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The Khorda Avesta ( Book of Common Prayer ) also refer to Mithra in the Litany to the Sun, " Homage to Mithra of wide cattle pastures ,"( Khwarshed Niyayesh 5 ), " Whose word is true, who is of the assembly, Who has a thousand ears, the well-shaped one, Who has ten thousand eyes, the exalted one, Who has wide knowledge, the helpful one, Who sleeps not, the ever wakeful.
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Khorda and Avesta
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 )
Khorda and .
They crossed over the border and settled in the bordering area of Khorda Khalishpur of Jhenaidah district.
Avesta and Book
Book 8 is a commentary on the various texts of the Avesta, or rather, on the Sassanid archetype of the Avesta.
Avesta and also
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.
The river Horayu is also mentioned in the Avesta.
The finishing of Haoma in Zoroastrianism may be glimpsed from the Avesta ( particularly in the Hōm Yast, Yasna 9 ), and Avestan language * hauma also survived as middle Persian hōm.
But the Avesta also warns of misuse.
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.
He also edited the Avesta for Max Müller's Sacred Books of the East series ( vols.
The common noun, which also appears in the Younger Avesta ( e. g. Yasna 61. 5 Her son, when born, will not know nourishment from his mother, his body will be sun-like, and the " royal glory " of Khwarenah will be with him.
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.
The Denkard also includes an enumeration of the divisions of the Avesta, and which once served as the basis for a speculation that only one quarter of the texts had survived.
In the 20th century it was determined that the Denkard's divisions also took Sassanid-era translations and commentaries into account ; these were however not considered to be a part of the Avesta.
As a side effect of its development, the script was also used for Pazend, a method of writing Middle Persian that was used primarily for the Zend commentaries on the texts of the Avesta.
Burz is also known as Ahura Berezant in the texts of the Avesta, and also as Apam Napat in Avestan and Vedic Sanskrit.
Zahhāk or Zohhāk ( in ) is an evil figure in Iranian mythology, evident in ancient Iranian folklore as Aži Dahāka, the name by which he also appears in the texts of the Avesta.
Avesta and refer
The word " Kubhā " is mentioned in Rigveda and the Avesta and appears to refer to the Kabul River.
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 ").
Avesta and Mithra
* Mithra ( Avestan Miθra -, Miθrō ), a yazata mentioned in the Zoroastrian sacred scripture of the Avesta, whose New Persian equivalent is Mīhr / Mehr ( م ِ هر ).
Mithra is described in the Zoroastrian Avesta scriptures as, " Mithra of wide pastures, of the thousand ears, and of the myriad eyes ,"( Yasna 1: 3 ), " the lofty, and the everlasting ... the province ruler ,"( Yasna 1: 11 ), " the Yazad ( divinity ) of the spoken name "( Yasna 3: 5 ), and " the holy ,"( Yasna 3: 13 )
Avesta and ),
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 >
The contents of the Avesta are divided topically ( even though the organization of the nasks is not ), but these are not fixed or canonical.
When H. Lommel suggested that such an association was implied in the Younger Avesta (> 6th c. BCE ), that too was conclusively dismissed.
He continued his research with his Études iraniennes ( 1883 ), and ten years later published a complete translation of the Avesta and associated Zend ( lit.
The hero of the poem is Garshasp, the father of Kariman, and great grandfather of Sam ) Šam, who is identified in the Shahnameh with the ancient Iranian hero, Kərəsāspa-( Avesta ), In Avesta he was the son of Θrita -, of the clan Yama.
In the Avesta ( which does not mention places in Western Iran ), it is ' Airyo. khshaotha ', a not-further identified location in the Middle Clime.
He stayed in India for seven years ( 1755 – 1761 ), where Parsi priests taught him Persian, and translated the Avesta for him ( it is probably not true that he mastered the Avestan language ).
Consequently he reduced his field of research to the phenomena in religions living around the origin of Christianity: during the millennia before and the centuries after Christ, in Iran ( Avesta ), Babylonia and Assyria, Israel, Egypt, Greece and Rome.
In the Avesta, reference is made to seven karshvar ( karšvrə < Modern Persian keshvar ), climes or zones, organizing the world map into a seven-storied ziggurat representing the cosmic mountain.
* Literature in any other Iranian language ( both extinct and present ), such as the Avesta, or those written in:
The name, originally Verethragna, the hypostasis of victory in the texts of the Avesta, turned into Vahagn ( the Avestan " th " becoming " h " in Arsacid Middle Persian ), later on to take the form of Vahagn.
* Avestan language ( ISO 639 alpha-3, ave ), an East Iranian language known only from its use as the language of Zoroastrian scripture, i. e. the Avesta, from which it derives its name
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 word
The word occurs only once in the Gathas, but 20 times in the later parts of the Avesta.
There is no allusion to a temple cult of fire in the Avesta proper, nor is there any old Persian language word for one.
Avesta and is
In the Zoroastrian Avesta, the district is mentioned as Haroiva.
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.
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 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.
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