Papers in Honour of Professor Mary Boyce II (Hommages et Opera Minora 11)

Title Page Copyright Page TABLE DES MATIÈRES An ancient Irani ritual for tending the fire La métrique de la poésie parthe New light on Manichaeism in China Two Sogdian Hwydgm’n fragments Poetic lines in the Denkart VII Zoroastrianism in the comparison of religions Note sulla cliticizzazione in mediopersiano e partico Armeno-Iranica The death of Cyrus: Xenophon’s Cyropaedia as a source for Iranian history Scatology and eschatology in Zoroaster: on the paronomasia of Yasna 48.10 and on Indo-European h2eg ‘to make taboo’ and the reciprocity verbs *kwsen(w) and *megh Iranian notes 1-6 Bagdāna, King of the Demons, and other Iranian terms in Babylonian Aramaic magic The cosmogonical and cosmological teachings of Mazdak Two fire temples converted to mosques in Central Iran The Manichean commandments: a survey of the sources Hafiz and Shakespeare: an East-West encounter Thematic and linguistic parallels in the Achaemenian and Sassanian inscriptions On the evolution of the early Iranian fire temple Der Gōwišn ī grīw zīndag — Zyklus Some Classical Persian words and their Middle Iranian equivalents Mānistān and xānaqāh A beautiful girl Khotansakisch āṣaṇa- ‘wert, würdig’ A strange account of the world’s origin: PRDd. XLVI Haoma/Soma: the plant Distinction of grammatical gender in the dialects of Kashan province and the adjoining areas PLANCHES Festschrift presented to Professor Mary Boyce on her 65th birthday. Includes laudatio jointly written by H. W. Bailey, A. D. H. Bivar and J. R. Hinnells. Publication partly subvented by funds from Tata Ltd., UK; Zoroastrian Studies, Bombay; and an anonymous benefactor