Bamshad

Bamshad (Persian: بامشاد) was one of the four most famous and skilled musicians (with Barbad, Nagisa (Nakisa), and Ramtin) who lived in the Persian Sassanid dynasty during the reign of Khosrow II (r. 590–628). His name comes from his practice of playing music at dawn every day: "bam" and "shad" translate as "dawn" and "happiness".


The Persian lexicons, for example Dehḵodā's Loḡat-nāma, describe him as a well-known musician equal to Barbad. He is also mentioned in a poem by the Persian poet Manūčehrī.[1]

Notes
  1. Tafażżolī 1988.
  • Tafażżolī, A. (1988). "Bāmšād". Encyclopædia Iranica. Leiden: Brill Publishers.
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