246-47) Barist-xwarxsed 'belonging to/dedicated to paradise and sun': The phrase recalls
Avestan Yasna 36.6 bar[??]zist[??]m ba[??]zitnanam auuat yat huuar[??] auuaci "the highest of heights, as far as the sun has been said (to be)." As for the meaning of barist 'highest', Durkin-Meisterernst (2004: 105) gives 'the highest; height (= Paradise)', but, as far as I can see, there is no context where a concrete meaning 'paradise' is required.
The project aims to preserve, conserve and develop the Zoroastrian tradition of
Avestan studies that will be majorly taken up by Delhi University.
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Avestan was probably long dead by the time of Greek incursions into Persia.
Avestan can help companies drive sustainable improvements making procurement a source of value and innovation across the enterprise.
"On Aiiehiia, Afflictress of Childbirth, and Pairika: Two
Avestan Demonesses (with an Appendix on the Indo-Iranian Shipwrecked Seaman)." Bulletin of the Asia Institute, new series 22: 95-103.
Avestan sa}i- means 'to announce', and sasti- is 'word' and 'prescription'.
(6) The often bewildering digressions of Schwartz yet link
Avestan words with a sense of "burning" or "hard to burn" to many of the same words that associate with haoma and a drink of immortality.
There is Late
Avestan kahrk-asa- 'vulture' (see preceding entry); according to Cheung (2007: 168) this is a Wanderwort.
'Paradise' entered into English, via Greek, from the ancient
Avestan pairidaeza.
Although he refuses to give a verdict on the problematic question of whether the Achaemenian kings were strict Zoroastrians, Lincoln uses comparative material from the later
Avestan scriptures to illuminate religious concepts in the royal inscriptions.
Rather, the revolutionary reach of the expansion of typography seen in London in particular during the early 1800s was the combination of industrial technology with the introduction of printing to a whole series of previously unprinted and in some cases even unlettered languages, ranging from Sanskrit and Bengali to distant Maori and lost cuneiform languages like
Avestan and Babylonian.
Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Jews and Zoroastrians did exactly that in Hindi, English, Punjabi, Hebrew and
Avestan, a ceremonial language originating in Persia.
A final etymological gesture, then, that ends by bringing this line of argument back to its beginning: paradise comes from the
Avestan word paridaeza, or enclosure, meaning the enclosure or park of the king--an enclosure which, as A.
From Ancient Iran, the only extant documents in the
Avestan language are the
Avestan scriptures, the sacred Writings of Zarathustra the prophet.
