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ancient Persia. with her farts: tumrd westward. It is to them the: Persia that crmrgurrs, err rtnntrrdg through hm satmpics, Aaaytin and Mahygrmim I’éxlrfiu tine, Egypt, {Jr parka; mi” Afiia Minna". It fr; it.) tl‘mm the mei’a that: falls; drwu Emfum Gram;er In tilt: day 0f her grazitust filmy lizrritm I, Ilyzrtmrpm; (TRI’VQM into the Hrhistau ruck, 3m frat auburn Um grullfldl the Imgh trilingual curmifmrm inmriptiun, in which he claims sumrainty arm twentyaihrmg czmmtrirs. To all intents; and purpams he claims thr; mirth far his awn. Among the crmntricr Imntimmrl 3m: parts; adjacent t0 the extrame northwer mf India: 13mm giana, Arachosia, Gandhflm, rte. Iictwmn 300M330 13.0., the: rule of the Achcmcnidan Persian dynasty had witlmut doubt Silt’lt 01.11: its 109ml}! attachcd satrapies t0 the land of the Indus; River. I’iut thia did not result in the: permanent attach:er of (mi: country to the other. Again, the somallrd Grarcm Parthian rulers, succcsmrs of Alexander the: Grrat in the Pergian countrirs (if Parthia and Baktria, {mm about 200 13.0. to 200 $1.19., astabiislmd principalitier in the: northwest of India, notably the: Indml’arthian kingdomg of Twila. and Arachosia.‘ But this pviiti~ cal relation, again, proved unstable and trarmiéntr

A small number of Parsis, after the Mohammfidan

lSee Vincent Smith, TIL: Indeart/dan Dmfirr, in Warm! of flu German Oriental Sflt’ifi'éy, vol. 132., p. 49