――causes Gushtasp to ascend to heaven, 259 ――distributes hallowed milk to several persons, _ibid._ ――recites some sections of the Zand to Gushtasp, who orders the fire-worship to be established in every city, 260 ――Zardusht explains to the king his prophetic mission――equal to that of Muhammed, who acknowledges it in the Koran, 260, 261, 262 ――Zardusht’s native country and town, 263 and n. 1, 264 ――his request of immortality, not granted, 264 ――on tasting something like honey in heaven, he sees in a vision hell, and a tree with seven branches, 264, 265 ――explanation of it, 266, 267 ――on the termination of the millenium, many evils predicted, 268, 269 ――mixed with some consolatory events, 270, 271 ――is killed by a Turk, 371 ――abstract of his doctrines, 379 ――principal epochs of it, 380. Zardusht namah, a Persian poem, I. 213 n., 224 n. Zarvam akarene, “boundless time,” the parent of the two principles, good and bad, I. 326 n. 354 n. 2. Zati, “essence,” a kind of divine manifestation, III. 270. Zatk and fatk, “the shutting and opening,” III. 169. Zaydiyat, a Muhammedan sect, II. 363 ――divided into three principal branches, _ibid._ n. 1. Zehel, “Saturn,” Muhammed’s arrival at it, III. 247. Zehir-eddin Muhammed Baber, II. 246 ――short account of him, _ibid._ n. 2 ――his Memoirs, 247 n. ――his four expeditions towards India, 249 n. 2 ――conquers India, III. 27. Zeinah (Zenobia), wife of Zaid――enamors Muhammed――is divorced from Zaid and married to Muhammed, III. 59 n. 1. Zeman baig, III. 216. Zemzem, sacred well at Mecca, III. 14 n. 1 ――an emblem of the sun, 168. Zena, “coit,” how interpreted by the Ismâilahs, II. 408. Zerdusht Afshar, work of Mobed Surush, quoted concerning a position of a devotee in praying, I. 77, 80. Zerir, brother to king Gushtasp, cured of a disease and converted by Zardusht, I. 255. Zering Goash, a dog in hell――his action, I. 287 n. 2. Zikádah, the eleventh Arabian month, I. 46. Zilhajah, an Arabian month, III. 257. Zindbar, innoxious creatures, I. 20. Zohak, his epoch and empire, I. 33 n. ――his two serpents, 55. Zohrah (Venus), the son of Bhrigu, II. 39 ――the director of the demons, author of sciences and religions of the Barbarians, 44. Zoroaster (see Zardusht), the principal events of his life, in chronological order, I. 280 n. Zo ul narain, surname of the khalif Osman, I. 98, 100 n. Zu ’l-Ulum, “master of sciences,” title of Kaivan, I. 101, 102. CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME. Page CHAPTER VII. Of the religion of the Sadikíahs 1 CHAPTER VIII.