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Bundahishn

Bundahishn proper noun: an encyclopaedic collection of Zoroastrian cosmogony and cosmology; especially, the longer of the two recessions of the work.

Proper noun

Bundahishn

  1. An encyclopaedic collection of Zoroastrian cosmogony and cosmology; especially, the longer of the two recessions of the work.
    • The Bundahishn chapter is here given in outline, renderings from West's translation being sometimes adopted verbatim.1896, A. V. Williams Jackson, “The Ancient Persian Doctrine of A Future Life”, in William Rainey Harper, Ernest DeWitt Burton, Shailer Mathews, editors, The Biblical World, New Series: Volume 8...
    • 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...

Origin of Bundahishn

Borrowed from Avestan 𐬠𐬎𐬥𐬛𐬀𐬵𐬌𐬱𐬥𐬍𐬵 (bundahišnīh, literally “primal creation”), being a word from the first sentence of the younger (and longer) of the two recensions of the work.

Words formed from Bundahishn

  • Greater Bundahishn
  • Indian Bundahishn
  • Iranian Bundahishn
  • Lesser Bundahishn

Questions about Bundahishn

What does Bundahishn mean?
Bundahishn means an encyclopaedic collection of Zoroastrian cosmogony and cosmology; especially, the longer of the two recessions of the work.
What part of speech is Bundahishn?
Bundahishn is a proper noun.

Words near Bundahishn in the dictionary

  1. Bundabah
  2. Bundaberg
  3. Bundabergian
  4. Bundagen
  5. Bundahish
  6. Bundahishn
  7. Bundalaguah
  8. Bundalong
  9. Bundalong South
  10. Bundanoon
  11. bundar

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