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Māzandarān
(7,117 words)
, a province to the south of the Caspian Sea bounded on the west by Gīlān [
q. v.] and on the east by what was in Ḳad̲j̲ār times the province of Astarābād [
q.v., formerly Gurgān); Māzandarān and Gurgān now form the modern
ustān or province of Māzandarān. 1. The name. If Gurgān to the Iranians was the "land of the wolves" (
vәhrkāna , the region to its west was peopled by "Māzaynian dēws" (Bartholomae,
Altir .
Wörterbuch , col. 1169, under
māzainya daēva ). Darmesteter,
Le Zend-Avesta , ii, 373, n. 32, thought that Māzandarān was a "comparative of direction" (*
Mazana-tara ; c…