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EMONESH.or (i 6)PADESHAN AMONESH.that 
is, MONESH, or AMONESH, OF KINGS; 
the word PADISHAH, or rather PADESHAH, as 
it leems to have been written and pronounced by the 
(17) antient Perfians, in the Pehlawian, Pehelawian, 
or Baftanian, that is, the old Perhc, tongue, denoting 
(18) King. That NI, or NE, was fometimes a 
mafculine plural termination in the antient Perfic, 
feems to appear from the word, or rather words, 
G/EVI, which occurs in Dr. Elyde (19). And that 
the vowels A and E were fometimes prefixed to the 
Perfian proper names, in the remoter periods of time, 
(16J That the plural termination of PADESHAH, or SHAH, 
which, according to Khojah At'dhalo’ddin, denoted originally the 
fame thing, was AN, or perhaps ANE, in the days of Ammianus 
Marcellinus, there is good reafon to believe ; the word SAANSAA, 
KING OF KINGS, having been then ufed by the Perfians, and 
handed down to us by that author. The term 2AA, SAA, equi- 
valent to the Perfic SHAH, KING, lilcewife occurs in Agathias, 
a writer of the lixth century. Should my explication of the Par- 
thian legend of the coin before me meet with the approbation of 
the learned, it will perhaps be granted me, that the plural of 
PADESHAH, or PADESHA, amongft the Parthians was PA- 
DESHAN, if not PADESHANE, in the fecond century after 
Christ. Hyd. Hiji. Rel. Vet. Perf. p. 416. Khojah Afdhalo’ddin, 
D’Herbel. Bi'olioth . Orient, p. 767. Hadr. Reland. Dijfert. viii. de 
Vet. Ling. PerJ. p. 221,222. Ammian. Marcellin. Lib. xix. cap. 2. 
Agath. Lib. iv. p. 135, 136. Parifiis, 1660. Ezech. Spanhem. De 
Prajlant. et IJf. Numifm. Antiquor. Tom. i. p. 463-— 466. Lond. 
1706. 
(17) Hyd. Hiji. Rel. Vet. Perf. p. 79. Oxon. 1700. 
(18) D’Herbel. Biblioth. Orient, p. 699, 767. Hyd. ubi fup. 
Hadr. Reland. Dijfert. viii. de Vet. Ling. Perf. p. 147. Traje<SIi ad 
Rhenum, 1707. 
(19) Hyd. ubi fup. p.326. 
BIR. ZEIVESHNI, LON- 
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