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 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOLK-LORE. 295

(55.) Amir Hamza reaches Kharsana, the city of King Fatah Nawish, whose daughter, Rabi'a Palusposh, had long desired to meet him. He saves them from the king of the Frangis, and marries Rabi'a Palusposh.

(56.) He kills a dragon at Kharsana, and Rabi'a Palusposh gives birth to a son, 'Alam Shah Rumi. Amir Hamza returns to his army, and conquers Aljii Pahilwan, and converts him to Tslam.

(57.) 'Alam Shah Rumi fights for his father's enemies in disguise, and then declares himself, whereon Anushirwan flies to King Qaimar Khwari.

(58.) Amir Hamza pursues him, and a battle takes place, in which the whole Khwari family are captured, including a princess, who had fought like a man. She is married to her capturer, Rustam Pilzor, son of Amir Hamza. On this Anushirwan takes refuge in Ujan.

Vol. IV. (59.) [46 in the text, but see above.] Amir Hamza follows him up, and, after a bloody battle, captures Kaiyus, king of Ujan, and Aniishirwan flies to Gilan.

(60.) Amir Hamza follows him up, and a fight ensues. In the battle a veiled horseman does great execution for the enemy, who turns out to be the daughter of Kanjal, the king of Gilan. She marries Amir Hamza, and her father is converted by him to Islam- Anushirwan now becomes a beggar, and earns his living as a wood- cutter in a fire temple in Khiitan.

(61.) Razina Kafsh, Aniishirw^n's wife, and Amir Hamz's mother- in-law, induces him to search for the king, who is found in the fire temple, after a fight with Bahram of Khutan.

(62.) Anushirwan marries his daughter, Mihar Afroz, to Amir Hamza, in gratitude for being saved from the fire temple, but is again induced to war against him in the Alburz Mountains.

(63.) A fight ensues, in which the warriors Bahram Chobgardan and his brother are captured, and converted to Islam.

(64.) Amir Hamza has a son, Badi'u'z-Zaman, by the Princess Gili Sawar, or the veiled horseman of Gilan, whom his grandfather. Shah Kanjal, throws into a river in a box, which the fairy Asmai and Qureshia Sultan, her daughter by Amir Hamza, find. They bring him up, and send him to the war in the Alburz Mountains. .