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BĀḠ-E ERAM
K. Afsar
a famous and beautiful garden at Shiraz. Its site was formerly on the northwestern fringe of the city but is now well inside the greatly expanded urban area.
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BĀḠ-E FĪN
ʿA.-A. Saʿīdī Sīrjānī
garden southwest of the city of Kāšān, where subterranean waters from the Dandāna and Haft Kotal mountains emerge to form the Fīn springs.
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BĀḠ-E JAHĀNNĀMA
cross-reference
See SHIRAZ.
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BĀḠ-E PĪRŪZĪ
Ḡ.-Ḥ. Yūsofī
“Garden of Triumph,” a garden constructed in Ḡazna by Sultan Maḥmūd (r. 998-1030), no longer extant.
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BĀḠ-E ŠĀH
ʿA.-A. Saʿīdī Sīrjānī
(the king’s garden). In the mid-Qajar period, the site was a broad, circular field about 1,000 m in diameter situated on the outskirts of the city and devoted to horseback riding and racing.
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BĀḠ-E SALṬANATĀBĀD
cross-reference
See SALṬANATĀBĀD.
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BAGA
H. W. Bailey, N. Sims-Williams, St. Zimmer
an Old Iranian term for “god,” sometimes designating a specific god. i. General. ii. In Old and Middle Iranian. iii. The use of baga in names.
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BAGABUXŠA
cross-reference
See MEGABYZUS.
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BAGĀN YAŠT
P. O. Skjærvø
(1) one of the dādīg (legal) nasks of the Avesta, which contained descriptions of Ahura Mazdā and the other gods; (2) name of Yasna 19-21 of the Avesta.
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BAGARAN
R. H. Hewsen
(lit. “the god’s place”; Turk. Pakran), a town founded by the Armenian King Orontes (Eruand) II (ca. 212-ca. 200 B.C.) to house the images of the gods and the royal ancestors.