Studies in Parsi History #269641

Now 777 50 100 15 19 300 14 1275 only. But the total is 147 5. It follows that we must suppose the writer of the e.m.u. Mss. To have meant that they spent the remaining 200 years in Navsari, in which of course he follows the Kissah. You will note here that the speculative chronologer, — whoever he was — to whom we are indebted for this reckoning, had a terminal point and wanted a starting point. If he had worked backwards and attempted to follow the Kissah closely, he would have had to put the starting point of the wanderings in 761 ad. 815 V. Samvat. Thus.