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Definition

(n.) Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv/resh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dialect) in which the Avesta is written.

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Definition

n. the ancient East-Iranian and purely Aryan language in which the Zend-Avesta was long orally preserved and at last written—closely related to the Vedic Sanskrit.—Zend-Avesta the ancient sacred writings of the Parsees including works of widely differing character and age collected into their present canon under Shah-puhar II. (Shah-pur II.; 309-338 A.D.).

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