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Saoshyant defeats death

Yasht 19 (Zamyad Yasht) · Zamyad Yast XIX, §§88–96, sections XV–XVI, pp.306–308

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James Darmesteter, The Zend-Avesta Part II, SBE 23; nineteenth-century English edition hosted by Sacred Texts (index labels 1882)

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88. We sacrifice unto the awful kingly Glory, made by Mazda . . . . 89 . That will cleave unto the victorious Saoshyant and his helpers , when he shall restore the world, which will (thenceforth) never grow old and never die, never decaying and never rotting, ever living and ever increasing, and master of its wish, when the dead will rise, when life and immortality will come, and the world will be restored at its wish; 90. When the creation will grow deathless,—the prosperous creation of the Good Spirit,—and the Drug shall perish, though she may rush on every side to kill the holy beings; she and her hundredfold brood shall perish, as it is the will of the Lord. For its brightness and glory, I will offer it a sacrifice . . . . 91. We sacrifice unto the awful kingly Glory, made by Mazda . . . . 92. When Astvat-ereta shall rise up from Lake Kãsava , a friend of Ahura Mazda, a son of Vîspa-taurvairi , knowing the victorious knowledge. It was that Glory that Thraêtaona bore with him when Azi Dahâka was killed ; 93. That Frangrasyan, the Turanian, bore when Drvau was killed, when the Bull was killed ; That king Husravah bore when Frangrasyan, the Turanian, was killed ; That king Vîstâspa bore, when he victoriously maintained Holiness against the host of the fiends and took off the Drub from the world of the good principle . 94. He , with the eye of intelligence , shall look down upon all the creatures of the Paêsis , her of the evil seed: he shall look upon the whole living world with the eye of plenty, and his look shall deliver to immortality the whole of the living creatures. 95. And there shall his friends come forward, the friends of Astvat-ereta, who are fiend-smiting, well-thinking, well-speaking, well-doing, following the good law, and whose tongues have never uttered a word of falsehood. Before them shall Aêshma of the wounding spear, who has no Glory, bow and flee; he shall smite the most wicked Drug, her of the evil seed, born of darkness. 96. Akem-Manô smites, but Vohu-Manô shall smite him; the Word of falsehood smites, but the Word of truth shall smite it. Haurvatât and Ameretât shall smite both hunger and thirst: Haurvatât and Ameretât shall smite the evil hunger and the evil thirst. The evil-doing Angra Mainyu bows and flees, becoming powerless. For its brightness and glory, I will offer it a sacrifice . . . .