An Annotated Translation of Zoroastrian Book Pahlavi Literature, the Dēnkard Book III: No. 6 from the Posthumous Papers of the late Prof. Gikyō ITŌ

The Dēnkard is one of the most voluminous Zoroastrian Book Pahlavī literature, edited by Zoroastrian high priests, Ādurfarrōbay-ī Farroxzādān and Ādurbād-ī Ēmēdān in the 9th and 10th centuries. Here presented is an annotated transcription and Japanese translation of its third volume, which consists of 420 polemics against bad religions―Manichaeism, Judaism and Islam. Our process of preparing this translation can be divided into two steps. 1． The late Prof. Gikyō ITŌ made a Pahlavī lettersʼ transcription and its Japanese translation preciously corresponding to Madanʼ s Dēnkard edition. Unfortunately, however, he passed away before completion this work. 2． After Gikyō ITŌʼs death, Takeshi AOKI made his work up-todate, and added ① linguistic commentaries on Pahlavī lettersʼ transcription and ② religious commentaries on Japanese translation. This time we can print only the 62th chapter to the 70th chapter, but we hope publishing serially the whole transcription and translation of the Dēnkard Book Ⅲ in this Memoirs