428 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1913, 
laid the foundation. Had Sir William Jones himself lived 
long, he would have soon corrected his somewhat hasty con- 
clusion, for which, one must say, the translations of Anquetil 
themselves were, a certain extent, responsible, because, 
though they did all credit to him as a great scholar, they were 
after all crude. Sir ones had no opportunity to see the 
Ree S88 he eee ee ae ae 
and in the peninsula of eee As the 
Parsis are the ruins of a people, so are their sacred books the 
n this short paper, I want to collect those passages in 
“that small book, the Avesta,’ which refer to the land of 
‘the tolerant Hindus,’’? who kindly gave to the Parsis the 
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important branches of the Aryan or the Indo-Iranian stock of 
people, knew something of each other’s country from ve 
ti : 
Mysore 
Opponents of these Pahlavs. They are supposed by some to 
e the same as Sa uk 
general of Alexander the Great. If so, we see in this opposi- 
Ibid., Xi-xii. 
aeenores of Hindu Law or The Ordinances of Menu,’’ by W. 
Q ts 
Jones (1794), p 294, 
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