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Ruzena Dostálová, in her Il romanzo greco e i papiri (1991), likewise made use of the identification of M&P with V&'A in her interpretation of the fragments and reconstruction of the plot (Dostálová 1991:35–41); but her booklet offered no new text or translation. The generous format of Stephens & Winkler (1995) includes both a critical edition of the text of the fragments (though it is not stated to what extent it rests on new readings of the papyri), a facing English translation, commentary, and a literary analysis.
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Furthermore, Shafi turns our attention to a short but elucidating recapitulation of the story of V&'A found in a Persian work called Dàràb-nàmah ascribed to a certain Abù ˇàhir ˇarsùsì30 and possibly written already in the twelfth century AD. This is a collection of legendary narratives concerning the last Akhaemenid emperor Darius III and his alleged half-brother Alexander the Great (see further below, pp. 144–149). Following Tarbiyat, Shafi also lists the various epics in Persian, Turkish and Kashmiri known under the title of V&'A and describes the contents of seven of them in detail.