Pehlevi
Americannoun
noun
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It was, in fact, a French translation of a Persian rendering of a Pehlevi version of the Zend original.
From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
It is true there is an early translation of the Zend-Avesta, the Pehlevi translation, and a later one in Sanskrit by Neriosengh.
From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
According to the Parsis, Avesta means sacred text, Zend its Pehlevi translation.
From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
To judge from the specimens given by Anquetil Duperron, it was not to be wondered at that this dialect, then called Pehlevi, should have been pronounced an artificial jargon.
From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
The authorities accordingly had a translation of it made in the speech of the time, Pehlevi.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
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