. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . ^ Tabari (d. 923),writing in the same century as Firdausi, but earlier, even claimsthat it was to a place in Istakhr, called Dizh-i Nipisht, Strong-hold of Records, that Zoroasters patron, Vishtasp, sent theoriginal copy of the Avesta, which was engrossed in letters ofgold. This tradition, also found elsewhere, seems to agree withthe Pahlavi account of the archetype copy of the scriptureswhich was deposited in the treasury of Shaplgdn ^ and burned 1 See p. 294, above. Kulub, cite
. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . ^ Tabari (d. 923),writing in the same century as Firdausi, but earlier, even claimsthat it was to a place in Istakhr, called Dizh-i Nipisht, Strong-hold of Records, that Zoroasters patron, Vishtasp, sent theoriginal copy of the Avesta, which was engrossed in letters ofgold. This tradition, also found elsewhere, seems to agree withthe Pahlavi account of the archetype copy of the scriptureswhich was deposited in the treasury of Shaplgdn ^ and burned 1 See p. 294, above. Kulub, cited by Barbier de Meynard, 2 Yakut, p. 49. Tahumars, or Tab- Diet. geog. p. 48, n. 1; and comparemuraf, is the same as the Avestan king Le Strange, Persia under the Mongols,Takhma Urupi, the predecessor of in JBAS. 1902, p. 519. Yima Khshaeta (Jamshid), and, ac- ■* Ibn Haukal, tr. Ouseley, p. 100. cording to legend, his brother. See s Firdausi, Shah Ndmah, tr. Mohl, on this point Darmesteter, Le ZA. 2. 2. , n. 13. 6 The spelling and reading of this 3 Hamdallah Mustaufi, Nuzhat al- name is Ruins of Stakhra
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