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Introduction
Avesta Texts & Translations
Gatha Texts & Translations
Organization of the Avesta
System One - Five Sections
System Two - Two Sections
Avesta Contents
Yasna
Visperad
Vendidad
Yasht
Khordeh Avesta
Fragment Including:Afringan, Gahs & Sirozah
Composition & Transmission of the Avesta
Gathas - the Oral Tradition
Avesta - the Oral Tradition Continues
Zand
Compilation & Destruction
First Written Compilation - Achaemenian Avesta
Destruction of the Achaemenian Avesta by Alexander
Second Written Compilation - Parthian Avesta
Third Written Compilation - Sassanian Avesta
Destruction by Arabs
Migration to India
Destruction by Turkoman and Mongols
Size and Extent of the Sassanian Avesta
21 Nasks of the Sassanian Avesta
Manuscripts
Avestan & Pahlavi Scripts
Location of the Manuscripts
Earliest Known Avestan Manuscript in Sogdian
Mihraban Kaikhusraw Manuscript
Bodleian Manuscript
Du Perron Manuscripts
Copenhagen / Rask Manuscripts
Indo-Iranian Languages
Avestan Old Iranian & Rig Vedic Sanskrit Similarities
Proto Indo-Iranian
Vedic, Classical Sanskrit & Prakrit
Vedic Language
Panini
Classical Sanskrit
Prakrit
Iranian Aryan Languages
Old Iranian Languages of the Avesta
Language of Gathas & Yasna Haptanghaiti
Language of Yasna, Yashts & Visperad
Language of Vendidad / Videvdat
Language of Zand
Post Avestan LanguagesEastern and Western Dialects
Old Persian
Parthian
Middle Persian Pahlavi
Middle Persian Pazend
Dari
Eastern Dari
Yazdi Dari Dialect
Danger of Extinction
Avestan Texts
Oral Avestan Texts
Written Avestan Texts
Scripts
Cuneiform
Aramaic
Pahlavi
Avestan
Avestan Calligraphy
Off-Site Reading (links)
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