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Zend-Avesta   Listen
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Zend-Avesta  n.  The sacred writings of the ancient Persian religion, attributed to Zoroaster, but chiefly of a later date.






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... difficult date to fix—there was no such thing as a Bible. The old Brahmans and Buddhists had Holy Scriptures; the Egyptians had a Book of the Dead, and the Sayings of Khuenaten; the Persians had the Zend-Avesta; the Chinese had sacred books. They were all as sacred as the Jewish books. Priests made them sacred. Priests generally rewrote and edited them, even if they had not originally imagined them. There is nothing to guide the man of common sense save knowledge and ...
— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks

... East, they visited not only India, but China also (Reinaud, Aboulfeda, 1-11, ccclxxxiii.). Towards the period of their arrival in India, the Parsis were settled in China as missionaries, merchants, or refugees. Anquetil du Perron (Zend-Avesta, 1, cccxxxvi.) speaks of Persians going to China, in the seventh century, with a son of Yezdezard. According to Wilford (As. Res. ix. 235), another band of emigrants joined them in 750, towards the ...
— Les Parsis • D. Menant



Words linked to "Zend-Avesta" :   religious text, religious writing



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