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• AVA

  C. E. Bosworth

  the basic modern form of the name of two small towns of northern Persia, normally written Āba in medieval Islamic sources.

• AVADĀNA

  R. E. Emmerick

  Sanskrit term for a category of Buddhist narrative literature.

• AVADH

  R. B. Barnett

  an ancient cultural and administrative region lying between the Himalayas and the Ganges in North India, named after Ayodhyā, the setting of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana.

• AVALOKITEŚVARA-DHĀRAṆĪ

  R. E. Emmerick

  name given by H. W. Bailey to a Buddhist text written in archaizing Late Khotanese, ending with a dhāraṇī (Skt. “spell, sacred formula”) preceded by homage to the bodhisattvas.

• AVARAYR

  R. Hewsen

  a village in Armenia in the principality of Artaz southeast of the Iranian town of Mākū.

• ĀVĀZ

  G. Tsuge

  in modern Persian “song” (of any kind) or, more broadly, “music.”

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• AVERY, PETER

  David Blow

  (1923-2008), British scholar of Persian literature and history.

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• AVESTA

  J. Kellens

  the holy book of the Zoroastrians.

• AVESTAN GEOGRAPHY

  G. Gnoli

  Geographical references in the Avesta are limited to the regions on the eastern Iranian plateau and on the Indo-Iranian border.

• AVESTAN LANGUAGE I-III

  K. Hoffmann

  the Old Iranian language of the Avesta. i. The Avestan script. ii. The phonology of Avestan. iii. The grammar of Avestan.

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