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According to Sir Wm. Jones, the latter Zoroaster lived in the time of Darius Hystaspes. It is now claimed that in the Dabistan, one of the sacred books of Persia, thirteen Zoroasters appear.
While life remains let a man live happily: let him feed on butter even if he runs into debt. When once the body becomes ashes, how can it ever return?" The author of the Dabistân, who lived in the seventeenth century, also mentions the Cârvâkas in somewhat similar terms. Brahmanical authors often couple the Cârvâkas and Buddhists.
The poetry of Omar-i-Khayyam, now familiar to English readers, is a fair specimen; and the student will consult the last chapter of the Dabistan "On the religion of the Sufiahs." The first Moslem Sufi was Abu Hashim of Kufah, ob. "Kanat", the subterranean water-course called in Persia "Kyariz."
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