5.11 Avestan Genders, Actual & … 4. My Gatha translation in Persian was published in 1981—over forty years from the day I made the promise, and seven times the time proposed by my teacher. 27.13; see AHUNWAR) and the Aṧəm vohū (q.v., Y. ýê urvânem mêñ gairê vohû dadê hathrâ mananghâ ashîshcâ shyaothananãm vîdeush mazdå ahurahyâ ýavat isâi tavâcâ avat xsâi aêshê ashahyâ. History Early transmission The texts of the Avesta — which are all in the Avestan language — were composed over the course of several hundred years. GATHAS . Chatterji's translation of the Gathas, kindly contributed by the Calcutta Parsi Anjuman and Sohrabji Panthaky, and scanned by Soli Dastur. 5.3 The Gathas; 5.4 The Younger Avestan Texts; 5.5 The Vendidad, An Overview; 5.6 A Light Satirical Sketch (Feb. 7, 2019) 5.7 The Vendidad & Its Lessons For Today; 5.8 The Pahlavi Texts; 5.9 Chronology of the Texts; 5.10 Avestan, A Language of Inflection; Close; Chapter 11-20. The Gathas are structurally interrupted by the Yasna Haptanghaiti ("seven-chapter Yasna"), which makes up chapters 35–42 of the Yasna and is almost as old as the Gathas, consists of prayers and hymns in honor of Ahura Mazda, the Yazatas, the Fravashi, Fire, Water, and Earth. The younger Yasna, though handed down in prose, may once have been metrical, as the Gathas still are. The hymns of Zoroaster, usually called the Gathas by Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan, 1871-1940, [from old catalog] ed. Gathas.” I made him a promise. The most important portion, the Gathas, in 'Gathic' Avestan, are the hymns thought to have been composed by Zoroaster himself. Although the Gathas have become my only thought-provoking guide during the last fifty years, I have never forgotten my promise to the sage. hāiti-, Phl.hā) of the Yasna.The Gatha collection is introduced by two Old Avestan meditational formulas, the Yaθā Ahū vairiio (= Ahuna vairiia, Y. Each single song covers one chapter (Av. i. TEXTS. The liturgical texts of the Yasna, which includes the Gathas, is partially in Older (i.e. 27.14), and by the Yeŋ́hē hātąm prayer (Y. and tr. A translation of the Gathas is also included in Rohinton Nariman, The Inner Fire — Faith, Choice, and Modern-Day Living in … This