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DİNKARD, BOOK IV.
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Arezrâspô!, and others from outside of Khvaniras?, came to Frashồstar for religious enquiry, with complete intelligence for the most who did so.
23. Dârâio, son of Dârât, ordered the preservation of two written copies of the whole Avesta and Zand, according to the receiving of it by Zaratûst from Adharmazd; one in the treasury of Shapigân“, and one in the fortress of written documents.
24. Valkhas, descendant of Askân, in each district, just as he had come forth, ordered the careful preservation, and making of memoranda for the royal city (shatrô shahag), of the Avesta and Zand as it had purely come unto them, and also of whatever instruction (âmûkö-k), due to it, had remained written about, as well as deliverable by the tongue through a high-priest, in a scattered state in the country of Iran, owing to the ravages and devastation of Alexander and the cavalry and infantry of the Ardmans
1 Evidently the same person as Arezrâspâh (Dk. IX, Chap. XXI, 24), the supreme high-priest of the northern region Vidadafsh (Bd. XXIX, 1). In Dk. VII it is also stated that Spîtóis and Arezrâspô came to Frashộstar, seeking information about the religion, 57 years after it had been received by Zaratûst who appears to have departed to the best existence ten years before.
• See Dk. VIII, Chap. VIII, 2.
8 According to Bd. XXXIV, 8 and the Persian Rivåyats, which teach a chronology of their own, this Dârâî was Alexander and reigned fourteen years; his father reigning twelve years.
• It is hazardous to read the royal (sh âya gân) treasury' because the name, which occurs seven times in the Dînkard, is five times spelt Shapîgân, and twice Shaspîgân.
* Probably Vologeses I, who was a contemporary of Nero and appears to have been a Mazda-worshipper (see S. B. E., vol. iv, p. xxxiv).
. The older Greeks were so called by the Persians in Sasanian
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| SR No. | 007672 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Darmesteter |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1883 |
| Total Pages | 2221 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 41 MB |