Stylistic features of the first volume of Darab Hormozd narrations, based on the manuscript of the Majlis library

Zoroastrian narrations, which contain jurisprudential and legal issues of Zoroastrian religion, have been collected over the years by various narrators from India and Iran and have been compiled in a collection called Zoroastrian narrations or Darab Hormozd narrations. Several copies of this book are available in Indian and Iranian libraries. In this research, the version of the parliament library has been studied in terms of structural, intellectual and literary features.

This descriptive-analytical study was conducted to identify the characteristics of the book and the effect of Avestan, Pahlavi, Persian and Arabic scripts and languages on its language and writing, as well as the content of narrations and its literary style.

The script and language of this book are slightly influenced by the script, language and style of the tenth century and the use of Arabic words and more inclined to the script and language of Pahlavi and Avestan and Zoroastrian words. In terms of calligraphy, it prevails with continuous writing, and in terms of the use of words, Old Persian and Zoroastrian words and the Avestan language prevail, and in many cases, the Avestan script and language have been used directly in it. The handwriting of the book is also different in different places and in some pages it is ugly and irregular, which shows multiple scribes and adding content at different times. The content of the book also includes the doctrinal issues of the Zoroastrian religion, which has been quoted from authentic books through questions and answers and attention to the narrations of different narrators. From a literary point of view, no specific style can be considered for this book because It has no aesthetic basis and its features include syntactic shifts and deletion of verbs as well as repetition, a bit of simile and allegory. Poetic narrations do not have poetic features and do not have an aesthetic and original structure.

This book has different scripts and languages due to the use of different narrations from different sources and quoting various narrators, and the writing is not uniform, and its most important feature is the style of thought that expresses many dimensions of Zoroastrian religion in different languages.