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GĀVBĀRA
Cross-Reference
See DABUYIDS.
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GĀVBĀZĪ
Christian Bromberger
arranged fights between bulls. These now take place only in the Caspian provinces of Gīlān and Mazandarān. In the past, however, they were common throughout Persia and formed part of the entertainment in local festivities along with other games involving pitting animals and creatures of all kinds against each other.
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GĀVMĪŠ
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buffalo. See CATTLE.
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GAVOR QALʿA
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See GYAUR KALA.
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GĀW Ī ĒWDĀD
William W. Malandra
or ēwagdād; the name of the primordial Bovine in Zoroastrian mythology.
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ḠAWṮ KHAN, NAWWĀB MOḴTĀR-AL-MOLK
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See NAWWĀB-E DAKHAN.
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ḠAWṮĪ, MOḤAMMAD
K. A. Nizami
b. Ḥasan b. Mūsā Šaṭṭārī MANDOVĪ (b. Mandu, 1554), author of Golzār-e-abrār, a Persian hagiography of Indian saints.
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ḠAYBA
Said Amir Arjomand
(Pers. ḡaybat) lit. "absence"; term used by the Shiʿites to refer to the occultation of the Hidden Imam.
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ḠĀYER KHAN
Peter Jackson
b. Tekeš (d. 1220), Turkish general of the Ḵᵛārazmšāh ʿAlāʾ-al-Dīn Moḥammad.
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GAYḴĀTŪ KHAN
Peter Jackson
(1291-95) fifth Mongol Il-khan of Persia; his coins also bear the name Īrinjīn Dūrjī (Tibetan Rin-chen rDo-rje, lit. “Jewel Diamond”) bestowed upon him by Buddhist lamas.