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Public-domain English Zend-Avesta enters cheap print and later Gutenberg

Darmesteter’s English, now at Gutenberg, made later Avestan books classroom-accessible. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

Read the full account

Darmesteter’s English, now at Gutenberg, made later Avestan books classroom-accessible. Access spreads both Gathas and Vendidad.

Context

He did not English 1898. High confidence on the public book.

Zoroaster is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A Gutenberg Avesta is not a founder autograph.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Zoroaster

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.21 · verified

    Named prophet as heading of later hymns and state religion. Redactors, Sasanian kings, and later Parsi printers publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.The Zend-Avesta (Darmesteter) — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Library of CongressLibrary of Congress · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorZoroaster
  2. contributed toFactPublic-domain English Zend-Avesta enters cheap print and later Gutenberg
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Public-domain English Zend-Avesta enters cheap print and later Gutenberg. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/zo-darmesteter-gutenberg

https://factrail.ai/facts/zo-darmesteter-gutenberg

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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