. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . river Karajitself, a photograph of which I took three weeks later when I 1 See Daulatshah, Tadhkirat ash- and Customs, p. 3, Bombay, 1893, andShu^ara, ed. Browne, p. 30, London, this treatise has been translated into1901, and compare Browne, Literary Persian by Master Khodabakhsh. TheHistory of Persia, pp. 12, 346-347. same interpretation appeared to be 2 See p. 430, below, and compare found in a lithographed work frommy Zoroaster, pp. 17, 85, 192, 202. which they quoted, and which wa
. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . river Karajitself, a photograph of which I took three weeks later when I 1 See Daulatshah, Tadhkirat ash- and Customs, p. 3, Bombay, 1893, andShu^ara, ed. Browne, p. 30, London, this treatise has been translated into1901, and compare Browne, Literary Persian by Master Khodabakhsh. TheHistory of Persia, pp. 12, 346-347. same interpretation appeared to be 2 See p. 430, below, and compare found in a lithographed work frommy Zoroaster, pp. 17, 85, 192, 202. which they quoted, and which was a 3 See pp. 87, 103, above. compilation by Mirza Tath-ali-khan* See Vd. 19. 3, 11. The view that Zanganahi (so far as I could catch the the text contains an allusion to a moun- name). The comparison of the Daraj tain called Paitizbara {paiti zbarahi) with Karaj is due to this latter writer, from which the Darejya flows, is found There are some incidental references in an essay in English by Ervad She- to the Karaj in Yakut, pp. 65, 478, riarji Bharucha, Zoroastrian Beligion 488 ; see also p. 443, The Zokoastrian Anjuman at Yezd QUESTIONS CONCERNING ZOROASTER 361 crossed it, also shows precipitous banks that would answer to theconditions supposed to be required by the phrase paiti zbarahiin the Vendidad; ^ but in spite of this the identification seemsfanciful, and I have given reasons elsewhere for believing thatthe river Darejya, Drejya of the Avesta, is the modern Daryaiin I may add in passing that a number of personsin the assembly knew that Zoroasters name was associated bytradition with the city of Balkh in eastern Iran. For Zoroasters name, which appears in the Avesta as Zara-thushtra and in Modern Persian as Zmtusht or Zardusht, whichis believed in reality to mean some sort of a camel (Av. ushtra,see p. 89, above) they offered nearly a dozen fantastical interpre-tations or attempted etymologies. Dastur Tir Andaz, after theOriental manner, suggested
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