Indo-Iranica. July 1947

Rejoice and long live 0 Bukhdrd the King is coining to visit thee; The prince is the moon and Bukhara' the sky the moon would rise in the sky; The prince is the cypress and Bukhdrã the garden The cypress would proceed to the garden; Eulogy and encomium would be an asset to thee Though the treasury might incur a liability. [...] the Tapurs (who gave the name to the province of Tabaristan) the Amardians (whose name still lives in the designation of the city of Amul) the Kaspians (about whom below) and the Gelians in what is today Gilan. [...] The advantage of such unions from the viepoint of the Aryan rulers is obvious : on the one hand the aboriginals would see in it the succession of the sister's son who in their eyes is the only legitimate heir and on the other the Aryans would not falter in granting him full legitimacy in view of the sanctity of royal lineage descending on him from both the parents although their marriage migh [...] According to Herzfeld's conjecture 3 the root from which the name is derived is Kasof which the plural form Kasiis preserved in the name of the Elamite god Amman Kasipar and from this Kasiis derived Greek Kdainot the name of the population of Northern Iran which survives to this day in the name ' Caspian Sea '. The Kassites and the Caspians were therefore identical and from the litt [...] Dated in England in our famous citie of London the 25th day of the moneth of April in the yore of the Creation of the World 5523 and of our Lord and God Jesus Christ 1561 and of our reign° the third.