(March 28, 1849 – October 10, 1894) French author who in 1877
became teacher of Persian language at the …cole des Hautes
…tudes. Chapter 1, Discovery of the Zend Avesta Chapter 2 The
Interpretation of the Zend-Avesta Chapter 3 The Formation of the
Zend-Avesta Chapter 4 The Origin of the Avesta Religion Chapter
5 The VendÓd‚d The Zend Avesta Part I Sacred Books of the East,
Volume 4, 1880 THE DISCOVERY OF THE ZEND-AVESTA [Includes notes
below e.g.1] The Zend-Avesta is the sacred book of the Parsis,
that is to say, of the few remaining followers of that religion
which reigned over Persia at the time when the second successor
of Mohammed overthrew the Sassanian dynasty 1, and which has
been called Dualism, or Mazdeism, or Magism, or Zoroastrianism,
or Fire-worship, according as its main tenet, or its supreme God
2, or its priests, or its supposed founder, or its apparent
object of worship has been most kept in view. In less than a
century after their defeat, nearly all the conquered people were
brought over to t