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Definition of Avesta

1. Noun. A collection of Zoroastrian texts gathered during the 4th or 6th centuries.

Definition of Avesta

1. n. The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta.

Definition of Avesta

1. Proper noun. (Zoroastrianism) The sacred texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the Avestan language. ¹

2. Adjective. (dated) Avestan language ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Avesta

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Success at last crowned his efforts, and on his return in 1771 he was able to give to the world the first translation of the avesta. From the moment of its ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"The exact meaning of the name « avesta" is not certain; it may perhaps signify "law," ... The modern familiar designation of the book as Zend-avesta is not ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1914)
"THE ZEND avesta—(P. 214 sqq.) The first European translation of the avesta was made by Anquetil da Perron, and appeared (in 3 vols. ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"The truth is that we possess but a trifling portion of a very much larger original avesta, if we are to believe native tradition, carrying us back to the ..."

5. Chips from a German Workshop by Friedrich Max Müller (1868)
"It might be objected that this was wrangling for victory, and not arguing for truth, and that no real scholar would admit that the avesta, in its original ..."

6. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"The exact meaning' of the name "avesta" is not certain; it may perhaps signify "law," ... The modern familiar designation of the book as Zend-avesta is not ..."

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