{"title": "A family, rewoven", "retrieved": "2026-10-22", "method": "Selected kinships from addressed poem passages, with genealogy plates as additional evidence. One person per weave. Parentage is individual, never inferred for every spouse’s children. Layout columns are relationship positions, not dates, ages, or synchronized generations. Separate family threads need not connect. Empty ties are unassigned in this selection.", "books": [{"volume": 1, "title": "Love Across the Walls", "principal_ids": ["women-rudabeh", "women-sindokht"], "selected_couplets_user_supplied": 1425, "estimated_pages_user_supplied": "358–368", "color": "#9c4b67"}, {"volume": 2, "title": "The Mother and the Warrior", "principal_ids": ["women-tahmineh", "women-gordafarid"], "selected_couplets_user_supplied": 1761, "estimated_pages_user_supplied": "355–365", "color": "#3b7892"}, {"volume": 3, "title": "The Queen and the Fire", "principal_ids": ["women-sudabeh"], "selected_couplets_user_supplied": 1150, "estimated_pages_user_supplied": "354–364", "color": "#c7773e"}, {"volume": 4, "title": "The Daughter Who Crossed the Border", "principal_ids": ["women-farangis"], "selected_couplets_user_supplied": 1503, "estimated_pages_user_supplied": "381–391", "color": "#587b5d"}, {"volume": 5, "title": "Mothers and the Crown", "principal_ids": ["women-faranak_abtin", "women-jarireh", "women-humai_bahman"], "selected_couplets_user_supplied": 2338, "estimated_pages_user_supplied": "363–373", "color": "#a08532"}, {"volume": 6, "title": "Desire and Its Price", "principal_ids": ["women-manijeh", "women-golnar"], "selected_couplets_user_supplied": 2983, "estimated_pages_user_supplied": "374–384", "color": "#8570a3"}, {"volume": 7, "title": "The Woman Who Chose a King", "principal_ids": ["women-katayun"], "selected_couplets_user_supplied": 3215, "estimated_pages_user_supplied": "381–391", "color": "#287b7c"}, {"volume": 8, "title": "Power Among the Ruins", "principal_ids": ["women-gordyeh", "women-purandokht", "women-azarmidokht"], "selected_couplets_user_supplied": 3105, "estimated_pages_user_supplied": "393–398", "color": "#9e5145"}, {"volume": 9, "title": "Love and the Reckoning", "principal_ids": ["women-shirin"], "selected_couplets_user_supplied": 1092, "estimated_pages_user_supplied": "361–371", "color": "#b16083"}, {"volume": 10, "title": "The Limits of Power", "principal_ids": ["women-kaidafa", "women-simorgh_guardian"], "selected_couplets_user_supplied": 2941, "estimated_pages_user_supplied": "352–362", "color": "#596ba1"}], "people": [{"id": "women-rudabeh", "label": "Rudabeh", "display_name": "Rudabeh", "principal": true, "home_book": 1, "website_name": "Rudabeh", "identity_note": "", "name": "Rudabeh", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Rudabeh chooses Zal across the hostility between their houses. She is Sindokht’s daughter and Rostam’s mother.", "registry_id": "women-rudabeh", "key": "rudabeh", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-sindokht", "label": "Sindokht", "display_name": "Sindokht", "principal": true, "home_book": 1, "website_name": "Sindokht", "identity_note": "", "name": "Sindokht", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Sindokht negotiates with Sahm to protect Kabul and make room for Rudabeh’s marriage.", "registry_id": "women-sindokht", "key": "sindokht", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-tahmineh", "label": "Tahmineh", "display_name": "Tahmineh", "principal": true, "home_book": 2, "website_name": "Tahmineh", "identity_note": "", "name": "Tahmineh", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Tahmineh declares her choice of Rostam and later tells Sohrab who his father is.", "registry_id": "women-tahmineh", "key": "tahmineh", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-gordafarid", "label": "Gordafarid", "display_name": "Gordafarid", "principal": true, "home_book": 2, "website_name": "Gordafarid", "identity_note": "", "name": "Gordafarid", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Gordafarid arms herself and rides out from the White Fortress to confront Sohrab.", "registry_id": "women-gordafarid", "key": "gordafarid", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-sudabeh", "label": "Sudabeh", "display_name": "Sudabeh", "principal": true, "home_book": 3, "website_name": "Sudabeh", "identity_note": "", "name": "Sudabeh", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Sudabeh’s desire for Siavash and her accusations place the royal household at the center of a crisis.", "registry_id": "women-sudabeh", "key": "sudabeh", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-farangis", "label": "Farangis", "display_name": "Farangis", "principal": true, "home_book": 4, "website_name": "Farangis", "identity_note": "", "name": "Farangis", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Farangis marries Siavash, pleads for his life, and becomes the mother of Kay Khosrow.", "registry_id": "women-farangis", "key": "farangis", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-faranak_abtin", "label": "Faranak", "display_name": "Faranak · mother of Fereydoon", "principal": true, "home_book": 5, "website_name": "Faranak", "identity_note": "Separate from Barzin’s daughter of