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Kanishka I with Manaobago (Vohu Manah).[1]
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Vohu Manah (
, "evil purpose" or "evil mind".The term is a compound of the words vohu "good" and manah "mind, thought, purpose", cognate with the Vedic words vásu and mánas, both with the same meaning. Both of these derive from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwásuš and *mánas, in turn from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus and *ménos.
In the
, the term 'Vohu Manah' is not unambiguously used as a proper name and frequently occurs without the "Good" (Vohu-) prefix.In the post-Gathic texts that expound the principles of
cattle
. Vohu Manah is of neutral gender in Avestan grammar but in Zoroastrian tradition is considered masculine.
In the
Iranian civil calendar
, which inherits the names of the months from the Zoroastrian calendar, the 11th month is likewise named Bahman.
The
Achaemenid emperor Artaxerxes II (as it is rendered in Greek) had "Vohu Manah" as the second part of his throne name, which when "translated" into Greek appeared as "Mnemon". New Persian Bahman remains a theophoric
in present-day Iranian and Zoroastrian tradition.
See also
- Amesha Spentas, the emanations of Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrianism.
References
- ISBN 978-81-208-1408-0.
- Narten, Joanna (1989). "Bahman i: In the Avesta". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol. 3. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 487–488.
- Gignoux, Phillipe (1989). "Bahman ii: In the Pahlavi texts". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol. 3. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 487.
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