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The PDF version of The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra by Irach J. S. Taraporewala is published by FEZANA online; Irani, Dinshaw Jamshedji; Tagore, Rabindranath (1924), The Divine Songs Of Zarathushtra, London: Macmillan Complete text of the book including introduction and a plain English synopsis of each verse is available online
Within the Gathas, the sacred hymns attributed directly to Zarathushtra, there exists a singular reference which is considered to touch upon homosexuality. This reference appears in Yasna 51.12, a rhymed verse line. In this verse, the prophet strongly condemns a figure referred to as a “sorcerer poet” or 'vaēpiia'.
According to this tale, Zaradusht defrauded his master, who cursed him, causing him to become leprous (cf. Elisha's servant Gehazi in Jewish scripture). [citation needed] According to Ibn Kathir, Zoroaster came into conflict with Jeremiah which resulted in angry Jeremiah cast a curse upon Zoroaster, causing him to suffer Leprosy, and
The Avestan term for the sacred thread is aiwyaongana.Kustig is the later Middle Persian term. [3]The use of the kushti may have existed among the prophet Zarathushtra's earliest followers due to their prior familiarity with practices of the proto-Indo-Iranian-speaking peoples, and its Vedic analogue, the yajñopavita.
The name Zoroaster (Ζωροάστηρ) is a Greek rendering of the Avestan name Zarathustra.He is known as Zartosht and Zardosht in Persian and Zaratosht in Gujarati. [14] The Zoroastrian name of the religion is Mazdayasna, which combines Mazda-with the Avestan word yasna, meaning "worship, devotion". [15]
In the Denkard ('Acts of Religion', 9th century), four of the twenty-one nasks are described to have expounded on the efficacy of the hymn (8.44.1), and each volume of the nasks is said to have been initially assigned its title from a word in the Ahuna Vairya prayer (Denkard intro, 6, 8, 17, 18, 9.1.4). The formula's potency to smite daevas and ...
Zaratosht-nama [1] or Cangranghaca-nama (Persian: زراتشتنامه) is a religious epic poem in Persian language composed in 13th century CE. The poem is about the life of Zoroaster, the founder of Zoroastianism. The author of the poem is Kay Kavus pur-i Khosrow.
[17] [18] According to this tradition, when Zoroaster arrived at Vishtaspa's court, the prophet was "met with hostility from the kayags and karabs (kavis and karapans), with whom he disputed at a great assembly–a tradition which may well be based on reality, for [Vishtaspa] must have had his own priests and seers, who would hardly have ...