The Zend-Avesta, Part 1: The Vendidad (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 4)
English
Unknown 1st millennium BCE · published 1880
338 pages
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James Darmesteter strips away centuries of myth to examine the actual origins of the Zend-Avesta. Readers will discover how the Vendidad evolved from oral priestly chants into the rigid laws of a state religion.
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