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sigh ...Sanskrit has no lingual similarities ...most of the avetsan is said to resemble gujrati...
what u may be reffing to is a commonality in phonetics of each word ... even English has the same similarities and so do almost all languages except Mandarin.
Avestan is the oldest known form of the languages in the Iranian part of the Indo-Iranian language family, part of the Indo-European language family. Avestan is named for the Zend Avesta, the sacred scriptures of the Zoroastrians in which it appears. The early form of Avestan is so similar to Vedic Sanskrit that the main difference between them is the alphabet in which they are written, and the shift of s to h in Avestan. This similarity means that they date to a similar time, although both languages could have been used for later compositions (Sanskrit still is). The composition of the Avestan scriptures was once held to have been in about 587 BCE, the date of the earliest inscriptions of the Persian kings. This date was also the date set for the time of Zarathustra but it was based on attempts to equate the dates of real world events with the legendary history of the Old Testament of the Bible. This incorrect assumption caused the dates of these compositions to be dragged forward so that they have traditionally been dated much too recently by western scholars. Hopefully as archaeologists and historians get a better understanding of actual history, they can date these compositions better.
Although Sanskrit and Avestan are essentially the same language, the religions of Avestan and Sanskrit are so different that it is easier to treat them as separate entities. Zoroastrianism, the religion that is associated with the Iranian branch of the language family, has a number of features that make it different from the standard Religion of the Indo-European-speaking people. One of the differences between them is the division of the original pantheon of Indo-European deities into two groups: the Ashers, or deities of the Sun versus the Devis with Indra, deities associated with grain fields and the moon. This division is referred to as the Pandemonium, since the Sanskrit speakers demonized all or most of the Gods of the Zoroastrians and the Avestan speakers demonized all or most of the Gods of the Sanskrit speakers.
Avestan Language and Zoroastrianism