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Yasht
The Yashts are a collection of twenty-one hymns in the Younger Avestan language. Each of these hymns invokes a specific Zoroastrian divinity or concept. Yasht chapter and verse pointers are traditionally abbreviated as Yt.
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Yasht
The Yashts are a collection of twenty-one hymns in Younger Avestan. Each of these hymns invokes a specific Zoroastrian divinity or concept. Yasht chapter and verse pointers are traditionally abbreviated as Yt. The word yasht derives from Avestan yešti, "for venerate", and several hymns of the Yasna liturgy that "venerate by praise" are—in tradition—also nominally called yashts. These "hidden" Yashts are: the Barsom Yasht, 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 "prayer" in Yasna 58, and a hymn to the Ahurani in Yasna 68. Since these are a part of the primary litury, they do not count among the twenty-one hymns of the Yasht collection. All the hymns of the Yasht collection "are written in what appears to be prose, but which, for a large part, may originally have been a eight-syllable verse, oscillating between four and thirteen syllables, and most often between seven and nine." Most of the yazatas that the individual Yashts are in praise of also have a dedication in the Zoroastrian calendar. The exceptions are Drvaspa and Vanant.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Yasht
yäsht, n. in the Zend-Avesta, one of a collection of hymns and prayers.
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hasty
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of yasht in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of yasht in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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