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  2. Sacred Books of the East - Wikipedia

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    Sacred Books of the East. The Sacred Books of the East is a monumental 50-volume set of English translations of Asian religious texts, edited by Max Müller and published by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. It incorporates the essential sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam.

  3. List of historic Indian texts - Wikipedia

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    Subject Area - subject area of the book; Topic - topic (within the subject area) Collection - belongs to a collection listed in the table above; Date - date (year range) book was written/composed; Reign of - king/ruler in whose reign this book was written (occasionally a book could span reigns) Reign Age - extent of the reign

  4. Sasanian Avesta - Wikipedia

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    The 8th and 9th book of the Denkard give an overview of the Avesta as it was available at the time. Whereas the 8th book lists the content, the 9th book provides a lengthy summary on a number of its nasks [ 6 ] In addition, the Rivayats , a series of epistles from the 15th - 17th century, also list its content but do not provide further summaries.

  5. Timeline of Hindu texts - Wikipedia

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    Hindu scriptures are traditionally classified into two parts: śruti, meaning "what has been heard" (originally transmitted orally) and Smriti, meaning "what has been retained or remembered" (originally written, and attributed to individual authors).

  6. Religious text - Wikipedia

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    These derived terms differentiate a corpus of religious texts from the "canonical" literature. At its root, this differentiation reflects the sects and conflicts that developed and branched off over time, the competitive "acceptance" of a common minimum over time and the "rejection" of interpretations, beliefs, rules or practices by one group ...

  7. Avesta - Wikipedia

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    The oldest surviving versions of these tales are found in the ninth to 11th century texts of Zoroastrian tradition (i.e. in the so-called "Pahlavi books"). The legends run as follows: The twenty-one nasks ("books") of the Avesta were created by Ahura Mazda and brought by Zoroaster to his patron Vishtaspa (Denkard 4A, 3A). [10]

  8. James Legge - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Classics of the "Sacred Books of the East" most of which were translated by Legge; Smith, Carl (1986), "A sense of history (Part I)", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch 26: 144–264. “The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and its characteristics”, English translation by James Legge. Scalable text on white, grey or black ...

  9. Book of Arda Viraf - Wikipedia

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    The date of the book is not known, but in The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Prof. Charles Horne does not provide a definitive date for the tale. [7] Most modern scholars simply state that the text's terminus ad quem was the 10th or 11th century.