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Tahmuras or Tahmures , New Persian transliteration , older Persian Tahmurat or Tahmurath, is the third Shah of the world according to Ferdowsi's Shahnama. He is considered as the builder of Merv also we have no proof for his existing as an earlier Aryan chief.
uras was the son of Hushang. In his time the world was much troubled by the demons of Ahriman.
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Tahmuras or Tahmures , New Persian transliteration , older Persian Tahmurat or Tahmurath, is the third Shah of the world according to Ferdowsi's Shahnama. He is considered as the builder of Merv also we have no proof for his existing as an earlier Aryan chief.
Tahmuras in the Shahnama
Tahmuras was the son of Hushang. In his time the world was much troubled by the demons of Ahriman. On the advice of his vizier Šaydasp, Tahmuras used magic to subdue Ahriman and made him his slave, even riding upon his back as on a horse. The demons rebelled against Tahmuras, and he made war against them with both magic and force. By magic he bound two-thirds of the demons; the remaining third he crushed with his mace. The race of divs now became Tahmuras's slaves, and they taught him the art of writing in thirty different scripts.
Like his father, Tahmuras was a great inventor of arts for easing the human condition. He invented the spinning and weaving of wool, learned to domesticate chickens, how to store up fodder for livestock instead of merely grazing them, and how to train animals like dogs and falcons to hunt for people.
Tahmures ruled for thirty years and was succeeded by his son Jamshid.
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