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² Spiegel, III, p. 700. It is very probable that in Iran, as in India, it was reserved for the three first classes; the fourth appears to have enjoyed only partial rights and to have been relegated to an inferior position (Geiger, p. 479 seq.). What might seem more doubtful, although Spiegel unhesitatingly accepts it (III, pp. 548-9), is whether the Hūitis were really included among the followers of Zoroastrianism, on whom the investitures ought to be conferred.