Nirang-i-Gomez Malidan

Shekasteh! Shekasteh! Sheytān, Ahriman gajasteh kâr o kerdār, na rasad gajasteh kâr o kerdār; Sī-o-se Ameshāspand dādār Hormazd pirozgar pāk; ashaone Ashem Vohū 1. (To be recited thrice).

• (May) the Satan (be) defeated! and destroyed! (may) the works and workers of Ahriman the accursed (be) destroyed! may not works and workers of (that) accursed (Ahriman) reach (me)! Thirty-three Holy Immortals (Ameshāspands) and the Creator Hormazd are victorious and holy.

Note: After having recited this Nirang three times one should recite Srosh Bāz, and whilst reciting five Ahunavar one should apply nirang or bull’s urine at every Ahunavar to the right and left hand, to the face, to the right and left leg respectively. One should perform them Pādyāb-Kusti after completing the Srosh Bāz.

Explanation: This Nirang seems to have been composed at a later period, as its language is Persian. Moreover it is surprising that the number of Ameshāspands mentioned in this Nirang is thirty-three. Perhaps the motive of the composer of this Nirang is to regard thirty-three Ameshāspands as thirty-three angels. According to the ancient books of our religion Ameshāspands are six in number and Ahura Mazda is added to them, making them seven in all. In the Pahlavi Nām Khosraw Chithrem, a Pahlavi commentary on the Denkart scripture the writer has written in Persian as follows: “Nipāyish Mashin” occurring in Hormazd Yasht the Creator Hormazd speaks to the prophet Zarathustra thus: “I created six Ameshāspands from Bahman to Amardād.” In the introduction of Hormazd Yasht Hormazd and Ardibehesht Yasht the Creator Hormazd Himself refers to the seven Ameshāspands thus: “Seven Ameshāspands.” The Haftan Yasht (small) para 12 thus occurs a reference to “Seven Ameshāspands”.