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 XVI PAHLAVI TEXTS.

completed by Mar-sapin Fr^Cin Vihr6m RCistdm B6nd4r Malkd-marrf4n Din-ayir, on the day Asm*in of the month Amer6da^/ A.Y. 941 (19th March, 1572), in the district of the DahikAn in the land of KirmAn. The end of this colo- phon is lost with the last folio of BK, which renders it possible that the last folio contained the further colophon of this copy.

That BK is descended from K35 is proved by its con- taining several false readings, which are clearly due to mis-shapen letters and accidental marks in K35. And that it was copied direct from that codex is proved by the last words of thirty-two of its pages being marked with inter- lined circles in K35, which circles must have been the copyist's marks for finding his place, when beginning a fresh page after turning over his folios. This copy of K35 has lost many of its folios, in various parts, but most of the missing text has been recently restored from the modern manuscript J, mentioned below; there are still, however, eleven folios of text missing, near the end of the codex, part of which can be hereafter recovered from TK, de- scribed below. The independent value of BK is that it supplies the contents of the seventy-one folios lost at the beginning of K35, and of about nineteen of the folios missing at the end of that codex.

A third manuscript of the first class, which may be even more important than K35, was brought to Bombay from Persia about fifteen years ago, and belongs to Mr. Teh- muras Dinshawji Anklesaria, of Bombay, but it has not been available for settling the texts translated in this volume. It is here called TK, and is described as still consisting of 227 folios, though seventy folios are missing at the beginning and about fourteen at the end. In its present state, therefore, it must begin very near the same place as K35, but it extends much further, so as even to supply nearly half the contents of the eleven folios missing from BK ; it does not, however, include the contents of the last three folios of BK. According to a colophon appended in this manuscript to the * Sayings of ZIU/-sparam, son of Y6ddn-Yim, about the formation of men out of body, life,

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