The Zoroastrian Law to Expel the Demons: Wīdēwdād 10-15, Critical Edition, Translation and Glossary of the Avestan and Pahlavi Texts

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Body
Preface
Prolegomena
	The Pahlavi Wīdēwdād and the Wīdēwdād ceremony
	Contents and structure of V 10–15
		V 10
		V 11
		V 12
		V 13
		V 14
		V 15
	Manuscripts of the Pahlavi Wīdēwdād
		A) Manuscripts with date
		B) Manuscripts without date
	Colophons of the manuscripts of the Pahlavi Wīdēwdād
		1. Colophons of 4610 (K1)
		2. Colophons of IM
		3. Colophons of 4615 (Ml3):
		4. Colophon of 4620 (D62)
		5. Colophon of DR
		6. Colophon of 4630 (P2)
		7. Colophon of 4640 (P5)
		8. Colophon of 4643
		9. Colophons of 4645
		10. Colophons of Pt2_PB
		11. Colophon of 4660 (G25)
		12. Colophon of 4665
		13. Colophons of 4668
		14. Colophon of 4670 (F10)
		15. Colophons of 4675 (Bh11)
		16. Colophon of 4678 (DJR)
		17. Colophon of DJE
		18. Colophon of MU2
		19. New Persian colophon of DN
		20. New Persian colophon of 4700 (T44)
		21. Colophons of 4704 (Ml4)
		22. Colophon of 4708
		23. Colophons of 4713 (E10)
Stemmatics of V 10–11 and 13–15
Stemmatics of V 12
Avestan paleography
Avestan orthography
	A) Variants to be explained by phonetic similarity
		1. Vowels
		2. Diphthongs
		3. Semivowels
		4. Stops
		5. Sibilants
		6. Clusters
	B) Variants to be explained by assimilation with a similar phoneme in a preceding or following syllable
		1. Vowels
		2. Stops
	C) Variants to be explained otherwise
		1. Vowels
		2. Diphthongs
		3. Aspirate
		4. Clusters with anaptictic vowel
		5. Wrong division because of saṁdhi
		6. Punctuation
Pahlavi paleography
Pahlavi orthography
	A) Variants to be explained by phonetic similarity
		1. Vowels and semivowels
		2. Stops
		3. Sibilants
		4. Confusion between heterograms and eteograms
	B) Variants to be explained by graphic simplification
		1. Vowels and semivowels
		2. Stops
		3. Aspirate
	C) Variants to be explained by graphic hypercharacterization
		1. Vowels
		2. Stops
	D) Other orthographic peculiarities
Previous editions of the Avestan and Pahlavi Wīdēwdād
Some notes on this edition
Critical Edition of V 10–15
	Abbreviations in the critical edition
	Sigla in the critical edition
	Commencement of the tenth book
	Commencement of the eleventh book
	Commencement of the twelfth book
	Commencement of the thirteenth book
	Commencement of the fourteenth book
	Commencement of the fifteenth book
Translation of the Avestan and Pahlavi Texts
	Tenth book
	Eleventh book
	Twelfth book
	Thirteenth book
	Fourteenth book
	Fifteenth book
Glossary
	Avestan glossary
	Quotations from other Avestan texts in Wīdēwdād
	Avestan words or phrases in the PT of Wīdēwdād
	Pāzand words in the PT of Wīdēwdād
	Pahlavi glossary
Bibliography