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Name the term used for India in the Zend Avesta, the sacred book of the persis |
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Answer» Answer: Avestan, named for the Avesta, the HOLY book of Zoroastrianism. Explanation: Zend or Zand (Middle PERSIAN: ) is a Zoroastrian technical term for exegetical glosses, paraphrases, COMMENTARIES and TRANSLATIONS of the Avesta's texts. The term zand is a CONTRACTION of the Avestan language word zainti (', meaning "interpretation", or "as understood". |
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