It is evident that a mistake has been committed in the above narrative, making the _victors_ the persons who were obliged to quit! and we know from testimony, adduced upon a different occasion, that instances of such confusion were neither unfrequent nor uncommon.[274] But even admitting it to be accurate, the apparent contradiction is easily reconciled; as it is probable that the contest was protracted for a _long period of time_, before it was ultimately decided in favour of one party; and, in the alternations of success, one side being up to-day, and another uppermost to-morrow, what could be more natural than that a colony of the _Yavanas_, or _Pish-de-danaans_,--which is the same,--should have fled for shelter to India, before that the auspices of their arms, propelled by the _fair cause_ which they vindicated, had, at length, accomplished the overthrow of their adversaries. This object, however, once obtained,--full masters of their wishes, and sole arbiters of Iran,--they were not satisfied with the mere extinction of all the symbols of their predecessors,--save and except the _Towers_ which stood proof to their attacks,--but they established there instead a code, as well political as moral, more consonant with their own prejudices: and the wonder would be great, indeed, if, after this triumphant assertion of _female_ power, gratitude and religion should not both combine in making the _type_ of that influence--the sacred _crescent_, or _yoni_--the personification of their doctrines; and _woman herself_, all-lovely and all-attractive, the concentrated temple of their divinity upon earth! Such was the commencement of the Pish-de-danaan dynasty in Persia; and its influence still operating, after a long interval of time, is what the historian unconsciously describes in the following terms, viz.:--