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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Rigvedic rivers, Rivers of Hades, Ganges, Indus River, Styx, Lethe, Sarasvati River, Mnemosyne, Acheron, Phlegethon, Cocytus, Anahita, Yamuna, Ravi River, Ghaggar-Hakra river, Ganges in Hinduism, Vaitarna river, Jhelum River, Bhagirathi River, Sutlej River, Kabul River, Chenab River, Sarayu, Beas River, Eridanos, Gihon, Soan River, Nadistuti sukta, Gomal River, Drsadvati River, ?fingr, Haro River, Yavyavati, Ras?, River Malvam, Sillas. Excerpt: Anahita is the Old Persian form of the name of an Iranian goddess and appears in complete and earlier form as (); the Avestan language name of an Indo-Iranian cosmological figure venerated as the divinity of ‘the Waters’ (Aban) and hence associated with fertility, healing and wisdom. Aredvi Sura Anahita is Ardwisur Anahid or Nahid in Middle- and Modern Persian, Anahit in Armenian. An iconic shrine cult of Aredvi Sura Anahita, was – together with other shrine cults – “introduced apparently in the 4th century BCE and lasted until it was suppressed in the wake of an iconoclastic movement under the Sassanids.” The Greek and Roman historians of classical antiquity refer to her either as Ana?tis or identified her with one of the divinities from their own pantheons. 270 Anahita, a silicaceous S-type asteroid is named after her. Only (a word otherwise unknown, perhaps with an original meaning “moist”) is specific to the divinity. The words and are generic Avestan language adjectives, and respectively mean “mighty” and “pure” (or “immaculate”). Both adjectives also appear as epithets of other divinities or divine concepts such as and the Fravashis. Both adjectives are also attested in Vedic Sanskrit. As a divinity of the waters (), the yazata is of Indo-Iranian origin, according to Lommel related to Sanskrit that, like its Proto-Iranian equivalent , derives from Indo-Iranian . In its …
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