This is a treasure trove of Avesta, Pahlavi and Pazend manuscripts. |
Over the years, the Pahlavi era has been hailed for its successes and criticized for its failings. |
Pahlavi evolved from the Aramaic script, and so it retained the right-to-left writing direction. |
Iran has also succumbed over the course of a cruel century, in large part because of the depredations of the Pahlavi dynasty. |
He himself admits that he was following a Mohammedan author, who has certainly made a free translation of the Pahlavi text. |
The commentary is not written in the Zend language, but in Pahlavi or Persian. |