Summary
Dejan Spasojević: The Book of the Righteous Viraf or Heaven and Hell in the Mazdaist Religion
The book Ardavirafnam belongs to the works of Pahlavi (Middle Persian) literature, which were created from around 250 BC to 650 AD. The work was translated into Sanskrit, Persian and the Persian language, and the first to introduce this book to the European public was the English Orient-List of Popes, whose translation was published in London in 1816. In 1872 Martin Haug, assisted by E. W. West and Dastur Hosangqi Djamasba As, published in Bombay a two-volume work of Pahlavi texts in English, the first volume containing the Ardavirafname. In the translation of the orientalist Barthelemy, this work was published in 1887 in French, and was later translated into other languages. This is the first translation into Serbian, from the Persian translation of the original text, which was translated from Pahlavi by Dr. Rahim Afifi.
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