Iran / Persia: Bahram Gur recognizes Dilaram by the music she plays to enchant animals. From a manuscript of Amir Khusraw's Hasht-Bihisht, Safavid, 1609
Bahram V (Persian: بهرام) was the fourteenth Sassanid King of Persia (421–438). Also called Bahram Gur or Bahramgur (Persian: بهرام گور), he was a son of Yazdegerd I (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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