Avesta : sacred Book of Zoroastrianism containing its cosmogony, law, liturgy, & the teachings of Zoroaster. Zend-Avesta is a commentary. Their voluminous manuscripts were destroyed by Alexander. The present Avesta was assembled from the remnants & standardised under the Sasānian kings in 3rd–7th century. It comprises five books including the Khurd Avestā$.
... Rig-veda and the A vesta would be derivatives. His findings in brief are: (1)The Avesta has no combination corresponding to the "Mitra-Varuṇa" of the Rigveda and of the Mitanni document, nor even a god Varuṇa. So we cannot reconstruct a similar Indo-Irānian or what Thieme terms Proto-Aryan form. The Avesta has "Mithra-Ahura". As the Rigveda also has "Asura" as counterpart of the Avestan "Ahura"... effectively to the help of the other gods, is purely Rigvedic. (3)The Avesta knows of just one Nāsatya (Naonhaitya). A single Nāsatya is known also to the Rigveda (IV. 3, 6). Page 34 Once the Rigveda forms the combination "Indra-Nāsatya" (VIII. 26, 8), which can only mean "Indra and (one) Nāsatya". The Avesta too has a similar formation (Vendidad, 10, 9). But the Rigveda knows, in... times applied to several gods is mostly applied to Indra to denote the enemy-smashing or victorious power he brings to the help of these gods. This word is represented by two different forms in the Avesta, one an adjective "verethragan" for the Winds and the other the name of a god "Verethragna". The Avesta's Indra is not of the Rigvedic type, he has been converted into a demon, but Verethragna who ...
... emperors of Irān were composed in Old High German, what would be the date assigned to Ulfila's Bible? Surely something like 1000 B.C. This then would be the approximate date of the Gāthās of the Avesta - with which the Rigveda in its present form must have been more or less contemporaneous." 1 Ghosh goes on to say that the development of the Rigvedic Culture must have taken some time anterior to... within which languages change. Some languages change very rapidly, others remain more or less unaltered for a long period. It is true that hieratic languages, like those of the Vedic hymns and the Avesta, can remain unaltered much longer than spoken languages." 7 Winternitz refers to A.C. Woolner as rightly commenting on Max Müller's supposition of 1200 B.C. for the Rigveda's beginning: "As... against thinking with some Indian scholars that languages can stay unchanged as much as to allow figures like 25000 B.C. for the Rigveda in the form in which we have it. 9 The same holds for the Avesta in its extant version. Indeed, the development of languages has many features difficult to explain on a superficial glance. We have alluded to the amazing archaisms persisting in Lithuanian today ...
... a reference to the Sakas can be traced in the ancient Avesta. But Frye 286 has aptly remarked: "The 'pointed helmet' warriors of Yasht IX.30 of the Avesta cannot be identified safely with the Sakas, for the Sogdians too had 'pointed hats', as we learn from the Old Turkish inscription (Tonyuquq Inscription, line 46)." I may add that the Avesta (Videvdat 1.14) lists "Sughdha" (Sogdiana) among the regions... write of 'a section' because the Avesta which is the scripture 164.Norman, op. cit., p. 97 165. Cf. Parpola's note 204 on p. 220 about s>h: "This change took place in early Iranian in all positions except before n and before and after stops." 166.Norman, op. cit., p. 94. Page 270 of Zarathustrianism has two parts. The Older Avesta is that of the Gāthās, the direct... universe, upholding the cosmic law "with the magic power of Asura" (RS 5,63,3 & 7, ásurasya Māyáyā).... Then Parpola sketches a complex situation in connection with the Avesta, the Rigveda, the religion before the Avesta and a religion preceding even this predecessor. We shall go past it because of his avowedly hypothetical tone and because he himself 17 has a footnote after the last part of ...
