The Avestan language is called Avestan because the sacred scriptures of Zoroastrianism, Avesta, were written in this old form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet-x.com.au » Afghan] Reference

Avestan dialect, the other an early form of Sanskrit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong] Reference

Strabo observed in Cappadocia recall all the peculiarities of the Avestan liturgy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

Naturally I had never previously connected ‘stomach’ to either Breton or Avestan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teeth] Reference

Çarva (Çaurva) is Avestan, but at the same time it is his.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference

Yazata is the Avestan term for an entity that is worthy of worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The present collection is made by combining various Avestan codexes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3] Reference

Avestan term for supernatural entities with disagreeable characteristics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The Avestan cognate is "Airya" and the Old Persian equivalent is "Ariya".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharyngula] Reference

Mithra is the Avestan language name of the Zoroastrian divinity of covenant and oath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gates of Vienna] Reference

The script was in Gujarati but the prayers were in Avestan, extinct in Iran for millennia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

The translation of the Avestan books, probably made under these circumstances as early as A.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference

↑ The term Mazdayasna is a combination of Mazda with the Avestan language word Yasna, meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Avestan texts, as five have them, is not so old as the language itself, but dates from the Sassanian period.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

Sharma points out (1999: 87) that there would have been some overlap in the lands of the Vedic and Avestan poets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis] Reference

The Avestan ritual is concerned largely with physical details, but is not lacking in a good ethical standard; the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

Greek parádeisos (park, pleasure-ground); Iranian (cf. Avestan) pairi-daëza (enclosure; through Hebrew, garden).    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories]

Avestan first man, Yima; but Yima, so far as appears, was never divinized, and is not religiously of great importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

The language of the Avesta is best designated simply as Avestan, not as Zend, for the reasons given in the beginning of this article.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

` cheese, 'and Avestan tūiri - meaning ` milk that has become cheese.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3] Reference

Persian and the Avestan.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Latin Grammar] Reference

This is seen in the Avestan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

The Avestan (Old Iranian) language written in.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Brazil's Lula pays tribute to Africa's historic role] Reference

Avestan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference

Avestan pairidaeza.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dissident Voice] Reference