Crossword-Solution: APAST 5 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

King Vîshtâspa is said to have caused two authentic copies of the Avesta--which contained in all ten or twelve hundred chapters**--to be made, one of which was consigned to the archives of the empire, the other laid up in the treasury of a fortress, either Shapîgân, Shîzîgân, Samarcand, or Persepolis.*** * The word _Avesta_, in Pehlevi _Apastâk_, whence come the Persian forms _âvasta, ôstâ_, is derived from the Achćmenian word _Abasta_, which signifies _law_ in the inscriptions of Darius.

The term Zend-Avesta, commonly used to designate the sacred book of the Persians, is incorrectly derived from the expression _Apastâc u Zend_, which in Pehlevi designates first the law itself, and then the translation and commentary in more modern language which conduces to a _knowledge (Zend)_ of the law.

Beyond these, in the midst of the shining river, duskily slumbered the little, fortified and wooded Island of Sainte Hélène; and up the stream, apast the petty promontory of Pointe Saint Charles, stretched the low, umbrageous lapse of Nuns Island, whence the eye followed the bending flood, that trended towards where, with eternal toil and sullen roar, agonize for ever the hoary rapids of Lachine.

What encouragement is there for a man to come here and trade? Folks that live here tell me that they do most of their business by telephone in the daytime, and then do their runnin' around at night, but I've got apast that.

Such old forms as _anear_, _adown_, _afeard_, _apast_, _afore_, &c., are heard everywhere in Ireland, and are all of old English origin, as it would be easy to show by quotations from English classical writers.