stock, and were again become their fellow-subjects under the same 

 king. 



The elegant conciseness with which Sir William Jones has, in a 

 few lines, compressed the whole of the history of Cai-Khosru, in- 

 duces me to insert it in this part of our account of the Turanian 

 empire, and the rather, because it confirms the circumstance stated 

 in D'Herbelot, that the ruling sovereign of India was engaged in it. 

 " Cai-Khosru, whom the Persians consider as a demi-god, on ascend- 

 ing the throne, determined to revenge the death of his father, and 

 to deliver his kingdom from the tyranny of Afrasiab. He, therefore, 

 assembled all his forces, and gave battle to the usurper, who, on the 

 other side, was supported by the kings of KHATAI and INDIA ; but 

 the valour of Cyrus and of his general Rostam prevailed against the 

 united power of so many sovereigns, and Afrasiab lost his life on the 

 mountains of Media. This war is celebrated in a noble, poem by 

 the illustrious Ferdusi, who may welt be called the Homer of 

 Persia*." 



During the vigorous government of Khosru, it is probable that 

 Turan continued under the immediate control of the Persian mo- 

 narch ; but, in the time of Lohorasp, his successor, we find a native 

 prince of its own again on the throne, and bound, by a tributary 

 obligation, to the king of Iran. Lohorasp at first appears to be, and 

 in point of time, and order of succession ought to- be, the Cambyses 

 of the Greeks, but their characters are so extremely different, tUe 

 former being represented by the Orientals as a most virtuous and 

 amiable prince, while the latter, according to the Greek writers,, was 

 a frantic and merciless tyrant, that the supposition i& utterly re- 

 pugnant to reason. Lohorasp had two sons, the eldest of whom was 

 the famous Gushstap, the Hystaspes of the Greeks, who, prematurely 



* Short Hist, of Persia, p. 48. 



