Oh, Adur (Oldibehesht)! [I wish] I could please Vohu Manah and Gush Urwan.
To all those who are pure, sincere and noble, to all those who pursue good thoughts, good words and good deeds, to all those who hope that their fellow citizens can live and work in peace and happiness, and to all those who are sincerely engaged in building a free and happy life on earth.
The method for the translation of the Avesta from Chinese to English challenges the machine translator.
It does not come out with a clear english syntax at the first instance.
The idea of coupling with a LLM-AI to find more sense in the first translated verbose finds some interest at this point.
So, the current version proposed, the version to date of this post, has now links to comparative tables for three parts of the texts: the preface, the editor's preface and some in-work material of the Volume 1 of the Songs.
Gathas or, gasas, or gazas, wordly, compare to the english "songs" or "hymns".
Excerpt (from the in-work volume 1):
The Gatha, also known as the Song of Zoroaster, is the oldest poem in the Avesta. The term "Gatha" was originally part of "Yasna," as it pertains to the "Mazda Yasna" (see note 1). The hymns sung by the prophet Zoroaster himself hold a special status and have been selected and compiled into a separate volume.
note 1: means "Mazdaism", later called Zoroastrianism. The Chinese call it Zoroastrianism or Fire Worship. ——Translator’s note
Excerpt from the preface by Jalil Dusterhah:
As we all know, the languages of the ancient Aryans, such as Avestan, Old Persian, and Sanskrit, are some of the oldest and most challenging languages in the world—more difficult to master than ancient Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. These overly pedantic scholars likely believe they can brazenly label themselves as “Iran experts” simply by skimming through a few antiquated texts. In reality, the two or three dictionaries they cling to have long been outdated. The editors of these reference books, published in India and France, either knew little about the language of the ancient Aryans or had only a superficial understanding of it. Strictly speaking, they are unqualified to compile such reference works; if they attempt to do so reluctantly, the quality will undoubtedly be compromised.
NB: At this point, I have no idea how the machine translator works, especially for these technical texts (if some sort of verbose is detected and compared to some sort of general existing data to match with, or if the translator detects language patterns only and create scratch verbose)...
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