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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.
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VETCH
Cross-Reference
See ʿADAS.
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VETERINARY MEDICINE
Cross-Reference
See DĀM-PEZEŠKĪ.
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VIOLET
Cross-Reference
See BANAFŠA.
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VIOLLET, Henry
Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam
(b. Paris, 1880; d. Paris, 1955), French archeologist and architect.
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VIS O RĀMIN
Dick Davis
an 11th-century verse romance by Faḵr al-Din Asʿad Gorgāni (s.v. Gorgāni).
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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.”
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VISRAMIANI
Jemshid Giunashvili
title of the Georgian translation of the Vis o Rāmin, a versified romance by Persian poet Faḵr-al-Din Asʿad Gorgāni.
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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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