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

*Avesta (or Zend-Avesta). The Zend-Avesta. Transl. by James Darmesteter. Part I. The Vendidad. Part II. The Sirozahs, Yashts, and Nyayis. Part III (Transl. by L. H. Mills). The Yasna, Visparad, etc. Sacred Books of the East, Oxford.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 496