725 
Darius Hiftafpis, defied king by the Con¬ 
trivance of his groom, 660 ; reduces Ba¬ 
bylon, 660, 1; fuccefsful in Scythia and 
India, his death, 661. 
Darius Nothus, or Ochus, 662. 
Darius Codomannus, 663; fubdued and de- 
pofed by Alexander the Great, 664. 
Drefs, not according to Chardin’s rule, 7J4; 
of the women, 715. 
Education of the Perfians, 718. 
Euthalites, or White Huns, 667. 
Falconry in Perfia, 709. 
Fading in Perfia, very ftrifi, 703. 
Feafting, anecdotes of, 716, 17. 
Feridoun, one of the earlieft monarchs of 
Perfia, 656. 
Feftivals and amufements of the ancient Per¬ 
fians, 674, 5 ; of the modern, 704. 
Feth Ali, chief of the tribe of the Cadjars, 
and great-grandfather of the prefent king, 
686 . 
Feth Ali Shah, adopted by his uncle as heir 
to the throne, 688; afeends the throne, 
and murdershis benefafior, 689; his per- 
fonal appearance, and charafier, 692 ; fa¬ 
mily, 693; officers of date, 694; wo¬ 
men, 694, 5 ; brilliancy of his court, 695; 
liberal to the Chridians, 705; but not to 
the Sods, 705, 6. 
Fifh plentiful in Perfia, 709. 
Funerals, monuments, and mourning, 722. 
Gaming forbidden, but prafiifed, 720. 
Gengis Khan, 676. 
Georgia, often conquered and re-conquered, 
at length given up to Ruffia by treaty, 
689, 690. 
Guebres, or fire-worlhippers, 648. 
Gymnadic exercifes, 719. 
Hadjee Khan, prime minider, 698. 
Harpagus, faves the life of Cyrus, and is be¬ 
trayed to eat the flelh of his own fon, but 
is afterwards revenged, 657. 
Havoufa, a Perfian general, his avarice and 
treachery, 682. 
Heraclius, emperor of the Ead, 671, 
Heraclius, prince of Georgia, 689. 
Hormifdas, king of Perfia, his Ihort and 
peaceable reign, 665. 
Hormifdas II. 665. 
Hormifdas III. defeats the Turks, 669; af- 
cends the throne at the death of his fa¬ 
ther, his unjud behaviour occafions him 
to be depofed, 670. 
Horfes and other cattle, 708. 
Horfemanfhip, feats of, 719. 
Horferacing, 720. 
Houfes, 7 jo, 11 ; how furnifhed, 717 ; how 
lighted and warmed, 718. 
Hulaku the Mogul, 676. 
Hunting in Perfia, 720. 
Huffeyn the Weak, 681 ; betrayed by one 
general, and difgraces another, 682; his 
degradation, 683 ; and death, 684. 
Hufleyn, the fon of Ali, 685, 702, 704. 
Jews, date of, in Perfia, 710. 
Iran, the ancient name of Perfia, 656. 
lfdigertes, or Yezdegerd, king of Perfia, 
666 . 
lfdigertes II. the lad king of the race of 
Artaxares, 671 ; his fon and daughter, 
672. 
Ifmael Sefi, and Ifmael II. and III. 678. 
Ifpahan, made the feat of empire by Abbas 
the Great, 678; befieged by the Afghans, 
682 ; dreadful fufferings of the people, 
683. 
Julian, the Roman emperor, his fooliih con- 
duft occafions his death in the war againd 
Sapor II. 666. 
Judinian, emperor of the Ead, 667 ; at 
war with Chofroes, 668, 9. 
PERSIA. 
Kerifn Khan, after overcoming many oppo¬ 
nents, becomes king of Perfia, 686 ; his 
profperous reign, 687. 
Khan, that title explained, 694 J governor 
of a balook, or canton, 699. 
Khodah Bundah, fon of Abbas the Great, 
679. 
Khoi, remarkable hunt there, 720 ; noted 
for its fertility, 723. 
Koran, the fource of law as well as of re¬ 
ligion, 700. 
Kouli Khan. See Nadir Shah. 
Latif Ali, the lad reprefentative of the 
houfe of Kerim Khan, 688. 
Locufts in vad quantities, 709. 
Lotos, or lily, venerated by the Perfians, as 
well as by the Egyptians, Hindoos, &c. 
651. 
Magi, (laughter of, 660. 
Mahmud the Afghan, murders his brother, 
681; befieges Ifpahan, 682; his arro¬ 
gance, infanity, and death, 683. 
Marriage - ceremonies, and treatment of 
wives, 721, 2. 
Mader of the Ceremonies, 694. . 
Medicine, as prafiifed by the Perfians, 721. 
Meer Aub, or prince of the waters, 707, 8. 
Mir-Weis, king of Candahar, 681. 
Mirza, that title explained, 693, 4. 
Mirza Sefi, a monder of cruelty, 680. 
Mirza Sheffea, late prime minider, 697, 8. 
Mohammed king of Perfia, 678. 
Mohammed Haffan, grandfather of the pre- 
fent king, 686. 
Mountains of Perfia, 707. 
Mufti, his office and authority, 700. 
