The Zend Avesta Part II: The Sacred Books of the East Part Twenty-Three

by F. Max Müller (Editor), James Darmesteter (Translator)

The Zend Avesta V2 is a book that belongs to the Sacred Books of the East V23 series. It was written by F. Max Muller and is a collection of ancient Zoroastrian texts that were compiled over several centuries. The book is divided into two parts. The first part contains the Yasna, which is the main liturgical text of the Zoroastrian religion. The second part contains the Visperad, Vendidad, and Yashts, which are supplementary texts that provide additional information about Zoroastrian beliefs and practices. The book is written in English and provides a comprehensive overview of the Zoroastrian religion and its sacred texts. It is an important resource for scholars of religion and anyone interested in learning more about Zoroastrianism.1883. The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising fifty volumes, has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. The series was edited by the famous linguist Max Muller, who also produced many of the translations and were the foundational documents for the new discipline known as the comparative science of religions. The Zend Avesta Part II The Sirozahs, Yasts and Nyayis. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Genres: Philosophy, Religion

400 pages, Paperback

First published November 29, 2000

About the author

Friedrich Max Müller, K.M. (Ph.D., Philology, Leipzig University, 1843)—generally known as Max Müller or F. Max Müller—was the first Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford University, and an Orientalist who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion. Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology and the Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set of English translations, was prepared under his direction.

Müller became a naturalized British citizen in 1855. In 1869, he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres as a foreign correspondent. He was awarded the Pour le Mérite (civil class) in 1874, and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art the following year. In 1888, he was appointed Gifford Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, delivering the first in what has proved to be an ongoing, annual series of lectures at several Scottish universities to the present day. He was appointed a member of the Privy Council in 1896.

His wife, Georgina Adelaide Müller was also an author. After Max's death, she deposited his papers at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.