They give _Máhábád_ the names of _Azar Húshang_, _A Húshang_, _Húshang_, and _A Hosh_. It is also recorded, that the Almighty bestowed on the princes of _Ajam_[349] prudence, sagacity, and perfection of intellect, whereby their theories were connected with practical results, and their words quite in harmony with their deeds, so that their rule over this revolving world for so many thousand years was entirely owing to the efficacy of the above-mentioned principles and covenants. [316] Edit. of Calcutta: در و چون بسی برتری يافتم In one manuscript: وچون بسی برتری يافتم. In the manuscript of Oude: درون چون بسی برتری يافتم. The first is best. [317] Edit. of Calcutta and the manuscript of Oude have: سروشی بتابيد آهرمنی. Two other manuscripts: سروشی نپايدء و آهرمنی. The latter seems to be the better reading. [318] Edit. of Calcutta and the manuscript of Oude: فراموش; two other manuscripts, مرا هوش――the better reading by far. [319] Two manuscripts have ز between ساخود and سايه; the edit. of Calcutta and the manuscript of Oude have خود سايه. [320] The text has: بدان ره که رفتم شدم سوی تن بعد ايزدی فره زان انجمن _Izedi_ means any thing given for God’s sake, or as one’s due; here it seems to signify a divine gift. يزد, ايزد, _ized_, also يزدان, _yezdan_, is the name of God, and may be derived from ईश, _ísa_, “to possess power,” ईष, _ísha_, “to give,” इष, _isha_, to wish, or according to Hyde (p. 159), from يشتن, _ishten_, “supplicare, intercedere.” _Ized_ is also light, purity; it is the name of good spirits, created for the good of the world, and appointed to protect individuals.――A. T. [321] In the Gulshen raz, a poem quoted in our note p. 82, this idea is expressed in several verses, of which the following: جهان از عقل و نفس و چرخ و اجرام جون يک قطره دان زاغاز و انجام “The world, which is composed of intellect, soul, heavens, and bodies, Know them to be as a drop from beginning to end.” Room is wanted for quoting, as a curious coincidence with this image, four beautiful strophes of Klopstock, from his ode “_Die Frühlingsfeyer_,” the Festivity of Spring.――A. T. [322] This verse has already been quoted, page 6. [323] Allusion is here made to the four immediate successors of Mohammed; these were _Abubeker_, _Omár_, _Osman_, and _Alí_.