The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 3 (of 3) / translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrations

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• Yad Afraz, rosary, 371.
• Yahuds, Jews, their religion, II. 293 to 299.
• 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].
• Zamiad, angel presiding over the twenty-eighth day of the month, I. 62 n.
• Zamini-Serush, terrestrial angel, I. 9.
• Zanab, the tail of the dragon—a demon destroyed by Vichnu, II. 41, 42.
• Zanadil, “benevolent,” I. 180.
• Zanar, a thread, I. 66 n. 1; II. 53.
• Zand, an ancient language, in what countries spoken, I. 223 n.
• Zand-Avesta, work of Zoroaster, I. 222
  • —various interpretations of this word, ibid. n. 1.
  • —translated into French, and German, 223.
  • —five books enumerated to which this name properly belongs, 225 n.
  • —when written, ibid.
  • —quoted, 7, 18, 31, 149, 193, 213, 214, 216, 223, 232, 236, 241, 257, 258, 264, 265, 268, 280, 282, 283, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 297, 310, 319, 321, 325, 331, 332, 334, 335, 346, 347, 357, 358; II. 26, and elsewhere, the chief authority concerning Zoroaster’s religion.
• Zarbád, descendant from Zardusht, disciple of Azar Kaivan, I. 125.
• Zaratusht, prophet, I. 30.
• Zaratusht Bahram (Mobed), author of Zaratusht-namah, his account of Zardusht’s birth, I. 214, 215
  • —son of Pazhdu, 276.
• Zardusht, the variations of his name in different languages enumerated, I. 211
  • —various epochs attributed to him, 212, 213 n.
  • —his legendary origin, 213.
  • —various opinions about his ancestors, 215 n. 1.
  • —he laughed on coming into the world, 218.
  • —escapes destruction in all the attempts of the magicians to destroy him, 219, 220, 221, 226, 227.
  • —his conduct in his fifteenth year, 229.
  • —in his thirtieth year travels towards Iran; his adventures on the road, 229, 230, 231.
  • —beholds a vision, ibid.
  • —is visited by the angel Bahman, and transported to heaven, 232, 233.
  • —explanation of the vision, 234.
  • —Zardusht converses with God, 235, 236, 237.
  • —sees Ahriman in hell, ibid.
  • —delivers a person from hell, ibid. n.
  • —undergoes severe trials, 238.
  • —receives a mission to king Gushtasp, 239.
  • —on his return receives a flock to be protected, 240.
  • —further instructions from several angels, 241.
  • —puts the magicians to flight by reading one chapter of the Zand-Avesta, 244.
  • —destroys two kings rejecting his doctrine, 245.
  • —arrives at the court of king Gushtasp, 245.
  • —his access and reception, ibid. n. 246.
  • —plants a cypress before the king’s palace, 246 n.
  • —refutes and confounds the sages around the king, 247, 248.
  • —presents and reads the Zand-Avesta, 249, 250.
  • —scheme of the philosophers against him, at first successful, 251, 252.
  • —offers to cure the king’s palsied charger under conditions, to which the whole royal family submits, to adopt his faith, 253, 254.
  • —his innocence proved, his enemies punished, 254, 255.
  • —cures and converts Lohrasp and Zerir, 255.
  • —prays God to grant four wishes to Gushtasp, 256.
  • —is declared a prophet by four angels before the king, 257, 258.
  • —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.

