The history of the life of Nader Shah, King of Persia. Extracted from an Eastern manuscript, which was translated into French by order of His Majesty the King of Denmark ... / With an introduction ... and an appendix ... By William Jones, esq.

  • Mahdī Khān Astarābādī, active 1733-1759.
Date:
1773
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Credit: The history of the life of Nader Shah, King of Persia. Extracted from an Eastern manuscript, which was translated into French by order of His Majesty the King of Denmark ... / With an introduction ... and an appendix ... By William Jones, esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wrdn, which it ftiil retains. The two elder B. c. 750. brothers, thinking this divifion partial, made war again!! I rage, and flew him in a cruel manner *, they would even have dethroned 1Feridun, had not Manucheher, fon of I rage, a youth of great hopes, led a powerful army again!! them, and avenged the death of his father. This divifion of the Perfian empire into Iran and Pur an has been a fource of per¬ petual dilTeniions between the Periians and Tar¬ tars, as the latter have taken every opportunity of palling the Oxus, and laying wafte the dib¬ it riels of Khorafan ; they have even puflied their conquefts fo far, as to overturn the power of the Califs, and afterwards to raife a mighty Empire on the banks of the Ganges. MANUCHEHER * made great improvements b. c. 720. in the government of Perfia, and was the firft (who began to fortify his cities with ramparts and ditches. He was fond of improving gardens, and of cultivating curious plants. He was not fortunate in war, though his General and Vizir, the fon of Herman, was the brave!! hero of his iage. In his reign the celebrated Roftam is faid to have been bom of R.udaba, an Indian prin- cefs, by Zalzer or Phe golden-haired, a youth of i exquifite beauty and eminent virtues: but, as Roftam was, certainly, a Commander under Cyrus, he mu!!, if we place him under Manucheher, have lived above an hundred and fifty years; which is fcarce credible, though fuch a £clion may be allowed in the poems of Ferdufi. . —-— i ~ 1 NUZJR,