or the Vishtasp Yasht. In addition, it appears in general terms like yasht-i keh (lesser ceremony) or yasht-i meh (greater ceremony).

The 21 hymns of the Yasht collection

Nowadays, the term yasht most commonly applies to the Yashts, a collection of 21 hymns. All the hymns of the collection "are written in what appears to be prose, but which, for a large part, may originally have been a (basically) eight-syllable verse, oscillating between four and thirteen

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