-
these other lesser texts include the
Nyayesh texts, the Gah texts, the
Siroza and
various other fragments. Together,
these lesser texts are conventionally...
- In the
Siroza ("thirty days") "the very
straight Rashnu ...
augments the
world and is the true-spoken
speech that
furthers the world." (
Siroza 18). The...
-
dedication in the
Siroza, the
invocations to the
divinities of the
Zoroastrian calendar,
Airyaman is
twice invoked together with Aṣ̌a. (
Siroza 1.3 and 2.3)...
-
Relatively certain however is that the day-name
dedications predate the Avesta's
Siroza ("30 days"),
which contain explicit references to the
yazatas as protectors/guardians...
- era (648–330 BCE), the
twentieth day of the
month is
dedicated to
Bahram (
Siroza 1.20). In the
later middle Persian texts Bahram is
especially venerated...
- calendar, the
tenth day of the
month is
dedicated to the (divinity of)
waters (
Siroza 1.10),
under whose protection that day then lies. Additionally, Aban is...
-
known to
priests by its
opening words as the ya visatha, also
appears in
Siroza 1/2 and
several Afrinagans,
notably those of Arda
Fravash (the 'righteous...
- the
Zoroastrian calendar, Ashi
presides over the 25th day of the
month (
Siroza 25). On
Kushan coins, Ashi
appears as Ardoxšo with a
cornucopia in hand...
-
Dahman only
appears thrice in the
surviving texts of the
Avesta (once in
Siroza 33, and once each in
fragments P31 and P32) and once in a Zend translation...
- Vendidad. The term then also
extends to the twenty-one
yashts and the
thirty Siroza texts, but does not
usually encomp**** the
various Avestan language fragments...
