A study of the five Zarathushtrian (Zoroastrian) Gâthâs / with texts and translations, also with the Pahlavi translation, for the first time edited with collation of manuscripts, and now prepared from all the known codices, also deciphered, and for the first time translated in its entirety into a European language, with Neryosangh's Sanskrit text edited, with a first translation, also with the Persian text contained in codex 12b of the Munich collection edited in transliteration, together with a commentary, being the literary apparatus and argument to the translation of the Gâthâs in the XXXIst volume of the Sacred books of the East, by Lawrence H. Mills, D.D. Parts I-IV, Yasna XXVIII-XXXIV, XLIII-L, LI, LIII; Comm.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mills, L. H. (Lawrence Heyworth), 1837-1918.

Standardized Title:

Avesta. Yasna. Gathas. Polyglot

Language:

Avestan

English

Pahlavi

Persian

Sanskrit

Physical Description:

xxx, 622 pages : 2 folded facsimile (including frontispiece) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

[Oxford] : [The author] ; [Leipsic]: [F.A. Brockhaus, druck von E.T. Jacob in Erlangen], 1894, [c1892]

Notes:

The text and translation ("pt. I-III") were printed 1880-83, and circulated "among specialists for several years, although not heretofore offered for sale." The commentary (originally called pt. IV) has a special t.-p. Inserted after this t.-p. is a double leaf with extracts from reviews, "printed for circulation among friends."

"Published with the assistance of the secretary of state for India in Council ... and ... that of the Trustees of the Parsi Panchayet translation fund of Bombay."

Issued in 4 parts, 1902-13 (t.-p. of first issue, Leipsic, 1902, retained in this copy).

Has also paging ([623]-1138) continuing that of preceding volume (text and commentary).

OCLC:

4448774