History of the Parsis : including their manners, customs, religion and present position : with coloured and other illustrations : in two volumes

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books on their own account or under the auspices of societies, such as the Rahnumai Sabha, and the “Zarthoshti Dharmni Khol Karnari Mandli,” 7.e. society for making researches into the Zoroastrian religion. We will mention a few praiseworthy works for the promotion of this object. Dastur Peshotanji, the learned principal of the Sir Jamshedji Jijibhai Madressa, has published, besides the Dinkard, a Pehlevi grammar, the Pehlevi text of Vazerkardi-Dini, and the translation of the Pehlevi Karnama-iArdeshir Babekan. Dastur Jamaspji is compiling a Pehlevi dictionary, of which four volumes have been published. This book will supply a want long felt by Pehlevi students. Dastur Hoshangji Jamaspji, the learned Professor of Persian in the Deccan College, Poona, has published, under the supervision of Dr. Haug, the texts of an Old Zend Pehlevi Glossary, of an Old Pehlevi Pazand Glossary, and of Arda Viraf-Nama, to which we have already alluded. Ervad Kavasji Edalji Kanga, the able headmaster of the Mulla Firoz Madressa, has established his reputation as an Oriental scholar by the publication of his Gujarati translations of the Vendidad, of the Khordeh-Avesta, and of an English translation of Anquetil du Perron’s account of his visit to India. The first work, which was undertaken as an essay for a prize of Rs.800 offered by Mr. Kharshedji Kama of Bombay, together with his Khordeh-Avesta, will for