Yasht 19: The Hymn That Names the Final Savior
A Reading of the Zamyad Yasht — the Avestan Hymn of the Earth and the Kingly Glory — as the Source-Text from Which the Doctrine of the Three Saoshyants Descends eFireTemple "We worship the mighty Kavaēm Xvarənah, made by Mazda — most blessed, sovereign, swift, wise, prosperous, exalted, capable of opposing all the others… which clings to Astvat-ereta, the victorious Saoshyant and his companions, when he makes the…
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A Reading of the Zamyad Yasht — the Avestan Hymn of the Earth and the Kingly Glory — as the Source-Text from Which the Doctrine of the Three Saoshyants Descends eFireTemple "We worship the mighty Kavaēm Xvarənah, made by Mazda — most blessed, sovereign, swift, wise, prosperous, exalted, capable of opposing all the others… which clings to Astvat-ereta, the victorious Saoshyant and his companions, when he makes the world wonderful, ageless, deathless, undecaying, undying, ever-living, ever-thriving, sovereign at its will — when the dead shall rise up and the living shall be made deathless." — Yasht 19, sections 9–11, the canonical Avestan description of the kavaēm xvarənah and its eschatological resting-place What This Article Does This article is the third installment…
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Yasna · Gathas · Avesta · Yashts · Bundahishn