THE SHAH NAMEH
KAIUMERS
According to the traditions of former ages, recorded in the Bastan-nameh, the first person who established a code of laws and exercised the functions of a monarch in Persia, was Kaiumers. It is said that he dwelt among the mountains, and that his garments were made of the skins of beasts.
His reign was thirty years, and o'er the earth He spread the blessings of paternal sway; Wild...
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