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"Rashnu Yasht," 8.
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Burnouf, l. c. p. 417, 468.
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"Gosh Yasht;" Yaçna, 29; 39, 1.
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"Vend." 19, 111, 112; 22, 22.
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Herod. 7, 40, 55; Xenoph. "Cyr. inst." 8, 3, 12; Curtius, 3, 3, 8; 4, 48, 12. Dio Chrysost. 2, 60, ed. Dindorf.
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p. 732.
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"Khorshed Yasht," in De Harlez, "Avesta," p. 34.
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10, 17, 18.
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"Zamyad Yasht," 96; Darmesteter, l. c. p. 10.
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"Vend." 18, 38.
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"Vend." 19, 6, 146.
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Burnouf, "Journ. Asiatic," 1845, p. 433.
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"Vend." 10, 23. Windischmann, "Zoroastrische Studien," s. 138.
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"Vend." 19, 147.
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"Vend." 4, 139.
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"Vend." 12, 65, 71; 14, 9 ff.; Plut. "De Isid." c. 46; Agath. 2, 24.
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Plut. "De Isid." c. 46.
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"Vend" 18, 34-37; 64-69.
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Cf. "Bundehesh," c. 19.
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"Yasht Farvardin," 109; "Yasht Bahram," 19-21.
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Kuhn, "Herabkunft des Feuers," s. 125; Darmesteter, loc. cit. p. 55. Çinmurv has arisen out of Çaena (Çin), i. e. eagle, and meregha, "bird;" Middle Pers. murv; New Pers. murgh. In New Pers. Çinmurv becomes Simurgh.
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Isaiah xlvi. 11. In Aeschylus also an eagle represents the Persians and a falcon the Hellenes; "Pers." 205-210.
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"Cyri instit." 7, 1, 4.
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3, 7.
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"Vend." 18, 137, 138, 149.