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BĒṮ LAPAṬ
Michael Morony
the Syriac name for Vēh Antiōk Šāpūr (Gondēšāpūr), founded in ca. 260 by Šāpūr I in Ḵūzestān with the Roman captives from Valerian’s army.
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BĒṮ SELŌḴ
Michael Morony
“house of Seleucos,” abbreviation of Karkā ḏe Bēṯ Selōḵ, “fortress of the house of Seleucos,” modern Kirkuk in Iraq.
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BĒṬANĪ
Daniel Balland
a Pashtun tribe on the eastern edge of the Solaymān mountains. The recent history of the Bēṭanī has been largely determined by the land that they now inhabit, adjacent to the plains of the middle Indus and the Wazīr uplands.
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BETLĪS
cross-reference
See BEDLĪS.
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BĒVARASP
cross-reference
See ŻAḤḤĀK.
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BHADRA
Ronald E. Emmerick
a magician, who according to Buddhist legend tried to deceive the Buddha by means of his magic powers in order to disprove the Buddha’s claim to omniscience.
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BHADRACARYĀDEŚANĀ
Ronald E. Emmerick
the name of a Buddhist text belonging to the Mahāyāna Tantric tradition of which a Khotanese translation is extant.
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BHADRAKALPIKASŪTRA
Ronald E. Emmerick
the name of a Buddhist Mahayanist text (Sanskrit sutra) concerning the names of the Buddhas to appear in the good aeon (Sanskrit bhadrakalpa).
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BHAGARIAS
Mary Boyce and Firoze M. P. Kotwal
lit. “Sharers,” one of the five groups (panth) of Parsi Zoroastrian priests on the coast of Gujarat.
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BHAGVĀN DĀS HENDĪ
N. H. Ansari
Indian poet and author writing in Persian. He belonged to the Hindu Srīvāstava Kāyastha community, which is known for its deep interest in Persian.
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BHAIṢAJYAGURUVAIḌŪRYAPRABHARĀJASŪTRA
Ronald E. Emmerick
the name of a Buddhist Mahayanist text of which a number of fragments in Old Khotanese and Sogdian are extant.
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BHANDĀRĪ
N. H. Ansari
putative author of Ḵolāṣat al-tawārīḵ, a general history of India written in Persian during the reign of Awrangzēb (r. 1658-1707), with special emphasis on the rulers of Delhi.
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BHARUCHA, SHERIARJI DADABHAI
Kaikhusroo M. JamaspAsa
Parsi scholar (1843-1915). During the last years of his life he was criticized for his reformist views that the Zoroastrian religion was not meant for a particular fold but was open for all.
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BHARUCHAS
Mary Boyce and Firoze M. P. Kotwal
the name of a group (panth) of Parsi Zoroastrian priests who had their headquarters at the ancient port of Bharuch (Broach) in Gujarat.
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BHAVĀṄGA
Ronald E. Emmerick
the name assigned by H. W. Bailey to ten fragmentary Khotanese folios, a transcription of which he published.
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BHOWNAGGREE, Mancherjee Merwanjee
John McLeod
(1851-1933), Sir, Parsi statesman; His ancestors were from the principality of Bhāvnagar in Gujarat, whence his surname originates.
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BĪA-PAS, BĪA-PĪŠ
Cross-Reference
See GĪLĀN.
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BĪĀBĀN
Brian Spooner
name of the coastal plain that extends south from the mouth of the Mīnāb river for 88 miles to the cape Raʾs al-Kūh, which is 30 miles west of the Jask promontory.
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BĪĀBĀN
Cross-Reference
Persian word meaning “desert.” See DESERT.
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BĪĀBĀNAK
Eckart Ehlers
a group of isolated oasis settlements in central Iran, stretching over an area of 70 by 90 miles of what is mostly desert.