Around 1500, Indo-Aryan culture began to dominate the region. Indo-Aryan culture is associated with Sanskrit, a language related to Greek, Latin, and Avestan (the ancient language of Persia)--all are ...

Other Iranian languages of note are Old Persian and Avestan (the sacred language of the Zoroastrians for which texts exist from the 6th century BCE). West and East Iranian comprise the Iranian group ...

Jehangir Bisney elaborated, “Monajat, unlike the traditional Zoroastrian prayers in ancient Avestan, is recited in the devotee’s native language, typically Persian or Gujarati. This enables the ...

Linguists can tell us for certain that Greek and Latin etc did not come from Sanskrit but are on another branch of the linguistic family tree: Indo-Iranian (Avestan) the old language of Persia ...

Zoroastrians that the 'Parsi Gate' on Marine Drive, which was dismantled for construction of the Mumbai Coastal Road, will ...

She gained her knowledge of ancient Iranian culture and religion through the study of old and classic texts (Middle Persian, Avestan, Manichaean, early Jewish-Persian, early New Persian) in Sassanid ...