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H. while all the reliable Arab historians have described the word as the ancient title of the chief priests of Balkh.
The truth will be apparent from a study of whether the shrine was a fire-pit of the Majus and whether the religion followed by this family before its' conversion to Islam was that of fire-worshipping.
When they came to know of Mecca and of the religion of Quraish, they erected this shrine known as Nau Bahar.
" After this evidence, is there an iota of doubt to keep us from the belief that this Nau Bahar of Balkh was the idol-house of the Buddhists and not the fire-pit of the Majfis ?
1. Nau Bahar WE s nowhere the name of any fire-pit of the Majfrs, but it is a famous name of Buddhist shrines.
There were found many Buddhist shrines in Sind called by the name of Nau Bahar.
{مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} soever owns one of these virtues, what business has he got to cringe in a King's court"?' Scholars believe without any manner of doubt that the Arabs called Buddhists by the name of Buzasuf ( u-1_; _,}~ The existence of a Buddhist maxim over the shrine goes further to support the theory that Nau Bahar was a Buddhist shrine, for why should a Buddhist maxim be inscribed over a shrine of fire-worshippers ?
Historians have written that the religion of the priest of Nau Bahar W'.
Here it (Nau Bahar) is described as a shrine of moon-worshippers, but not as a fire-pit.