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the monarch I believe there can be no doubt; the peculiarity of 
his beard, and the employment of his servants, attest his dig¬ 
nity ; the use of the umbrella being regarded in Persia as the 
prerogative of royalty alone. One large stone, sixteen feet high, 
and between eight and nine feet wide, contains the group. 
Another block of smaller dimensions surmounts it, on which is 
seen a figure whose dress and outline of form resemble those of 
the personage below. The only difference is, that his left hand 
holds a ring, and his right is raised and open. He issues from 
a circle, whence diverge two floating forms, something like ser¬ 
pents with their heads hidden behind the figure. A pair of 
immense wings spread themselves on each side of the circle; in 
that differing from the radiated vehicle of the aerial being so 
often seen on the tombs of Nakshi-Roustam. 
If this be the Ferwer , or spiritual prototype of the king, which, 
according to the Zendavesta, always hovers near him, its wings 
may be attributes of the duties of a living monarch, activity and 
fostering care of his people ; while the Intelligence, whom we see 
on the tombs, supported by clouds and sun-beams, shews that 
the prince who was his divided self, has now nothing more to 
do with the business of earth but to appear once in the glorified 
substance into the essence of which his shade is absorbed, to his 
royal successor while performing the established rites at his 
tomb. 
Perhaps this doctrine of Zoroaster may be more clearly seen 
in an extract from the Desatir, a work of the old Pehlivi, and 
which, amongst other subjects, attempts an explanation of the 
above mystery. 
“ Verse 35. Whatever is on earth, is the resemblance and 
shadow of something that is in the sphere. 
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