of every wish." Sakya-muni means "The hermit of the race
of Sakya,"--Sakya being the ancestral name of his father's race. The name
_Gautama_ is stated by Koeppen to be "der priesterliche Beiname des
Geschlechts der Sakya,"--whatever that may mean.

[103] The Sanskrit root, whence the English "bode" and "forebode," means
"to know."

[104] Saint-Hilaire.

[105] Bhilsa Topes.

[106] Goethe, Faust.

[107] Die Persischen Keilinscriften (Leipzig, 1847.) See also the account
of the inscription at Behistun, in Lenormant's "Manual of Ancient
History."

[108] Rawlinson, Five Great Monarchies.--Duncker, Geschichte des
Alterthums, B. II.--Heeren, The Persians.--Fergusson, Illustrated
Hand-Book of Architecture.--Creuzer, Schriften. See also the works of
Oppert, Hinks, Menant, and Lassen.

[109] Vendidad, Fargard, XIX.--XLVI. Spiegel, translated into English by
Bleek.

[110] Herodotus, I. 131.

[111] Herodotus, in various parts of his history.

[112] "Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands.
London. Printed for W. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-noster Eow. 1718."
This passage concerning Zoroaster is from the "Isis and Osiris" in Vol.
IV. of this old translation. We have retained the antique terminology and
spelling. (See also the new American edition of this translation. Boston,
Little and Brown, 1871.)

[113] This is the Haoma spoken of on page 202.

[114] These, with Ormazd, are the seven Amshaspands enumerated on page
197.

[115] See the account, on page 195, of these four periods of three
thousand years each.

[116] Kleuker (Anhang zum Zend Avesta) has given a full _resume_ of the
references to Zoroaster and his religion in the Greek and Roman writers.
More recently, Professor Bapp of Tubingen has gone over the same ground in
a very instructive essay in the Zeitschrift der Deutsohen Morgenlandisshen
Gesellschaft. (Leipzig, 1865.)

[117] Anq. du Perron, Zend Avesta; Disc. Prelim., p. vi.

[118] At the time Anquetil du Perron was thus laboring in the cause of
science in India, two other men were in the same region devoting
themselves with equal ardor to very different objects. Clive was laying
the foundations of the British dominion in India; Schwartz was giving
himself up to a life of toil in preaching the Gospel to the Hindoos. How
little would these three men have sympathized with each other, or
appreciated each other's work! And yet how important to the progress of
humanity was that o