Primary liturgical collection of Zoroastrian texts, and principal act of worship in Zoroastrianism
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Yasna (/ˈjʌsnə/;[1] Avestan: 𐬫𐬀𐬯𐬥𐬀) is the Avestan name of Zoroastrianism's principal act of worship. It is also the name of the primary liturgical collection of Avesta texts, recited during that yasna ceremony.[2]
^"Yasna". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
The Yasna Haptanghaiti (Yasna Haptaŋhāiti), Avestan for "Worship in Seven Chapters," is a set of seven hymns within the greater Yasna collection, that...
liturgical group is the Yasna, which takes its name from the Yasna ceremony, Zoroastrianism's primary act of worship, and at which the Yasna text is recited....
Yasna Provoste Campillay (born 16 December 1969) is a Chilean teacher and Christian Democrat politician of Diaguita descent who served as a minister during...
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...
tall (Yasna 10.21, Vendidad 19.19) it is fragrant (Yasna 10.4) it is golden-green (standard appellation, Yasna 9.16 et al.) it can be pressed (Yasna 9.1...
in Yasna 45.2 – the "more bounteous of the spirits twain" declares angra mainyu to be its "absolute antithesis". A similar statement occurs in Yasna 30...
the Yasna Haptanghaiti and in which the two elements of the name occur in reverse order, that is, as Spenta Amesha. Like all other verses of the Yasna Haptanghaiti...
drunkenness." (Yasna 10.8, Yasht 17.5) According to Yasht 11.15, Ahura Mazda created Sraosha to counter the demon's mischief, and in Yasna 57.25, Sraosha...
Yasna Poliana (Ukrainian: Ясна Поляна) may refer to several places in Ukraine: Yasna Poliana, Chernihiv Oblast, village in Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion Yasna...
the course of the sun, the moon and the stars (Yasna 44.3), and it is through aṣ̌a that plants grow (Yasna 48.6). "Right working" also overlaps with both...
indication in scripture or older tradition as to which plant was to be used, and Yasna 25.3 eulogizes the plant without being specific. One indication of which...
Yasna Angélica Vukasovic Álvarez (born c. 1969) is a Chilean beauty pageant titleholder who was delegate for Miss World 1987. She comes from Punta Arenas...
Zoroastrianism's four Gathic Avestan formulas. The text, which appears in Yasna 27.13, is also known after its opening words yatha ahu vairyo. In Zoroastrian...
had, however, been rejected". In Yasna 32.3 and 46.1, the daevas are still worshipped by the Iranian peoples. Yasna 32.8 notes that some of the followers...
health, prosperity, renown, and for the well-being of the soul (Yasna 68.3-4). In Yasna 68.11, the devotee asks Ahurani for a long life and a welcome in...
2), another Hom Yasht in Yasna 9–11, the Bhagan Yasht of Yasna 19–21, a hymn to Ashi in Yasna 52, another Sarosh Yasht in Yasna 57, the praise of the (hypostasis...
himself, serving as sacred hymns within Zoroastrian liturgy, known as the Yasna. Zoroastrianism and its holy book (The Avesta and its Commentary Known as...
yashts dedicated to him. One of these is Yasna 56–57, which is part of the primary Zoroastrian act of adoration. Yasna 56-57 is a "hidden" yasht in that those...
Zoroastrianism. In 2020, a KRI-based Zoroastrian advocacy group known as the Yasna Association, which also functions as a representative of the faith within...
Yasna polyana is a village in Primorsko Municipality, in Burgas Province, in southeastern Bulgaria. Guide Bulgaria, Accessed May 5, 2010 42°17′N 27°37′E...
Gujarati. The names are often taken during Baj (ceremonial prayer) as part of Yasna while continuously sprinkling with the ring made of eight metals with the...
attribute of humans. In Yasna 33.4, the poet promises to counter his own "disobedience and aka manah" through worship. In Yasna 47.5, aka manah is the...
or nearby stream." The ape zaothra ceremony—the culminating rite of the Yasna service (which is in turn the principal act of worship)—is literally for...
Iran. Zoroaster is credited with authorship of the Gathas as well as the Yasna Haptanghaiti, a series of hymns composed in his native Avestan dialect that...
stands). A temple at which a Yasna service (the principal Zoroastrian act of worship that accompanies the recitation of the Yasna liturgy) may be celebrated...