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aspiring to the throne, excited and headed a rebellion against his 

 father ; but, being defeated, took refuge at the court of the sovereign 

 of Turan, married his daughter, and kindled in that region also 

 the flames of rebellion. He was on the point of leading into Iran a 

 powerful army intended to dethrone his father and lawful sovereign, 

 when Lohorasp, sinking under the weight of years and infirmity, 

 took the resolution to avert from his kingdom the horrors of civil 

 war, by a voluntary resignation of his sceptre to this turbulent and 

 ambitious prince. Gushstap, on receiving this intelligence, was 

 penetrated with a proper sense of shame and sorrow for his unworthy 

 conduct to so good a father, and now set forward, with a splendid 

 and peaceable retinue, to implore his forgiveness, and ascend his 

 abdicated throne. Their meeting was in the highest degree tender 

 and affecting, and, a cordial reconciliation taking place, Lohorasp 

 was prevailed upon to live as a guest in the palace where he once 

 swayed the sceptre ; assisting his son till his death with his advice 

 both in civil and martial concerns. He died at a very advanced age 

 at Balk, which he had made his constant residence, and thence ob- 

 tained the additional name of BALKI, by which he is distinguished 

 in the Persian annals. With the reign of Gushstap, or Darius Hy- 

 staspes, the Greek history of events relating to India properly com- 

 mences ; and, as no more irruptions of importance into India by the 

 kings of Turan seem to have taken place for some centuries after- 

 wards, we shall, for the present, quit that remote region of Asia for 

 Persia, and review the series of events that gradually paved the way 

 to the subjugation of INDIA, first, by the PERSIANS, and, afterwards 

 by their conquerors, the MACEDONIANS. 





