Mahnaz Moazami
Articles by Mahnaz Moazami
- MĀZAN
MĀZAN, term for a giant demon in Avestan and Middle Persian texts. The Avestan term māzainiia- from *māzana- (<maz-, AirWb., col. 1156, “gigantic; monster”;…
- HATARIA, MANEKJI LIMJI
HATARIA, MANEKJI LIMJI (مانکجی لیمجی هاتریا), emissary of the Parsis of India to the Zoroastrians of Iran from 1854 to 1890…
- MAMMALS iii. The Classification of Mammals and the Other Animal Classes according to Zoroastrian Tradition
MAMMALS iii. The Classification of Mammals and the Other Animal Classes according to Zoroastrian Tradition The first written information about…
- VAEΘĀ
VAEΘĀ, a short Avestan text with Pahlavi translation; each Avestan sentence is followed by its Pahlavi translation and sometimes with…
- PURSIŠNĪHĀ
PURSIŠNĪHĀ (Questions), a collection of 59 questions and answers in Avestan and Middle Persian relating to matters of Zoroastrian religion….
- ZAND Ī FRAGARD Ī JUD-DĒW-DĀD
ZAND Ī FRAGARD Ī JUD-DĒW-DĀD “A Commentary on Chapters of the Vidēvdād” (hereafter: ZFJ), a sixth-century Zoroastrian text. It has…
- ḴUSRAW Ī KAWĀDĀN UD RĒDAK-ĒW
ḴUSRAW Ī KAWĀDĀN UD RĒDAK-ĒW (Ḵosrow son of Kavād and the Page), a Pahlavi treatise of wisdom-literature genre. Contents. The…
- KUNDA(G)
KUNDA(G) “drunkenness; delirium; sorcery” in Younger Avestan: kunda-; Middle Persian Kunda(g); Pāzand Kunī(d); Manichean Middle Persian Kūnī; and Sanskrit Kūnī-(deva)….
- NASU
NASU- (Av. nasao- f., nasuš- n.; MPers. nas; nasuš; nasrušt), the demon of carrion, the greatest polluter of Ahura Mazdā’s…
- KATĀYUN
KATĀYUN, a mythological figure in the Šāh-nāma of Ferdowsi and in the Bundahišn. In the Šāh-nāma (pp. 19-24), Katāyun is the…
- XWĒŠKĀRĪH Ī RĒDAGĀN
XWĒŠKĀRĪH Ī RĒDAGĀN (The duty of children), a Pahlavi manual for Zoroastrian children regarding correct behavior. Xwēškārīh ī rēdagān is…
- FARAHVAŠI, Bahrām
FARAHVAŠI, Bahrām (b. Urmia, Iran, 30 March 1925; d. San Jose, U.S.A., 29 May 1992; Figure 1), scholar and professor…