The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 3 (of 3): translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrations
Religion
The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 3 (of 3): translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrations
Iran -- Religion; Religions
Kargi, a Telinga word for the Sanscrit Durva, sacrificial grass,
II. 80.
Karkh, a quarter of Baghdád, II. 490 n. 2.
_Karmáh_, Saturn’s stay in each mansion of his orbit, I. 27.
Karmah hormuzi, Jupiter’s stay in each mansion of his orbit, I. 27.
Karmatians, a sect, founded by Hamadan, surnamed Karmata, II. 421 n. 1.
Karsal, a Saturnian year, I. 27.
Karsal hormuzi, Jupiter’s period, I. 27.
Karun, Korah, the cousin of Moses, according to the Muhammedans, III.
70 n. 1.
Karuna, “tenderness, pity,” II. 121.
Kásam Khan, quoted, III. 203.
Kaseb, “acquisition,” II. 353 n.
Kashef mâni, “inner revelation,” III. 274.
Kashef ul mahjub, “the revelations of the veiled Being,” III. 265.
Kashef suri, “exterior revelation,” III. 274.
Kashial, a place in the mountains of Kashmír, inhabited by a
particular sect, their customs, II. 244.
Káshmár, Kichmar, town in Khorassan, where is Zardusht’s
cypress-tree, I. 280 n. 306 and n. 3.
Kashti, “sacred girdle,” I. 297
――description of it, _ibid._ n. 314.
Kasimirsky, translator of the Koran into French, quoted, III. 72
n. 1.
Kasur, its mystical signification, III. 159, 162.
Kaśyapa, a sect, II. 128.
Katha, Krishna’s advice to Arjuna, II. 96.
Kavi-śastra, “poetics,” II. 165.
Kawser, a river of paradise, II. 344 n. 1
――in Gabriel’s heavenly mansion, a source like wine, III. 190 n. 1.
Kayastha, the writer cast, belonging to the fourth class among the
Hindus, II. 114 n. 1.
Kayomors, name equivalent to Gilshah, etymology of both names, I. 29 n.
――son of Yásan Ajam, 88.
Kaźa, God’s universal judgment, II. 352 n. 1; III. 233.
Kazil Saruk, a general of Malikshah, besieges Múmin-ábad, a fort of
the Ismâilah, his army disperses, II. 437.
Kazl-bash, “red-head,” name given to the Persians by the Turks, I.
160 n. 1.
Kazvin, town of Persia, II. 172.
Kchatriyas, the second class of the Hindus, their destination, II. 48
――what they are to learn――to perform, 78.
Kerámet, “prodigy,” III. 173 n. 2.
Keramiah, Keramian, a Muhammedan sect, II. 331.
Kerát, “chanting,” III. 260.
Kera-Tabitian, the inhabitants of Tibet, their religion, II. 289, 292.
Kerb, “proximity,” III. 294 n. 1.
Kerbela, town, sepulchre of Imám Husain, I. 117
――its ancient name, 51.
Kerges, a fabulous bird, I. 36 n. 1.
Kerimdád, son of Jelál eddin, son of Báyezid, delivered up to his
enemies and put to death, III. 47.
Kermabah, place of resort for the Persian kings, III. 107 n. 2.
Kersi, the throne of God, the crystaline heaven, II. 346.
Kesayi Tivari, a Brahman of Benares, settled at Lahore, II. 90.
Kesesrob, the tenth Nosk of the Zand-Avesta, its contents, I. 273 n.
Khadijá, Muhammed’s wife, II. 300, 398 n.
Khadira (Khandira), sacrificial wood, II. 80.
Khaibar, a town in the Arabian province of Hejaz, III. 51 n. 2.
Khair al Bian, a book of the Roshenian, III. 44.
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