the same name.", "name": "Faranak", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Faranak protects Fereydoon from Zahhak. She belongs to the earlier mythical story, separate from the later Faranak of Barzin’s household.", "registry_id": "women-faranak_abtin", "key": "faranak_abtin", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-jarireh", "label": "Jarireh", "display_name": "Jarireh", "principal": true, "home_book": 5, "website_name": "Jarireh", "identity_note": "", "name": "Jarireh", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Jarireh, daughter of Golshahr and Piran, marries Siavash and becomes Forood’s mother.", "registry_id": "women-jarireh", "key": "jarireh", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-humai_bahman", "label": "Homahyi Chehrzad", "display_name": "Homahyi Chehrzad · queen, daughter of Bahman", "principal": true, "home_book": 5, "website_name": "Homahyi / Chehrzad", "identity_note": "Also called Chehrzad. A different woman from Goshtasb’s daughter Homahyi, and not the male mobad Humayi of D10.19.", "name": "Homahyi Chehrzad", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Homahyi Chehrzad, called Homahyi and Chehrzad in the poem, inherits Bahman’s crown and is Darab’s mother.", "registry_id": "women-humai_bahman", "key": "humai_bahman", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-manijeh", "label": "Manijeh", "display_name": "Manijeh", "principal": true, "home_book": 6, "website_name": "Manijeh", "identity_note": "", "name": "Manijeh", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Manijeh sustains the captive Bijan and seeks the help that will lead his rescuers to him.", "registry_id": "women-manijeh", "key": "manijeh", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-golnar", "label": "Golnar", "display_name": "Golnar", "principal": true, "home_book": 6, "website_name": "Golnar", "identity_note": "", "name": "Golnar", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Golnar leaves Ardavan’s court with Ardeshir, taking part in his escape and the beginning of his rise.", "registry_id": "women-golnar", "key": "golnar", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-katayun", "label": "Katayun", "display_name": "Katayun", "principal": true, "home_book": 7, "website_name": "Katayun / Nahid", "identity_note": "Katayun is called Nahid in C6.2.18; this is not Darab’s Roman bride or the planet Venus.", "name": "Katayun", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Katayun chooses Goshtasb and later warns their son Esfandiyar against the mission to bind Rostam.", "registry_id": "women-katayun", "key": "katayun", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-gordyeh", "label": "Gurdiyeh", "display_name": "Gurdiyeh", "principal": true, "home_book": 8, "website_name": "Gurdiyeh", "identity_note": "Gordvi, her brother, is a separate man.", "name": "Gurdiyeh", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Gurdiyeh, named Gurdiyeh in the poem, advises Bahram Chubin, leads his people after his death, and later marries Khosrow Parviz.", "registry_id": "women-gordyeh", "key": "gordyeh", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-purandokht", "label": "Poorandokht", "display_name": "Poorandokht", "principal": true, "home_book": 8, "website_name": "Poorandokht", "identity_note": "", "name": "Poorandokht", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Her accession and reign are recorded, but no parents are assigned in this selection. The existing House of Khosrow Parviz plate also leaves the precise placement of these queens unspecified. An empty thread is not a claim that she had no family.", "registry_id": "women-purandokht", "key": "purandokht", "evidence": [{"id": "E9.4.1", "lines": ["Poorandokht was her name; when she ascended,", "To heal the realm her royal care extended."]}, {"id": "E9.4.2", "lines": ["They seated her upon the royal throne,", "And chiefs spread jewels where her glory shone."]}, {"id": "E9.4.3", "lines": ["She said, “I will not break this gathered band,", "Nor scatter those who now before me stand."]}, {"id": "E9.4.4", "lines": ["I will enrich the poor from royal store,", "That none need suffer hardship anymore."]}, {"id": "E9.4.5", "lines": ["May no one in this realm endure such pain;", "His grief is mine; beside him I remain."]}, {"id": "E9.4.6", "lines": ["From all our land, our foes shall be expelled;", "The customs of our kings shall be upheld.”"]}], "unassigned": true, "additional_sources": [{"title": "House of Khosrow Parviz · Plate VIII, footnote", "asset": "/insight-graphs/assets/weave-evidence/house-of-khosrow-parviz.png", "note": "The footnote leaves the queens’ exact positions in Khosrow’s house unspecified."}]}, {"id": "women-azarmidokht", "label": "Azarmidokht", "display_name": "Azarmidokht", "principal": true, "home_book": 8, "website_name": "Azarmidokht", "identity_note": "", "name": "Azarmidokht", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Her accession and reign are recorded, but no parents are assigned in this selection. The existing House of Khosrow Parviz plate also leaves the precise placement of these queens unspecified. An empty thread is not a claim that she had no family.", "registry_id": "women-azarmidokht", "key": "azarmidokht", "evidence": [{"id": "E9.5.1", "lines": ["Another lady, Azarmidokht by name,", "Assumed the crown and rose to royal fame."]