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O Lord! facilitate (this undertaking) and do not cause it to be difficult! ! 
(PART I.) 
In the name of the most merciful and most gracious God! 
Historians and narrators of events have thus transcribed out of ancient books, that 
in the land of Zrén there was a great king named Gkübdd*, under whose government 
were all the kingdoms of Turkistän and Adjemistän. Anüshiredn* the just was the 
son of this Gkubâd. In the North, that is among the Khazar tribes there lived à majestic 
sovereign whose name was Khägkän-shah *, to whom all the kingdoms of Russia, Mos- 
covia *, Kazan, Crimea and other countries were in submission and subjection. — It is 
stated, that the royal throne of Khâgkän-shah, adorned with different kinds of precious 
