ORIENTALIA SUECANA VOL. LVIII (2009) Edited by ÉVA Á. CSATÓ JOAKIM ENWALL BO ISAKSSON CARINA JAHANI ANETTE MÅNSSON ANJU SAXENA CHRISTIANE SCHAEFER Guest editor: AGNES KORN UPPSALA SWEDEN Orientalia Suecana LVI (2007) 2FÖRF © 2009 by the individual authors Orientalia Suecana is an international peer-reviewed scholarly journal founded in 1952 and published annually by the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University. The journal, which is devoted to Indological, Iranian, Semitic, Sinological, and Turkic Studies aims to present current research relating to philological, linguistic, and literary topics. It contains articles, reviews, and review articles. Submissions for publication and books for review are welcome. Books will be re- viewed as circumstances permit. Publications received can not be returned. Manu- scripts, books for review, orders, and other correspondence concerning editorial matters should be sent to: Orientalia Suecana Editorial Board Department of Linguistics and Philology Uppsala University Box 635 SE-751 26 Uppsala Sweden E-mail:
[email protected] Financial assistance for the publication of this volume of the journal has been pro- vided by the Swedish Research Council. More information on http://www.lingfil.uu.se/orientalia ISSN 0078-6578 Printed in Sweden 2009 Textgruppen i Uppsala AB Orientalia Suecana LVI (2007) TITEL 3 Contents Editorial Note . 5 Studies Ashk P. Dahlén, Kingship and Religion in a Mediaeval Fürstenspiegel: The Case of the . 9 Mohammad Ghazanfari and Abdullah Sarani, The Manifestation of Ideology in a Literary Translation . 25 Urban Hammar, The K Initiation by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama in Amaravati, January 2006 . 40 Mahmoud assanabadi, The Situation of Women in Sasanian Iran: Reflec- !"#$%!&'(! ) " .