BABYLON AND PERSIA

INDEX.Ai;xa-Mazda, 62 ; his demands onmen, 79.Atesh-Gah, fire altar, 118, 152.Atharvan, one of the oldest Sans¬krit names for " Lightning," 42;the son of "Varuiia, 16 ;deriva¬tives, 16.Athravan, the Eranian priests inthe Avesta, 150, 152.Athwya, see Thraetaona.Atrina, the first impostor andusurper of Elam, under Dareios1., 374 ; captured and slain, 376.Atropatene, modern Aderbeidjan,144 ; the country of sacred fires,152.Avesta, the no-\v generally accept¬ed name for the sacred book ofthe Eranians, 20 ; its compo¬nent parts, 29-31.Avesta-u-Zend, proper name ofthe sacred book of the Erani¬ans, 20.Avestan Creed, or Profession ofFaith,III.Avestan, the now generallyadopted name for the languageof the Avesta, 20.Avil-Marduk (Evil-Merodachofthe Bible), son and successor ofNebuchadrezzar, 319.B.Babil, mound of ; uncertaintyabout, 233.Babylon, walls of, built by Nebu¬chadrezzar, 228-230 ;the greatbridge at, 231 ; the palace, 232 ;the hanging gardens, 234-23S ;temple of Bel at, 238-240 ;mits to Kyros, 327-328.Babylonian Empire ;the Assyrian spoils, 173.customs, 242-260.sub¬its share of-women, independent positionof, 255-257.Bactria, probably the country ofKing "Vishtaspa, Zarathushtra'sfriend, 26.Bagistana, see Behistiin.Bakhdhi, capital of ancient Bac¬tria, mentioned in the Avesta,26.Bakhtiyari mountains, 278.Barashnum, the great nine nights'purification, 136.Bardiya (called by the GreeksSmerdis), younger son of Kyrosthe Great, 345 ;assa.ssinated byorder of Kambyses, 350 ;sonated by an impostor, 357,per¬Baresma, bundle of sacred twigs,ri8 I 120 ; probably introducedby Turanian influences, 148, 149.Barsua, see Parsua.Behistun or Bisutun, ancient Bag¬istana ; rock of, 282 ; explora¬tion of, by Sir Henry C. Rawlin¬son, 284 ;sculpture and inscrip¬tions on the rock of, 285, 286,360, 361, 366, 381, 382.Bel-shar-uzzur, see Belshazzar.Belshazzar (Bel-shar-uzzur), son ofNabonidus, 322.Berlin, Mr. Geo., Assyriologist,252 and 254, notes.Bombay, city on the western coastof India, head-quarters of theParsis, 5, 6.Borsip, temple of Nebo at, 227.Borysthenes, modern Dniepr, aScythian river, described byHerodotus, 415.Bosporus, 413 IDareios crosses iton a bridge of ships, 424 ;cities on, rebel, 429.GreekBourchier, George, English travel¬ler and scholar, 8.Branchidce, the hereditary priestsof Apollo at Miletus, 209.Bug, Russian river, see Hypanis.Bunanitu, a Babylonian woman,often recurring in the Egibitablets, 251, 256, 259, note.Bundehesh, a Pehlevi sacred book,32.Burnouf, Eugene, French Oriental¬ist ;his work on the Zoroastrianbooks, 14, 15.Byzantium, a Greek colony on the