The Zend-Avesta:Part I:The Vendîdâd

THE Zend-Avesta is the sacred book of the Parsis, that is to say, of the few remaining followers of that religion which feigned over Persia at the time when the second successor of Mohammed overthrew the Sassanian dynasty 1, and which has been called Dualism, or Mazdeism, or Magism, or Zoroastrianism, or Fire-worship, according as its main tenet, or its supreme God, or its priests, or its supposed founder, or its apparent object of worship has been most kept in view. This book is a reprint of the Oxford University Press 1880. Translated by James Darmesteter, in 1875 he published a thesis on the mythology of the Avesta and became teacher of Persian language at the École des Hautes Études. He also edited the Avesta for Max Müller's Sacred Books of the East series (vols. 4 and 23).