}, {"id": "E9.5.2", "lines": ["She sat upon the Kayanian throne,", "And made the world’s dominion all her own."]}, {"id": "E9.5.3", "lines": ["Her first words were: “O sages, veterans all,", "Who know the world’s affairs, how fortunes fall,"]}, {"id": "E9.5.4", "lines": ["We shall uphold the ancient law with pride,", "Till in the grave, on bricks, our heads abide."]}, {"id": "E9.5.5", "lines": ["To those who love me I shall be a stay,", "A lord who will sustain them, come what may."]}, {"id": "E9.5.6", "lines": ["But he who breaks my pledge forsakes the road", "Of wisdom and rejects the rightful code;"]}, {"id": "E9.5.7", "lines": ["I shall hang him, shamed, on the gallows high,", "Iranian, Arab, Roman; he shall die.”"]}], "unassigned": true, "additional_sources": [{"title": "House of Khosrow Parviz · Plate VIII, footnote", "asset": "/insight-graphs/assets/weave-evidence/house-of-khosrow-parviz.png", "note": "The footnote leaves the queens’ exact positions in Khosrow’s house unspecified."}]}, {"id": "women-shirin", "label": "Shirin", "display_name": "Shirin", "principal": true, "home_book": 9, "website_name": "Shirin", "identity_note": "", "name": "Shirin", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Shirin’s story links desire, royal marriage, rivalry, and the collapse of Khosrow Parviz’s reign.", "registry_id": "women-shirin", "key": "shirin", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-kaidafa", "label": "Kaydafa", "display_name": "Kaydafa", "principal": true, "home_book": 10, "website_name": "Kaydafa", "identity_note": "D5 is the queen. The name Kaydafa also denotes a city in D7; city matches are excluded.", "name": "Kaydafa", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Kaydafa, named Kaydafa in the poem, recognizes the disguised Iskandar at her court.", "registry_id": "women-kaidafa", "key": "kaidafa", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-simorgh_guardian", "label": "Simorgh", "display_name": "The nurturing Simorgh", "principal": true, "home_book": 10, "website_name": "Simorgh", "identity_note": "Included as a principal figure in Book 10, classified separately from human women. The bird slain by Esfandiyar in C7 is excluded.", "name": "Simorgh", "female": true, "kind": "guardian", "note": "The nurturing Simorgh raises Zal, guides the intervention at Rostam’s birth, and later aids Rostam. She is distinct from the bird slain by Esfandiyar.", "registry_id": "women-simorgh_guardian", "key": "simorgh_guardian", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-banu_gashasp", "label": "Banu Gashasp", "display_name": "Banu Gashasp", "principal": false, "home_book": 1, "website_name": "Banu Gashasp", "identity_note": "Rostam’s daughter and Giv’s wife; not Shahr-Banu.", "name": "Banu Gashasp", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Rostam’s daughter and Giv’s wife; not Shahr-Banu.", "registry_id": "women-banu_gashasp", "key": "banu_gashasp", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-golshahr", "label": "Golshahr", "display_name": "Golshahr", "principal": false, "home_book": 5, "website_name": "Golshahr", "identity_note": "Piran’s wife and Jarireh’s mother.", "name": "Golshahr", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Piran’s wife and Jarireh’s mother.", "registry_id": "women-golshahr", "key": "golshahr", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-nahid_darab", "label": "Nahid", "display_name": "Nahid · Darab’s Roman bride", "principal": false, "home_book": 5, "website_name": "Nahid", "identity_note": "Mother of Iskandar. Not Katayun or the planet Venus.", "name": "Nahid", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Mother of Iskandar. Not Katayun or the planet Venus.", "registry_id": "women-nahid_darab", "key": "nahid_darab", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-maryam", "label": "Maryam", "display_name": "Maryam", "principal": false, "home_book": 9, "website_name": "Maryam", "identity_note": "Caesar’s daughter, married to Khosrow Parviz.", "name": "Maryam", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Caesar’s daughter, married to Khosrow Parviz.", "registry_id": "women-maryam", "key": "maryam", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "women-shahr_banu", "label": "Shahr-Banu", "display_name": "Shahr-Banu", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "website_name": "Shahr-Banu", "identity_note": "Giv’s sister, said to be married to Rostam at B10.23.33.", "name": "Shahr-Banu", "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "Giv’s sister, said to be married to Rostam at B10.23.33.", "registry_id": "women-shahr_banu", "key": "shahr_banu", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-mehrab", "name": "Mehrab", "label": "Mehrab", "display_name": "Mehrab", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Sindokht’s consort and Rudabeh’s father.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "mehrab", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-sahm", "name": "Sahm", "label": "Sahm", "display_name": "Sahm", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Zal’s father; shown separately from Zal’s foster guardian.