Yasht
Americannoun
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a hymn to a deity.
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Yashts, hymns to various deities, forming part of the Avesta.
Etymology
Origin of Yasht
From the Avestan word yashtay
Example Sentences
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Yasht, y�sht, n. in the Zend-Avesta, one of a collection of hymns and prayers.
From Project Gutenberg
The passages given in the text from the Aban Yasht, notwithstanding the swelling breasts, shows how definitely the form of Anahita belongs to the Iranian conception, how peculiarly this goddess of fountains is represented in this form, and how intimately connected she is with the whole Iranian system of the boon of water, and the legends of the heroes.
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"Mihr Yasht," 127, where the boar is not Verethraghna but the "curse of the sage."
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"Ram Yasht," 36; "Farvardin Yasht," 142.
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The goddess Anahita, first mentioned in an inscription of Artaxerxes II, and described only in the late Fifth Yasht, appears to have been originally a deity of water.
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