- Category
- Scripture
- Claimed author
- Knowledge from the Zand (traditional exegesis of lost Avesta)
- Likely origin
- Anonymous Zoroastrian priests; final redaction attributed in part to the family of Farrbay son of Ashawahisht
- Date
- compiled after the Arab conquest, c. 8th–9th century CE, from older Sasanian material; West translation 1880
- Language
- Pahlavi (Middle Persian)
- Manuscripts
- Survives in two recensions: the shorter Indian Bundahishn (translated here, 34 chapters) and the Greater Iranian Bundahishn
- Accepted by
- Authoritative Pahlavi (Middle Persian) compilation of Zoroastrian cosmology; Zand tradition, not part of the Avesta proper
The Bundahishn ('Primal Creation') is the great Zoroastrian account of cosmogony: Ohrmazd's creation of the world, the assault of the evil spirit Ahriman, the natures of creatures, stars and sacred fires, and the final resurrection and renovation of the universe.