Husparam nask

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The Husparam nask is the seventeenth nask (volume) of the Sasanian Avesta.^[1] The work itself is lost, but its content can be reconstructed from references in Book 8 of the Denkard and the Rivayats. The Nerangestan and Herbedestan are considered to have originally been part of this nask.^[2]

The nask itself is no longer extant. Some information on its content are given in Book 8 of the Denkard, a 9th-10th century compendium of Zoroastrianism.^[3] In addition, the Rivayats, a series of epistles from the 15th - 17th century, give a short overview on the content of the Husparam nask.^[4]

In the Sasanian Avesta

The Sasanian Avesta was organized into 21 nasks, i.e., volumes, which were grouped into 3 divisions; the Gāhānīg (Gathic nasks), Hada Mānsrīg (manthras connected with the ritual), and Dādīg (legal nasks).^[5] Within this scheme, the Husparam nask was part of the legal nasks and it content, consequently convered a wide range of legal topics. It consisted of either 30 or 60 fragards (chapters) depending on the source.^[6] Edward William West estimates, that the Husparam nask consisted of ca. 44.900 words of Avestan text accompanied by ca. 403.600 words of commentary in Pahlavi, making it the third longest nask overall.^[7]

In the extant Avesta

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↑ Shaki 1993, chap. Huspāram Nask.
↑ Reichelt 1911, p. 180.
↑ Gignoux 1994.
↑ Dhabhar 1932.
↑ Kellens 1987, "The Sasanian collection of the Avesta and its commentary (zand) is described in chap. 8 of the Dēnkard; it was probably composed of three books of seven chapters [...]".
↑ Shaki 1993, "Huspāram Nask (30 chaps.; 60 in the Persian Rivayats)".
↑ West 1892, chap. Introduction.
↑ Reichelt 1911, p. 180: "The last seven-eights of the Nirangastan (§§ 19—109) correspond exactly with the account of the first half of the Nirangastan section of the seven- teenth Nask, given in Denkart VIII. xxix. 1—17; and the previous part of the Nirangastan (§§ 1 — 18) corresponds with the description of some portions of the previous Ehrpatastan section of the same Nask. As this correspondence is quite close, it may be considered certain, that the Nirangastan consists of two fragments of that Nask, nearly as it existed in Sasanian times".
↑ Kotwal 2003, ""Like the Nērangestān and Vendidād, the [Herbedestan] appears to represent an ancient Zoroastrian learned, rather than liturgical, tradition..

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In the Sasanian Avesta

In the extant Avesta

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