The Zend Avesta is the main texts used in the Zoroastrian faith. These many different texts are believed to have been transmitted orally for centuries before they were written down in the 3rd century.
According to a legend preserved in the Book of Arda Viraf, a 3rd or 4th century work, a written version of The Zend Avesta had existed in the palace library of the Achaemenid kings (559–330 BC), but which was then supposedly lost in a fire caused by the troops of Alexander the Great. This is the complete Zend Avesta in English, a Public Domain version published in 1880 in Oxford.
The Zend Avesta
The Zend Avesta are the main texts used in the Zoroastrian faith.
Written by: Unknown oral sources
Published by: Orford at the Clarendon Press
Edition: Translated for the work: The Sacred Books of the East
Available in: Ebook
Download The Zend Avesta here in PDF-format (395 pages):
The Zend Avesta
Arent we all Creations of the same God?No matter his(her) name is Ahuramazda or Dieu or Diva or Allah? What difference does it make?
it is interesting to learn about different cultures and their beliefs. who are u arguing with here?
Agree…..It is the same God. God is One, Man is One, Religion is therefore One
Salam walikum.. Br Ali
What is it you find interesting abt zoro ?
I found the belief in one GOD, which is none other than (ALLAH swt).
Insha’allah all zoro followers are guided by Allah swt ☝ to the Huq.
You mind your own business
There is no relation between your allah and zoroatriansm
In sha Allah
“Zend” is derived from sanskrit “Chand” which means ‘Metre of poetry’.
How can we prove that Avesta is older then the Holy Bible? I think most of written ideas comes from the Bible? Those ideas might be transmitted by the scattered Jewish during their exile.
All the religions are from the same God. That is there are some similarly among them. All forum prophets followed the instructions from the same God.
Sorry, there are mistakes in the above message due to self suggestions of the electronic system.
All the prophets followed the instructions from the same God, therefore, there are some similarities among their teachings. It is clearly obvious that there are some fundamentals which are universal. Other things are time and space dependent.
It sounds like you are a Baha’i
That is a bit rude. I agree with Shafique. For example when they sat in the Quran that lamps will fall from the heavens does not mean that directly, as it was intended for the people of the time. It means that asteriods would fall onto the erath from space.
Zand is neither a language nor a style. This is an old Iranian language (Old Persian) word, meaning “Interpretation” or “Explanation”. It means that Avesta was not written in Persian. As we know, Zoroaster was basically from the present day Loralai or Zhob district of Balochistan, inhabited by Pashtoon ethnicity, therefore, it comes clear that Avesta was written in Pashto.
Hi is there a Microsoft word version of the Holly Avesta? i need it for my research
Dear Kamran, not any I am aware of. I expect that you need a clean text version for searching. In that case I would suggest that you convert the PDF to a text readable version, then copy the text to a word document for further research. There is a number of tools for that out there. Adobe has some solutions, but you can also find some freewares.
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Thank you !
Thank you!
Thank you very much for sharing this sacred book with us. May God lead us to the real truth of this world . Amen
excellent! thank you so much!
zenda means flag in indian languages and avesta might mean a-veda or Anti-veda
Hi, Zend or Zand, is actually kind of the writing style or the language used to write Avesta. As far as I know, Zend is a part of Avestan language which is used to write Avesta.
Probably impossible for us to ever know the meaning of it but I am sure some phony young college student liberal with an earring and an Obama bumper sticker would be all too happy to try to explain his version.
Ich glaube Ahura Mazda!
I wish someone could explain to me the true concept and meaning of the Zend Avesta.
I welcome comments
excellent! thank you so much. in the name, truth and light of ahura mazda :)