History of the Parsis : including their manners, customs, religion and present position : with coloured and other illustrations : in two volumes

INDEX.

Nose-ring, i. 122-123

Nugna d’Acunha, i. 28 note

Nujjeet, i. 94 note

Nusks, ii. 157

Nyaishes, the, ii. 169; their number, 169; 237

OBELISK road, ii. 121

Oderie, i. 40

Ogamdecha, ii. 177

Oldenburg, Duchess of, i. 326 Ollivant, Mr. E. C. K., ii, 74 Olpad, ii. 24

Oman, King of, i. 27 note

Oppert, Professor, ii. 234

Order of the Indian Empire, i. 279 Oriental Bank, ii. 247

Oriental mills, ii. 139

Oriental spinning company, ii. 248 Ormus, i. 24

Osorio, i. 28 note

Ouseley, Sir William, li. 208, 220 Ovington, Rey. Mr., i. 266

Owen, Mr. E., ii. 15 note

Oxford, i. 207; library at, ii. 173 Oxus, the, i. 3, 10

PADAMJI PESTANJI, KHAN BAHADUR, i, 102 and note

Page, William, Mr., i. 206 note

Pahlu, ii. 175

Paitita, 1. 145

Pajak, ii, 157, 161

Palanji Nasarvanji Patel, Mr., i. 83

Palestine, i. 6

Panchayet, i. 127, 169, 173, 211, 215, 217; the first, 217; as a court of justice, 218 ; its power of inflicting punishment, 218-219; appointing a, 223; power of, 224; decision of, 226-228 ; 228; inflicts punishment, 229; 233; decline of, 236; impotence of the, 240; its want of power, 241; 243, 267, 273; il. 16 note, 229; funds of, 268

Panch Mahals, i. 101

Pandnama, ii. 237

Pandnama Buzargche-Mehr, ii. 181

Pandnama-i-Adarbad Marespand, ii. 233

Panjab, i. 7, 38; ii. 260

Panjbokhat, i. 36 note

Pan-Sopari, i. 177

Panthakis, the, ii. 56

Papak, i. 159

Papilius, M., 1. 104

Paraho, ui. 192

Parbani, ii. 127

Parchol, ii. 23

Parganas, il. 23

Pargarad, i. 194

Paris, Imperial Library at, ii. 173; 234

Parnali, ii. 129

Pars, i. 11; see Fars

Parsi Benevolent Institution, the Sir Jamshedji Jijibhai, i. 286

Parsi dokhma, i. 51 and note

Parsi Girls’ School Association, i. 312, 313, 314, 319; ii. 143, 288

Parsi Law Association, 1. 253, 254, 258, 266; li. 143

Parsi Marriage Act, i. 257

Parsi religion, see ii. chaps. iii., iv., v.

Parsi Succession Act, i. 257

Parsis, who are they? i. 2; meaning of name, 11; nearly wrecked when fleeing, 29; attempt to convert, 41-42; appealed to for help, 44; their reply, 44; in Persia, 53-55 (see chap. il.); of Bombay appealed to, 63; character of, in Persia, 70; numbers of, 91; in Bombay, 92; in Chima, ete., 92; low mortality of, 96; proportion of children among, 96; vitality of, 97; proportion of males among, 97 ; occupations of, 98-99; not given to agriculture, 100 ; no soldiers among, 101; causes of this, 103-104; as volunteers, 102; their qualities, 104-105; sects of, 105; their year, 106 ; shrewdness of, 115 ; dress of, 117 ; dress of their ladies, 118-120; dress of their priests, 120; appearance of, 120; their women, 121; their mode of life, 123; their manner of taking meals, 124-125 ;