Avesta as "Fragments Tahmuras"; and the "Hadokht Nask" "volume of the scriptures" with two fragments of eschatological significance. Only texts preserved in the Avestan language count as scripture and are part of the Avesta. Several other secondary works are nonetheless crucial to Zoroastrian theology and scholarship. The most notable among the Middle Persian texts are the "Dēnkard" ("Acts of Religion"), dating from the ninth century; the "Bundahishn" ("Primordial Creation"), finished in the eleventh or twelfth century, but containing older material; the "Mainog-i-Khirad" ("Spirit of Wisdom"), a religious conference on questions of faith; and the "Book of Arda Viraf", which is especially
Invading the Sacred Courtright's sexual interpretation of Gaṇeśa." According to Das, criticism of "Freudian psychoanalysis as a surrogate religion" are as old as psycho-analusis itself, and the criticism of "Invading the Sacred" is therefor not surprising. In critique of the book, Das notes a "failure to distinguish properly between academia and public life outside this." Das further notes that Das also notes a lack of academic qualifications, and a lack of scholarly rigor, by the authors of "Invading the Sacred". He raises concerns with the author's inability to use primary materials: Das further notes that "[n]ot only sound analysis of primary sources, but