Pahlavi Texts Quick reference
A Dictionary of Asian Mythology
... Texts The Zoroastrian ( see Zoroastrianism ) sacred book, the Avesta ( see Avesta ), was translated into the Middle Iranian or Pahlavi (Parthian) language from the no-longer-understood older Avestan language beginning in about 250 ce . These translations are known as the Pahlavi texts...
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The Oxford Companion to World Mythology
... texts The Zoroastrian sacred book, the Avesta , was translated into the Middle Iranian or Pahlavi language from the no- longer-understood older Avestan language beginning in about 250 c.e. These translations are known as the Pahlavi texts...
Pahlavi texts
Religion and Liberty Reference library
Mehdi Bazargan
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...role in the Constitutional Revolution. They helped draft the constitution and participated in the first terms of parliament, and in the ministries of education and justice. But they soon withdrew. In the struggles after September 11, 1941 [the installation of Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi by the British], in the nationalist movement and the nationalization of the oil industry [in 1951], only a handful of religious scholars were enthusiastically engaged. In the wake of the coup d’état of August 19, 1953, and in the activities of the movement of national resistance,...
Pahlavi
Greek papyrology
Pañcatantra
Sheyist ne Sheyist Reference library
Touraj Daryaee
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
...discussing prayer, pilgrimage , and other matters. Touraj Daryaee EncIran (2004) s.n . Šāyest nē-šāyest ( F. Vahman ). ed. (annotated with ET) J. C. Tavadia , Šayast ‐ne ‐šayast: A Pahlavi Text on Religious Customs (1930). ed. K. Mazdāpūr , Šāyast nā Šāyast: matnī bih zabān-i Pārsī-i miyānah (1990). ET E. W. West , Shayāst la-Shayāst , Pahlavi Text part 1 (Sacred Books of the East 5,...
fables, Persian Reference library
William Malandra
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
...of a Pahlavi translation of the Sanskrit collection of fables, the Pañcatantra , entitled Kalīla wa-Dimna . The preface describes how the King of Persia Khosrow I Anoshirvan (531–78) wished to obtain a copy of the famed Pañcatantra which was said to be scrupulously guarded by the Indian monarch. Khosrow dispatched a learned physician named Barzoe to India to secure, by hook or by crook, a copy of the text. Barzoe accomplished his mission, returning to the Persian Empire with the Pañcatantra , which he translated into Pahlavi. It is not...
Pahlavi Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
... The term Pahlavi designates a dialect of south-west Iran , also called Middle Persian, a linguistic state posterior to Alexander's conquest and ending with the Arab conquest in the 7th century. But above all it designates the religious literature that theologians tardily set down in writing in the 9th and 10th cc., whence the oft-used name “book-Pahlavi”. Two sorts of Pahlavi texts can be distinguished: on one hand, translations of Avestan, ritual and legal texts, and the commentaries called Zand ; on the other hand, works bringing together all...
Avesta Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... (Pahlavi, ‘original text’) The sacred writings of zoroaster , sometimes called zend-avesta . The present Avesta was compiled under the sassanides , using earlier sources from the time of Zoroaster onwards and adding to them. It essentially consists of: (1) the Yasna, the chief liturgical portion including the Gathas or hymns; (2) the Visp-rat, a lesser liturgical work; (3) the Vendidad, containing the laws, like the Christian pentateuch ; (4) the Yashts, 21 hymns to various gods and ancient heroes; and (5) the Khurda Avesta (Little Avesta),...
herbed Reference library
Yuhan Vevaina
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
...priest, responsible for the transmission of sacred knowledge to students or disciples ( hāwišt ) in Zoroastrianism . Our primary written source for pedagogical instruction and Zoroastrian education and schools is the Herbedestan (‘Priestly School’), an Avestan–Pahlavi bilingual text. Failures to memorize or recite correctly on the part of disciples were ultimately the responsibility of the teacher in question ( Herbedestan , 14, 5). The length of study with a teacher was typically defined as a year ( Herbedestan , 12, 1). Yuhan Vevaina EncIran XII/3...