... Perhaps the most famous case of multiple resemblance is from Persian history. The sacred book of the Parsis, the Avesta, tells us that the prophet Zarathustra preached his religion of Ahura Mazda at the court of Vistaspa. In Persia the name of Zarathus-tra's God outside the Avesta is found for the first time beyond controversy in the inscriptions of Darius I, and it is found there frequently as... middle of the 3rd century B.C. the population settled at Kandahār spoke the same language as the Avesta. He answers guardedly: "We need not yet go so far. All that seems allowable to affirm, on the indirect testimony of the inscription, is that the religious language coincided with that of the Avesta, and that Mazdeanism prevailed in this region." But there is no reason why "the religious language"... the word in the same place in the Greek text is "elapsed". 4 So it is not only the religious language that carries the atmosphere of an Avesta-like tongue more ancient than even the Old Irānian of the Achaemenids. Aśoka and the Language of the Avesta The prevalence of a language of the Avestan type for all uses in the areas adjoining north-westem India in Aśoka's day would best ...
... Second edition, Delhi, 1990. Pandey, G.C. (ed.), The Dawn of Indian Civilization (up to 600 BC), PHISPC, Centre For Studies in Civilizations, New Delhi, 1999. Pandey, V.C, (Hindi Tr.) Avesta, Delhi, 1996. Plato, the Collected Dialogues of, Bollingen Series LXXI, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1971. Radhakrishnan, S., The Indian Philosophy, McMilan, 1923, London,... Upadhayaya Gopal Baldev, Bhāratiya Darśana, Chokhamba, 1984, Varanasi. Winternitz, M. History of Indian Literature (English tr.), 3 Vols., Calcutta University Press, 1959. Zen-Avesta, The, Vendidad, James Dermesteter (tr.), Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 1990. Zimmer, H., Philosophies of India, Keghpaul, 1952, London. Page 110 Kireet Joshi ...
... Maryanni and the Kassites 87-88 The case of the Hittites 88-89 11. Relation between the Achaemenid Inscriptions and the Avesta 90 Relation between the Avesta and the Rigveda 90 Relation between modern English and Chaucer 90-91 Relation between Pānini's Sanskrit and the Rigveda 91 ... of Tilak and T. ParamaŚiva Aiyar 81-82 Arctic memories in the Rigveda sole clues, if at all, to ultimate Aryan origins 82 Perhaps supporting clues in the Avesta 82-83 10. The time-gap to be bridged between the Rigveda's age and that of the Mitanni documents 84 Causes for persistence of archaic language ...
... prehistory a point from which a diffusion took place to form this belt? We have already noticed the Irānian Aryans' tradition of an ancient home, Airiyānam vaējo. E. Herzfeld believes that the Avesta locates it distinctly in "the vast plains of the Oxus and the Jaxartes". 1 But, even if he proves right, the region from which those Aryans who became the Irānians derived need not have been the ultimate... our forefathers in a long bygone age of humanity" - such are the sole probable clues we can catch from the world of pristine Aryanism towards solving the problem of Aryan origins. Perhaps the Avesta too - in the teeth of all Western scholarship - may be taken to provide supporting clues. Beliefs like Herzfeld's arise from those references where the name Airiyānam vaējo occurs with a determinative... of the Irānian people southwards to the region where Zarathustra and Vishtaspa worshipped. 9 An earlier more northward homeland seems to be hinted at. Tilak too has a similar understanding of the Avesta on the basis of the assertion (Vidēvdāt 2) that in Airiyānam vaējo there were ten months of severe winter and two of summer as well as on the statement that the sun, the moon and the stars appeared ...
... Dinkard, go back to the early centuries of the Christian era, the Arsacidian or Sassanian times. Behramji Pithawalla's information seems to have flowed out of a Pitha (wine-shop) rather than from the Avesta. You may address me by any affectionate form you like. I don't mind being "uncle". But along with it use my original name or my Ashram appellation without any honorific suffix: please don't ...
... (Delhi, 1986). Page 435 "The Vedic Saraswati", in Haryana Sahitya Akademi Journal of Indological Studies Vol. II, nos. 1-2 (Chandigarh, 1988). Bleeck, A.H., Avesta: the religious books of the Parsees (Hertford, 1964). Burrow, T., "Dravidian and the Decipherment of the Indus Script", in Antiquity, Vol. XLVIII (1969). "On the Significance of the Terms ...
... Aryanism invading India in the post-Harappan period. However, rice is already present in several Harappan sites within and outside the Indus Valley, while it is unknown to both the Rigveda and the Avesta. Therefore, Sethna is quite right in claiming that the Rigveda precedes the Harappa Culture and definitely the post-Harappan Pirak phase of c. 1800 B.C. Even the PGW type of pottery, with its ...
