巴米揚大佛的諢名沙瑪瑪（Shahmama）和索爾索爾（Solsol）是什麼意思？

The enormous Buddhas, the male Salsal (「light shines through the universe」) and the (smaller) female Shamama (「Queen Mother」), as they were called by the locals, did not fail to fire the imagination of Islamic writers in centuries past.

In medieval Persian and Turkish sagas, as well as in Bamian itself, the two statues were referred to as Salsal (「the light of the universe」) and Shamana (or Sha(h)mama, 「the king"s mother」).(1) and considered as among the wonders of the world for centuries

amp;quot;An attempt to wipe out historyamp;quot;: The destruction of the Bamian Buddha colossi in 2001www.afghanistan-analysts.org

Salsal 就是「宇宙之光」， 伊朗語族a時常發成o；

Shahmama 就是「王之母」或者王太后的意思，或許和波斯語的「Shahmam」（皇后）同源。