Nanac, founder of the Sikh religion, II. 246 ――a Kchatriya――devoted to piety, 247, 248 ――his creed, 248, 249 ――favors the Moghul invasion――an anecdote of him, 249, 250, 251 ――his poems, 252 ――his children――where he died, 253 n. 2 ――successors, 252, 253, 254 ――supposed to have formerly been Janaka, sovereign of Mithila――a legend of the latter, 255, 256, 261 to 267 ――Nanak appeared successively in the four ages, 268, 269 ――for saving the former inhabitants of hell, whom he had once brought up to the world, 269. Nânakî, sister of Nanak, II. 247 n. 1. Nanac-Panthians, or Sikhs, II. 246. Nánac-pautras, descendants of Nánac, extant in our days, II. 252, 253 n. 2. Narain Dasi, a Ramanandi, II. 194. Naráyana, name of God, II. 16 ――of Vichnu, 17 ――how represented, _ibid._ ――the lotus rises from his navel, 217. Narayanían, a sect of the Hindus, II. 232. Narmedha, sacrifice of a man, II. 83 ――practised by the Saktians, 155. Narsinha, “Man-lion Avátar,” II. 21. Nasír eddin (Khajah), the surname of Muhammed ben Hassan, or ben Muhammed al Tusi, II. 417 n. 2 ――is sent to Almut, 447 ――accompanies Rukn-eddin to the fort Maimundiz, 449 ――instigates Holágu to march to Baghdád, 450 ――directs an assembly of philosophers and astronomers at Maragha, in Aderbijan, III. 114. Naseb, Navaseb, name of a sect, II. 350, 354, 366. Naser Khusro, a poet, quoted, II. 312. Náśer Khusro (Amir), a learned poet, II. 419 n. 2. Naser Motashem, lord of Kohistan, sends Khajah Nasir to Almut, II. 447. Nasikh, “obliteration,” III. 149. Naśir eddin Abu Said Abdalla ben Omar, III. 218 n. 6. Náska, Nosk, book, treatise, chapter of the Zand-Avesta――twenty-one enumerated, I. 272, 273, 274, 275 n. ――three additional expected, 275 n. Nasudi, “husbandmen,” I. 20 n. Natik, “speaker, legislator,” II. 403 ――seven Natíks enumerated, _ibid._ n. 1. Natiri, a sect, II. 128. Navágher, a fort of the Roshenian, III. 44. _Navand_, “writer,” I. 157, 174. _Naubar_, name of a Commander――his conduct on a march, I. 161. Nauder, son of Minutheher, I. 88. Náúroz, great festival on the first six days of the year, I. 268 and n. 1 ――commemorates several great events of the world and of Persia, I. 268 and n. 1. Náuzodi, a rite of the Parsees, I. 289 n. 2. Náya, “ethics,” II. 66 n. 1. Náyari, a sect, II. 128. Nazar, the eighth king of the Péshdadians――its epoch, I. 52 and n. Nazar, son of Montaśer, is superseded in the succession to the throne by his brother, II. 430. Nazaratus, perhaps a name for Zoroaster, I. 277 n. 1. Nazer Ushruf (Maulavi), editor of the printed edition of the Dabistán――his epilogue, III. 315 to 319. Nehajat alekdam fi élm al Kelam, work of Sheheristaní, II. 323 n. Nek Khoy, a person treated of in the Samrad Namah of Kámkar, I. 201.