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Grandson of Muhallib bin Muhammad bin Shadi:
Mujmalu-t Tawarikh (A.D. 1126)
(A History of Persia)
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Taken from : Elliot; The History of India 1
Zoroastrische Studien. Abhandlungen zur Mythologie und Sagengeschichte des alten Iran. Herausg.
Also called: Modjmil / Modjmel - tewarikh / tevarykh / tevarikh / warikh
The transactions of the kings of Persia, are the only ones which I propose to recount at length, because that country is placed in the center of the universe, because it forms one quarter of the habitable globe, because it is the cradle of the human race, because it is the residence of the kings of the fourth climate, because other portions of the globe, such as China, India, Zanj, Arabia, Greece, and Turkistan are not to be compared to Iran, nor is any other country, whether east, west, north, or south,-because, moreover, in reading the history of Persia, any one can at the same time instruct himself respecting the state, position, peculiarities and marvels of other countries.
(Zohak the ruler of Persia is from the Arab dynasty who had replaced the Indian dynasty.)
Then Zohak (d1980BC - a contemporary of Abraham) got his �shoulders illness� (called mar); and the snakes were fed with the brains of the people, as a remedy for his disease whereby the world was depopulated. Then Gerschasp was sent to the west, in order to subject the kings of these countries. Gerschasp killed some and Menheras was imprisoned at the court. Zohak wanted then to marry the daughter of the Maharadja; she was sent to him, however she disappeared at sea, He then ordered Gerschasp to devastate Zengistan and to take its kings prisoners and bring to his court. Then he sent Garschasp to the islands of the Djinn, where a trace of the daughter of the Maharadja had been found; then after that to Semendun in the west, in order to bring him the daughter of the Khengasp, which he brought, lucky for Zohak, after overcoming the kings of the Occident who had gathered to cut of his way back.