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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1878 Subjects: Religion / Zoroastrianism Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: HI. -- THE PAHLAVI LITERATURE EXTANT. Pahlavi writings may be divided into two classes: first, translations from the Avesta; and, secondly, writings of which no Avesta original is known. The translations are always written in sentences of moderate length, alternating with those of the Avesta text; they are extremely literal, but are interspersed with short explanatory sentences, and sometimes with long digressions, serving as a commentary on the text. The Pahlavi writings without an Avesta original are nearly entirely of a religious character, though a few are devoted to historical legends. Pazand versions of some of these writings, as well as of the translations, exist both in the Avesta and modern Persian characters. Sometimes the Pazand, when written in the Avesta character, alternates with a Sanskrit or Gujrati translation; and when written in the modern Persian character, in which case we may call it a Parsi version, it is usually accompanied by a Persian translation, either alternating with the Parsi sentences or interlined; in the latter case, it is a literal translation, and in the former it is more of a paraphrase. Some writings are found only in Persian, and this is more especially the case with the Eivayats or collections of memoranda and decisions regarding ceremonial observances and miscellaneous religious matters; these are generally very free from Arabic words, but some of them contain nearly as much Arabic as is used in Mohammedan Persian writings. These Eivayats also contain metrical Persian versions of some of the more popular Pahlavi and Pazand b...

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