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• GŌŠ YAŠT

  W. W. Malandra

  the title of the ninth Yašt of the Avesta, also known as Drwāsp Yašt, after the goddess Druuāspā (see DRVĀSPĀ) to whom, in fact, it is dedicated.

• GŌSĀN

  Mary Boyce

  a Parthian word of unknown derivation for “poet-musician, minstrel.”

• GOŠASB BĀNU

  Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

  or Bānu Gošasb; entitled savār (knight), Rostam’s daughter and the wife of Gēv.

• GŌSFAND

  Cross-Reference

  See GUSFAND.

• ḠOSL

  Cross-Reference

  See CLEANSING.

• GOŠNASP ASPĀD

  Cross-Reference

  Sasanian military commander. See ḴOSROW II.

• GOSPEL

  Cross-Reference

  See BIBLE.

• GOSTAHAM

  Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

  name of two heroes in the Šāh-nāma.

• GOŠTĀSP

  A. Shapur Shabazi

  Kayanian king of Iranian traditional history and patron of Zoroaster.

• GŌŠURUN

  William W. Malandra

  the Pahlavi name for the soul of the Sole-created Bull.