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Vendidad

Zoroastrianism

01Vendidad 1Fargard I 02Vendidad 2Yima (Gamshêd)03Vendidad 3The Earth 04Vendidad 4Contracts and Outrages 05Vendidad 5Fargard V 06Vendidad 6Fargard VI 07Vendidad 7Fargard VII 08Vendidad 8Fargard VIII 09Vendidad 9The Nine Nights' Barashnûm 10Vendidad 10Fargard X 11Vendidad 11Fargard XI 12Vendidad 12Fargard XII 13Vendidad 13The Dog 14Vendidad 14Fargard XIV 15Vendidad 15Fargard XV 16Vendidad 16Fargard XVI 17Vendidad 17Hair and Nails 18Vendidad 18Fargard XVIII

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Zoroastrianism · Avesta

Vendidad

The Avestan law against the demons: purity, the dead, and the myths of the first lands and of Yima's enclosure.

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Vendîdâd, tr. James Darmesteter
James Darmesteter, 1895

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Vendîdâd, tr. James DarmesteterTranslation · English · James Darmesteter, 1895

The Zend-Avesta, Part I: The Vendîdâd, translated by James Darmesteter, 2nd edition. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 4, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. · Source ↗

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