Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: Ancient Persia

The first known teacher of the Aryan Race, Zoroaster, the Ancient Sage ; The Zend-Avesta, or Persian Holy Scripture; The Gathas; The Vendidad; The Empire of Cyrus; The Later Religious Books; The Rock-Inscription of the Persian Conquerors; The Bundahish; The Zoroastrian Account of Creation; The Book of Arda Viraf (a Dantesque Vision of Heaven and Hell); The Pahlavi Historical Romances; The Memoirs of Zarir (the oldest account of the Zoroastrian Religious Wars); The Records of Artakshir (the heroic founding of the Second Persian Empire); The Final Tradition of the Past; The Epic of Kings.