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Bundahishn
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from en ae 𐬠𐬎𐬥𐬛𐬀𐬵𐬌𐬱𐬥𐬍𐬵 primal creation, being a word from the first sentence of the younger (and longer) of the two recensions of the work.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
en Q1005362 en religion Zoroastrianism mythology An encyclopaedic collection of Zoroastrian cosmogony and cosmology; especially, the longer of the two recessions of the work.
en 1896 A. V. Williams Jackson The Ancient Persian Doctrine of A Future Life William Rainey Harper; Ernest DeWitt Burton; Shailer Mathews The Biblical World, New Series: Volume 8 w:University of Chicago Press https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DovNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA162&dq=%22Bundahishn%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjiyoms3dn4AhUB4HMBHakHAak4ZBDoAXoECBoQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Bundahishn%22&f=false 162 The Bundahishn chapter is here given in outline, renderings from West's translation being sometimes adopted verbatim.
1997 [Routledge], Alan Williams, 2: Later Zoroastrianism, Brian Carr, Indira Mahalingam (editors), Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, 2005, Taylor & Francis e-Library, page 23,
The Bundahishn is concerned with, among other things, the themes of the creation of the world, the order of things, and the eschatological destiny of both the individual soul and the world at large.
en 2003 Farhang Mehr The Zoroastrian Tradition Mazda Publishers https://books.google.com.au/books?id=g53XAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Bundahishn%22&dq=%22Bundahishn%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjqsojY1Nn4AhU9p5UCHTrQCSAQ6AF6BAhLEAI 143 According to Bundahishn, the prophet had exclaimed that with the disintegration of the body and the destruction of matter, the reconstruction of the body would not be possible.
Derived terms
en Greater Bundahishn
en Indian Bundahishn (= Lesser Bundahishn)
en Iranian Bundahishn (= Greater Bundahishn)
en Lesser Bundahishn
Translations
Persian:
Dari: prs بُنْدَهِشْن
Iranian Persian: fa-ira بُنْدَهِشْن
Tajik: tg Бундаҳишн