Achaemenian : of Achaemenian Empire of a Persian dynasty that ruled 559-330 BC.
... revised edition, p. 1293). Pānini's hailihila seems to come nearest to the original Semitic form of the word, which may have been Aramaic, the international language of trade and commerce in the Achaemenian world from Syria to Gandhāra. Pānini refers to poisons in general called visha and to the third degree methods of liquidating particular persons marked out as vishya by the administering of... We have mentioned Bhanr darkar's observation that the term "Daivaputra" instead of "Devaputra" is a Sanskrit Taddhita form. Now we may cite Raychaudhuri's remark: 3 "As to the form Daiva see Achaemenian inscriptions of Xerxes, and forms like Bhaimarathi (instead of Bhīmarathī)." The first part of the remark points straight to Persia, where Daiva rather than Deva was the natural vocable, and ...
... INDEX Aay/Aioi, 380 Abhayamitra, 432 Abhijit, 107 Ābhīras,424, 426 Abisares (ruler of Abhisara), 63 Abulites, 272 Acesines (Asiknī, Chenāb), 117 Achaemenian inscriptions of Xerxes, 438 Achaemenids, 251, 384, 385, 429, 549, 603; their art, 387-94; documents in Egypt, 330-31; satrapies, 56 Achyuta, 537, 539 Aditi (Kasyapa's ...
... now sent back to Macedonia with gifts, and the crisis was surmounted. 2 Also called Achaemenid, Persian Hakmanishiya (559-330 B.C.), ancient Iranian dynasty whose kings founded and ruled the Achaemenian Empire. The dynasty became extinct with the death of Darius III, following his defeat (330 BC) by Alexander the Great. 3. Prop: support. Page 64 first designed to be an emporium. ...
... verse; we don't write on a blank slate virgin of the past. Indian sculpture or architecture may have taken this form from the Greeks or that form from the Persians; but neither is in the least degree Achaemenian or Hellenistic. 1 April 1932 Twilight Hush A forest | of shadows | gliding fast, Magnetwise, | as drawn on | by the sun For wester|lў cŏnvērgĭng | sunset-goal— Zenith past, ...
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