2. Propitiation to Ahura Mazda.... I praise Asha. 3. I praise good thoughts, good words, and good deeds and those that are to be thought, spoken, and done. I do accept all good thoughts, good words, and good deeds. I do renounce all evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds. 4. I proffer to you, O Amesha Spentas, sacrifice and prayer, with thought, with word, with deed, with (my) being, with the very life of my body. I praise Asha. 5. Homage to Ahura Mazda. Homage to the Amesha Spentas. Homage to Mithra of wide cattle pastures. Homage to the Sun, the swift-horsed. Homage to these two eyes that are of Ahura Mazda. Homage to the Bull. Homage to Gaya (Maretan). Homage to the Fravashi of the righteous Spitama Zarathushtra. Homage to the whole creation of the Righteous One, that is, that is coming into being and that will be. (At the Hawan Gah:) Further the body through Vohuman, Khshathra, and Asha in accordance with (my) desire. (At the Rapithwin Gah:) (To) these lights, the highest (light) of the high. (At the Uzerin Gah:) At which end you (i.e. Ahura Mazda) will come with your Beneficent Spirit. 6. We sacrifice to the immortal, radiant, swift-horsed Sun. We sacrifice to Mithra of wide cattle pastures, Whose word is true, who is of the assembly, Who has a thousand ears, the well-shaped one, Who has ten thousand eyes, the exalted one, Who has wide knowledge, the helpful one, Who sleeps not, the ever wakeful.
Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file zor/sbe23/ka.htm.
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