Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Parisima Mashayekhi ¹
• Farah Zahedi ²

¹ Graduated with a Ph.D. in Ancient Culture and Languages from the Research Science Unit of Islamic Azad University

² Assistant professor and member of the academic staff of the National Library of Iran

Abstract

Bandesh (consisting of two parts, bun meaning beginning and beginning, and dahišn, equivalent to the word dahesh in Persian, means creation, and in general it means beginning creation) is one of the surviving books in the middle Persian Zoroastrian language, the contents of which are only related to the issue. Creation is not limited, and much of it is about the end of the world. In this book, a long section is devoted to plants, which is probably based on studies of the Sassanid period. In this article, plants are divided into sixteen sections, and this section is based on the uses that reach them to humans. Of course, we see in the text of the seventeen divisions that the firewood case includes the wood of all plants. In the study section, the names of vegetables and fruits are classified into several groups: some are called tar, some are called oil, some are called colored, and some are called fragrant. It also divides plants into two parts, which include two parts and one part. These are: fruits that may be eaten inside and outside, those that may be eaten outside, may be eaten inside; Those who may eat the inside, may eat the outside. The identification of some of these names is ambiguous and different researchers do not agree on reading them. In order to understand the correct and incorrect reading of these words, all the manuscripts left by him should be examined and the reason for using that particular word should be considered in order to provide a correct translation of it. In the present article, an attempt has been made to review and revise some of these words by comparing them with different manuscripts and comparing them with some other texts that contain botanical information, especially Persian pharmaceutical and scientific books, and to offer new suggestions for reading these words.

Keywords

• Pahlavi literature
• Bondahi&scaron
• botany
• pharmacology
• lexical topics

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