Avesta
See also: Avesta (homonymy)
The Avesta (in Avestique avestā ) is the whole of the crowned texts of the Religion mazdéenne and forms the crowned book, the sacerdotal code of the zoroastriens. It is written in several states of old Iranian, indicated under the name of Avestique . The oldest parts, those of the gathas, are in a language as antiquated as that of the Rig Veda (Sanskrit vedic), the “gathique one”, the others into avestic late. The whole is written in the avestic Alphabet.
Initial text which counted 21 pounds or Gathas (into avestic gāθā ), of the anthems being at the same time treaties and poems, only the quarter, which represents a thousand of pages, was forwarded to us: the other books disappeared or were destroyed at the time of the conquests of Alexandre at the time of the fire of the library of Persépolis and during the invasions arabo-Moslem women at the 7th century.
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