[378] For St. Martin’s alphabet see Journal Asiatique (1823), p. 67, Plate; Burnouf, Mémoire, Pl. 1; and Klaproth, Aperçu, p. 63. St. Martin was engaged upon the second and third columns at the time of his death. His Memoir remained incomplete, and, so far as we know, it has never been published in a separate form. Journal Asiatique (3ᵉ série), v. 359.
[379] Translated from the Danish by Hagen, Berlin, 1826.
[380] In 1832 Schlegel asserted that the Zend and the Zend-Avesta were forgeries by the Guebres (or Parsees) of Guzerat (Heeren, Eng. ed., ii. 341). Rawlinson, in 1847, was still of opinion that Zend dates after Alexander, possibly some centuries (J. R. A. S. x. 50). He was also convinced of the late origin of the Zend-Avesta.
[381] Rask, p. 28.
[382] Rask, p. 80. St. Martin had already intimated a doubt as to their absolute identity (Journal Asiatique, 1823, p. 77).
[383] Published in Journal Asiatique, 1826.
[384] Menant (I.), Les Langues perdues, Perse, p. 21.
[385] Zoroasters lebendiges Wort, S. F. Kleuker, Riga, 1777.
[386] Tychsen, De Religionum Zoroastricarum apud veteres gentes Vestigiis. See Heeren, i. 237.
[387] Rask, op. cit. 1826.