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PAHLAVI TEXTS.
years; Kai-Lôharasp a hundred and twenty years; KaiVistâsp, till the coming of the religion, thirty years; (total (mar) one thousand years'. Then the millennium reign came to Capricornus, and Zaratd hast? the Spîtâmân, with tidings (pêtkhambarîh) from the creator Adharmazd, came to King Viståsp; and Vistâsp was king,] after receiving the religion, ninety years.
Vohuman, son of Spend-dâd, a hundred and twelve years; Hûmâî, daughter of Vohuman, thirty years; Dârâî, son of Kîhar-âzâd, that is, of the daughter of Vohûman, twelve years; Darâî, son of Dârâî, fourteen years; and Alexander the Romano fourteen years.
"The Askânians should bear the title in an uninterrupted sovereignty two hundred and so many years; and Artakhshatar, son of Pâpak, and the number of the Sâsânians bear it four hundred and sixty years, until the withering Arabs obtained a place [as far as the year 447 of the Persians; now it is the Persian year 527]®.
The colophon, which follows, states that the MS. was finished on the thirteenth day of the ninth month A.Y. 936 (A.D. 1567), and was written by Mitrô-åpân, son of Anôshakrůbân, son of Rüstâm. This MS. is, therefore, of nearly the same age as TD; but there has been no opportunity of collating the fragment of it, which is still extant, with the corresponding portion of TD. That it was a MS. of the same character as TD (that is, one containing the same text as K20, but with much additional matter) appears clearly
I From the beginning of Fredûn's reign, when the millennium of Sagittarius commenced,
* The usual way of spelling Zaratûst in old MSS., excepting K20 and a few others.
3 Here written correctly Alaksandar-i Aramai.
• Reading va and; as the final letter is d and not d it cannot be read nå vad as a variant of navad, ninety.'
5 The words are, vad ginâk ayâ ft khaskó-i Tâzikano, but the exact meaning is rather doubtsul.
• The last date is doubtful, as the Pahlavi text gives the ciphers only for five and twenty-seven,' omitting that for 'hundred.' These Persian dates must either have been added by some former copyist, or Chap. XXXIV must have been appended to the Bundahis at a later date than the ninth century, when the preceding genealogical chapters were probably added to the original work (see p. xliii). The Persian year 527 was A, D. 1158.
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