Zend-Avesta

American  

[zend-uh-ves-tuh] / ˌzɛnd əˈvɛs tə /

noun

Zoroastrianism.

1. the Avesta together with the Zend.

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Zend-Avesta British  

/ ˌzɛndəˈvɛstə /

noun

1. the Avesta together with the traditional interpretative commentary known as the Zend, esp as preserved in the Avestan language among the Parsees

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Other Word Forms

• Zend-Avestaic
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of Zend-Avesta

From the Pahlavi word avastāk-u-zend the text and its interpretation

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Example Sentences

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Zend-Avesta

The Parsis place this sacred country in the vicinity of Atropatene, and it is clearly meant as the northernmost country known to the author or authors of the Zend-Avesta.

From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

The writings of Zoroaster also, the Zend-Avesta, would seem to have been rendered into Greek about the same time.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller

To gain a full knowledge of the Veda, or the Zend-Avesta, or the Tripitaka, of the Old Testament, the Koran, or the sacred books of China, is the work of a whole life.

From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

The same distinguished scholar never perceived the intimate relationship between the language of the Zend-Avesta and Sanskrit, and he declared the whole of the Zoroastrian writings to be modern forgeries.

From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

There are one or two editions of the Zend-Avesta, published in India, with Guzerati translations, which we have not seen, but which are frequently quoted by native scholars.

From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

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