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Khordeh Avesta, meaning 'little, or lesser, or small Avesta', is the name given to two different collections of Zoroastrian religious texts. One of the...

lesser texts are conventionally called Khordeh Avesta or "Little Avesta" texts. When the first Khordeh Avesta editions were printed in the 19th century...

(Avestan 𐬙𐬏𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀, tūriia) is the ethnonym of a group mentioned in the Avesta, i.e., the collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism. In those texts...

Amesha Spentas, Haurvatat does not have a standing epithet that in later Avesta texts becomes an element of her proper name. Already in the Gathas, Haurvatat...

called the Khordeh Avesta, which contains the Yashts and other important hymns, prayers, and rituals. The rest of the materials from the Avesta are called...

like Ormazd. This is significantly different from what is found in the Avesta (where Mazda's stock epithet is dadvah, "Creator", implying Mazda is the...

2001, p. 243, n.18. "AVESTA: YASNA (English): Chapters 0-8". avesta.org. "AVESTA: KHORDA AVESTA: Niyayeshes (Litanies)". avesta.org. Franz Grenet, "MITHRA...

Yasna 32.13, the abode of the wicked is acishtem manah. In the Younger Avesta, Akem Manah is unambiguously a demonic entity, an auxiliary of Angra Mainyu...

Gathas in the Yasna. It is also at the end of most of the prayers in the Khordeh Avesta, except a certain few, most notably the Fravarane. In the Yasna, the...

the place where Zarathustra received the religion from Ahura Mazda. The Avesta also names it as the first of the "sixteen perfect lands" that Ahura Mazda...

Old Persian "daiva inscription" of the 5th century BCE. In the Younger Avesta, the daevas are divinities that promote chaos and disorder. In later tradition...

found that recall the aspects of Bahram (see the ten forms of Bahram in the Avesta, above). The bird motif on Sasanian-era fire altars are also believed to...

number of real-world mountains in Iran and neighboring regions. In the Avesta, Mount Hara is the home of Mithra. In later texts like the Bundahishn, it...

effectively defines ahura by defining what ahura is not. In the Younger Avesta, three divinities of the Zoroastrian pantheon are repeatedly identified...

pre-Arm. *Zuradašt". There is no consensus on the dating of Zoroaster. The Avesta gives no direct information about it, while historical sources are conflicting...

the Aban Nyashes, the liturgy to the waters that are a part of the Khordeh Avesta. According to Nyberg and supported by Lommel and Widengren, the older...

Naqsh-e Rostam. The nineteenth-century qaêtvadatha style (with q instead of Avesta x) and similar writings reappear in modern literature. The first part of...

Amesha Spentas, Ameretat does not have a standing epithet that in later Avesta texts becomes an element of her proper name. Already in the Gathas, Ameretat...

modern times, the wide availability of printed literature like the Khordeh Avesta had a noticeable effect on Zoroastrian prayer practice. In general,...

one in which Alexander destroys a copy of the Avesta, and another in which the Greeks translate the Avesta into their own language. Book 4, the shortest...