See Also: mani(1)(dictionary)
mani(2)(dictionary)
Mani(encyclopedia)
om mani padme hum(dictionary)

bullfinch (sh) and Mani (sh)


bullfinch (sh)




Any of several species of stocky, stout-billed songbird (family Fringillidae).

Eurasia has six species of the genus Pyrrhula, all boldly marked. The common bullfinch (P. pyrrhula), 6 in. (15 cm) long, is black and white; the male has a pinkish orange underside. It has a soft warbling call and is a popular cage bird. Usually found in evergreen groves and hedgerows, it is notorious for eating the buds of fruit trees. The trumpeter bullfinch (Rhodopechys githaginea), of arid localities from the Canary Islands to India, is a pale bird with a blaring buzzy note.


Common bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)

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Mani (sh)




or Manes or Manichaeus

born April 14, 216, southern Babylonia
died 274?, Gundeshapur

Persian founder of Manichaeism.

He had his first vision of an angel in his boyhood, and when he was 24 the angel reappeared and called him to preach a new Religion. He traveled to India and made converts there. The Persian king Shapur I permitted him to preach in the Persian empire, but, during the reign of Bahram I, Mani was attacked by Zoroastrian priests. After a 26-day trial he was sentenced to prison, where he died.