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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Google turned up this, in case you haven't already seen
it. It doesn't help with the origin of the name though.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>A search using "Genealogy AND Zanta" kicks out all kinds
of stuff. This was <STRONG><EM>interesting</EM></STRONG>:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Arm. Pʿawstos (Latin, “fortunate”), fifth-century author of the Patmutʿiwn
Hayocʿ (History of the Armenians) or Buzandaran. He is surnamed Buzand, a word
taken to mean either “the Byzantine” or, as Anahit Perikhanian has proposed,
“composer of epics”: <FONT color=#ff0000>from OIr</FONT>
*bava(t)-<U><STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000 size=4>zanta</FONT></STRONG></U>-, cf.
NP. zandvāf “Zoroastrian, lit. chanter of the Zand” (pp. 653-57). Buzandaran
would mean something like “Epic Histories.” There seems little doubt that,
whoever the person Pʿawstos may have been, the <FONT
color=#000000><B>Histor</B>y</FONT> ascribed to him was composed in Armenian by
an Armenian steeped in the Iranian traditions of the newly Christianized land.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>(I put the red on it).</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>