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The Avesta is believed to have been composed possibly as early as 1800 BC and written in ancient Ariana ( Aryana ), the earliest name of Afghanistan which indicates an early link with today's Iranian tribes to the west, or adjacent regions in Central Asia or northeastern Iran in the 6th century BC .< ref >
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Avesta and is
In the Zoroastrian Avesta, the district is mentioned as Haroiva.
The word " Kubhā " is mentioned in Rigveda and the Avesta and appears to refer to the Kabul River.
The " Avesta "— the holy book of Zoroastrianism — was written in the old-Bactrian dialect ; it is also thought that Zoroaster was most likely born in Bactria.
In the younger Avesta, Harax < sup > v </ sup > atī is Arachosia, a region described to be rich in rivers, and its Old Persian cognate Harauvati, which gave its name to the present-day Hārūt River in Afghanistan, may have referred to the entire Helmand drainage basin ( the center of Arachosia ).
* 1278 – The earliest known written copy of the Avesta, a collection of ancient sacred Persian Zoroastrian texts previously passed down orally, is produced.
* The earliest known written copy of the Avesta, a collection of ancient sacred Persian Zoroastrian texts previously passed down orally, is produced.
Avestan, the language of the oldest portions of the Zoroastrian Avesta, was one of the old Iranian languages, and is the oldest attested member of the Eastern Iranian branch of the Iranian language family.
Tehran historically was known as Ray which is etymologically connected to the Old Persian and Avesta Rhaga.
In the Zoroastrian Avesta, Widewdat, i, 15, Ragha is mentioned as the twelfth sacred place created by Ahura-Mazda.
The Avesta is the primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism, and is composed in the Avestan language.
In that sense, the current Avesta is a " prayer book " rather than a " Bible ".
The origin of the term ' Avesta ' is uncertain.
The book " A Manual of Khshnoom " reads in its introduction ( p. 36 ) that the words " Avesta " comes from " a " " negation of " and " vid ", " know " and thus is a teaching about the Unknown, the secret ,.
This is a Khshnoomian vision of the Avesta and of its etymology.
The use of the expression Zend-Avesta to refer to the Avesta in general is a misunderstanding of the phrase Zand-i-Avesta ( which literally means " interpretation of the Avesta ").
In its present form, the Avesta is a compilation from various sources, and its different parts date from different periods and vary widely in character.
The contents of the Avesta are divided topically ( even though the organization of the nasks is not ), but these are not fixed or canonical.
The central portion of the Yasna is the Gathas, the oldest and most sacred portion of the Avesta, believed to have been composed by Zarathushtra ( Zoroaster ) himself.
: The Khordeh Avesta (" little Avesta ") is both a selection of verses from the other collections, as well as three sub-collections that do not appear elsewhere.
Taken together, the Khordeh Avesta is considered the prayer book for general lay use.
In a wider sense, the term Khordeh Avesta includes all material other than the Yasna, the Visparad and the Vendidad, as it is only the ceremonies contained in these three books that are reserved for the priests.
Avesta and believed
The Visparat, another group of writings in the ' Avesta ', were believed to be made for the honor and prayer of the celestial lords.
Thus in the Avesta, some of the Tuiryas believed in the message of Zoroaster while others rejected the religion.
Atar is already evident in the Gathas, the oldest texts of the compendium of the Avesta and believed to have been composed by Zoroaster himself.
Airyanem Vaejah ( Land of Aryans ), which is mentioned in the Zoroastrian Avesta, is also believed by some scholars to be situated in the territories of Khorasan.
Varamin is believed to be the ancient city of Varena, which is mentioned in Avesta.
Avesta and have
The oldest existing mention of Turanian is in the Farvardin Yashts of the young Avesta, which is dated by linguists to have been composed approximately 2500 years ago.
The names of Iranian tribes including those of the Turanians that appear in Avesta have been studied by Professor Mayrhofer in his comprehensive book on Avesta personal name etymologies: Iranisches Personennamenbuch, I: Die altiranischen Namen.
Since the late 18th century, when Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron and others made portions of the Avesta available to western scholars, several scholars have sought a representative botanical equivalent of the haoma as described in the texts and as used in living Zoroastrian practice.
Despite some popular belief, the Turanians of Shahnameh ( whose sources are based on Avesta and Pahlavi texts ) have no relationship with the ethno-liguistic group Turk today.
James Darmesteter, translator of the Avesta, compared Arran with Airyana Vaego which he also considered to have been in the Araxes-Ararat region, although modern theories tend to place this in the east of Iran.
Some recent theories have claimed Mithra represents the sun itself, but the Khorda Avesta refers to the sun as a separate entity as well as the moon with which the sun has " the best of friendships ,"( Khwarshed Niyayesh 15 )
Similarly, in the Denkard, Adharbad Maraspand — the Sassanid era high-priest to whom the collation of the Avesta texts is attributed — is purported to have nine measures of " unburning molten zinc " applied to his chest as proof of accuracy of the sacred texts.
It may have originated from the reconstructed Old Persian * vaištī, related to the superlative adjective vahišta-" best, excellent " found in the Avesta, with the feminine termination-ī ; hence " excellent woman, best of women ".
In the Avesta, Aži Dahāka is said to have lived in the inaccessible fortress of Kuuirinta in the land of Baβri, where he worshipped the yazatas Arədvī Sūrā ( Anāhitā ), divinity of the rivers, and Vayu, divinity of the storm-wind.
Avesta and been
Originally presented in the 19th century but popularized in the mid-20th century, the idea of a prehistoric opposition between the * Asurás and the * Devás had already been largely rejected by Avesta scholars when a landmark publication ( Hale, 1986 ) attracted considerable attention among Vedic scholars.
The Yaz culture has been regarded as a likely archaeological reflection of early East Iranian culture as described in the Avesta.
His short fiction has been published nationally and was awarded honors by the UNT literary magazine, Avesta.
Avesta and composed
The texts of the Avesta — which are all in the Avestan language — were composed over the course of several hundred years.
In the Gathas, the oldest texts of the Avesta and considered to be composed by Zoroaster himself, the term ' Vohu Manah ' is not unambiguously used as a proper name and frequently occurs without the " Good " ( Vohu -) prefix.
Avesta and possibly
# Transfer of the Avesta to Persis in Southwest Iran, possibly earlier than 500 B. C.
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