اوستااوستا، بخش یکم، گات‌ها (هفت‌ها)، به‌شماری، سرده، دکتر علی محمدی دکتر علی محمدی Avesta, Part 1 Gatha in Modern Persian Poems

Bakersfield, CA: [author], 1987. Small quarto in offwhite stiff printed paper wraps; 213pp; errata sheet laid in. Fine with faintest edge-wear. . Paperback.

Inscription in Farsi to title page, presumably by author. (See photo) | Scarce Farsi (Persian) translation of the Avesta. "The Avesta is the text corpus of religious literature of Zoroastrianism. All its texts are composed in the Avestan language and written in the Avestan alphabet. It represents the largest literature of the Old Iranian period and contains the oldest texts in any Iranian language. ... The Gathas are five hymns in the Avestan language from the Zoroastrian oral tradition of the Avesta. The oldest surviving text fragment dates from 1323 CE, but they are believed by scholars to have been composed before 1000 BCE and passed down orally for centuries. They are traditionally believed to have been composed by the prophet Zarathushtra himself. They form the core of the Zoroastrian liturgy. They are arranged in five different modes or metres.\" —Wikipedia