Tansar

…and he and his priest Tosar are credited with collecting the holy texts and establishing a unified doctrine. Two treatises, The Testament of Ardashīr and The Letter of Tosar, are attributed to them. As patron of the church, Ardashīr appears in Zoroastrian tradition as a sage. As founder of the…

…of a high priest named Tansar, a contemporary of Ardashīr I, of whose activities an account is preserved in the Letter of Tansar, contained in the History of Ṭabaristān (Tārīkh-e Ṭabaristān) by the Persian writer Ibn Isfandiyār (flourished 12th–13th century). New inscriptional evidence, however, suggests that, if Tansar was, in…

…the first Sasanians: Kartēr and Tansar. Whereas Kartēr is known through contemporary inscriptions, most of which were written by himself, Tansar (or Tosar) is only remembered in later books. The latter tell us that Tansar, an ehrpat, or theologian, undertook the task, under Ardashīr’s command, of collecting the sacred texts…