Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cabin and arrived in England to receive, as inmate of cabin 136, the attentions of Sleuths A, B, C and D, respectively employed by a newspaper magnate, an industrialist, and Her Honor, the Prime Minister of England. Each of these worthies was scheming to prevent the sale of West Iranian minerals to either of the others, though nothing was further from the confused thoughts of poor Mallard. Harassed, indignant, he escaped to France, only to be welcomed by Sleuth E (with an accent...
...Turkish population of Mohammedans, was untill the end of the first millennium A. D. the area of a Buddhist culture, developed by a population speaking Indo-European languages, that is to say, languages of the same stock as almost all the languages of modern Europe. These languages. Tokhanian. Eastern Iranian. Togdian, have not only disappeared many centuries ago, but, with the exception of Togdian, we had not even an intimation that they had ever existed, and all our conceptions of Aslatic history have been greatly changed by the fact that languages akin to ours were once spoken on the Western...
...rest. I then squatted in the cave and in the course of two weeks, all the manuscripts passed through my hands, about one thousand a day. Finally, I bought all of them which were of some interest, in Chinese in Sanskrit, in Tibetan, in Logdian, in Eastern Iranian, most of them Buddhistic, but some also Nestrian, Manichaean, even a Hebrew book of prayers, and also the earliest extant manuscripts of the Chineses classic and of some other Chinese works of a historical or literary character, all of them ranging from the fifth to the tenth century...
...fourth gift dating from the eighteenth century is a manuscript roll from Tun Huang, a province of Kansu, China, which bears a Chinese Buddhist text on the obverse and rough draughts of state documents in ancient Tibetan and in the Iranian language of Khotan on the reverse side...
...chief Parsi of India is Jal Dastur C. Pavry, himself someday destined to be chief. He is now studying at Columbia University, having come primarily on account of a professor, one A. V. Williams Jackson, Professor of Indo-Iranian languages. Said Parvy: "I think Professor Jackson knows more about Zoroastrianism than anybody anywhere in the world...