Yasna 28.11, Yašt 1.26 and the Warštmānsar Nask: untangling an intertextual network (2019) (original) (raw)
Text and Context of the Yasna ī Rapiϑβin
Estudios Iranios y Turanios, 2023
The Yasna ī Rapiϑβin is usually classified as one of the liturgies belonging to the Long Liturgies (LLs), although it is not a vīspa ratu ceremony. It has been only edited once by ANKLESARIA (1888: 312ff.) with the ritual instructions in Gujarati. However, an in depth structural analysis of the Yasna ī Rapiϑβin texts has not yet been carried out. In this contribution, we try to sketch the main features of the text of the Yasna ī Rapiϑβin, regarding the ritual logic behind these variations in comparison to the Yasna. Furthermore, we summarize the information on the context in which the Yasna ī Rapiϑβin from the Sasanian times is performed, with the evidence of the Nērangestān, through the Revāyat to the present days with the information gathered by MARY BOYCE (1969).
Ritual and ritual text in the Zoroastrian tradition: The extent of Yasna 41
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2021
This article examines the extent of the concluding section (Y 41) of the Yasna Haptaŋhāiti in light of the manuscript evidence and the section's divergent reception in a Middle Persian text known as the “Supplementary Texts to the Šāyest nē Šāyest” (Suppl.ŠnŠ). This investigation will entertain the possibility of an alternative ritual being described in the Suppl.ŠnŠ. Moreover, it argues that the manuscripts transmit the ritual text along with certain variations and repetitions while the descriptions of the extent of each section preserve the necessary boundaries of the text as a textual composition or unit.
BSOAS, 2018
In recent years a number of scholars have proposed more or less detailed schemas of the formation of the Zoroastrian ritual. These schemas offer accounts of the arrangement of the texts in the liturgy, the process of its formation, and even its function from an endogenous perspective. One way or another, they argue that the official Zoroastrian liturgy is an integrated ritual with a coherent text, and that the function of the ritual and the intention behind the arrangement of the texts can be determined by means of philological, literary and comparative analyses. The questions of formation and meaning of the Zoroastrian liturgy these scholars have placed on the agenda are important not only for the study of Zoroastrianism but also for the history of religions and ritual theory. I consider their accounts with respect to the texts they invoke and the methods they use, and show that their arguments suffer from fatal flaws. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies/article/on-the-coherence-of-yasna-a-critical-assessment-of-recent-arguments/923D63C09E482EF29C9BF94B390C4399