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Khordeh Avesta (Khordeh Avesta Bā-Māyeni). The oldest Zoroastrian religious scripture, as preserved at present, is known as the Avesta. A section of this Avesta is known as the “Khordeh-Avesta’ which means the “Smaller or Selected Avesta”. This is the book of daily prayers of the Zoroastrians. It is a cherished possession of every devoted Zoroastrian household. The Khordeh Avesta is a collection of prayers selected from other major works of extant Avesta literature such as Yasna, Vispered, Vendidad, and the Yasht Literature.
Zoroastrians recite their prayers in Avesta which is a sacred language. Among several words for “prayers” in Avesta, one is called “mānthra”, which means “thought (force), word, holy word”. It is similar to the Sanskrit “mantra”, and the Sanskrit translation is rendered as “mānthravāni” which is also significantly called “ādesha”: “Divine Command”. You might also be interested in the Zend Avesta: Link.
Khordeh Avesta (Khordeh Avesta Bā-Māyeni). The oldest Zoroastrian religious scripture, as preserved at present, is known as the Avesta. A section of this Avesta is known as the 'Khordeh-Avesta' which means the 'Smaller or Selected Avesta'. This is the book of daily prayers of the Zoroastrians.
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The Zend Avesta are the main texts used in the Zoroastrian faith. These many different texts are believed to have been transmitted orally for centuries before they were written down in the 3rd century.
According to legend preserved in the Book of Arda Viraf, a 3rd or 4th century work, a written version of The Zend Avesta had existed in the palace library of the Achaemenid kings (559–330 BC), but which was then supposedly lost in a fire caused by the troops of Alexander the Great. This is the complete Zend Avesta in English, a Public Domain version published in 1880 in Oxford.
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- darius!
May 27th, 2013 @ 6:15 pmexcellent! thank you so much. in the name, truth and light of ahura mazda :)
- manjit singh
October 13th, 2013 @ 6:28 pmI wish someone could explain to me the true concept and meaning of the Zend Avesta.
I welcome comments
- Bahram
August 15th, 2014 @ 7:58 am - Bob C
September 21st, 2014 @ 4:40 amProbably impossible for us to ever know the meaning of it but I am sure some phony young college student liberal with an earring and an Obama bumper sticker would be all too happy to try to explain his version.
- chandravadan bachhav
March 9th, 2015 @ 4:28 pmzenda means flag in indian languages and avesta might mean a-veda or Anti-veda
- Nima Aqazadeh
April 16th, 2018 @ 6:55 pmHi, Zend or Zand, is actually kind of the writing style or the language used to write Avesta. As far as I know, Zend is a part of Avestan language which is used to write Avesta.
- Iolanda
March 9th, 2016 @ 10:50 am - Shahid Ali
May 18th, 2016 @ 1:26 pmThank you very much for sharing this sacred book with us. May God lead us to the real truth of this world . Amen
- Renato
January 4th, 2017 @ 5:10 am - GTGran
February 15th, 2017 @ 9:14 amThank you !
- Kamran
November 15th, 2017 @ 9:20 amHi is there a Microsoft word version of the Holly Avesta? i need it for my research
- Lichtenberg
November 15th, 2017 @ 11:32 amDear Kamran, not any I am aware of. I expect that you need a clean text version for searching. In that case I would suggest that you convert the PDF to a text readable version, then copy the text to a word document for further research. There is a number of tools for that out there. Adobe has some solutions, but you can also find some freewares.
Best wishes
Admin - Ghayas Ud Din
May 5th, 2018 @ 8:41 amZand is neither a language nor a style. This is an old Iranian language (Old Persian) word, meaning “Interpretation” or “Explanation”. It means that Avesta was not written in Persian. As we know, Zoroaster was basically from the present day Loralai or Zhob district of Balochistan, inhabited by Pashtoon ethnicity, therefore, it comes clear that Avesta was written in Pashto.
- Sklian
March 26th, 2019 @ 1:56 amHow can we prove that Avesta is older then the Holy Bible? I think most of written ideas comes from the Bible? Those ideas might be transmitted by the scattered Jewish during their exile.
- Shafique
September 6th, 2019 @ 5:08 pmAll the religions are from the same God. That is there are some similarly among them. All forum prophets followed the instructions from the same God.
- Shafique
September 6th, 2019 @ 5:18 pmSorry, there are mistakes in the above message due to self suggestions of the electronic system.
All the prophets followed the instructions from the same God, therefore, there are some similarities among their teachings. It is clearly obvious that there are some fundamentals which are universal. Other things are time and space dependent. - Adi
April 18th, 2019 @ 2:07 pm“Zend” is derived from sanskrit “Chand” which means ‘Metre of poetry’.
- LabzAli
August 7th, 2019 @ 10:13 amSalam walikum.. Br Ali
What is it you find interesting abt zoro ?
I found the belief in one GOD, which is none other than (ALLAH swt).
Insha’allah all zoro followers are guided by Allah swt ☝ to the Huq.
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