The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c24.133

v1.c24.133

¹ One might be inclined (as the writer has been led, especially through a study of the Pahlavi commentary and other Sassanian sources) to regard Vd. I, though late in form, as containing older material that might antedate in substance the division which Darius made of his empire into twenty satrapies; but Darmesteter warns against the attempts that have been made to discover much antique history in the chapter. His rather strong statement (*Vendidad Translated*, 2nd ed., *S.B.E.* IV, 1) is: ‘We have here nothing more than a geographical description of Iran, seen from the religious point of view.’