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Yasna
[ yuhs-nuh ]
noun
, Zoroastrianism.
- a part of the Avesta including the Gathas and other liturgical texts.
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Other Words From
- Yas·ni·an [yuhs, -nee-, uh, n], adjective
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Example Sentences
Yasna (sacrifice, worship), the chief liturgical work of the sacred canon.
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The Yasna comprises seventy-two chapters; these fall into three nearly equal parts.
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The meaning of the word yasna as above gives at once some conception of the nature of the texts.
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The greater part of the Yasna book is of a liturgic or ritualistic nature, and need not here be further described.
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The second part, or Younger Yasna, is of a much later date and less lofty tone.
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