Structure and Content
The airyaman ishya has 24 words in total, divided into two halves of 30 syllables each, distributed as 11,12,7 + 11,7,12.
Like all Gathic Avestan verses, the prayer is altogether ambiguous and translations vary significantly. One transliteration and translation reads:
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