Vol, ren 10.] India in the Avesta of the Parsis. 435 
[V.S.] 
principal reference “ = in the Avesta, we will now look 
into the other refere 
bi ee gs apptes to India in the Yagna (LVII, 29) runs 
thus :— 
a Yatchit ushastairé Hendv6 ageurvayeité yatchit daosh- 
tairé Nigné 
Translation—Who goes from Hindustan in the East to 
Nineveh in t 
Here Siaoela, re Yazata or Angel presiding over Obedi- 
ence, is represented as marching in his chariot of swift horses, 
from the East to the West. India (Hindva) is here represented 
as the Eastern boundary and Nineveh as the Western boun- 
dary of the then known Iranian country. Scholars differ as to 
the meaning of the last word nigné. Some do not take it to 
be a proper noun. Darmesteter takes the eastern boundary 
to be the river Indus, and the western the river Tigris. But 
Yagna speaks of ‘India as = eastern boundary of the terri- 
tories of the country of Ira 
III. The reference to ae in the Meher Yasht (104) 
runs thus:— 
Mithrem vouru-gaoyaoitim yazamaidé yenghé 
daregachit bazava fragerewenti mithrd-aojangho, yatehit ushas- 
tairé Hindvé ageurvayeiti yatchit daoshatairé 
ranslation--We invoke Mithra of wide Sashes owe ews 
whose extended arms bali that person who aks to his 
promise (mithra), whether that person be in Hindustan in 
the East of Nineveh in the West 
he Meher Yasht treats of Mithra, the Yazata or Angel o of 
Light, who is believed to preside over ‘‘truthfulness.’’ He 
they happen to be in India in the East or Nineveh in the West. 
The phraseology ogee = same as that in the Yacna, the 
aie ee also is the sa 
Fro e above wi references of the Yacna and the 
Meher Yasht, we find the following two facts :—- 
Ve Firstly, they have dropped the word Hapta or seven 
from the name of the country and no longer speak of it as 
Hapta-Hindu, bat speak of : only as Hindu. This shows, ~ 
latterly, the name Hindu r India was not confined to the 
country watered by the poet but was extended to be 
other than this. 
2. Secondly, the rule of Persia ——— at the time 
gee Nineveh in the West to India in the Eas 
. The last reference to India in the Tee that in the 
Tir Yacht (32). It speaks not of India itself but of one of its 
mountains—the Hindukush. The passage runs thas :— 
