Avesta


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a collection of Zoroastrian texts gathered during the 4th or 6th centuries

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According to the president of the Avesta concern Haji Ibrahim Nehramli, an equivalent of $2 billion was invested in the project in manats in terms of the then exchange rate ($1=0.7 AZN).
"Miami is a diverse market with consistent population growth and a healthy economy," said Neal Herman, Avesta Director.
Avesta Biscayne is a 402-unit apartment community near the Biscayne Bay shoreline, consisting of six mid-rise buildings and amenities including a clubhouse, two pools and a tennis court.
Ulla Remmer analyzes the techniques, with illustrations from Niyayis I, used by late Avestan composers to create prayer formulae on the basis of older Avestan texts, and Eric Pirart writes on the evidence for metrical terminology in the Avesta itself and possible metrical indications in some mss.
Avesta news website quoted Tajik officials as saying that Iranian and Tajik experts have installed the equipment of the second unit of Sangtoudeh-II power plant and the unit will be tested and launched in the next few months.
The entire development, according to developers Avesta, become home to one million people.
Azerbaijani businessman Haji Ibrahim Nehramli, president of the Avesta Group of Companies, said the project will come up on the Khazar Islands, an artificial island in the Caspian, said the News.Az website.
In a spin-off from his recent translation of the Old Avestan texts for The Hymns of Zoroaster (London 2010) West systematically examines the syntax, word order, and stylistic features in the texts, the only examples of written Old Avestan discovered to date, indeed named for the Zend Avesta. His goal is not to reconstruct proto-Indo-European or even proto-Indo-Iranian syntax, though he suggests that someone doing so might make use of his work.
Outokumpu named Jacob Sandberg head of the Special Coil unit which comprises Avesta Works, Klippcenter in Avesta and the former Thin Strip Nyby in Eskilstuna, Sweden.
And to the Christian complainers accusing atheists of "stealing" Christmas, you may want to consider that without totally ripping off the Avesta, the Jewish Talmud and several pagan festivals, you wouldn't have much of a holy book or holidays to celebrate in the first place.
Equal respect is paid to all the holy books, so you may find a Koran, the Bhagavad-Gita, different Bibles, the Avesta and the Guru Granth Sahib all in the same lodge.