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 CORRECTIONS.

P. 66, line 15 ; p. 67, 1, 7 ; for * Mitrd ' read ' Mitr6.'

P. 108, lines I, 3, for *the Supreme Being* and *the Being' read 'God (y6dat6),' and cancel note i.

P, 109, note 2, add 'Malkds has also been read Markiis and traced to Av. mahrkQjd (see Fragment VIII, 2 in Westergaard's Zend- Avesta, p. 334), which appears to be the title of some demon, regarding whom very little can be ascertained from the text that mentions him.'

P. 143, 1. 12 ; 145, 1. 6 ; 150, note 6 ; 252, 1. 6 ; 289, note 2 ; 318, 11. 36, 27 ; 346, 1. 24 ; for ' Atiir ' and * AtQr6' read * Atiir' and ' AtOrd.'

The following emendations depend upon the meaning to be attached to the word vasp6harak, or vaspAharak, which in Mkh. I, 7 was traced to Pers. b^, 'with,' and sipihrah, 'sphere, world, universe,' and supposed to mean * world-renowned,' being rendered byvikhyStimatin Sanskrit. The objections to this etymology are that Pers. ba is Pahl. avak (not va), which is nearly always replaced by Huz. levatman, and that vSspilhar appears to be the correct form of the word v asp fir, which explains the Huz. barb^ti, literally 'son of the house* in the Pahlavi Farhang (p. 9, ed. H.) ; the latter word having been the highest title of the Persian nobility, probably confined to the heads of seven families (see Noldeke's Geschichte der Perser und Araber zur Zeit der Sasaniden, pp. 71, 501). Such nobles are called barb 6 tin in the Hi- ^iibad inscription, line 6, and vispOharakan in the Naqj-i Rustam inscription, line 6 ; they may perhaps be styled ' princes,' and their title, vispQhar, may be traced to the ancient Persian equivalent of A v. v!sd puthra (Vend. VII, 114), literally 'son of the village or borough.' It may be noted, however, that the word 'sphere* does really occur in a form very similar to this title, in the word aspiharakanik!hi,'as regards the spheres,' in Dd. 69, 4.

P. 78, 11. 1 1- 1 3, read 'But those who are the more princely (vispfl- harakinlktar) producers of the renovation are said to be seven. . .'

P. 91,11. II, 13, read *. . . and he made the princes (vRspflharakanlha) contented.'

Digitized by VjOOQIC