Khshathra Vairya — Desirable Dominion, Righteous Power

Khshathra Vairya, 'Desirable Dominion,' is the Amesha Spenta of righteous sovereignty — the divine power that establishes just rule in both the spiritual (menog) and material (getig) realms. In the Gathas (Yasna 44.9), Zarathustra asks Ahura Mazda how Khshathra can be strengthened, binding legitimate authority directly to the advancement of Asha. Khshathra Vairya presides over metals and the sky, and in Zoroastrian kingship theology (as elaborated in the Bundahishn), earthly rulers govern justly only insofar as they reflect this divine dominion. The concept implies that power divorced from righteousness is not Khshathra at all, but merely the tyranny of Druj.

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