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Zoroastrianism and Ancient Iranian Religion

The Zend-Avesta (Sacred Books of the East)

by James Darmesteter & L. H. Mills · James Darmesteter & L. H. Mills (trans.)

The first complete English translation of the surviving Avesta, published in three volumes of Max Müller's Sacred Books of the East between 1880 and 1887. Darmesteter translated the Videvdad and Yashts and Mills the Yasna and Visperad. Dated in many details but historically important.

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