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abagha/ abaγa (uncle), 135 Abaoji (Kitan emperor), 141 Abbasid Arabs, 94, 179 accentuation: prima, 189; ultima, 189–90 Achaemenid empire, 78, 115–16, 130, 133 Adshead, Samuel, 100 Afghanistan, 102 agan (elder brother), 63, 65 Agan, Song of, 62–63 agha (Ottoman title), 64–65 Agni, 115 Agnicayana, 111 Ahura Mazda, 108, 110–11 Akha/aqa (elder brother), 62–64, 66–67, 144 ‘alaf (grass, pasture), 178 Alexander the Great, 11, 116, 133, 143; divinity of, 217 n.83 Ali ibn Abi Talib, 164 alliteration, 190 Alp Bilgä (Uighur qaghan), 140, 153 Altaic (languages), 36, 48, 50–51, 53, 56–59, 65–67, 69, 72, 89–90, 93, 125–26, 129–30, 138, 185–90; peoples and cultures, 49–50, 52, 78, 89, 94, 107, 133–34, 137–39. See also Steppe; Turco-Mongol altun (gold), 46, 116 Ammianus Marcellinus, 133 An Lushan, 45, 91, 160, 174; Rebellion, 22– 23, 28, 37, 175 Analects, 144 ancestor worship, 77, 80, 163,168, 224 n.24 Anding, 83 a- prefix, 62 Aqula, 94–95 Arab conquest, 101, 155, 178 Arabs, 27, 94, 179 Aršak, 133 Aryans, 79, 115, 143. See also Indo-Europeans; Indo-Iranians Ashina Simo, 15 Ashina Zhong, 11 Asoka, 143 assistant conquerors, 100, 108–9 ātar/Ātar (fire, fire god), 115–18 Attila, 96 Augustus, 138 ä’ülän (cloud), 48 Avalokiteśvara (Guanyin), 5 Avar, 42 Avesta, 78, 115, 208 n.57 Aydemir, Hakan, 183 Azerbaijan, 110, 116 Bactria, 133 bagapuhr/baghbūr, 124–34, 137, 154 baga/baγa (god), 128, 133 baga/baγa (title), 128, 137–38, 150 Bagchi, P. C., 55 baghadur/baγadur/baγatur (hero), 47, 105, 127, 130, 151–54 bahan (foreign horse), 177 Bahr, Tamin ibn, 179 Bai Jian, 158–60, 172 Bai Juyi, x, 65, 89, 157–82 Bai Mingda, 13, 171 Bai Minzhong, 158–62 Bai Xiaode, 181 Bai Xingjian, 166, 170, 181 Bai Yujiutong, 85 Bailey, Harold, 111, 116, 129–30, 133 Baili Xi, 71 bäliq (fish), 47 Bang, W., 58, 134 banner people, 70 Barfield, Thomas, 32, 38 Bartholomae, Christian, 116 Bazin, Louis, 48, 63, 97 Benedict, Paul, 62 Index 268 Index bi (pen, writing brush), 36 bianwen (transformation texts), 157 bias of written records, 49, 106, 157 bird ancestor, 80 Bi Sheng (Song dynasty inventor), 161 bison, 58 blood-sweating horse, 177 blood tanistry. See tanistry Bloomberg, Michael, 107 Böhtlingk, Otto, 190 Boodberg, Peter, 12, 18, 23, 63–64, 87, 89, 95–96, 105, 137, 183 Bosson, James, 189 Bosworth, Clifford, 30 Boyce, Mary, 50 breast-sucking, 11 Buddha, 57, 107, 129 Buddhism, x, 2, 4, 8, 12, 28, 33–34, 44, 79, 81, 102, 107, 110, 113–14, 118, 123, 140, 142, 146–49, 156–57, 163, 167–69, 172, 181; literature and sources, 5–6, 55, 57, 101, 108, 129, 165 bughra/buγra (camel stallion), 49, 57 Bughra Khan, 49, 53 Bügü (Uighur qaghan), 134 Bukhara, 112, 165 bulān (elk, deer, unicorn), 50–51, 53–54, 56–59 Bulgars, x, 56, 83, 87, 95–97 Bulgarian Princes’ List, 96–97 Buluoji, 51, 83–98, 103 Bumin Qaghan, 130 Burxan (Buddha), 129 Bush, George W., 108 Cai Yan (daughter of Cai Yong), 62, 124 camel, 49–50 candāla (outcast), 79 Cao Cao, 62, 74, 155 car/carag (pasture, graze), 178 cardinal human relations (lun), 60 Caucasians, 82, 88–89, 92, 94, 102, 122 Central Asia, 49, 118, 127, 132, 134, 167, 178 Central Asia card, 101, 129, 160, 171 Central Asians, 88–89, 93, 95. 102, 110–12, 118, 130, 160–61, 164–65, 167, 169, 175, 180. See also Sogdians cervid, 50–52; worship of, 52–54 Cen Wenben, 31 Cen Zhongmian, 93, 163, 174 Chang’an, 69, 124 Changli, 45, 159, 164 Chanyu (Xiongnu royal title), 132–33, 138–39, 142 Chavannes, Edouard, 55, 63 Chen Bozhi, 90 Chen dynasty, 13, 45 Cheng-Hàn dynasty, 71 Chen Mengjia, 119–21 Chen Menglei, 30 Chen Yinke, 6–7, 9, 17–18, 26, 68, 130, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167–68, 170, 173–74, 178 Chen Yuan, 98, 110 Chen Zhensun, 159 Chiang Kai-shek, 44 childhood name, 12 children’s ballad, 103–4 Chile (Turkic group), 126, 140 Chile, Song of, 46 Ching, Julia, 119 Chinggis Khan. See Genghis Khan chinu (wolf), 12 Chouchi, 76 Chu (state), 131 Chun, Allen, 120 Chuvash (language), 190 ci (lyric poetry), 170 cishi (regional inspector), 127 civil service examination, 10 Clauson, Sir Gerard, 56, 58, 64, 97, 183, 190...
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