A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ed Balas (or Valgash, a form of Vologeses). Queen Dinaki. ^, ^^ . , T 1 (Stroganoff col- He reigned from 484 till 488. The Haital did lection.) not cease from their depredations, but ravaged theeastern portion of the kingdom. Perozess son, Kavadh, or Kobad(488-531), favored the teaching of Mazdak, a religious teacher whosought, by teaching communism, to heal the evils of society by re-moving their causes, envy and strife: these two passions are basedupon the holding of property, and they lose their force i
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A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ed Balas (or Valgash, a form of Vologeses). Queen Dinaki. ^, ^^ . , T 1 (Stroganoff col- He reigned from 484 till 488. The Haital did lection.) not cease from their depredations, but ravaged theeastern portion of the kingdom. Perozess son, Kavadh, or Kobad(488-531), favored the teaching of Mazdak, a religious teacher whosought, by teaching communism, to heal the evils of society by re-moving their causes, envy and strife: these two passions are basedupon the holding of property, and they lose their force if wealth, and even wives, be held in common. Mazdaks teaching, which, in consonance with tlie principles ofZoroaster, discountenanced the shedding of blood and the eatingof meat, was based on philanthropic motives, and naturally foundwide acceptance among the lower classes. The king was pro-nounced in his leaning toward it, because he was willing to strikeat the power of the nobility and of the priests, which was becomingmore and more prejudicial to royalty. But the power of these two. 278 THE EMPIllE OF THE SASSANIANS. estates, combined, proved superior to the kings. Kobad was thrustinto prison, and his brother Jamasp was raised to the throne in496, and, according to the testimony of liis coins, reigned threeyears. Then Kobad, evidently after promising to make con-cessions to the offended parties, regained the throne. The Maz-dakites, who had already caused a serious disintegration of the socialorder, were, although their doctrines in aftertimes repeatedly sprangup again, exterminated in a general massacre. In 502 Kobad l)egana war with Byzantium, during which he captured Theodosiopolisand Amida (Diarbekir), which he garrisoned. A Roman army wasalso defeated in front of Nisibis; but an incursion of the WhiteHuns obliged him to conclude a peace, by the terms of which heagain lost Amida. Then Belisarius, Justinians general, defeated anarmy in Mesopotamia, and the Persian Mermeroe