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

Date: 1898

## The fact

Later Avestan books in Darmesteter English include purity laws that can mark bodies and outsiders. A closed purity code is a rights-hierarchy path of medium/low confidence on founder-authorship — the books are later.

## Context

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

[Zoroaster](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

Official heritage, encyclopedia, or public Avesta pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: The Zend-Avesta (Darmesteter) — public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17921; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

Printed Vendidad rules are not a founder autograph.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [protection-of-minority-rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is protection-of-minority-rights. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

- Zoroaster: https://factrail.ai/people/zoroaster

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118785539
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17921

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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