Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . omprising twenty-one chapters and entitledVendiddd, law against the demons, a series of sacerdotal rulesfor the purification, and some miscellaneous matter of a legendarycharacter. The remaining portion of our present Avesta iscomposed of minor prayers, invocations, and miscellaneousfragments.^ The loss of some parts of the Avesta is made up for in partby versions or summaries in the Pahlavi language of the Middle 1 See p. 306, below, and my article Books of the East, Oxford, 1880-1887.
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . omprising twenty-one chapters and entitledVendiddd, law against the demons, a series of sacerdotal rulesfor the purification, and some miscellaneous matter of a legendarycharacter. The remaining portion of our present Avesta iscomposed of minor prayers, invocations, and miscellaneousfragments.^ The loss of some parts of the Avesta is made up for in partby versions or summaries in the Pahlavi language of the Middle 1 See p. 306, below, and my article Books of the East, Oxford, Additional Data on Zoroaster, In There are French translations by Dar-the Tolume Orientalische Studien in mesteter, Le Zend-Avesta, Paris, 1892-honor of Professor Noldeke, pp. 1031- 1894, 3 vols., and by de Harlez, Avesta,1038, Strassburg, 1906. Paris, 1881, a German one by Spiegel, 2 The best English translation of the and reference will be made hereafterAvesta is by Darmesteter and Mills, to German renderings of selectionsZend-Avesta, 3 vols., in the Sacred by Geldner and by Bartholomae. M 11 M ^.
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