Questions of King Milinda Part 02

SR No.: 007682
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 2240
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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XVIII; and the Bakån-yast has been identified with the Yasts still extant. These additional considerations have led to a new estimate of the probable extent of each Nask separately, based upon the best data available in each case, as stated in detail in the foot-notes to the names of the Nasks in the Extant Fragments (pp. 451-488 of this volume). These estimates are here collected, for the sake of convenient reference, as follows:
Avesta.
Pahlavi. G2: Nask 1. Sadkar . . . 4,700 words 10,500 ~ 2. Varstmânsar
8,300 18,500 , 3. Bako
9,500
21,200 4. Dâmdad.
8,900 29,300 5. Nadar ..
6,800 22,200 6. Pågag
9,100 29,800 7. Rado-dad-aîtag . . 10,500 34,300 8. Baris . . 4,400 , 14,600 9. Kaskîsrobo
5,500 17,900 10. Vistasp-sâstô . 2,200 7,200 II. Vastag .
8,900 18,400 12. Kitradad.
2,600 23,400 13. Spend .
• 9,900 20,500 , 14. Bakan-yast . . 22,000 , 44,000 15. Nikadum. .
562,900 , 16. Ganabâ-sar-nigad , 28,000 „ 251,500
, 17. Hüspâram . . 44,900 403,600 ,, 4 , 18. Sakadam. . . 53,000 476,600 „5 „ 19. Vendîdåd . . 23,000 48,000 G6 , 20. Hâdókht . . . 8,400 · 17,400 „I » 21. Stôd-yast . . . 12,500 „ 22,400
Total extent of 21 Nasks · 345,700 2,094,200 This total is about 24 times as great as that of the former estimate, but, as nearly the whole of this increase is in the four strictly Legal Nasks, whose length is well attested by that of the extant Nîrangistân, there is little probability that further investigation will lead to any re
1 This bad been done, long ago, in a Persian Rivayat, quoted in Bag, fol. 164, which states that the following sixteen Yasts were in the Bayan-yast Nask, namely, the Hôrmezd, Åbân, Mah, Tir, Gôs, Mihir, Srôsh, Rashn, Fravardin, Bahirâm, Râm, Din, Åshasang, Aståd, Zamyâd, and Khurshed Yasts.
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