... 116 Atharvaveda, 56, 85, 87, 116 Aurobindo, Sri, i, iii, iv, 18-19, 24-26, 29, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43. 44, 65, 77-83, 104, 106, 107-121, 133 Austria-Hungary, 1 Avesta, 34-35, 77, 82 ayas, āyasi, 37, 104, 119 Babylon, 66 "baga", 35 Bahlika, 12 Balsara.P.P. 17 Baltic region, 1 Balūchistān, 4.5.56.58, 60 ...
... ibid, p. 441 69. Sri Aurobindo, On the Veda, pp. 462-3 70. ibid, P. 167. Cf. F.W. Bain. "What is the secret of the rooted affection of the Aryan and Iranian, the Veda and the Avesta, for the Cow? Partly, no doubt, its utilitarian value. But they are deceived, who think that this is all. There is religion in it, mysticism, aesthetic affection. The Cow is an Idea...." After describing ...
... armed with strength, manhood and energy. Dayananda has brought this idea of the divine right and truth into the Veda; the Veda is as much and more a book of divine Law as Hebrew Bible or Zoroastrian Avesta. The cosmic element is not less conspicuous in the Veda; the Rishis speak always of the worlds, the firm laws that govern them, the divine workings in the cosmos. But Dayananda goes farther; he ...
... Maya, the creative knowledge-will of the Deva. × Asura, a word used in the Veda as in the Avesta for the Deva (Ahuramazda), but also for the gods. His manifestations; it is only in a few hymns that it is used for the dark Titans, by another and fictitious derivation, a-sura , the not-luminous ...
... works. Everyone is inclined to stick to one past religion or another and discover in it an older formulation of whatever is newly revealed. I am a Parsi Zoroastrian and I could try to pick out from the Avesta and the religious traditions following it a "prescience" of the Aurobindonian spirituality and philosophy. As you must know, much of early Christianity - including the doctrines of the Last Judgment ...
... Bombay and the family adhered to the traditional Zoroastrian faith. Young Kekoo passed through a phase of religious fervor in his childhood and prayed daily from the Zoroastrian Book of Prayers called Avesta, in the ancient Persian language of Avestan. When he was afflicted with polio at the age of around 2 years, his father took him to London for surgery to correct the paralysis. The surgery was somewhat ...
... face in the temple or at home the urn bearing the golden bouquet of flames flying up, sustained by logs of fragrant sandalwood. This fire addressed Page 135 as 'Son of God' in the Avesta, the Zoroastrian scripture, symbolised the Divine Presence in the midst of the world, in the midst of each living creature, an 'objective correlative' of the ineffable secrecy in the human heart." ...
... I had been accustomed to face in temple or at home the urn bearing the golden bouquet of flames flying up, sustained by logs of fragrant sandalwood. This fire, addressed as "Son of God" in the Avesta, the Zoroastrian scripture, symbolised the Divine Presence in the midst of the world, in the midst of each living creature, an "objective correlative" of the ineffable secrecy in the human heart ...
... (see also Nasatyas), 213, 251, 296, 336, 337, 384, 413 Atharvaveda, 212, 235, 237,344, 371 Atithigva (see also Divodāsa), 207, 292, 327, 333 At-Tchapar, 306 Avesta, 209, 237, 238, 266, 270-72, 284, 294, 321, 371, 379, 400-403, 419 Older (see also Gathas), 271 Younger, 271, 272, 402 Avestan (language), 208, 210, 267, 294, 318, 329, 369, 400, 402 ...
... light and joy to humanity ¹ & ² Words of the Mother. Page 214 through the ages, are words of revelation, and not of reason. The Veda, the Upanishad, the Bible, the Avesta, for example, are so powerfully revealing, because they embody direct revelation. They are perennially fresh and creative, inspiring and ennobling and exalting, because they were not manufactured in ...
... circlings of the human intellect, and manifests itself only to the mind that has surrendered to it with aspiration and renunciation. The knowledge that speaks in the Vedas and the Upanishads, in the Avesta and the Bible, and in the utterances of the mystics, is a supra-intellectual knowledge, not born of reason and reflection, but self-revealed to the silent and surrendered mind, and it is this knowledge ...
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