434 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1913. 
drafshim,”’ i.e. the city of the exalted drapeau.’’ This state- 
ment shows that it was still at that time the capital city of 
Bactria, carrying the royal banner. Now, we know, that 
ria fell i 
as Hapt-Hindu, i.e. as ‘‘ the country of the seven rivers of the 
Indus,’’ a long time before 1200 B.c. 
- Coming to the third fact, we find that the country of 
India, as first known to the Iranians, before about 1200 B.0., 
tarem Hendum,’’ j.e. the country of Hindustan, extends 
from the East of the Indus to the West of the Indus. This 
sentence is not found in some of the old manuscripts of the 
Vendidad.' So, it seems, that it is a later addition by 
way of a comment. The later Pahlavi rendering of the 
So, it appears that the Avesta sentence is a later addition 
_» # commentator. Anyhow, what we find from this passage 
is this: At first, it was only the country watered by the Hindu 
was known as the country of Hindustan (India), 
but latterly, gradually, the country both on the west and the 
east of the country so watered by the Indus was included: in 
the name Hindu or India. : 
astly, we come to the question of the curse on the 
heat and its women had to pass through a period of menstrua- 
tion ata very early period of their life. We know that this is 
true of India even now. 
F aving examined the four inferences that can be drawn 
tom the passage of the Vendidad which is the first and the 
i; I Vide Westergaard’s Text, p. 346, note 5 to para 19, where he says 
25 Ko, R omit these six words hacha Hindum.’’ 
2 Spiegel’s Text, p. 7, 1. 3. 
