Humbach Helmut, Ichaporia Pallan R. Zamyād Yasht. Yasht 19 of the Younger Avesta. Text, Translation, Commentary

Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998. — 194 p.The Zamyād Yasht (Yt. 19) is the last substantial text (97 strophes) of the collection of yasts (hymns to individual deities) in the Avesta. From a literary point of view its main interest lies in the stories from the Iranian epic tradition that are here elaborated to a greater extent than anywhere else in the Avesta, presenting in "chronological" order the tales of the heroes and villains who asked for and obtained or did not obtain the xvaranah-. Humbach and Ichaporia endeavor to study Zamyād Yasht from the philological point of view, drawing attention to the many actual problems of the text not seen by their predecessors, and emphasizing its intrinsic value as a document of the mythical and legendary early history of the Iranians, and its place in the Mazdayasnian tradition.