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And the Persian bible, the Zend-Avesta, in like manner predicts that "a star, with a tail in course of its revolution, will strike the earth and set it on fire."

For pure, unadulterated malevolence, the Vedas, the Shaster, the Zend-Avesta, afford no parallel for this truly Christian doctrine.

I have just read the first half of Fechner's "Zend-Avesta," a wonderful book, by a wonderful genius.

None were omitted,—the Zend-Avesta, the Upanishads, the Vedas, the Mahabharata—with its jewel the Bhagavad-Gitâ,—the Egyptian Book of the Dead,—the Talmud and the Koran.

It is in any case no doubt identical with the demon Aeshma of the Zend-Avesta and the Pahlavi texts.