"The Hadesta' which we now have it, is far from what it was supposed to be at one time when it formed as a wide and vast encyclopedia. Nor was it the sacred code, the sacred book of all Irans, yes good of a single part of the nation. He was not of the Persians in antiquity, because from what Herodotus says about their religion, and from what is evident from the inscriptions of the Achaemenids, it appears that they professed a very similar religion, but not that of the Avesta. The Persians, on the other hand, embraced it much later, that is, after the Vulgar Era, when the Sassanids solemnly proclaimed it, with the 'Avesta', the official religion of the kingdom."
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