عید آمد و کار ِ ما نکو کرد آخر
خمّار، شراب در سبو کرد آخر
افسار ِ نماز و پوزه‌بند ِ روزه
عید از سر ِ آن خران فرو کرد آخر

The fest (of fiṭr) finally came and made good our affairs
The cupbearer finally poured wine into the ewers
The bridle of prayer and the muzzle of fasting
The fest put down from those donkies' heads.

-Ascribed to Omar Khayyām (Lala Ismail Library, Mss. 487, ca. 1340 A.D., Fol. 68v.)

Elementary Pārsīg (Middle Persian/ Pahlavi) Course - Spring 2022

"This course, pārsīg ī āsān / "Easy Pārsīg" consists of 80 hours (60 hours of lesson teaching + 20 hours of writing and speaking workshop) is conducted in three sections of 20 hours, with online and recorded sessions, and will be conducted for a Persian-speaking (or familiar with Persian) audience, starting from this spring with the first sessions taking place on April 18th / Farvardin 29th."

For more information and enrollment:

https://frazanaganhandarz.wordpress.com/2022/04/01/elementary-parsig-middle-persian-pahlavi-course-spring-2022/

Frazānagān Handarz - Counsel of the Wise

Elementary Pārsīg (Middle Persian/ Pahlavi) Course – Spring 2022

Phrases and words from the ancient Aryans (ērān).

Extracts from the article:

xrad andar kār, ud xēm andar pādixšāyīh, ud dōst<īh> andar vidang pēdāg.-24
Wisdom manifests in action, character during sovereignty, and friendship during hardship.

may xvārišnīh ēd ka abar āštīh ēsted.-108
To drink wine is this: they stand by peace.

harv kē xvāhed, vinded.-137
Whoever seeks, finds.

hān kē nēst, agar dāned kū: “ne hēm”, hēh.-184
That which is in-existent, if it knows thus: “I shan’t exist”, then it would exist.

hazār mard ō mard-ē ped gōbišn ēdōn nē šāyend vurravēnīdan cōn mard-ē ō hazār mard ped kunišn.-E15
A thousand men cannot make one man believe by their words in such manner that a single man can make one thousand men (believe) by action.

“To Drink Wine is to Stand by Peace” – Select Admonitions from the Sixth Book of Dēnkird.

https://frazanaganhandarz.wordpress.com/2022/03/13/to-drink-wine-is-to-stand-by-peace-select-admonitions-from-the-sixth-book-of-denkird/

Frazānagān Handarz - Counsel of the Wise

“To Drink Wine is to Stand by Peace” – Select Admonitions from the Sixth Book of Dēnkird

Beginning of Madan’s edition of the sixth book of Dēnkird The sixth book of the compendious book of Dēnkird is a handarz collection, that is, ‘admonition, instruction, precept’ fr…

Two articles on ancient Iranian psychology, written by R. Asha and translated by yours truly.

On the breath-soul / life-wind in Iranian doctrine:
https://frazanaganhandarz.wordpress.com/2021/12/25/iranian-psychology-1-the-life-wind/

The physical winds and humors of the body:
https://frazanaganhandarz.wordpress.com/2021/12/25/iranian-psychology-2-frava%E1%B9%A3i-nature/

Frazānagān Handarz - Counsel of the Wise

Iranian Psychology (1): The Life-Wind

The two articles translated in this series are from the edition of the New Persian Zoroastrian psychiatric text named Rāsta by Raham Asha. You can find the articles in PDF format in the titles:Intr…

"ولکنا وان کنا اهل فناء، فان علینا ان نعمل للبقاء ونحتال له الی امد الفناء."Though we are people doomed to perdition, we must strive for survival and find ways to deceive destruction until its proper time arrives.

—Letter of Tōsar (Priest of Ardašēr Pābagān) to Gušnasp (King of Tabaristān), Al-Tanbīh wa-l-išrāf, A. Mas'udī, ed. A. Ṣāwī, Baqdad (1967), pp.86.

"Rückblickend fragen wir uns: Welches war nun die besondere, bleibende Leistung dieses Großen der Geshichte? Wir stellen fest: Kyrus hat als erster ein Weltreich begründet. Vor ihm gab es wohl Großreiche wie das der Assyrer, aber kein Weltreich wie das der Perser unter seiner Führung."—Walther Hinz, Darius und die Perser (1976), Baden-Baden, pp. 120.

Looking back, we ask ourselves: What was the great, long-lasting achievement of this great historical figure? We deduce: Cyrus was the first to found a world-empire. There had been great empires like that of Assyrians before him, but none were a world-empire, like that of Persians lead by Cyrus.

Happy Cyrus the Great day!

Aspects of Self-knowledge in Iranian view.

https://frazanaganhandarz.wordpress.com/2021/09/28/aspects-of-self-knowledge-in-iranian-view/

Frazānagān Handarz - Counsel of the Wise

Aspects of Self-knowledge in Iranian view

Delphic motto γνῶθι σεαυτόν ‘know thyself’ on a Roman mosaic, excavated in the monastery of San Gregorio, Rome. The Bahman-nāma ‘Book of Bahman’, composed in New Persian ver…

šiyāta ahaniy jīva utā marta artāvā ahaniy.May I be happy while alive; and when dead, may I be righteous.

—King of Kings Xerxes I the Great, XPh 47-8