It is also to be observed that, according to them, the year is of two kinds; one the _farsál_, which is after this manner: when the planet has traversed the twelve mansions of the zodiac, they call it one day; thirty such days, one month; and twelve such months, one year; as we have before explained under Saturn. Similar years constitute the _farsáls_ of the other planets, which they thus enumerate; the _farsáls_ of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the sun, Venus, Mercury, and the moon: the months of the _farsál_ they call _farmáh_; the days of the farmáh, _farróz_. The second kind of years is, when Saturn in the period of thirty years traverses the twelve mansions, which they call a saturnian _karsál_; the _karmáh_ is his remaining two years and a half in each mansion,――Jupiter describes his period in twelve common years; this time they call the _hormuzí karsál_; and the _hormuzí karmáh_ is his remaining one year in each mansion: and so with regard to the others. However, when we speak of years or months in the accounts given of the _Gilsháíyán_ princes, solar and lunar years and months are always meant; day implies the acknowledged day; and by month is meant the residence of the Great Light in one of the zodiacal mansions; and by year, his passing through the zodiac; a lunar month is its complete revolution, and traversing all the signs, which year and month are also called _Tímúr_.[249] When Yásán Asám had abandoned this elementary body and passed away from this abode of wickedness, the state of mankind fell into utter ruin, as his son _Gilsháh_, who was enlightened in spirit, intelligent in nature, adorned by good deeds, feeling no wish for sovereign power, had given himself so entirely up to the service of God, that no one knew the retreat of this holy personage.――Men therefore, shutting up the eyes of social intercourse, extended the arm of oppression against each other; at once the lofty battlements and noble edifices were levelled to the ground; the deep fosses filled up; mankind being left destitute of a head, the bonds of society were broken; slaughter was carried to such excess, that numerous rivers flowed with currents of blood, streaming from the bodies of the slain: in a short time not a trace was left of the countless treasures and the boundless stores, the amount of which defied the computations of imagination. Matters even came to such an extremity, that men threw off the institutes of humanity, and were no longer capable of distinguishing the relative values of precious stones, wares and commodities: they left not a vestige remaining of palaces and cities; but like ferocious and savage beasts, took up their dwelling in the mountain caverns.――Besides this, they fought against each other, so that the multitudes of the human race were reduced to a scanty remnant.