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DĀḎMEHR b. FARROḴĀN
Cross-Reference
espahbad of Ṭabarestān. See Dabuyids.
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DADWAR, DADWARIH
Mansour Shaki
respectively judge, administrator of justice, lawgiver, lit., “bearer of law.”
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DADYSETH AGIARY
Mary Boyce and Firoze M. Kotwal
in 1771 C.E. Dadibhai Noshirwanji Dadyseth established an agiary with an Ādarān fire for the sake of the soul of his first wife, Kunverbai, in the Fort district of Bombay.
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DADYSETH ATAS BAHRAM
Mary Boyce and Firoze M. Kotwal
the oldest Ātaš Bahrām of Bombay, consecrated and installed according to Kadmi rites in the district of Fanaswadi on the day of Sarōš, month of Farvardīn 1153 A.Y./29 September 1783.
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DADYSETH, Dadibhai Noshirwanji
Mary Boyce and Firoze M. Kotwal
(1734-99), a distinguished Parsi philanthropist.
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DAĒNA
Cross-Reference
See DĒN.
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DAF(F) AND DAYERA
Jean During, Veronica Doubleday
terms applied to types of frame drum common in both the art music and popular traditions of Persia. Such drums have long been known throughout Asia in various forms and under different names. The term dāyera originally referred to the flat, circular drums of pre-Islamic Arabia.
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DAFTAR
Hashem Rajabzadeh
an administrative office, as well as a notebook or booklet, more especially an account book or correspondence register, used in such an office.
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DAFTAR-E ASNĀD-E RASMĪ
Aḥmad Mahdawī Dāmḡānī
(Registry of official documents), a government department where documents and records of transactions, contracts, marriages, divorces, and the like are kept and signatures verified.
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DAFTAR-ḴĀNA-YE HOMĀYŪN
Hashem Rajabzadeh
royal secretariat; a Safavid administrative unit headed by the daftardār, or chief secretary.