Ādarbād ī Mahrspendān (Adarbad son of Mahrspend), a Zoroastrian high priest, lived in the reign of the early Sasanian kings (≈ 240 – 340 A. D.). He played an important part in the definition of the Zoroastrian canon (the Avesta’s twenty-one Nasks).
Contents of the Book:
- Part I. Adarbad’s life, works and teachings
- Chapter 1. Adrbad’s place and role in the millennium of Zoroaster
- Chapter 2. Sen (the teachings of the school of Adarbad and that of Sen)
- Chapter 3. Mani and the Magi
- Chapter 4. Admonitions and parables
- Chapter 5. Scripts (Adarbad, the restorer of Avesta and Zand)
- Chapter 6. The admonitions of Adarbad to his son Zardusht (Persic and Arabic texts)
- Chapter 7. The Day-book (Hemerology)
- Chapter 8. Some sayings of Adarbad. The testament of Adarbad spoken by him on his death-bed to the people
- Chapter 9. The twenty-two words explained by Adarbad. The 22 words of Mihr-Ohrmazd, from the sayings of his teacher
- Chapter 10. The injunctions of Adarbad and the counter-injunctions of Mani
- Chapter 11. The division of the things of the material world in twenty five parts
- Chapter 12. The Petit i Adarbad. The recital of the repentance prayer
- Chapter 13. The Nam stayishn. Praise to the name of Ohrmazd
- Chapter 14. Miscellaneous sayings (some sayings from a copy from the book of Adarbad)
- Part II. Texts relative to Adarbad from various sources
Adarbad son of Mahrspend. New lights on his life and on some of his works (in Persian)
Raham Asha
Tehran, 2003
ISBN : 964-456-802-8
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