Avestan ashavanPronunciation-needed (also ašavan, ašāvan and artāvan) is a Zoroastrian theological term. It literally means `possessing aša`, hence `possessing truth` or `possessing righteousness`, but has further implications: The sotereological meaning of ašavan is also evident in Xerxes` daiva inscription, an Old Persian text (XPh)...
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lit. 'possessing Asha', a righteous or just person or being.
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(from the article `Zoroaster`) ...show the working of the deity, while at the same time constituting the order binding the adherents of the Wise Lord, then the world of Ahura Mazd ... ...is not as sharply defined as in the Avesta. Between these two principles, the Twin Spirits made an ominous choice, the Bounteous One becoming in ... ...
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