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
Ramazastan, or Ramzsitan, of Zardusht, work quoted, I. 569; II. 136.
Ram Bhot, a Hindu, becomes a disciple of the son of Farhad, I. 139
――his prediction, _ibid._
Ram Chand, a Kchatriya, disciple of Ram Bhot, I. 139.
Rámdais, “servants of God,” name given by the Sikhs to the deputies
of their Gurus, II. 282.
Rang, the elementary world, according to the Sipasians, I. 86.
Rang-a rang, the world of the four elements, according to the
Sipasians, I. 86.
Ras, the head of the dragon――a demon destroyed by Vichnu, II. 41, 42.
Rasakh, “firmness,” III. 150.
Rasan, a linear measure, I. 285 and n. 2.
Rasátála loka, one of the fourteen spheres, II. 13
――an infernal region, _ibid._ n. 1.
Rasi, son of Muktedir Abasi, II. 384.
Rask, establishes the genuineness and antiquity of the Zand
language, I. 223 n.
Rash-Rast, or Rashni Rast――his representation, character, functions,
I. 287 and n. 1, 311.
Rast yug, the age of the righteous, its duration, II. 47.
Raushibár, name of a vein of the human body, II. 134.
Rauzat-us-safa, quoted, I. 33 n. 1, 192 n. 193.
Rauza-us-safa, work of Mirkhond, translated by D. Shea, I. 20 n.
quoted, 243 n.
Ravaets, correspondence between the Dosturs of Persia and India, I.
224 n.
Ravákín, name of Oriental philosophers, III. 139.
Rawal Bundi, a town on the road from Panjab to Kabul, I. 203.
Ravana, sovereign of the demons――of Lanka, overthrown by Ráma, II.
23, 183 n.
_Ravand_, “courier,” I. 157.
Ráz, equal to one hundred Arádah, see Arádah, I. 25.
Razi ben al Khatib, abbreviator and commentator of Avisenna’s work,
entitled Shafa, II. 173.
Razvan, “the porter of heaven,” III. 155.
Refík, “follower,” distinctive name of the Ismâilahs, II. 436 n. 3.
Rehtishtáran, name of the second class of the people, I. 19 n.
Reiske, editor and translator of Abulfeda (quoted with Abulfeda).
Resalah vajudíah, or Resalah fel vujud, “Treatise upon Existences,”
work of Jami, III. 221 n. 1.
Resh, angel presiding over the eighteenth day of the month, I. 62 n.
Reteshtai, the eighth Nosk of the Zand-Avesta――its contents, I.
273 n.
Reza (Imám), son of Musa, the eighth Imám, his mausoleum――date of
his death, I. 48; II. 390.
_Richi_, a kind of saint, explained, II. 27 n. 2
――seven classes of them enumerated, _ibid._
Riccioli, quoted, II. 305 n. 2; II. 305.
Richardson, denies the authenticity of Zoroaster’s works published
in French, I. 223 n.
Rijez, a metre, III. 212 n. 1.
Rig Véda, II. 64.
Rikat, “attitudes of devotion,” III. 260, 261.
Roham, a painter of the Milanian sect, I. 205.
Roseus (Franciscus), III. 207 n. 1.
Roshenian, a sect, III. 26.
Rozah, “fasting,” III. 262.
Roz-azar, name of a fire-temple, I. 52.
Roz-gah, place of assembly, I. 182.
Rozistan, “day-station,” I. 168, 182.
Rozistan, a place in which the king was seated, surrounded by his
ministers, I. 43.
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