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CHAPTER VII.
Of the religion of the Sadikíahs		[1]
CHAPTER VIII.
Section I.	—Of the appearance of the individual Vahed, and an account of his person	[12]
Section II.	—An account of some tenets of Vahed	[14]
Section III.	—Upon some of the sayings of Vahed	[16]
Section IV.	—On certain customs, forms of speech, and traditions of this sect	[18]
CHAPTER IX.
Of the religion of the Roshenian.
Section I.	—Of the appearance of the lord Míyán Báyezid	[26]
Section II.	—An account of the history of the lord Míyán Roshen Báyazid	[38]
Section III.	—Upon the transactions of the sons of the lord Míyán Báyazid	[42]
CHAPTER X.
Of the religion of the Ilahiah.
Section I.	—On the appearance of the Khalifet of the All-Just	[49]
Section II.	—On the dispute of the people of different religions	[50]
Section III.	—Upon the virtues of the stars, according to reason, manifestation, revelation, and tradition	[105]
Section IV.	—Upon the sayings of his Majesty (Akbar), dwelling in the seventh heaven	[121]
CHAPTER XI.
Of the religion of the Wise (Philosophers).
Section I.	—Of the religion of the philosophers, and of some branches of their questions	[139]
	An account of the pages of human actions and their recorders, and of the descent of angels and demons to the good and the wicked	[153]
	An account of mountains and seas, and of what occurs upon the earth at the last judgment	[155]
	Account of the tree Tuba, which is in heaven, and the tree Zakum, which is in hell	[158]
Section II.	—Of the reputation and the truth of the prophetic dignity	[172]
	Upon the meaning of revelation and inspiration	[175]
	Upon the interpretation of the miracles of the prophet	[177]
Section III.	—Of the successors of these philosophers, and the chief followers of this creed	[204]
CHAPTER XII.
Of the religion of the Sufiahs.
Section I.	—Of some of their tenets	[220]
Section II.	—Of the prophetic office, and explanation of the public declarations conformable to the revelation of inspired persons	[241]
Section III.	—Of some of the Saints among the moderns, and of the Sufis whom the author of the work has known	[284]
EPILOGUE
Of Moulavi Nazer Ushruf, editor of the Persian text of the Dabistán, printed in Calcutta		[315]
Index	[321]

THE END.

ERRATA.

Volume	page	note / line	instead of
I.	41,	n. 1, l. 8,	Venus read Mercury.
	192,	l. 2	Khusran r. Khusro.
	214,	n. 1, l. 1	Runzat r. Rouzat.
	265,	n. 1, l. 7	Jesht r. Yesht.
	ibidem,	l. 10	Kechvars r. Kishvars.
	271,	l. 19	Ashtawazand r. Asta wa zand.
	306,	n. 3, l. 1	p. 236 r. 246.
II.	27,	l. 10	Mudgha r. Mugdha.
	28,	l. 16	Naryaan r. Narayana.
	94,	n. 3, l. 8	तबोवस्था r. तर्बावस्था.
	96,	l. 2	Inani r. Jnani.
	119,	n. 1, l. 1	Parnsha r. Purusha.
	124,	l. 12	abhasayoga r. abhyásayoga.
	127,	n. 1, l. 1	अलाक r. अलोक.
	173,	note 2, referring to Abu Ali’s work, ought to be note 3, and n. 3, referring to Jafer Kakuyah, ought to be n. 2.
	184,	l. 17	tutasi r. tulasi.
	204,	n. 4, l. 1	इन्दियं r. इनद्रियं.
	215,	l. 25 is transposed and should be l. 24.
	217,	n. 2, last line	प्रष्ट r. अष्ट.
	220,	l. 11	Ihr r. Iter.
	268,	l. 11	trut r. truth.
	289,	n. l. 2	Sigar r. Siyar.
III.	42,	l. 8	after Omar Shaikh, a comma.
	47,	l. 16	Athedad r. Alahdad.
	96,	n. l. 2	1 r. 2.
	163,	l. 4	Run fa yakun, r. Kunfaya-Kun.
	211,	l. 25	Kamzan r. Kamran.
	238,	l. 10	at the word things--reference to note 1.
		l. 11	reference 1 read 2.
		l. 14	reference 2 — 3.
		l. 17	reference 3 — 4.
		note l. 1	left blank, ought to be See pp. 223, 230, 233.
		note l. 2	instead of 1 read 2.
		note l. 3	instead of 2 — 3.
		note l. 4	instead of 3 — 4.
		ibid.	مطلقه r. مطلق
	265	note l. 9	Futuhat r. Favatah.
		note l. 10	334 r. 234.
	281	note l. 8	Fatuhal r. Favátah.