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>The zealous Zoroastrian prelate Kartir, who was particularly influential in the late third century, conducted. concerted campaigns against everything he regarded as daeva-worship. In his inscription at Nagsh-i Rustam, Kartir proclaimed that ‘great blows and torment befell Ahriman and the daevas, whose heresy ‘departed and was routed from the empire’, while the abodes of the daevas were ‘made into thrones and seats of gods’. Kartir's crusade against daevaworship was accompanied by measures against the other religions in the Sassanid empire. The Zoroastrian priesthood was reformed; Kartir's inscription recorded that Zoroastrianism and the Magians were greatly exalted in the Sassanid empire
>These two forms of Zoroastrianism are attested by later Islamic writers like alBaghdadi and al-Shahrastani and their evidence is discussed in Zaehner, The Dawn and Twilight, pp. 180-1
>Madan, Dinkard, p. 154, quoted after Zaehner’s translation of the names of the sects in Zurvan, p. 13
>Quoted from the recent translation of Kartir’s inscription by D. N. Mackenzie in Jranische Denkmiiler, Reihe 2, Lief 13 (Berlin, 1989), p. 58
>The zealous Zoroastrian prelate Kartir, who was particularly influential in the late third century, conducted. concerted campaigns against everything he regarded as daeva-worship. In his inscription at Nagsh-i Rustam, Kartir proclaimed that ‘great blows and torment befell Ahriman and the daevas, whose heresy ‘departed and was routed from the empire’, while the abodes of the daevas were ‘made into thrones and seats of gods’. Kartir's crusade against daevaworship was accompanied by measures against the other religions in the Sassanid empire. The Zoroastrian priesthood was reformed; Kartir's inscription recorded that Zoroastrianism and the Magians were greatly exalted in the Sassanid empire
>These two forms of Zoroastrianism are attested by later Islamic writers like alBaghdadi and al-Shahrastani and their evidence is discussed in Zaehner, The Dawn and Twilight, pp. 180-1
>Madan, Dinkard, p. 154, quoted after Zaehner’s translation of the names of the sects in Zurvan, p. 13
>Quoted from the recent translation of Kartir’s inscription by D. N. Mackenzie in Jranische Denkmiiler, Reihe 2, Lief 13 (Berlin, 1989), p. 58
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