Dara I

Dara I or Darab I was the penultimate king of the mythological Kayanian dynasty, ruling for 12 years.

Most accounts agree that Dara's mother was Humay Chehrzad, who had married her father, Kay Bahman.

Humay later hid the news of Dara's birth, and abandoned him on casket filled with expensive jewels on a river.

The last Kayanian kings were usually connected with western Iran, as demonstrated by reports of Dara I using Babylon as his residence.

[1] According to later sources, Dara I had a son named Firuzshah, whose achievements are mentioned in the Firuz-nameh by Haji Muhammad Bigami.

Dara I enthroned while receiving the crown brought by his mother, Humay Chehrzad . Folio from a copy of the Shahnameh , made in Safavid Iran during the early 16th-century