Illustrated history of ancient literature, oriental and classical

CHAPTER II.

_PERSIAN LITERATURE._

=Avesta.=—Sprung from the same ancient Aryan tongue as the Sanscrit of India, and distinguished by the same richness of inflection, is Avesta, the earliest language of Persia, still preserved to us in the Persian Scriptures known as _the_ Avesta. The Veda and the Avesta have been described as “two rivers flowing from one fountain-head;” and be...