Usage examples for zendavesta:
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The
name
of
Dimivan
is
remarkable,
being
identic
with
the
Demavends
or
antidiluvians
of
Persia,
called
Dawand
in
the
Zendavesta
the
Demoi
or
old
people
of
the
Pelasgians,
the
Demons
of
many
nations.
"The American Nations, Vol. I.", C. S. Rafinesque
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When
we
turn
from
the
ravings
of
the
Zendavesta
or
the
Puranas,
to
the
tone
of
sense
and
of
business
of
this
Chinese
collection,
we
seem
to
be
passing
from
darkness
to
light-
from
the
drivellings
of
dotage
to
the
exercise
of
an
improved
understanding;
and,
redundant
and
minute
as
these
laws
are
in
many
particulars,
we
scarcely
know
any
European
code
that
is
at
once
so
copious
and
so
consistent,
or
that
is
nearly
so
free
from
intricacy,
bigotry
and
fiction."
"A Visit To The United States In 1841", Joseph Sturge
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A
fifth
is
the
Zend
of
the
Zendavesta
the
Scriptures
of
the
followers
of
Zoroaster.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies", Robert Gordon Latham