305
"Zamyad Yasht," 89, 95, 96.
306
3, 62.
307
Theopomp. Fragm. 71, 72, ed. Müller.
308
"Yaçna," 19, 16-18.
309
"Yaçna," 26, 32; "Farvardin Yasht," 135.
310
"Aban Yasht," 21-23; "Farvardin Yasht," 157; "Ashi Yasht," 24; "Zamyad Yasht," 26.
311
"Ram Yasht," 11; "Zamyad Yasht," 28.
312
"Vend." 2, 87-89; "Yaçna," 14, 4-6. If in "Yaçna," 19, 46 four occupations are mentioned instead of the four orders, and artisans are added to the husbandmen, this is only another theory, which does not, however, alter the series and system; in India the order of Vaiçyas comprises husbandmen, merchants, and artisans.
313
"Vond." 8, 254.
314
Under the Sassanids we find a chief of the husbandmen (vaçtriosan), and a chief of the warriors (arthestaran); Nöldeke, "Tabari," s. 110.
315
"Vend." 9, 172-180, 187-196.
316
"Vend." 13, 126-129.
317
"Vend." 18, 1-17.
318
"Vispered," 3, 13, 14. Above, p. 165.
319
The Mobedh of Middle Persian is magupat, i. e. lord of the Magians (p. 60). The derivation of the name Magus from the Turanian imga (apparently = honourable) can only be adopted by those who regard the Magians as descendants of the Turanians, or at any rate as containing a strong admixture of Turanians; a view which rests on the theory that the second series in the inscriptions of the Achæmenids is the Median translation of the Persian inscriptions. With this view I cannot agree; all that we learn from the Greeks of the customs, manners, and names of the Medes bears the mark of an Arian origin, and is in harmony with what is attributed to the Persians. In the inscription of the second class at Behistun, Gaumata is not called imga but magush.
320
"Cyri instit." 8, 1, 23.
321
Herod. 3, 79.
322
Herod. 3, 73.
323
Strabo, p. 727; Pausanias, 5, 27, 3.
324
Ammian. 23, 6, 32-35; Agathias, 2, 26.
325
Philostratus in Rapp, "Z. D. M. G." 20, 71.
326
Herod. 1, 120.
327
"Cyri instit." 7, 5, 20; 8, 1, 8.
328
Arrian, "Anab." 6, 29.
329
Herod. 7, 191.