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CHAPTER XXXIV, 5-9.
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twelve years; Hamai, who was daughter of Vohdman, thirty years; Darât son of Kihar-azadł, that is, of the daughter of Vohaman, twelve years; Darát son of Dåråt fourteen years; Alexander the Raman? fourteen years.
9. The Askânians bore the title in an uninterrupted (a-arâbâk) sovereignty two hundred and eighty-four years 3, Ardashir son of Påpak and the number of the Sâsânians four hundred and sixty years“, and then it went to the Arabs..
Darius Codomannus, while the reign of Kaî-Vistâsp seems intended to cover the period from Cyrus to Xerxes.
1 A surname of Humai.
• Sikandar-i Arůmâk, that is, Alexander the Roman (of the eastern or Greek empire), as Pahlavi writers assume.
* This period is nearly two centuries too short.
* The actual period of Sasanian rule was 425 years (A. D. 226651). According to the figures given in the text, the tenth millennium, ruled by Capricornus, must have terminated in the fourth year of the last king, Yazdakard. This agrees substantially with the Bahman Yast, which makes the millennium of Zaratûst expire some time after the reign of Khûsro Noshirvân; probably in the time of Khûsrô Parviz, or some forty years earlier than the fourth year of Yazdakard. According to the text we must now be near the end of the first quarter of the twelfth and last millennium.
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