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|description=Lit., “the Law”. From the old Persian ''Âbastâ, ''“the law”. The sacred Scriptures of the Zoroastrians. ''Zend ''means in the “Zend‐Avesta” — a “commentary” or “interpretation”. It is an error to regard “ Zend” as a language, as “it was applied only to explanatory texts, to the translations of the Avesta”(Darmsteter) {{ctd-source|TG}}.
|description=Lit., “the Law”. From the old Persian ''Âbastâ, ''“the law”. The sacred Scriptures of the Zoroastrians. ''Zend ''means in the “Zend‐Avesta” — a “commentary” or “interpretation”. It is an error to regard “ Zend” as a language, as “it was applied only to explanatory texts, to the translations of the Avesta”(Darmsteter) {{ctd-source|TG}}.
|quotes=H. P. Blavatsky
 
The bibliography recommends The Zend-Avesta in the Sacred Books of the East series: parts I-II translated by James Darmesteter and part III by L. H. Mills (volumes IV, XXIII and XXXI). {{ctd-source|BCW|2|522}}.
|quotes=H. P. Blavatsky; Zirkoff, Boris
|ctd rus=Авеста
|categories=Zoroastrianism
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