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  • VENDĪDĀD i. Survey of the history and contents of the text

    William W. Malandra

    Of the three major divisions of the 21 Nasks of the Sasanian Avesta, the Vendīdād was the last of those called dādīg “dealing with law,” and 19th overall. 

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  • VENDĪDĀD ii. Transmission of the Vīdēvdād in India

    Alberto Cantera

    The number of Pahlavi Vīdēvdād (PV) manuscripts that have been copied is quite high, but their distribution in time is irregular. Among these manuscripts, we have noticed that only a few are dated for certain before the 18th century.

  • VETCH

    Cross-Reference

    See ʿADAS.

  • VETERINARY MEDICINE

    Cross-Reference

    See DĀM-PEZEŠKĪ.

  • VIOLET

    Cross-Reference

    See BANAFŠA.

  • VIOLLET, Henry

    Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam

    (b. Paris, 1880; d. Paris, 1955), French archeologist and architect.

  • VIS O RĀMIN

    Dick Davis

    an 11th-century verse romance by Faḵr al-Din Asʿad Gorgāni (s.v. Gorgāni).

  • VISPERAD

    William W. Malandra

    name of a lengthy Avestan text divided into 24 chapters; the name derives from Av. vīspe ratawō meaning “all the ratus.”

  • VISRAMIANI

    Jemshid Giunashvili

    title of the Georgian translation of the Vis o Rāmin, a versified romance by Persian poet Faḵr-al-Din Asʿad Gorgāni.

  • VULLERS, JOHANN AUGUST

    Ludwig Paul

    (1803-1881), German Iranologist and orientalist, whose Persian-Latin dictionary was to win him renown for generations of scholars.

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