avesta

Speech parts

1. avesta - Noun

2. avesta - Adjective

3. Avesta - Proper noun

Meaning

The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta.

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The evidence of the Avestan meters confirms to the hilt the conclusions compelled by the evidence of the Avestan names: namely, (...) that the Early and Middle Books of the Rigveda precede the period of composition of the Avesta. Shrikant Talageri

According to the Avesta ( Vendidad 1.1-21), they are compelled to leave their homeland Airyana Vaēǰah because Aŋra Mainyu so altered the climate that the winter became ten months long and the summer only two. Source: Internet

Also, the Avesta itself divides into Old and New sections and neither mention the Medes who are known to have ruled Afghanistan starting around 700 BC. Source: Internet

The Avesta extols the Helmand in similar terms to those used in the Rigveda with respect to the Sarasvati: "the bountiful, glorious Haetumant swelling its white waves rolling down its copious flood". Source: Internet

FORTHCOMING ARTICLE: Irano-Talmudica III: Giant Mythological Creatures in Transition from the Avesta to the Babylonian Talmud (Reuven Kiperwasser and Dan D.Y. Shapira, Academic. Source: Internet

Avesta Housing, though not yet having come forth with a formal application to the Bridgton Planning Board, is known to have the former Chapter 11 property on Main Street in mind for a $4 million 21-unit affordable housing project it wants to construct. Source: Internet

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