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Avestan (/əˈvɛstən/ ə-VESS-tən) is the
liturgical language of
Zoroastrianism belonging to the
Iranian branch of the Indo-European
language family. It was...
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Tilak on the
origin of the Aryans.
Based on his
analysis of
Vedic hymns,
Avestic p****ages,
Vedic chronology and
Vedic calendars,
Tilak argued that the North...
- Pouruyô, Pourya;
pronounced [puriːjɑː]) a
Persian masculine name with the
Avestic root Pouruyô, meaning: first; foremost; most ancient.
Notable people with...
- with
Ossetian ærmæst "only",
Avestic airime "quiet", Gr**** erēmos "empty", PIE *h₁(e)rh₁mo-?, and spu "eye" with
Avestic spas- "foretell",
Sanskrit spaś-...
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correspondence has also been
posited by
Boyce between both the
Vedic and
Avestic traditions of Apam Napat, and Varuna, who is also
addressed as "Child of...
- book of the Avesta.
Modern scholars believe Khwarazm to be what
ancient Avestic texts refer to as "Ariyaneh Waeje" or Iran vij.
Iranovich These sources...
- is the
original form, it may mean 'with old/aging camels',
related to
Avestic zarant- (cf.
Pashto zōṛ and
Ossetian zœrond, 'old';
Middle Persian zāl...
- has a
great number of
favourite expressions which are
common with the
Avestic,
though not with
later Indian diction. In addition,
there is a
close resemblance...
- speaker's
request (compare Sacca-kiriya).
Another similarity is the
Vedic and
Avestic ****ociation of
mantras with paths, so that a
properly formulated mantra...
- Empire. Some of the
early scholars believed Khwarazm to be what
ancient Avestic texts refer to as
Airyanem Vaejah (Airyanəm Vaēǰah;
later Middle Persian...
