The Investigation of Linguistic Features in the Text of Dārāb Hormazdyār’s Rivāyāt

Dārāb Hormazdyār’s Rivāyāt is the most complete and comprehensive collection of Persian narratives in Zoroastrian religious traditions and also historical, legendary and mythical narratives that was collected by Dārāb Hormazdyār in 1049 Yazdgerdi (1093 AH). Some of these Persian narratives, such as Ardavirafnameh, Sad dar Nasr and Sad dar Bundahishn have been published separately. So far, no comprehensive research has been done on the Persian texts of Dārāb Hormazdyār’s book in the areas of language, grammar and vocabulary. In the present article, an attempt has been made to extract some features of the text and provide them with evidence from the text.