1) Avesta translation 2) Avestan 3) Iranian 4) Iranian language 5) Persian writing 6) Zoroastrian scriptures 7) Zoroastrian text
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The Zend or Zand (literally `interpretation`), refers to late middle Persian (see Pazend and Pahlavi) language commentaries on the individual books of the Avesta within Zoroastrianism. They date from the 3rd to 10th centuries and were not intended for use as theological texts by themselves but for religious instruction of the (by then) non-Avest.....
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• (n.) Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv/resh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dialect) in which the Avesta is written.
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Zend noun [ See
Zend-Avesta .] Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzvâresh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dialect) in which the Avesta is written.
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a translation and exposition of the Avesta in Pahlavi. · Avestan (def. 1).
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