Iran/Persia: Bahram Gur in the Sandalwood Pavilion. From a manuscript of Amir Khusraw's Hasht-Bihisht, Safavid Dynasty, 1609. Bahram V (406-438) was the fourteenth Sassanid King of Persia (r. 421-438). Also called Bahram Gur or Bahramgur, he was a son of Yazdegerd I (r. 399-421), after whose sudden death (or assassination) he gained the crown against the opposition of the grandees by the help of Mundhir, the Arab dynast of al-Hirah.

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