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15-482: The lord Sasan who is named as the eponymous ancestor of the Sasanians took, according to Tabari , a wife from a family called "Bazrangi". The woman was called Rambehesht and according to Tabari "possessed beauty and perfection". She bore Sasan a son called Papak . In the account of Tabari, Ardashir, the founder of Sassanid dynasty was sent for educational reasons, at the request of his father Papak, to Tīrī who

30-513: A princess of the Bāzarangid family, the vassal dynasty of Pārs , and that Sasan was a grandfather of Ardashir I, while Papak is named as Ardashir I's father. According to the Pahlavi book of Karnamak-i Artaxshir-i Papakan , Sasan's wife was a daughter of a nobleman called Papak. The marriage was arranged by Papak after hearing that Sasan has " Achamenian (Achaemenid) blood in him ". Their son

45-554: A remnant site of the Achaemenids , a representation suggested to be the evidence of a claim to Achaemenid heritage likely later added. Sasan is known for his efforts to try to bring Zoroastrianism back into the empire. He even encouraged Papak to take over the Parthian satrapy of Pars. Touraj Daryaee Touraj Daryaee ( Persian : تورج دریایی ; born 1967) is an Iranian Iranologist and historian. He currently works as

60-445: Is a suggestion by S. Wikander that Bāzrang is not a name but rather a title with the etymology of "holding a mace", or "possessing miraculous power". This suggestion is unproven for R. N. Frye. The word Bāzrang has been used in other historical sources, such as Eṣṭaḵrī, to refer to a geographical district in the mountainous BoyerAhmad area where the Šīrīn and Šāḏkān rivers have their origin. R. Frye indicates that this district could be

75-508: Is considered the beginning of the Sasanian dynasty . Sasan's family became the rulers of the second Persian Empire and ruled over a great portion of western Asia (the first Persian Empire having been ruled by the dynasty of Cyrus the Great ). The three founders of this new empire – that is, Papak and his two sons – are depicted and mentioned on the wall of the harem of Xerxes at Persepolis ,

90-535: The École pratique des hautes études . He specializes in the history and culture of Ancient Persia. He is the editor of the Name-ye Iran-e Bastan , The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies , DABIR: Digital Ar , as well as the director of Sasanika Project , a project on the history and culture of Sasanians . His most famous publications include Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire and Sasanian Iran (224-651 CE): Portrait of

105-746: The Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and Culture and the director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine . Daryaee completed his elementary and secondary schooling in Tehran , Iran and Athens , Greece . He then completed a PhD in history at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999. He has taught at UCLA, and has been a senior research fellow at Oxford University and resident fellow at

120-562: The Sasanian Empire") and Shapur as "King of Kings of Iran and Aniran ". However, according to Touraj Daryaee , Sasanian sources cannot be trusted because they were from the royal Sasanian archives, which were made by the court, in the words of Daryaee, "to fit the world-view of the late Sasanian world". Daryaee and several other scholars state that Sasan had his name from a deity who was known in many parts of Asia but not in Fars,

135-520: The Sasanian court, Sasan's daughter later married Papak and bore him Ardashir. Furthermore, the Bundahishn states that Sasan was the son of a certain Weh-afrid. The political ambition of Sasan was evoked by the troubles and weakness of the last years of the Parthian empire . According to Tabari , Papak managed to consolidate his power with the help of his own sons Shapur and Ardashir . This

150-750: The eponymous ancestor of the Sasanian (or Sassanid) Dynasty (ruled 224-651) in Persia , was "a great warrior and hunter" and a Zoroastrian high priest in Pars . He lived sometime near the fall of the Arsacid (Parthian) Empire in the early 3rd century. There are many slightly different stories concerning Sasan and his relation to Ardashir I , the founder of the Sasanian Empire . The northern Iranian historian Tabari mentions that Sasan married Rambehesht ,

165-511: The homeland of the Sasanians, which thus means that Sasan was an Iranian foreigner from the west or the east who had settled in Fars, whose inhabitants did not know about this deity he believed in. Sasan later managed to become the priest of the important Anahid temple in Estakhr , the capital of Fars. According to the Bundahishn , which according to Daryaee was made independently and not by

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180-600: The one in the Pahlavi text Xusraw ud rēdag where excellent wine or must came from. Today however there are the villages upper Bāzrang and lower Bāzrang in the Behbahān district of the province of Ḵūzestān . There is also a mention in popular folktales of Iran that the word bāzrangī means wild person. The connection of the geographical name and other occurrences of the word is uncertain. Sasan Sasan ( Middle Persian 𐭮𐭠𐭮𐭠𐭭 Sāsān > Persian ساسان), considered

195-511: The responsibility of his daughter and her son Ardashir after Sasan "disappears" and is named afterwards as the father of Ardashir. In the Kabe Zartosht inscription of Shapur I the Great, the four named persons "Sasan, Papak, Ardashir, Shapur" have different titles: Sasan is named as hwataw or xwadāy ("the lord", usually given to sovereigns of small local principalities ), Papak as shah , Ardashir as shāhanshāh ("King of Kings of

210-420: Was Ardashir I. Sasan vanishes shortly after Ardashir appears in the story and Papak is "considered the father of Ardashir". These stories on different relations between Ardashir, Pāpak, and Sāsān have, according to Frye, a Zoroastrian explanation. Sasan was indeed the father of Ardashir and "disappears" from the story after the birth of Ardashir. Similar to the current Zoroastrian practices, Papak had then taken

225-560: Was the eunuch of Gōčehr the king of Eṣṭaḵr. Later Ardashir succeeded Tīrī who was the chief officer (i.e. argbed ) of Dārābgerd. Ardashir managed to make a number of local conquests and then wrote to his father to revolt against Gōčehr. Papak did so and killed Gōčehr and took his throne. This is the last time Tabari mentions about Gōčehr or the Bāzrangī family and other notices of Bāzrangī in later sources are all taken from Ṭabarī. There has not been found any coins naming Gōčehr or Bāzrangī. There

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