Prof. Darmesteter and M. de Harlez claim that the Zend was the language of Aryan Media. Footnote 147: See page 20. Footnote 148: Haug’s Rel. of Parsis, p. 123. Footnote 149: Diodorus (xvii, 72) and Curtius (v. 7) declare that Alexander burned the citadel and royal palace at Persepolis in a drunken frenzy at the instigation of the Athenian courtezan Thais, and in revenge for the destruction of the Greek temple by Xerxes. Arrian (Exped. Alex., iii, 18) also speaks of his burning the royal palace of the Persians. Footnote 150: Sacred Books of the East, Vol. IV, Int., p. 39. Footnote 151: This is a literal rendering of the passage, the meaning of all the words being certain, except the four which are written in _italics_. Footnote 152: In the Elamite and Babylonian versions Avesta is simply rendered “law” or “laws.” Footnote 153: Shapur II ascended the throne about A.D. 309. Footnote 154: Sa. Books of East, Vol. IV. Int., p. 2. Footnote 155: About 1754. Footnote 156: Chips, Vol. I, p. 119. Footnote 157: 1829-1843. Footnote 158: 1850. Footnote 159: 1851. Footnote 160: 1852-1854. Footnote 161: About 1826. Footnote 162: Codex numbered 5. Footnote 163: Dastur Jamaspji Minocheherji Jamasp Asana, Ph. D. of Tübingen, Hon. D.C. L. Oxon. Dr. L.H. Mills applied to the Dastur for the loan of his manuscript to enable him to complete a critical edition of the Zend and Pahlavi texts of the Gathas, and Dastur Jamaspji not only loaned it to Dr. Mills, but most generously presented it to the University of Oxford. Footnote 164: See page xx. Footnote 165: 382 folios. Footnote 166: Clement, who is supposed to have written in the first century of the Christian era, claims that the original name was Nebrod, but that “the magician being destroyed by lightning, his name was changed to Zoroaster by the Greeks on account of the living Ζωσαν stream of the star (ἀστέρος) being poured upon him.”—_Clementine Homilies, IX, Chap. 5._ Footnote 167: Masudi, the noted Arabian historian and traveler who wrote about A.D. 950, remarks that “according to the Magi, Zoroaster lived two hundred and eighty years before Alexander the Great,” or about 610 B. C, in the time of the Median king Cyaxares. Footnote 168: Dr. Haug, while maintaining the personality of Zarathustra Spitama, claims that after his death, and possibly during his life, the name of Zarathustra was adopted by a successive priesthood. (Essays, p. 297). Footnote 169: Vendidad, Farg. xix, 4. Footnote 170: Rig-veda, ii, 30, 40. Footnote 171: