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PERSIAN WORKS ON ZOROASTRIANISM

century.[1] The account of the life of the prophet is based upon the Pahlavi works. Several Pahlavi works are rendered into Persian. The Avestan texts are translated into Persian with the help of their Pahlavi version. A considerable devotional literature and treatises on miscellaneous subjects are extant. There are about forty short prayers in verse and gazal form, called Monājāts composed by about a dozen different priests. The earliest in point of time are the four hymns attributed to the authorship of Zartusht Bahram Pazdu, the author of the Zartusht Namah. The latest are composed in the third quarter of the last century.

  1. ↑ West, GIrPh 2. 122, 123; Eastwick, tr. in English in Wilson's Parsi Religion, p. 477–522; Rosenberg, Le Livre de Zoroaster
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