ABSTRACT
The Sanskrit text published by me in this article forms part of Codd. Iran. XXX of the University library of Copenhagen—fol. 182a-195a, 5 lines. This codex is one of a collection of Zoroastrian manuscripts brought by the well-known Danish orientalist Erasmus Rask from India about a hundred years ago. It contains besides this seven other heterogeneous fragments of various lengths in Pahlavi and Modern Persian pertaining to the Zoroastrian religion. Not only are these fragments heterogeneous, but they are written by different hands. They have no colophon except the last (fol. 243b), which gives the date—the 6th day of the 2nd month 1171 A. Y. (= A. D. 1802)—but the name of the copyist is nearly effaced. I can read it with difficulty Kaus mar?um Dastur Feridun Surti. But the fragment in question can hardly have been written by the same man, as the handwriting differs very much from that of this copyist. At any rate it can be about 120 years old.
