Tansar

Tansar () was a Zoroastrian Herbadan Herbad (Chief judge) in late Parthian Empire And one of the supporters of Ardashir I. Tansar was apparently a Parthian aristocrat, but he turned to Neoplatonic beliefs. Then he joined Ardashir I and became Herbadan Herbad during his reign. He was commissioned to collect the Avesta and died on an unknown date. Tansar's great work is his letter to Goshnasb, which is one of the most important writings in the collection of Middle Persian literature, which provides valuable information about the social and administrative organization of Iran during the Sassanid period.

== Name == The name of this Zoroastrian cleric is mentioned in most of the reports of the Islamic period of "Tansar", but other forms such as "Tanshar", "Banshar", "Bishar", "Yanshar", "Tabsar" and "Bansar" can also be seen. Also, the name of Tansar, as a result of the characteristic of the alphabet of the Pahlavi script, can be read in various forms such as "Tansar", "Tousar" and "Dosar". In The Meadows of Gold, al-Mas'udi called the beginning of the Sassanid period "Tansar" and in his other book, At-Tanbih wa-l-'Ishraf, he called him "Dushar" or "Dusar". Miskawayh and Ibn Isfandiyar have given the only known form of "Tansar" and al-Biruni in Alberuni's India has given the Middle Persian form of "Tusar".