Quotes:Avesta

H. P. Blavatsky

Avesta. 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).

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Avesta

Zirkoff, Boris

*Avesta. Consult The Zend-Avesta. Transl. by James Darmesteter. Parts I, II & III (the latter tr. by L. H. Mills). Oxford: Clarendon Press, SBE, IV, XXIII, XXXI.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 522