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
Yajna, sacrifice, II. 79 n. 1
――mode of sacrificing a goat, 80, 81
――in which months to be offered, 83.
Yajno pavita, “sacrificial cord,” II. 57 n. 3.
Yajúsh Véda, II. 64.
Yâkub (Shaikh), a grammarian of Kachmir, quoted, III. 92.
Yâkub Tarfani (Tarkhani), II. 349, 355.
Yama, religious restraint, II. 125 n. 1.
Yáma, regent of the South (Dakshina), II. 219.
Yarshanom (for Barashnom), a sort of purification, I. 325, _ibid._
n. 2.
Yasan, son of Shai Mahbul, I. 24, 25, 88
――succeeds to his father in the government, 26.
Yásan Ajam, the last king of the Yasanian dynasty――etymology of
Yasan, I. p. 26, 181.
Yasht, a Zand word, signifying prayer, devotion――its etymology, I.
258 n. 1
――explanation of it, 312 n. 2.
Yasna, the Zand name of a part of the Zand-Avesta――French
translation of it, under the Pehlvi name, Iveshne, revised and
commented, I. 226 n.
――double edition of the lithographed text of this work, _ibid._
Yatha ahu virio, the three first words of a prayer, I. 272.
Yatis (Jatis), pious mendicants, II. 195 n. 1
――a distinguished class among Buddhists and Jainas, 212, 213, 241.
Yazadian, Yazdanian, a sect of the Persian religion, I. 6.
Yazdanian, “godly,” how otherwise called, I. 147.
Yazdan Sitai, disciple of Mobed Sarosh, causes rain to fall, I. 115
――other supposed miracles of his, 116, 117, 118.
Yazid, son of Mâaviah, II. 358 n. 1, 359 n. 1
――descends from Pharaoh, III. 21.
Yekanah bin, “seers of thirty,” a sect, I. 123, 193.
Yeshts Sades, part of the Zand-Avesta, I. 225 n.
Yezdejird, son of Sheriar, the last of four Persian
dynasties――duration of their reigns, I. 30, 31.
Yoga, devotion, with other significations, II. 124 n. 3, 127.
Yogi, a devotee, II. 100, 101, 127.
Yojana, a measure of distance, II. 10 n. 2.
Yojanagandha, wife of Parasara, mother of Vyása, II. 67, 68.
Yudisht´hira, worshipper of the sun, III. 111
――the sun appears to him, provides him with food for twelve years,
by means of a miraculous kettle, _ibid._ n. 1.
Yugmakam, sacrifice of two goats, II. 82.
Yusef, a man of the tribe of Durds, a Sanyasi, III. 304
――his vision, 305
――his miraculous powers, 306, 307.
Yusefzei, a wild tribe in Kabul and Peshaver, III. 48 n.
Z.
Zab, son of Nauder, I. 87.
Zabratus, perhaps a name for Zoroaster, I. 277 n. 1.
Zád, measure of time, I. 14.
Zafer Khan ibn Khaja, Abul Hasen Taramzi, governor of Kachmir――his
connexion with Tara-lochana――obliged to quit Kachmir, retires to
Kabul, and Lahore, II. 158.
Zaherah, “Venus,” Muhammed’s arrival at it, III. 247.
Zaid, son of Ali, son of Zain el-abeddin, the founder of the
Zaydiyat sect, II. 363 n. 1.
Zakaria (Moulana), his conversation with Báyazid, III. 32, 33.
Zakat, “alms,” how interpreted by the Ismâilahs, II. 408; III. 35.
Zakum, “the tree of nature,” III. 159.
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