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
Sandhya, a rite of the Hindus, II. 61 n. 1.
Sangati, assembly of the Sikhs, II. 285.
Sanja nath, an adept in restraining the breath, lived seven hundred
years, II. 138.
Sanicher (Saturn), son of the Sun, II. 38.
Sanjnya-skandha, “knowledge or belief arising from words,” II. 198
n. 1.
Sanishin, peculiar mode of sitting, described, II. 135.
Sankara Acharya, a sage, I. 276 n. 1.
Sankara acharya, an author upon the Vedanta, II. 96, 102
――maintains the universality of illusion, 103
――preceptor of Saha diva, Raja of Kachmir, 141.
Sankara Vijaya, a work containing an account of various sects, II.
128 n. 4.
Sankhya (The) doctrine stated, II. 119, 123.
_Sansaya_, “discernment,” II. 206, 207.
Sanskara skandha, “whatever enters the mind,” II. 198 n. 1.
Sanson (D.), traveller in the East, I. 225 n.
Santanu, ancient king, son of Riksha, II. 67 n. 3.
Santarem (viscount), quoted, II. 307 n. 1; III. 87.
Sanyal, book of the Sipasians, II. 136.
Sanyasí, one who resigned the world, divided into ten classes, II.
139, 218
――battle between Sanyasis, and Jelalis and Mandaris, 231.
Saónos, particular mode of sleeping of the Sipasians, I. 111.
Sapta chakra, seven circles of the Yogis, II. 131
――six chakras of Hindu philosophers, _ibid._ n. 1.
Sapt anshis, seven Richis, seven stars in the constellation of the
Great Bear――name given to holes in a cavern, II. 167
――names of the seven Richis, 220 n. 4.
Sarabi, author quoted, I. 9.
Sarai, royal abode, I. 42.
Saraist, a particular rite of devotion, I. 123.
Sarang, the world of human beings, according to the Sipasians, I. 87.
Sarapréma, a state of beatitude, II. 95.
Sarat, bridge of judgment of the Muhammedans, I. 285.
_Sardah_, “primary genus,” I. 324.
Saríra, “body,” II. 204, 205.
Sarosh (Mobed), son of Kaivan, son of Kamkar, his lineage――conduct,
I. 113
――his works, supposed miracles, 114
――causes rain to cease, phantoms to appear, 116.
Sarsash, a descendant from Zardusht, I. 232.
Sarsati, a class of Sanyasis, II. 139.
Sarud-i-Mastan, work of the Mobed Hushyar, quoted, I. 72, 76, 79;
II. 136.
Sarúrak, or Saruregh, a tyrant, I. 314.
Sarush (Mobed), author of the Zerdusht Afshar, I. 77.
Sarúsh (Mobed), a Yazdanian――his account of Zardusht’s origin, I. 213.
Sasan, five individuals of that name, their lineage, I. 87.
Sasan, the Fifth, the last of fifteen Persian prophets, I. 105
――account of him, _ibid._ n.
――his commentary on the Desatir, and the code of Zardusht quoted,
277.
Sasan (Azar), or the first son of king Darab the Less, I. 87.
Sastra, institute, science, II. 141.
Sathrah, “a Fakir,” II. 109.
Satra Payah, sphere of the fixed stars, I. 289.
_Sattee_, a widow burning herself with the corpse of her husband,
her recompense after death, II. 75
――in a future birth appears as a man, 76
――not to be forced into fire, _ibid._
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