is different. From 600 the writing on the coins agrees with the MSS. of the Parsees; Mordtmann, "Z. D. M. G." 8, 12 ff.
112
Lepsius,
113
Westergaard, "Avesta," 1, 4 ff.
114
That the author or authors of the Bundehesh, – for the work consists of a collection of fragments of various character, – had before them larger remains of the Avesta, or a commentary which included more than our fragments, may be conceded. The composition of the work cannot be placed before the time of the Arabs, for the whole period of the Sassanid empire is given, and even on an extended scale (p. 82), mention is made of the empire of the Arabs, and Arabian words occur. Cf. Justi, "Bundehesh," p. ix. ff; cf. below, p. 73. [West, "Pahlavi Texts," 1, Introd. p. xci. ff].
115
On the Aramean sketch of the dialectic of Aristotle which was written for Ohoeru, cf. Renan, "Journ. Asiat." 1852, p. 311.
116
[Cf. Rawlinson,
117
"Sharastani," by Haarbrücker, 2, 284. The son of Mihr Narses is called Zarvandadh.
118
[Cf. Darmesteter, "Zend-Avesta," Introduct., c. iv. § 40, and c. iii.]
119
Plato. "Alcib. I." p. 122.
120
Diog. Laert. prooem.
121
Plin. "H. N." 80, 2.
122
1, 94.
123
Justin, 1, 1.
124
"Numa," c. 4; "Quaest. Sympos." 4, 1. [The reading Ζωροάστρην is doubtful; cf. Wyttenbach.]
125
Dio Chrys. 2, 60, ed. Dind.
126
Euseb. "Chron." ed. Auch. p. 43; cf. Georg. Syncell. p. 167. Βάτου after Zoroaster should here be changed into Βάκτρου rather than Μάγου.
127
Arnob. "Adv. Gent." 1, 5.
128
Euseb.
129
Porphyr. "De antro nymph." c. 6.
130
Ammian. Marcell. 23, 6.
131
Agathias, 2, 24.
132
Suidas, Μάγοι, Ζωροάστρης.
133
Above, p. 17. Georg. Sync. p. 78, 79. Vol. I. p. 241, 247.
134
Yet with Moses Zoroaster is a Mede, I. p. 87.
135
Plut. "Pomp." c. 24.
136
Cf. Von Gutschmid, "Die Sage vom heiligen Georg;" Sächsische Gesellschaft d. W., 1861, s. 175.
137
"Farvardin Yasht," 131.
138
C. 20 in Justi, [c. 20; § 32 West]; cf. "Vend." 19, 15.
139
C. 30, cf. above, p. 40. [C. 29, § 14, West.]
140
Strabo, p. 515, derives it from Atropates, whom Alexander made satrap there.
141
Still less important than the Bundehesh is the gloss on "Vend." 1, 60. "Many say that Zartusht was from Rak in Atropatan." Ragha is not in Atropatene.
142
Spiegel, "Eran," 1, 684 ff.
143
Plin. "H. N." 30, 2. Diogen. Laert. prooem. The different readings of 500 years in Suidas and 600 in Diogenes, as compared with 5000 and 6000 in the other MSS., can hardly be maintained against the uniform evidence of other witnesses.
144
Plut. "De Isid." c. 47.
145
"Vend." 19, 33; Spiegel, "Avesta," 3, 9, 201, 206.
146
"Ashi Yasht," 17; "Vend." 2, 20 ff.
147
West, "Mainyo-i-Khard," p. x.
148
West,
149
Justi, "Bundehesh," c. 1, 3, 34. [Cf. West's commentary on c. 34.]
150
Spiegel, "Eran," 1, 507.
151
Justi, "Bundehesh," c. 34.
152
If the rise of Arsaces is put in the year 250 B.C. It makes no difference in the total if we choose the year 248 B.C. for the beginning of the Arsacids.
153
Blau, "Z. D. M. G." 18, 686. Von Gutschmid,
154
"Farvardin Yasht," 139.
155
Aristot. "Metaph." 13, 4. Diogen. Laert. prooem.
156
Theopom. Fragm. 71, 72, ed. Müller.
157
Diogen. Laert. prooem., cf. Suidas, Μάγοι.
158
"Alcib. I." p. 121.
159
Plut. "Alex." c. 30.
160
Plut. "Artax." c. 4, 23, 29.
161
"Themistocl." c. 28.
162
Dinon, Fragm. 9, ed. Müller.
163
"Cyri Instit." 8, 1, 21.
164
Herod. 3, 16.
165
Herod. 1, 101, 131-140; 7, 40, 43, 113, 191; 3, 84.
166
Inscription of Darius at Elvend in Spiegel, "Keilinscriften," s. 45, 47.
167
Behistun, 4, 73-80; 56-61; Persop.
168
Strabo, p. 719; Nicol. Damasc. fragm. 66, ed. Müller.
169
Plin. "H. N." 30, 2; 28, 19.
170
"Vita Pythag." 12.
171
Diogen. Laert prooem.
172
Suidas, Μάγοι.
173
Herod. 1, 100, 124, 125.
174
Ezra, c. v., vi.
175
The Niça of the Vendidad is the Eastern Niça, Parthorum Nisæa, not very far from Merv; above, p. 10,
176
Lepsius, "Ueber das ursprungliche Zendalphabet," Abh. B. Akad. 1862, s. 298, 306, 381.
177
"Vendid." 4, 120; Astad Yasht, 1.
