The Text has been scrupulously edited, commented and translated by Raham Asha over decades. We here use the last version of his work, published in 2015, with some minor modifications: šak-ud-gumānīh-vizār: The Doubt-removing book of Mardānfarrokh, Introduced, translated, and edited by Raham Asha, Paris, Alain Mole, 2015.
The Bundahišn (long recension), in the chapter describing the mountains, refers to books on lands (āyādgārīhā ī šahrīhā).
The following fragments, belonging to «the literature of puerile civility» are only extant in their Pāzand form.
[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="szdirltr"] Raham Asha The Trilingual Inscription of Šābuhr I at Ka’aba i Zardušt (ŠKZ), also known as Res Gestae divi Saporis (RGDS), is an inscription, probably erected in 262, commissioned by the Sasanian king of kings Šābuhr ī Ardaxšērān (Šābuhr I) on the Kaʿba i Zardušt, a tower-like structure, part of the archaeological expanse of Naqš i Rustam, located a few
This small bilingual inscription, in Pahlavānīg (Parthian) and Pārsīg, was excavated at Bēšāpūr (Vēšābuhr) in 1935-36.
[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="szdirltr"] Raham Asha The vizārišn ī catrang ud nihišn ī nēvardašēr (VC), is a romantic record of how the game of Chess was introduced into Persia from India, and how the Persian wise invented the game of Backgammon. The core of the story is the exchange of riddles between two royal courts to determine which part should pay tribute to the
The original Pārsīg text of the peymān (and the two following Āfrīn) is not extant. In the Zand of the Short Liturgies (Xvardag Abestāg) the Pārsīg text of the solemn promises and recitals of blessings at the marriage ceremony seems to be “an attempt” at reconstructing the original text based on a Pāzand version. The last copy of that text was made
There is a model marriage contract extant in Pārsīg. (the copyist has added the date 647 A.Y. (/ 1278 A.D.) of copying to it)
From Raham Asha’s The Significance of the Sacred Girdle (Text, Transcription and Translation), 2005, Paris.
There exists a poem foretelling the coming of the marvelous king Vahrām, a savior figure of Iranian thought. It is, as Jehangir Tavadia states, “a rhymed ballad.”
