When Bellâsh commenced to reign he was just and equitable, and honoured Soukher with many favours. He built the towns of Sâbât and Madâin, and for every man who emigrated from his native place, Bellâsh punished the governor of it, saying: ‘That unfortunate man has left his country on account of thy tyranny.’ In the beginning of the reign of Bellâsh, Qobâd fled from Madâin to the territory of Ma-vara-an-nahr. When he had arrived within the boundaries of Nishapûr, he complained of the intensity of his sexual instinct to Azarmehr Bin Soukher, who was his friend. The latter accordingly selected for him the daughter of one of the grandees of that place, and induced her parents to agree to the match. During the night of the wedding, Qobâd quenched the fire of his passion, and his wife became pregnant; but the next morning he sent her back to her parents with many gifts, and departed to Turkestân. The royal prince travelled until he arrived in the metropolis of the Khâqân, where he remained four years. After that the Khâqân gave him a valiant negro companion, and sent him back to Erân. When he arrived in Nishapûr he inquired for the father of his spouse, and obtained the information that she had been delivered of a son, to whom the royal prince then gave the name of Naushirvân. In the same place the news reached him that his brother Bellâsh had departed this life, and Qobâd, thinking it to be a good foreboding to take Naushirvân with him, conveyed the young prince and his mother with all gentleness to Madâin.