Dadistan-e Denig Reference library
Touraj Daryaee
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
...Dēnīg. Part I: Transcriptions, Translation and Commentary (1998). ET E. W. West , Dadistan-e Denig in Pahlavi Texts , Part 3 (Sacred Books of the East 24, 1885). M. Macuch , ‘Pahlavi Literature’, in R. E. Emmerick and M. Macuch , eds., The Literature of Pre-Islamic Iran , vol. 1 (2009),...
papyri, Pahlavi Reference library
Touraj Daryaee
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
...evidence for the character of Middle Persian handwriting in Late Antiquity. Touraj Daryaee EncIran (2005) s.v . Pehlevi Papyri ( D. Weber ), with list of papyri. CII Part III Pahlavi inscriptions , vols. 4–5: Ostraca and Papyri . Portfolio I , ed. J. de Menasce , Ostraca and Papyri (1957). Texts 1, ed. D. Weber , Ostraca, Papyri und Pergamente . Textband 1 (1992). Texts 2, ed. D. Weber , Berliner Papyri, Pergamente und Leinenfragmente in mittelpersischer Sprache ...
education and schools, Zoroastrian Reference library
Yuhan Vevaina
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
...Zoroastrian Our knowledge of religious education and literacy in Zoroastrianism in Late Antiquity is largely derived from the observations of foreign authors and sources, and internally from Middle Persian (Pahlavi) texts like the Herbedestan ( Priestly School or more generally, Religious Education ), an Avestan–Pahlavi bilingual text, which is our primary literary source for priestly education. For example, Strabo alludes to the oral nature of Zoroastrian priestly education: ‘They [the Persians] use as teachers of science their wisest men, who...
Bundahisn Reference library
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
.... ‘Creation’ in Zoroastrianism , and a text with this title which assumed its final form 9th/10th cents. ce in the Pahlavi language. It starts with the ‘event’ of creation (a Zoroastrian counterpart to Genesis); much of the central section is dedicated to priestly schematic classifications of types of creation (types of mountains, rivers, birds, animals, etc.) and concludes with an account of the end of history ( Frasokereti ). The Zoroastrian cosmology, as expounded in the Bundahisn and other Pahlavi works, encapsulates Zoroastrian belief about God...
andarz literature Reference library
Oliver Nicholson
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
...and 110–16. Kusraw ī Kawādān ud rēdak-ēw : ed. (annotated with ET) J. M. Unvala , The Pahlavi Text ‘King Husrav and his Boy’ (doctoral thesis, Heidelberg, 1921). Chidag Andarz i Poryotkeshan : ed. J. M. Jamasp-Asana , The Pahlavi Texts Contained in the Codex MK II , 41–6. ed. (with ET) M. F. Kanga , Čītak Handarž i Pōryōtkēšān. A Pahlavi Text (1960). ET R. C. Zaehner , The Teachings of the Magi , 20–8. Ayadgar-ī Wuzurgmihr : ed. (with ET) J. C. Tarapore , Pahlavi Andarz Nāmak (1933),...
geographical texts, Persian Reference library
Touraj Daryaee
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
...short text entitled Abdīhud Sāhagīh ī Sīstān ( Wonders and Magnificence of Sīstān ) which reports the important history of the province of Sagastan in the south-east of the Persian Empire. Touraj Daryaee EncIran (2008) s.n . Šahrestānīhā ī Ērānšahr ( T. Daryaee ). ed. (with ET) T. Daryaee , Šahrestānīhā ī Ērānšahr: A Middle Persian Text on Late Antique Geography, Epic, and History (2002). ed. B. Utas , ‘The Pahlavi Treatise Avdēh u sahīkēh ī sakistān or “Wonders and Magnificence of Sistan”’, ActAntHung 28 (1983), 259–63. M. Macuch , ‘Pahlavi...
Bozorgmihr Reference library
Arash Zeini
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
...(1987) s.n . Aydāgār ī Wuzurgmihr , 127–9 ( S. Shaked ). EncIran V/4 (1991) s.v . chess, i. The history of chess in Persia, 393–397 ( Bo Utas ). Aydāgār ī Wuzurgmihr and Wizārišn ī čatrang : ed. (with ET) J. M. Jamasp-Asana , Corpus of Pahlavi Texts , 2 vols. ( 1897–1913). ed. (with ET) J. C. Tarapore , Pahlavi Andarz Nāmak (1933), 38–57. F. de Blois , Burzōy’s Voyage to India and the Origin of the Book of Kalīlah wa Dimnah ...
Menog-e Xrad Reference library
Touraj Daryaee
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
... Persian text from the Sasanian period, consisting of a prologue and 62 sets of questions asked by Dānāg (meaning ‘wise’) and their answers. These mix secular advice about eating, drinking wine (in moderation), and the disposal of the dead with dualist cosmology and religious precept. There are no references to Arabs or Islam . Touraj Daryaee EncIran VI/5 (1993) s.n . Dādestān-e Mēnōg ī xrad 554–5 ( A. Tafażżolī ). ed. A. Tafaẓẓoli , Mīnū-yi khirad (1364 ah , ad 1975). ET E. W. West , ‘Menog-i-Khrad’, in Pahlavi Texts Part 3 (Sacred...
