REIGN OF BEHRÂM BIN SHÂPÛR ZULLÂKTÂF.

Having been Governor of Kermân during the lifetime of his father and brother, he was surnamed Kermânshâh. He is said to have been extremely good-natured and moral. After he had reigned more than eleven years the army revolted against him, and in a general melée an arrow struck him in a lethal part, so that he expired. In the Târikh Moa’jum it is related that he was killed by a relative of his own without having committed any crime. Deeds, however, of this kind are nothing extraordinary in our strange world:

Verses: Whether a man gathers up his skirts
Or attacks the world with his scimitar,
He will not be safe from envious men:
Let base wretches perish, then.