Nadir Shah, or Kouli Khan, becomes com¬ 
mander-in-chief under the king Tahmafp, 
whom he redores to his crown, 684; but 
foon afterwards depofes him, and afeends 
the throne; his expedition to India, and is 
murdered on his return, 685 ; his charac- 
• ter, 686 ; improvements made by him in 
the army, 696, 697 ; pretended modera¬ 
tion in religious matters, 702. 
Narfes king of Perfia, 664, 5. 
Narfes, general of the troons of Varanes V. 
666 . 
New-year’s day, as celebrated by the ancient 
Perfians, 674; by the modern, 720. 
Ochus, brother of Sogdianus king of Perfia, 
661 ; murders Sogdianus, mounts the 
throne, his reign and death, 662. 
Ochus, fon of Artaxerxes, his cruelty, fuc- 
ceffes againft the Sidonians and Egyptians, 
poifoned, 663. 
Omar, fecond caliph from Mahomet, 671, 
702 ; feftival of imprecation, 704, 
Otanes, 659 ; occafions the detection of the 
impoftor Smerdis, and lives independent 
of kings, 660. 
Peacock-throne built for Nadir Shah, 685 ; 
a fimihr one for Feth Ali Shah, 695. 
Perofes, killed by the White Huns, 667. 
Perfees, or Parfees,a fet of primitive Perfians 
in Britifli India, 648; their mild and 
benevolent habits, 649. 
Perl’epolis, 649; defeription of the ruins, 
650; part of the fculptures brought to 
England, 651; fuppofed to be the ruins 
of a temple, rather than of a palace, 652; 
characters of the inferiptions, ibid. 
Perffa, ancient and modern boundaries, 655; 
originally peopled by Elam, the fon of 
Sliem, 656 ; Cyrus, the firft king of whom 
we have any authentic account, 657 ; the 
empire overturned by Alexander the 
Great, transferred to the Parthians, and 
at length reftored by Artaxares, 664; end 
of that dynafty, 671, 2 ; manners and re¬ 
ligion of the Perfians to that period, 672; 
Mahometan dynafties, 675 ; prefent pow¬ 
er and extent, 689; recent politics, 690 ; 
has no metropolis properly fo called,692; 
the king and his family, 692, 3; officers 
of (late, 694; women of the harem, 
695; army, 696; prime-minifter, 697; 
other officers of the government, 698 ; 
divifions and fubdivifions of the kingdom, 
698, 9 ; revenue, 699, 700 ; laws, 700 ; 
adminiftration of juftice, 701; religion, 
702 ; religious feftivals, 704 ; climate, 
707 ; produce, 708 ; population, 709, 10, 
charafier, 711 ; contrafted with that of 
the Turks, 712; of the women, 713; 
drefs, 714; of the females, 713; domef- 
tic habits, 716 ; education and amufe¬ 
ments, 718; medicine, 721; marriages, 
721; funerals, 722; agriculture, 722; 
commerce, 723. 
Pigeons-dung, the chief manure, 723. 
Pilgrimage to Mecca, 703,4. 
Population, 709, to. 
Poultry and game, 70?. 
Prayers and almfglving, 703. 
Puniffiments, 701, 2. 
Purifications, 703. 
Ramazan, the principal faft, 703, followed 
by the feaft of Bairam, 704. 
Religion of the ancient Perfians, 674; of 
the moderns, 702. 
Ruffia, particularly anxious to conciliate the 
Perfians, 691. 
Sadik Khan, brother of Kerim, depofes 
and blinds his nephew, and ufurps the 
government, 687. 
Salt extremely plentiful, 708. 
Sapor king of Perfia, his fucceffes againft 
the Romans, 664 ; reigns thirty-one years, 
665. 
Sapor II. declared king before he was born, 
663; his great fuccefs againft the Ro¬ 
mans, 666. 
Saracens, affift the Perfians againft the Ro¬ 
mans, 666; lofe a vaft number of men, 
667. 
Sculpture, advantages of, 651. 
Scythia invaded by Darius, 661. 
Seraglio, or harem, 694 ; how fupplied, 695. 
Shahrokh, grandfon of Nadir Shah, 686. 
Shawls, the Perfian not equal to thofe from 
Turkey, 724. 
Sheik-ul-lflam, high-prieft and chief juftice, 
700. 
Shiites and Sunnites, 702. 
Shiraz, particularly diftinguiffied by Kerim 
Khan, 687; its climate, 707. 
Silk forbidden to be worn, 715. 
Siroes, fon of Chofroes II. his (hort reign, 
671. 
Smerdis the Magian, ufurps the throne of 
Perfia, 659; betrayed and killed, 660. 
Smoking ufed on foot and on horfeback, 715. 
Sofis, an account of that fefi, 705 ; ordered 
to be rooted out, 706. 
Sogdianus, murders the king his brother, 
and afeends the throne, 661 ; l'mochered 
in alhes, 662. 
Solyman, as cruel as his predeceftors, 681. 
Tahmafp, king of Perfia, reduces Georgia, 
678. 
Tahmafp II. 683 ; efcapes from the ufur- 
per Affiraf, and takes Nadir Khan into 
his fervice, 684 ; who firft reinftates and 
then depofes him, murdered by Nadir’s 
fon, 685. 
Tamerlane, his rife and wonderful progrefs, 
he fubdues Perfia and Hindooftan, 676 ; 
deftroys Sebafte, reduces Bagdad, defeats 
Bajazet emperor of the Turks, and plans 
the conqueft of China, his death and cha¬ 
rafier, 677. 
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