46 BABYLONIAN LITERATURE. 



that ji-iL-i is only the Pehlevian form of 

 <LoL~. The word <LL~s has been used as a 

 title to a host of moral treatises, or works 

 on ordinary and common subjects. 



The Greeks and Persians are not the 

 only foreign nations mentioned by Kuthami. 

 He speaks also of the Indians and the 

 Egyptians. 1 I do not lay so much stress 

 on his allusion to the Egyptians, who may 

 haye had organized sciences at the remote 

 period 2 to which Dr. Chwolson refers. But 

 it may be safely asserted that this was not 

 the case with the Indians. The Brahman 

 race were, at that time, scarcely established 

 in the valley of the Ganges. In many 

 widely differing ways we arrive at the con- 

 clusion that positive science is of modern 

 introduction into Brahman India, and that 

 it has been introduced from abroad. 



The Jews are only once named in " The 

 Book of Nabatha3an Agriculture," and I 



1 Page 90. 



2 For the same reason, I do not advert to the mention of 

 China, p. 81. 



