Avesta
noun
1.
a collection of Zoroastrian texts gathered during the 4th or 6th centuries
Origin
From Iranian Persian اوستا (avestâ), from Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾp(y)stʾk' /abestāg/), of uncertain meaning.
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