[515] Beiträge zur Erklärung &c. (Karlsruhe, 1845), ap. Spiegel, p. 142.
[516] Zeitschrift für die Kunde &c. ii. 172.
[517] Journal Asiatique, vi. 416.
[518] Lassen, Second Memoir, p. 5.
[519] See Alphabet in Burnouf.
[520] Second Memoir, p. 76.
[521] Ib. p. 166. This was not discovered when Lassen wrote in 1839. He then thought the new letter had the value of x (Zeitschrift, ii. 175).
[522] Lassen, First Memoir, p. 14. In 1852 we are told that English scholars were still disposed to distrust ‘the authenticity of the Zendavesta as translated by Anquetil,’ and it is curious to learn that the Achaemenian inscriptions were appealed to, to prove ‘that there was in use in Persia in the time of Darius a language very much the same as Zend.’ J. R. A. S. xiii. (1852) 200.
[523] Lassen, First Memoir, p. 3.
[524] Ib. p. 11. Cf. Beiträge (1837), p. 24.