the holy woman, rich in good thoughts, good words, and good 
 deeds, well-principled, and obedient to her husband, after she has departed this life.'
 65.	Spitama Zarathushtra said to the young king Vishtaspa: "To what land shall I turn, O Ahura 
 Mazda? To whom shall I go with praying?'
 Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good ....