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The written Dēnkard is a section of what is manifest in the Mazdayasnian Tradition, which is adorned with the knowledge of all things.3 Firstly, there are extracts from the good Tradition of the Teachers of Old, the first pupils of Zarathustra of the Spitāmas, who brought the Word containing the knowledge (dānishn) and awareness (āgāhīh) of all issues as manifested in the good Tradition and obtained by Zarathustra by asking and listening to Ohrmazd, like light from the original Light.4 And it tells how that exalted ruler Kay-Wishtāsp commanded that the original questions and decisions be set down in writing from beginning to end, that they be consigned to the gubernatorial treasury, and that copies be distributed as was appropriate. From then on, copies of the awareness it contained were sent to the Fortress of Books and kept there.5 During the disasters that the miserable villain Alexander brought upon Iran, the Tradition, and the kingdom, the copy in the Fortress of Books was burned, and the one in the gubernatorial treasury fell into the hands of the Romans. It was also explained in Greek language from the awareness that was transmitted by the ancients.6 Then his majesty, king o

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN