Who is Jamshid? Who is Rustom?

Answer 1

JAMSHED and ROSTAM are both mythical Iranian(Persian) Kings that were writen about in the Ferdowsi's 'Epic of Kings -Shahnama' which is a Persian epic starting from the begining of the world up to the 7th century. Jamshed is from the mythical age, and Rostam from the heroic age.
They are both characters from the Zoroastrian religion. And mentioned in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.


Shah JAMSHED was the fourth Peshdadian king, and greatest of the early Shāhs of mankind in Firdausī's Shāhnāma. The Book of Kings or The Epic of Kings written around 1000, is the national epic of Iran.
The Shāh Jamshēd of Persian mythology is based on the figure Yima Xšaēta of the Avesta, the sacred texts of Zoroastrianism. Yima Xšaēta is in turn is based on a proto-Indo-Iranian heroic figure Yamas, from whom Vedic Yama also derives. In the Avesta, Yima was the son of Vivaŋhat, who in turn corresponds to the Vedic Vivasvat, "he who shines out", a divinity of the Sun.

He was responsible for a great many inventions that made life more secure for his people: the manufacture of armor and weapons, the weaving and dying of clothes of linen, silk and wool, the building of houses of brick, the mining of jewels and precious metals, the making of perfumes, the navigation of the waters of the world in sailing ships

And he said to be the discoverer of wine!!!



ROSTAM is a mythical hero of ancient Persia, son of Zal and Rudaba. In some ways, the position of Rostam in the historical tradition is curiously parallel to that of Surena, the hero of the Carrhae. His figure was endowed with many features of the historical personality of Rostam. The latter was always represented as the mightiest of Iranian paladins, and the atmosphere of the episodes in which he features is strongly reminiscent of the Arsacid period. He was immortalized by the 10th century poet Ferdowsi of Tus in the Shahnameh or Epic of Kings, which contain pre-Islamic folklore and history

Rostam is the champion of champions and is involved in numerous stories, constituting some of the most popular (and arguably some of most masterfully created) parts of the Shahnameh. As a young child, he slays the maddened white elephant of the king Manuchehr with just one blow of the mace owned by his grand father Sam, son of Nariman. He then tames his legendary stallion, Rakhsh.