[238] “The Núristárs in Pehlevi are named _Rehtishtáran_, and are the princes and warriors who are called to grandeur and superiority, and command, and worldly sway.” _Comment. upon art. 145 of the Desatir_, p. 27.――A. T. [239] विश, वैश्य, ‘_viś_, _vaiśya_, ‘a man of the mercantile tribe,’ from विश, ‘viś,’ to enter.――A. T. [240] “The Suristars in Pehlevi are denominated _Washteryû´shán_, and are devoted to every kind of business and employment.” _Comment. upon the Desatir_, p. 27. [241] शुद्र, _śudra_, a man of the fourth or servile class, from शुच, _such_, to purify.――A. T. [242] “The Ruzistars are in Pehlevi styled Hotukhshan, and are artisans and husbandmen.”――_Comm. upon the Des._ [243] The names _Huristar_, _Nuristar_, _Suristar_, and _Ruzistar_, of the four classes of the people, are to be found in the Desatir (artic. 145, English translation, p. 27), from which work the author of the Dabistan is likely to have taken them, as various other information. As this division of a nation is undoubtedly suggested by the natural state of things, it has been attributed to more than one ancient king, and by Ferdúsi, in his Shah-namah, to Jemshid, under four denominations belonging to the ancient Persian language. These are as follows: 1ᵒ ان, _Amuzian_; 2ᵒ يساريان, _Nisarian_; 3ᵒ دی, _Nasudi_; 4ᵒ خوشی, _Ahnu khushi_, corresponding to the learned, the warriors, the husbandmen, and the mechanics. The first of these names, _Amuzian_, is easily recognised in the Persian ختن, _amokhten_ (Imp. اموز _amuz_), “to teach, to learn;” the second _nisarian_ is the same with ساری, _nisari_, the common Persian word for a warrior; the third, _nasudi_, is a Pehlevi noun (see Hyde, p. 437); the fourth, _Ahnúkhúshí_, appears composed of [اهنو, _ahnu_, “provisions, meat” (to be traced to आह्निक, _ahnika_, “daily work, food”), and of خوشی, _khushi_, “good, content,” or from ستن _khástan_, “to ask.” Upon the four classes of the people see also _History of the early kings of Persia, translated from the Persian of Mirkhond, entitled the Rauza-us-safa”_ by David Shea, p. 108-113.――A. T. [244] The text of Gladwin has انير, _destânir_, the edition of Calcutta and the manuscript of Oude have _Dasátir_. The single volume published under that name at Bombay (see note page 14), if genuine at all, can be considered but as a very small part of the great work, said to comprehend all languages and sciences.――A. T. [245] This faith is also called _Fersendáj_, and the great Ábád himself _Ferzábád_, and _Búzúgábad_, (Dasát., Engl. Transl., p. 27, 58, 187).――A. T.