The First Three Hymns of the Ahunauuaitī Gāθā : : The Avestan Text of Yasna 28-30 and Its Tradition.

At the center of this book stands a text-critical edition of three chapters of the Gathas, exemplifying the editorial methodology developed by the "Multimedia Yasna" (MUYA) project and its application to the Old Avestan parts of the Yasna liturgy. Proceeding from this edition, the book exp...

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Superior document:Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.
©2023.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia
Physical Description:1 online resource (572 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Conventions
  • Figures and Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Editing Old Avestan in the Context of the MUYA Project
  • Chapter 1 Manuscripts Collated
  • Chapter 2 Methodology of the Collation Process (1): Transcription of the Manuscripts
  • Chapter 3 Methodology of the Collation Process (2): Regularisation of Variant Readings
  • Chapter 4 Scope of the Constituted Text
  • Chapter 5 Editorial Decisions Regarding Non-Trivial Phonetic and Orthographic Alternations
  • Part 2 Yasna 28-30: Text, Translation, Selected Commentaries and Glossary
  • Chapter 6 Preliminaries to the Edition of the Avestan Text
  • Chapter 7 Yasna 28: Edition of the Avestan Text
  • Chapter 8 Yasna 29: Edition of the Avestan Text
  • Chapter 9 Yasna 30: Edition of the Avestan Text
  • Chapter 10 Yasna 28: Constituted Text and Translation
  • Chapter 11 Yasna 29: Constituted Text and Translation
  • Chapter 12 Yasna 30: Constituted Text and Translation
  • Chapter 13 Notes on the Translation of the Avestan Text
  • Chapter 14 Selected Commentary Essays Proceeding from the Avestan Text
  • Chapter 15 Glossary of the Avestan text of Yasna 28-30
  • Part 3 Studies on the Ritual Setting of the Ahunauuaitī Gāθā (Yasna 28-34)
  • Chapter 16 Ritual Actions During the Recitation of the Ahunauuaitī Gāθā
  • Chapter 17 Considerations on the Rationale Behind Specific Ritual Actions
  • Chapter 18 Ritual Directions Accompanying Yasna 28-30 in the Manuscript Tradition
  • Part 4 Studies on the Exegetical Reception of Yasna 28
  • Chapter 19 Re-approaching the Pahlavi Gāθās
  • Chapter 20 Edition and Translation of Pahlavi Yasna 28
  • Chapter 21 Pahlavi Yasna 28: Commentary
  • Chapter 22 On the Marginal Headings Accompanying the Old Avesta in the Exegetical Manuscripts of the Yasna.
  • Chapter 23 Yasna 28.11, Yašt 1.26 and the Warštamānsar Nask: Untangling an Intertextual Network
  • Chapter 24 Appendix to Part 4: Edition and Translation of the Commentary on Yasna 28 in the Dēnkard Epitome of the Warštamānsar Nask (Dk 9.28)
  • Concluding Thoughts: Advancing a Holistic Approach to the Zoroastrian Textual Tradition
  • Bibliography
  • Index ofWords
  • Index of Passages
  • Index of Names and Subjects.