-
exception of
Ahunavaiti Gatha, that is
named after the
Ahuna Vairya prayer (Yasna 27, not in the
Gathas), the
names of the
Gathas reflect the
first word(s)...
-
cognate to the
Avestan term
gatha. The
stanzas of the
Prakrit dialects of Ardhamagadhi,
Sauraseni and Pāli are
known as
gathas as
opposed to
shlokas and...
- the
Gathas but in prose, b) two
short chapters (#42 and #52) that are not as old as the
Gathas and
Yasna Haptanghaiti.
Yasna 28–34:
Ahunavaiti Gatha Yasna...
-
appear as
malign creatures, in the
Gathas the
daevas are (collectively) gods that are to be rejected. The
Gathas do not
specify which of the divinities...
- as a sage or a wonderworker; in the
oldest Zoroastrian scriptures, the
Gathas,
which he is
believed to have aut****d, he is
described as a
preacher and...
-
liturgically encloses the
Gathas, i.e. the
hymns attributed to Zoroaster. One of the formulas, the
Airyaman ishya (Yasna 54.1)
follows the
Gathas,
while the other...
- ****embled over
several centuries. Its
oldest and most
central component are the
Gathas,
purported to be the
direct teachings of
Zoroaster and his
account of conversations...
- in
favor of
placing the
Gāthās around 1000 BC [...]
Schmitt 2000, p. 21: "Die ältesten
Texte dieses Corpus, die sog.
Gathas stammen von
Zarathustra selbst...
- derive. Like most
other divinities,
Mithra is not
mentioned by name in the
Gathas, the
oldest texts of
Zoroastrianism and
traditionally attributed to Zoroaster...
-
Ashawahist or Ardwahisht; New
Persian Ardibehesht or Ordibehesht. In the
Gathas—the
oldest texts of Zoroastrianism,
thought to have been
composed by Zoroaster—it...
