ANDARZBAD, Sasanian administrative title meaning “chief advisor” (from Mid. Pers. andarz “advice, counsel”) for a city, e.g., Ardašīr-Ḵᵛarrah or Gōr (seal, R. N. Frye, Sassanian Remains from Qasr-iAbu Nasr, Cambridge, Mass., 1973, p. 63) or for an entire province, e.g., the Sagastān-andarzbad (Arm. Sakstan anderjapet: Pʿawstos Buzand, History 4.45). There was also the andarzbad ī aswāragān who instructed the knights (Kārnāmag ī Ardašīr ī Pāpakān 10.7, tr. Nöldeke in Beiträge zur Kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen, ed. A. Bezzenberger and W. Prellwitz, IV, 1879, p. 6162 ; Nāma-ye Tansar, ed. Mīnovī, Tehran, 1311 Š./1932, p. 15; Eng. tr. by M. Boyce, The Letter ofTansar, Rome, 1968, p. 41); or according to A. Perikhanian (Camb. Hist. Iran III/2, p. 669) the andarzbadī wāspuhragān, “a dignitary invested with executive authority within the king’s demesne.” Under Šāpūr I, there was an “andarzbad of the queens” (inscription of Šāpūr I, Kaʿba-ye Zardošt: bʾnykn hndrcpt, Mid. Pers., line 33; MLKTEn hndrzpty, Parth., line 27, ed. A. Maricq, Classica et Orientalia, Paris, 1965, p. 71). The darandarzbad “counselor” or “court instructor” seems to have been one of the highest-ranking officers of the court hierarchy (A. Y. Borisov and V. G. Lukonin, Sasanidskie gemmy, Leningrad, 1963. Wizīdagīhā īZātspram, par. 33; Ełišē Vardapet, History,Venice, 1950, chap. 3). The mōgān-andarzbad “advisor of the magi,” a legal consultant, wasone of the highest ranking dignitaries of the priestly class(seal, R. N. Frye, op. cit., p. 46; Mādayān ī hazār dādistān, ed. Modi, Poona, 1901, pp. 57.12, 59.10; ed. Anklesaria, p.37.12; Sūr saxwan, para. 14b, ed. Tavadia, Journal of the K. R. Cama Oriental Institute 29, 1935, p. 66; “Martyrs of Karkha,” in G. Hoffmann, Auszüge aus syrischen Akten persischer Märtyrer, Leipzig, 1880, p. 50; EłišēVardapet, History, chap. 8, p. 315; Łazar Pʿarpecʿi, Venice, 1891, chap. 2.55, 57, pp. 326, 345,349. Pʿawstos Buzand, History 4.47 [mogacʿ anderjapetand movan anderjapet]).This position was quite different from that of the mōbadān mōbad (in spite of Christensen, Iran Sass., pp. 120-48).