De Neoragex 5.2 Completo. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Historiography [ ] The surviving texts of the Avesta, as they exist today, derive from a single master copy produced by -era (224–651 CE) collation and recension. That master copy, now lost, is known as the 'Sassanian archetype'. The oldest surviving manuscript ( K1) of an Avestan language text is dated 1323 CE. Summaries of the various Avesta texts found in the 9th/10th century texts of Zoroastrian tradition suggest that a significant portion of the literature in the Avestan language has been lost. Only about one-quarter of the Avestan sentences or verses referred to by the 9th/10th century commentators can be found in the surviving texts. This suggests that three-quarters of Avestan material, including an indeterminable number of juridical, historical and legendary texts, have been lost since then.

On the other hand, it appears that the most valuable portions of the canon, including all of the oldest texts, have survived. The likely reason for this is that the surviving materials represent those portions of the Avesta that were in regular liturgical use, and therefore known by heart by the priests and not dependent for their preservation on the survival of particular manuscripts. A pre-Sasanian history of the Avesta, if it had one, is in the realm of legend and myth. 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 to his patron ( 4A, 3A). Supposedly, Vishtaspa ( Dk 3A) or another, ( Dk 4B), then had two copies made, one of which was stored in the treasury, and the other in the royal archives ( Dk 4B, 5). Pano2vr Pro.

Following Alexander's conquest, the Avesta was then supposedly destroyed or dispersed by the Greeks after they translated the scientific passages that they could make use of ( AVN 7–9, Dk 3B, 8). Several centuries later, one of the emperors named Valaksh (one of the ) supposedly then had the fragments collected, not only of those that had previously been written down, but also of those that had only been orally transmitted ( Dk 4C). The Denkard also transmits another legend related to the transmission of the Avesta.