GENERAL INDEX

Ādarbād (-e Mahrasfand) 26, 28, 31, Bahman, Kay Qobād Sanjāna, also 162, 164, 196, 225 known as Vikchu/Vikji (q.v.) 2, 16, 24, 26, 32, 223, 232 18, 25, 28, 29, 34, 171, 172, 186, 223 Mazdā see Ohrmazd Bahrām Varjāvand, a future Airyaman yazad 37 ‘saviour’ 169 Ākā Adhyāru 229–232, 233 Bahrām ( Vәrәθraγna, q.v.), Akbar 191 yazad of victory 29, 34, 166, 171, Alā’oddin Khalji, Sultan of Delhi 192 172–3, 186, 223, 225 ālat (pl. ālāt) ‘requisite (ritual) bāj 23 implements’ 183–5 Bānkānir (town, modern Alexander (Sekandar Shāh) 161, 162, Wankaner) 188 163, 196, 218 Bānsdah (town) 26, 30, 32, 40, 159, Al-Ṭabari 198, 199, 201, 226 amahraspand (Pahlavi) ‘blessed Baryāv (town, modern Variav) 188, immortal’ 149, 178 189 Anklisar (town, modern ‘Battle of Sanjān’ 7, 26–7, 29–30, 32, Ankleshwar) 188 33, 216 (in QS) 17, 144, 148 behdin (Persian) ‘Zoroastrian, layman, Arabs 33, 34, 39, 167, 195, 219, 224 (one who is of) the good religion’, archaic forms 17 201, 226 Ardā Virāf 26, 28, 31, 150, 161, 163–4 benedictory formula 143 Ardā Virāfnāme (Persian), Ardā Bharuch (town) 188 Wīrāz Nāmag (Pahlavi) ‘Book of the Bibliothèque Nationale xi, 14 Righteous Wīrāz’ 14, 150, 162, British Library xi, 13, 158 163 British rule in India 206 Ardashir (Sasanian king) 26, 28, 31, /Bundahišn (Pahlavi book) 34, 161, 162, 218 37, 149 Ardashir (warrior champion) 26–7, 30, bundahishn (Pahlavi) ‘Creation’ 24, 26, 34, 38, 195, 196, 225 31, 33, 223 Ašәm Vohu (prayer) 153 Burzo (Dastur) 4 Astwihād (Pahlavi) astō.viδātu (Avestan) ‘untying of life’, a Zoroastian caste (jajmani) system 228 demon 151 Changā Āsā (also Changā Shāh, ātash (Persian) ‘fire’ 231 Shāh Changā ebn-e Asā), Parsi āteshbahrām (Persian) ‘fire of ’, layman 26, 30, 159, 196, 200, 226 name of the most sacred grade of chronology Ch. 5; 20, 206; three types ritual fires 4, 29, 32, 181–188, 189, of chronology 206–14, 217; folk 198, 201, 214 chronology ix, 18 author and composition of the QS 2–5, Commentary, 18, Ch. 4 144, 155, 156, 190–192, 194–6, 198, conditions of admission and asylum in 201–2, 216, 219–20, 226–8, 230 India 176–8 ‘Aṭṭār, Faridoddin 16, 144 cosmology 144, 223 25, 156, 160, 224 Avestan ix, 16, 18, 23 Dabestān-e Maẕāheb, (Persian text) 4 Daēna (Avestan), Dēn (Pahlavi) female Bahārut (town, modern Bahrot) 26, personification of one’s deeds post 32, 39, 198 mortem 154 244 general index daēva (Avestan), dēw (Pahlavi) ‘demon’ Haptanghaiti (, part of the Avesta) 37, 151 155 Daqiqi, ’s predecessor, who history and myth 18–20, Ch. 5 passim, began the Shāhnāme 220 224; historicism 6, 216 Dārāb Hormazdyār, (Gujarati Hamjiyar) Homer 197 grand-nephew of Bahman and Hormazdyār, (Gujarati Hamjiyar), grandson of Qiyāmoddin (q.v.) 4 grandfather of Bahman 3 Dārāb Hormaz(d)yār’s Revāyat ix, xi, Hormuz 26, 28, 33, 168, 169 11, 12 Humān 197 Darius 163 Hušēdar (Pahlavi), the first ‘Saviour’ dating (of arrival) 7, 176, 206; of 165 battles 7; of removal of āteshbahrām (Dastur and teacher of to Navsāri 202; of QS 203 Bahman) 155, 156, 158, 159, 220 Delhi Sultans 192 Hushang bin Āsā (Dastur) 3 Dēnkard (Pahlavi book) 160, 164, 228 diaspora community 6 Ibn Battuta 169 Diu (island) 26–7, 33, 206 iltifāt (Arabic) ‘turning one’s face to’, a doctrine (Zoroastrian) 23, 25, 178, literary-linguistic term for pronominal 233; (Hindu) 232 and temporal transition, 145–150, doxology 16, 23, 26–7, 28, 30, 145, 155, 202 158, 228 India (Hendustan, Hend) 5, 26, 29, 33, 34, 37, 157, 175, 188, 190, 193, 195, eschatology and cosmogony 24, 198f., 223–6 223 Indian/Hindu 6, 26, 195, 196, 197, 232 Indus 190 farohar (Persian), frawahr (Pahlavi), 5, 8, 28, 33, 219, 223–5, 228; trade fravaši (Avestan)) ‘guardian with India 205 spirit’ 154, 165 Irān Shāh, shāh-e Irān, ‘king of Iran’, farsang, farsakh (Persian) ‘league’ 182 name of the first āteshbahrām in Farvardin Yašt (Younger Avestan Yašt India 4, 27, 29, 30, 32, 34, 40, 186, 13) 155 198, 199, 207, 208, 219 Fate 39, 195, 198, 224, 225 Islam 33, 38, 167, 168, 190, 195, Ferdowsi/Shāhnāme 16, 17, 35, 149, 223, 225; ~ic authority 219; ~ic 157, 192, 195–8, 218–220 terminology 148, 149

Gannāg Mēnōg (Pahlavi) ‘Evil Jādi Rāna (Jādi Rāṇa) 35, 173, 175, Spirit’ 149 181, 194, 196, 233; Jayadev 175; Gāthās of Zarathushtra 152, 153, Vajjadadeva 175 155 Jāmāspnāme (Zoroastrian Persian Gayōmard 149 book) 14 gētīg (Pahlavi) ‘visible, material /Jam (Avestan Yima) 166, state’ 24, 150 178 Good Religion 226, 228 Jānān ebn-e Sāyer (Chāiyyān son of Gordāfrid 197 Shāēr) 201 Gujarat 26, 29, 188, 180, 191, 192 jashn (from Avestan yasna) ‘feast’ 188 Gujarat Sultanate 191 joddin (Persian) ‘non-Zoroastrian’ 167 Gujarati ix, 1, 7, 15, 175, 177, 210, 211, Jungaŕh (Hindu fort) 191 230 gūmēzishn, gūmēzišn (Pahlavi) ‘Mixture’ K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai 24, 26, 31, 33, 223 xi, 11 Gushtāsp 26, 31, 165 Kāmā (Sanjāna Dastur) 4 Kambāyat (town, modern Khambat) Hādoxt Nask (part of the Avesta) 153, 188 154 Kāmdin Shāpur 169