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    Zoroaster (category Articles with multiple maintenance issues)
    pre-Arm. *Zuradašt". There is no consensus on the dating of Zoroaster. The Avesta gives no direct information about it, while historical sources are conflicting...
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    spiritual sense, Zoroastrian texts written after the oldest parts of the sacred Avesta (such as the Vendidad) introduced additional teachings and restrictions...
    38 KB (4,744 words) - 21:54, 23 March 2025
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    the Gahambars are the only festivals named in the surviving text of the Avesta. The 10th-century scholar Biruni, in his work Kitab al-Tafhim li Awa'il...
    126 KB (11,602 words) - 02:36, 13 April 2025
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    religious policy.[citation needed] Under his reign, the collection of the Avesta, the sacred texts of Zoroastrianism, was completed, heresy and apostasy...
    41 KB (5,023 words) - 06:47, 3 April 2025
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    group of scholars representing fields in humanities, linguistics, and computing convened at Vassar College to put forth a set of guidelines known as the...
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    Perron presents a complete copy of the Zoroastrian sacred text, the Zend Avesta, to the Bibliothèque Royale in Paris, along with several other traditional...
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