P. O. Skjærvø
Articles by P. O. Skjærvø
- BAŠKARDI
BAŠKARDI (Bašākerdī),collective designation for numerous dialects spoken in southeastern Iran from Bandar-e ʿAbbās eastward, forming a transition from the dialects…
- BARSOM YAŠT
BARSOM YAŠT, in the liturgical manuscripts of the Avesta the name of the second hād (chapter) of the Yasna. According…
- BARIŠ NASK
BARIŠ NASK, one of the lost nasksof the Haδamąθra group (see AVESTA), analyzed in Dēnkard 8.9. According to the Persian…
- BARDESANES
BARDESANES (Syr. Bar Dayṣān, Ar. Ebn Dayṣān), gnostic thinker (154-222) who occupies a position between the Syriac gnostic systems of…
- BAGĀN YAŠT
BAGĀN YAŠT (1) one of the dādīg (legal) nasks of the Avesta; (2) name of Y. 19-21 (see bag nask)….
- BAG NASK
BAG NASK, one of the Avestan nasks of the gāhānīg group, i.e., texts connected with the Gāθās, now lost almost…
- AŽDAHĀ
AŽDAHĀ “dragon,” various kinds of snake-like, mostly gigantic, monsters living in the air, on earth, or in the sea (also…
- ASWĀR
ASWĀR (Middle Persian) “horseman,” Old Persian asabāra, Parthian (Nisa) ʾsbry, Persian savār and sovār. In Old Persian asabāra designated the…
- AŠTĀD YAŠT
AŠTĀD YAŠT, Yt. 18, though dedicated to Aštād, Av. Arštāt-, the goddess of rectitude (or justice, see Aštād), does not…
- ĀSRĒŠTĀR
ĀSRĒŠTĀR, in Middle Persian Manichean texts a kind of demons, often associated with the mazans. As a class they do…
- AŚOKA
AŚOKA, Mauryan emperor of India (ca. 272-231 B.C.). i. The life and teaching of Aśoka. ii. Aśoka and Iran. iii….
- AŠI
AŠI, Avestan feminine noun meaning “thing attained, reward, share, portion, recompense” and, as a personification, the goddess “Reward, Fortune.” The…
- AṦA
AṦA, “truth” in Avestan, from Indo-Iranian *ṛtá-, a neuter noun having the same meaning. The word is attested in Old…
- ARD YAŠT
ARD YAŠT, Middle Persian name of the Avestan hymn (Yašt 17) dedicated to Aši (q.v.). Other forms of the name…