Saoshyant

[sou-shyuhnt]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Zoroastrianism.

the World Savior who will come at the end of time.

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But messianic ideas were not much developed in either Buddhism or Hinduism and perhaps the figures of both Maitreya and Kalkî owe something to Persian legends about Saoshyant the Saviour.

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