Yasna
The principal liturgical text — 72 chapters recited by the priest at the Yasna ceremony, with the Gāthās (Zarathustra's own hymns) at its heart. L.H. Mills's translation (Sacred Books of the East vol. 31, 1887).
Source context· Persian stream · Ancient Persian cultural impulse
- Stream
- Persian
- Cultural impulse
- Ancient Persian (2nd post-Atlantean cultural age)
- Composed
- c. 550 BCE
- Written down
- Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age) manuscript epoch
- 1Yasna
Central liturgical text of Zoroastrian worship comprising the Gathas and surrounding yasna ceremonies
125,027 words
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