YASNA - Ahunavaiti Gatha
YASNA 29.
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- 1.
- Unto you wailed the
Ox-soul, "For whom did ye fashion me? Who created me? Violence and
rapine (and) savagery hath oppressed me, and outrage and might. I have
no other herdsman than you; prepare for me then the blessings of
pasture."
- 2.
- Then the Ox-Creator
asked of the Right: "Hast thou a judge for the Ox, that ye may be able
to appoint him zealous tendance as well as fodder? Whom do ye will to
be his lord, who may drive off violence together with the followers of
the Lie?"
- 3.
- To him the Right
replied: "There is for the Ox no helper that can keep him away. Those
yonder have no knowledge how right-doers act towards the lowly".
(The Ox-Creator): "Strongest of beings is he to whose help I come at
call".
- 4.
- (Asha) "Mazda
knoweth best the purposes that have been wrought already by demons and
by mortals, and that shall be wrought hereafter. He, Ahura, is the
decider. So shall it be as he shall will."
- 5.
- (The Ox-Creator)
"To Ahura with outspread hands we twain would pray, my soul and that
of the pregnant cow, so that we twain urge Mazda with entreaties.
Destruction is not for the right-living, nor for the cattle-tender at
the hands of Liars."
- 6.
- Then spake Ahura
Mazda himself, who knows the law with wisdom: "There is found no lord
or judge according to the Right Order for the Creator hath formed thee
for the cattle-tender and the farmer."
- 7.
- This ordinance
about the fat hath Ahura Mazda, one in will with Right, created for
cattle, and the milk for them that crave nourishment, by his command,
the holy one.
(The Ox and Cow:) "Whom hast thou, O Good Thought, among men, who may
care for us twain?"
- 8.
- (Vohu Manah:) He is
known to me here who alone hath heard our commands, even Zarathushtra
Spitama; he willeth to make known our thoughts, O Mazda, and those of
the Right. So let us bestow on him charm of speech.
- 9.
- Then the Ox-Soul
lamented: "That I must be content with the ineffectual word of an
impotent man for my protector, when I wish for one that commands
mightily! When ever shall there be one who shall give him (the Ox)
effective help?"
- 10.
- (Zarathushtra:) Do
ye, O Ahura, grant them strength, and O Asha, and O Good Thought, that
dominion, whereby he (the Savior) could produce good dwellings and
peace. I also have realized thee, Mazda, as the first to accomplish
this.
- 11.
- "Where are Right
and Good Thought and Dominion? So, ye men, acknowledge me, for
instruction, Mazda, for the great society."
(The Ox and Cow:) "O Ahura, now is help ours, we will be ready to
serve those that are of you."
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