Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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OBSERVATIONS
1. For all divisions into chapters and sections the translator is responsible, as the original text is written continuously, with very few stops marked.
2. Italics are used for any English words which are not expressed, or fully understood, in the original text, but are added to complete the sense of the translation.
3. Oriental words are usually spaced. Italics occurring in them, or in names, are intended to represent certain peculiar Oriental letters. The italic consonants d, n, o may be pronounced as in English; but g should be sounded like j, hv like wh, k like ch in church,' n like ng, s like sh, s like French j. For further information, see Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East' at the end of the volume.
4. In Pahlavi words all circumflexed vowels and any final o are expressed in the Pahlavi original, but all other vowels are merely understood.
5. In the translation, words in parentheses are merely explanatory of those which precede them.
6. Abbreviations used are:-Av. for Avesta. Dad. for Dâdistân-i Dinîk. Huz. for Huzvâris. Mkh. for Mainyô-i-khard, ed. West. Pahl. for Pahlavi. Pâz, for Pazand. Pers. for Persian. Sans. for Sanskrit. Vend. for Vendîdad, ed. Spiegel. Visp. for Visparad, ed. Sp. Yas. for Yasna, ed. Sp. Yio for Yast, ed. Westergaard.
7. The manuscripts mentioned in the notes are:
K20 (about 500 years old), No. 20 in the University Library at Kopenhagen.
Kaob (uncertain date), a fragment of the text, No. 20b in the same library.
M6 (written A.D. 1397), No. 6 of the Haug Collection in the State Library at Munich.
TD (written about A.D. 1530), belonging to Mobad Tehmuras Dinshawji Anklesaria at Bombay.
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