Yasna Definition

pronoun

(Zoroastrianism) Name of the primary liturgical collection of texts of the Avesta as well as the name of the principal Zoroastrian act of worship at which those verses are recited.

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Origin of Yasna

  • From Avestan (Yasna, “oblation; worship”), compound of (yaz) (from Proto-Indo-European *iag- (“to worship”)) and (na).

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Yasna Sentence Examples

  • The Gathas alone within the Avesta make claim to be the ipsissima verba of the prophet; in the rest of that work they are put into Zoroaster's own mouth (Yasna, 9, 1) and are expressly called "the Gathas of the holy Zoroaster" (Yasna, 57, 8).

  • The litanies of the Yasna, and the Yashts, refer to him as a personage belonging to the past.

  • According to the Avesta (Yasna, 9, 17),, Airyanem Vaejo, on the river Daitya, the old sacred country of the gods, was the home of Zoroaster, and the scene of his.

  • Zoroaster says of himself that he had received from God a commission to purify religion (Yasna, 44, 9).

  • This is a cord, woven by women of the priestly class, composed of seventy-two threads, representing the seventy-two chapters of the Yasna, a portion of the Zend-Avesta, in the sacredness of which the young.

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