Lulies, public women in Persia, I. 118 n. 1; II. 70. Lunchîta-kéśa, “hair-pluckers,” a class of Buddhists, II. 212 n. 2. _Lunugi_, “Unitarians among the Jatis,” a class of Buddhists, II. 213. Lycophron, quoted, 112 n. M. Maâd, “resurrection,” III. 278. Mâaviah Ebn Abi Safian, II. 356 ――a short account of him, 358 n. 1, 361 ――collector in Syria, III. 55. Mabzad, son of Gurgín, although a lunatic, maintained in the government, I. 163. Machá, name of a Nosk of the Zand-Avesta, I. 275. Macrobius, quoted, I. 205. Mada, “joy, pleasure,” II. 121. Madárian, a sect, II. 223. Madhu Acháris, a class of the worshippers of Vichnu, II. 179. Madhwácharya, founder of the sect of Brahma Sampradáyis, II. 179 n. 1, 181 n. 2. Madhur, a descendant of Gurgin, becomes a lunatic, I. 163. Mafid (Shaikh), founder of a system of scholastic theology, II. 379, 380. Magi, see Mobed, I. 17 n. Mah (the moon), represented as a man, I. 40. Mah, angel presiding over the twelfth day of every month, I. 62 n. Máh-ab, brother of Mihrab, I. 173 ――resigns his person to servitude for another slave, 144. Maha ásana, peculiar mode of sitting, II. 134. Mahá-atma, a distinguished class of Jatís, II. 213 ――the miraculous power of one of them instanced, 214. Mahabad, first king, I. 15 ――his acts, 16, 17. Máhábad, place of pilgrimage, II. 166. Mahabadas, fourteen kings, I. 21. Máhábádian dynasty, its duration, I. 14. Mahabet Khan, III. 216. Mahábharat, poem, quoted, II. 42, 67 n. 2. Mahábharat, translated by Abul Fazil, III. 101 ――quoted, 110, 111. Mahadéo (Siva), with a serpent round his neck, II. 32, 217 ――what it means――what his attribute of destroyer, 32 ――proceeds from the navel of Víchnu――eight-faced, eight-armed――rides upon a bull――dressed in an elephant’s skin, rubbed with ashes, 217 ――three-eyed, _ibid._ Mahadeo, a Saktian, sitting upon a dead body, II. 159. Maha jyóti, “great light,” II. 235. Mahakah, “assertors of truth,” a class of Muhammedan theologians, II. 380. _Maharloka_, one of the fourteen spheres, II. 12 ――its situation, _ibid._ n. 4. Mahásebi, a learned Muhammedan, II. 329 n. 2. Maha Singh, son of Bahader Singh, the Raja of Kishtovár, disciple of Hara Ramapuri, II. 108, 109. Mahá tala loka, one of the fourteen spheres, II. 12 ――an infernal region, _ibid._ n. 12. Máhatap indra, a Jnanindra, II. 107. _Mahat tatwam_, “essential nature,” II. 10 ――whence it proceeded, 13 and n. 5. Mah-azar, a fire-temple, I. 47. Mahdi, “guide,” I. 130 n. 1 ――title of the twelfth Imám, II. 383. Mah-dinah, ancient name of Medina, I. 51. Mahésh, see Siva, II. 4. Mah-gah, old name for Mecca, I. 48. Mahin-azar, name of a fire-temple, I. 52. Mahir Chand, a goldsmith, disciple of Akamnath, II. 116. Mahisha Asura, a demon, under the form of a buffalo, killed by Durga, II. 163.