Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . Q < N <P3i r oz CO o- 30o MEDIA, , AXD PERSIA. lO. This is the traj^cdy in its grand and simplefeatures, divested of the diffuse and conflicting state-ments, the puerile anecdotes of the Greek chroni-clers, and viewed by the light of the great Bchistuninscription, whicli gives it in the following brief, butsufficiently explicit paragraph : There arc, among the Babylonian contract-tablets, two dated September and October of thefirst year of King
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . Q < N <P3i r oz CO o- 30o MEDIA, , AXD PERSIA. lO. This is the traj^cdy in its grand and simplefeatures, divested of the diffuse and conflicting state-ments, the puerile anecdotes of the Greek chroni-clers, and viewed by the light of the great Bchistuninscription, whicli gives it in the following brief, butsufficiently explicit paragraph : There arc, among the Babylonian contract-tablets, two dated September and October of thefirst year of King Barziya —ample confirmation, ifsuch were needed, of this statement, of the universalacceptation of the usurpers claim, and of the credu-lity with which his self-assertion met in theprovinces. ... When Kanil)ujiya had proceeded to Egypt, then the statebecame \\ icked. Then the lie Lecanie abounding in the land, Ijothin Persia and in Media, and in the other provinces. Afterwards there was a certain man, a Magian, named Gau-MATA. ... He thus lied to the state : I am Bardiya, the son ofKurush, the brother of Kambujiya. Then the who
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