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5 unusual facts about Bahram


Bahram-e Pazhdo

The poem celebrates the spring season, the Iranian new year festival Nowruz, the prophet Zoroaster, the praise of Kings and leaders who upheld or propagated the Zoroastrian religion, the righteous deceased of that faith, as well as those who might copy his poem.

Bahram-Shah of Ghazna

Believing that Qutb and his brother Sayf al-Din Suri had come to court to scout the city for a future raid, Bahram had Qutb poisoned, though Sayf al-Din Suri escaped.

Millenary

The winning time of 3:02.58 was the fastest for the race at Doncaster since Bahram's win in 1935, which reflected the "unremitting gallop" at which the race had been run.

Vaguely Noble

Vaguely Noble was inbred to Hyperion in the third and fourth generation (3m x 4f) and also to Bahram in the fourth generation (4m x 4f).

Varanes

Varanes is a Roman name of Persian origin, derived by the name Bahram.


Bahram Aryana

Born in March 17, 1906 in Tehran from a Georgian mother, whose ancestor was King Heraclius II, and from a Judge father, Bahram Aryana was educated in France at the Ecole Superieur de Guerre and received his PhD in 1955 from the Faculty of Law of Paris with his thesis "Napoleon et l'Orient" (published in 1957).

Bahram bey Nabibekov

Bahram bey Nabibekov was born on 6 December 1884, in Sheki, Azerbaijan in a noble family.

Bahram Mansurov

Bahram Mansurov presented his tar to the museum of Japan city Osaka.

Lehri tribe

Sardar Mir Dost Mohammad Lehri was succeeded by Sardar Mir Mohammad Bahram Khan who was well loved and respected by the Lehris as well as Baloch from other tribes.

Meyaneh

Among famous people from Meyaneh are Jafar Panahi, director of the movies The Circle, The White Balloon and Crimson Gold, singers Dariush Eghbali and Davood Behboodi, traditional singer Bahram Saranag (Azmakan), actress Afsar Asadi, volleyball player Behnam Mahmoudi, Olympic medalist Yossef Karami.

Sagamore Farm

In 1941, Vanderbilt teamed up with Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. and other investors to acquire for breeding services the 1935 English Triple Crown winner Bahram from the Aga Khan III.

Bahram stood at stud at Sagamore Farm then was sent to Chrysler's North Wales Stud in Warrenton, Virginia.

Simurgh

For the commoner, Bahram wraps fortune/glory "around the house of the worshipper, for wealth in cattle, like the great bird Saena, and as the watery clouds cover the great mountains" (Yasht 14.41, cf. the rains of Tishtrya above).

Walter Chrysler

Chrysler, Jr. was part of a syndicate that included friend Alfred G. Vanderbilt II who in 1940 acquired the 1935 English Triple Crown winner Bahram from the Aga Khan III.

Zarrin-Kafsh

Gustaham was sent at the head of twelve thousand fierce and sanguine troops, with a retinue of very many valiant lords and ferocious and lionhearted veterans, for the correction and chastisement of Bahram, with strict orders to exact also from Bahram an offering in the way of a fine, in addition to the four years’ tribute due in arrears, and in the event of the least show of resistance, to inflict a humiliating defeat upon him, and bring him to Ctesiphon chained and fettered.


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