The Good Speech
The Good deed
The Good Imagination
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The following is a part of the history of the Persian king, Xerxes (read, Khashayar) Shahansha (i.e., king of kings) found at the ruin of Persepolis in Iran near Fars:
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What a wonderful god who has made this world, that sky, which has made moon and stars which has made mankind, which has made mankind happiness.
When My father Dariush became king, Ahoora Mazda (i.e., the Persian's God) wanted to give him power to control this world.
My father has made a lot of wonderful buildings like Persepolis (Takhte Jamshid, the Capital). When my father became king, my grand father Arsham was still living.
Comments: Dariush repeatedly calls himself an Achaemenid, in all of his inscriptions. He explains to us that he is the son of Wishtaspa who later becomes the governor/satrapi of Parthia. Wishtaspa was son of Arsham, king of Parsa who was deposed by Cyrus. Arsham was the son of Aryaramna, king of Parsa, and he was the eldest son of Chishpesh, or Tespes, King of Anshan and Parsa, and great grandfather of Cyrus the Great. Tespes in turn was the son of Hakhamanesh/Achaemens, the leader of Persians after whom the dynasty is named. Thus, the kingdom held by Tespes, thatof Anshan and Parsa, had been divided between his two sons, the elder son (Aryaramna) getting the heartland, and the younger one (Cyrus I) receiving the mountain city of Anshan.
Further Reading:
Persian Studies in North America,
by Mehdi Marashi (Editor), Ibex Publishers, 1994, page 257 in The Iranian Languages chapter.The Cambridge History of Iran: The Median and Archaemenian Periods,
by I. Gershevitch (Editor), Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Reissue Edition, 1985.
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