Wizidagiha-i Zadspram

The Wizīdagīhā-ī Zādspram (or Vizīdagīhā-ī Zādspram), also known as the Anthology or Selections of Zadspram, is a Pahlavi language composition of Zoroastrian literature from the 9th-century scholar and high priest Zadspram, who was primarily active ca. 880 AD. His works were composed closely in time to the Denkard and the Bundahishn and treats similar subjects, but is independent of them. The primary subject matters of the book include a description of Zoroastrian cosmology, the life of the prophet Zoroaster, and then the eschatological end. The work also delves into matters of medicine, astrology, and zoology. Some sections of the work derive from the Zend, an earlier Zoroastrian commentary.[1][2]

Alongside the Bundahisn, the Selections of Zadspram is one of the two primary systematic treatments of Zoroastrian cosmology known from Zoroastrian literature.[3]

  1. ^ Macuch 2009, p. 139–141.
  2. ^ Gignoux 2005.
  3. ^ Skjærvø 2011, p. 337.

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