The first volume of this Manual of Pahlavi containing a selection of Zoroastrian texts in
Middle Iranian appeared in the 1960s. The present volume which has required extended
preliminary research gives a vocabulary of all the words found in these texts with ample
references to and analyses of the passages where they occur. Care has been taken to register
all equivalents hitherto known in Old Iranian in the Manichean texts among the Armenian
loanwords and in other West Iranian languages down to New Persian.Special attention has been
paid to the traditions of the Zoroastrians themselves both the linguistic tradition laid down
in Pazand neglected but authentic and the interpretative tradition manifest in the Sanskrit
versions. This Glossary comprises about 3 000 words.
