AVESTAN-ENGLISH

A Complete Dictionary of the Avesta Language in Gujarati and English

By Kanga Kavasji E.

Book information

Language
avestan-english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
51 MB (53737840 bytes)
Pages
\636
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Library
twirpx
Time added
2017-08-07 07:01:42
Языки и языкознание;Авестийский язык

Description

Publisher: Education Society's Steam PressDate: 1900Pages: 611Kavasji Edalji Kanga successfully vied for the prize offered in 1892 for compilation of a complete dictionary of all the words occurring in the Avesta texts. This book is reprint of his monumental work first published in 1900. The book comprises, in addition to the meanings, a comparison, wherever practicable, of Avesta words with those of Pahlavi, Sanskrit, Persian and Latin and all the inflected forms of verbs, nouns – substantive and adjective, pronouns and participles and references as to where they occur. Kavasji Edalji Kanga was a Fellow of the University of Bombay and the Headmaster of the Moola Feeroze Madressa. He also prepared authoritative translations of the Khordeh Avesta, the Vendidad, the Yasna, the Visperad and the Gathas. He authored A Practical Grammar of the Avesta Language, compared with Sanskrit.

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