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DRIYŌŠĀN JĀDAG-GŌW UD DĀDWAR
Philippe Gignoux
Middle Persian title of a Sasanian official, “intercessor and judge of the poor.”
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DṚNABĀJIŠ
RÜDIGER SCHMITT
name of the fifth month (July-August) of the Old Persian calendar, equivalent to Akkadian Ābu and Elamite Zillatam.
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DRŌN
Jamsheed K. Choksy
Zoroastrian ritual term originally meaning “sacred portion” and designating a ritual offering to divine beings.
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DRUGS
ṢĀDEQ SAJJĀDĪ
in medieval Muslim literature any vegetable, mineral, or animal substance that acts on the human body, whether as a medicament, a poison, or an antidote.
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DRUJ-
Jean Kellens
Avestan feminine noun defining the concept opposed to that of aṧa-.
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DRUMS
Jean During
large group of percussion instruments.
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DRUSTBED
Aḥmad Tafażżolī
chief physician in the Sasanian period.
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DRVĀSPĀ
Jean Kellens
or Drwāspā, Druuāspā, lit., “with solid horses”; Avestan goddess.
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DRYPETIS
RÜDIGER SCHMITT
(Gk. Drýpĕtis [Arrian] or Drypêtis [Diodorus]), daughter of Darius III Codomannus and younger sister of Stateira; in the collective wedding arranged by Alexander the Great at Susa in 324 B.C.E. she was given in marriage to Hephaestion.
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DU MANS, RAPHAEL
Francis Richard
(d. 1696), FATHER, author of important descriptions of Persia.