LIST 
OF 
THE PERSIAN MONARCH'S, 
ACCORDING TO 
NATIVE AND FOREIGN AUTHORS. 
THE DYNASTY OF MAH-ABAD, 
Recorded in the Dabistan, a work compiled from ancient Gueber fragments. 
This line is considered fabulous, or antediluvian, and begins with, 
Mah-Abad. 
He had thirteen descendants, who reigned monarch and high-priest, till 
the last prince of his race, 
Azerabad, 
Abdicated the throne, and retired into solitude. A time of terrible anarchy 
succeeded, until the rise of a new succession of kings, which are registered 
in the pages of Ferdousi and others, under the name of the 
PAISHDADIAN DYNASTY, OR DISTRIBUTORS OF JUSTICE. 
Kaiomurs, 
The founder of the line, has been supposed to represent Noah, or one of his 
immediate descendants. He is also called Gil-Shah, or King of the Earth. 
Houshung, 
The first worshipper of the element of fire, under the name of the Light 
of God. 
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