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Public Vendidad-as-later-English prints purity and corpse-rules as a closed code

Later Avestan books in Darmesteter English include purity laws that can mark bodies and outsiders. In the causal graph this event weakens Protection of Minority Rights, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

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Later Avestan books in Darmesteter English include purity laws that can mark bodies and outsiders.

Context

Purity can also organise care of fire and water. This stores the closed-code as printed.

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

Printed Vendidad rules are 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.

    1. FactPublic Vendidad-as-later-English prints purity and corpse-rules as a closed code
    2. weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 September 1898 · verified

    Printed Vendidad rules are not a founder autograph.

    • Having a say in government

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Worse

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Worse

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.The Wiley Blackwell Companion to ZoroastrianismWiley Blackwell · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.The Zend-Avesta (Darmesteter) — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg · 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 Vendidad-as-later-English prints purity and corpse-rules as a closed code
  3. weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Public Vendidad-as-later-English prints purity and corpse-rules as a closed code. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/zo-purity-codes-later

https://factrail.ai/facts/zo-purity-codes-later

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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