Mary Boyce's standard academic study of Zoroastrianism traces the religion's continuous history from Zoroaster to the present, and identifies Neryosang Dhaval as a Parsi priestly scholar of the late eleventh or early twelfth century whose Sanskrit renderings of Middle Persian texts, Boyce writes, show an admirable extensive knowledge of both languages and mark one of the peaks of Parsi scholarship.
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The standard academic study of Zoroastrianism by its leading twentieth century scholar, tier 1, matching the tier the map already gives its other foundational academic references, used here for Neryosang Dhaval's dating and the scholarly assessment of his translation work, corroborated by Wikipedia's account of the alternate dating below. NotesUsed for Neryosang Dhaval's late eleventh or early twelfth century dating and Boyce's assessment of his Sanskrit translation work.
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AuthorMary Boyce
PublisherRoutledge and Kegan Paul
URLhttps://archive.org/details/zoroastriansthei0000boyc
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names Middle Persian directly: "century whose Sanskrit renderings of Middle Persian texts, Boyce writes, show an admirable extensive knowledge of both languages and mark one of the peaks of Parsi scholarship."
Source Mary Boyce, Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979)Mary Boyce
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