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
Malik, the keeper of hell, III. 155.
Malik Ehn Ans, head of a Muhammedan sect, II. 328 n. 1, 332.
Malik Salakin, governor of the fort Arak, III. 117
――ravages of the plague during the defence of his post against the
Moghuls, 118.
Malik Shah, son of Alp Arselan, II. 426 n. 1.
Malik Shah, versified in Persian――Zardusht’s hundred gates, I. 310
n. 1.
Malik Táj-eddin, king of Ghor, III. 114
――relates an anecdote relative to the discipline of the Moghuls,
115.
Malik Yakúb, lord of Shekunah, II. 356.
Malkîah, a Muhammedan sect, II. 355.
Mamun, the seventh khalif of the Abbasides, restores the castle
Feduk to the posterity of Ali, III. 52 n.
Mana, name of a vein, II. 132.
Manas, mind, the interior sense, possessing the three attributes of
the divinity, II. 99, 100, 204.
Mânavi (Manlavi), his verses quoted, I. 115, 130; III. 242.
Mandára, mountain, serving as a churn-staff of the ocean, II. 19 and
n. 2.
Mani, painter, son of Fáten, his epoch――doctrine――fate, I. 205 n. 3
――further account of him, 372, 373 n.
Manjíat wa mahelkat, “The Causes of Salvation and Perdition,” a work
recommended for perusal in Akbar’s ordinances, III. 123.
Manichæism, short account of it, I. 372, 373 n.
Mani puram, pit of the stomach, II. 131 n. 1, 132, 150.
Manir, a learned contemporary of Mohsan Fáni, III. 204, 205.
Manistán, world of similitude, I. 21.
Manishram, name given to Mars in the Desatir, I. 37 n.
Mankahú, name of a Nosk of the Zand-Avesta, I. 275.
Mansi, “physiologists,” III. 308.
Mansur I. son of Abdel malek, sixth king of the Samánis, origin of
the dynasty, II. 169 n. 2.
Mansur, the son of Aziz, surnamed Alhakem ba amra, II. 422 and n. 1.
Mantek al tair, “the colloquy of the birds,” quoted, III. 249 n. 1.
Manthar, a region of the human body, II. 131.
Mantik (Al), logic, II. 327 n. 2.
Mantra, form of prayer, II. 79.
Manu, quoted, II. 50, 55 n. 3, 59, 71, 87, 88, 119, 179.
Manvantara, reign of a Manu, its duration stated, II. 50 n.
――Manavanturas innumerable, _ibid._
Manuhar Kuchwáhhah (Rai), quoted, II. 53.
Manu-Ráma (Sri), an austere Brahman, in Lahore, II. 89, 90.
Manushya bhakta, worshippers of mankind, II. 244.
Maragha, in Azerbijan, the residence of Hulagu, famous for its
astronomic observatory, under the direction of Nas ir eddin, III.
114 n. 1.
Márásfand, angel presiding over the twenty-ninth day of the month,
I. 62 n.
Mard, a period of time, I. 14.
Mardad (Amardad), name of an angel and of a month, I. 61, 62 n.
――gives instructions to Zardusht, 243.
Márga-sirsha, August, II. 83.
Mârifat, “true knowledge,” III. 29, 36, 37.
Marikh, Mirrikh (Mars), son of the earth, II. 38
――a demon of a malignant influence, 44.
Marraccius, author of the Prodromus, translator of the Koran, II. 323.
Mâruf Karkhí, a Súfi, II. 390 n. 2, 276.
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