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "sahm", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-zal", "name": "Zal", "label": "Zal", "display_name": "Zal", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Son of Sahm, raised by the Simorgh, husband of Rudabeh and father of Rostam.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "zal", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-rostam", "name": "Rostam", "label": "Rostam", "display_name": "Rostam", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "The selected ties distinguish his children’s named mothers; sharing a spouse node does not assign every child to every wife.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "rostam", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-sohrab", "name": "Sohrab", "label": "Sohrab", "display_name": "Sohrab", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Son of Tahmineh and Rostam.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "sohrab", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-giv", "name": "Giv", "label": "Giv", "display_name": "Giv", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Husband of Banu Gashasp, father of Bijan, and brother of Shahr-Banu.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "giv", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-bijan", "name": "Bijan", "label": "Bijan", "display_name": "Bijan", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Son of Giv and Rostam’s daughter; the daughter’s identity as Banu Gashasp is resolved from the cited passages and the genealogy plate.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "bijan", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-faramarz", "name": "Faramarz", "label": "Faramarz", "display_name": "Faramarz", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "The cited retrospective identifies him as the child of Rostam and Giv’s sister Shahr-Banu.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "faramarz", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-afrasiab", "name": "Afrasiab", "label": "Afrasiab", "display_name": "Afrasiab", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Father of Farangis and Manijeh in the selected lines; their mothers are not assigned here.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "afrasiab", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-samangan_king", "name": "King of Samangan", "label": "King of Samangan", "display_name": "King of Samangan", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Tahmineh’s father, identified by office rather than an invented personal name.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "samangan_king", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-piran", "name": "Piran", "label": "Piran", "display_name": "Piran", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Jarireh’s father; he also obtains shelter for Farangis. Parentage and protection are separate types.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "piran", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-siavash", "name": "Siavash", "label": "Siavash", "display_name": "Siavash", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Father of Forood by Jarireh and Kay Khosrow by Farangis.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "siavash", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-forood", "name": "Forood", "label": "Forood", "display_name": "Forood", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Son of Jarireh and Siavash.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "forood", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-kay_khosrow", "name": "Kay Khosrow", "label": "Kay Khosrow", "display_name": "Kay Khosrow", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Son of Farangis and Siavash. His parents’ lines are both retained.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "kay_khosrow", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-kay_kavus", "name": "Kay Kavus", "label": "Kay Kavus", "display_name": "Kay Kavus", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Father of Siavash and Fariborz; husband of Sudabeh. This does not make Sudabeh the mother of either son.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "kay_kavus", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-fariborz", "name": "Fariborz", "label": "Fariborz", "display_name": "Fariborz", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Son of Kay Kavus. His later marriage to Farangis follows Siavash’s death.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "fariborz", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-hamavaran_king", "name": "King of Hamavaran", "label": "King of Hamavaran", "display_name": "King of Hamavaran", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Sudabeh’s father, identified by his kingdom in this selection.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "hamavaran_king", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-caesar_katayun", "name": "Caesar · Katayun’s father", "label": "Caesar · Katayun’s father", "display_name": "Caesar · Katayun’s father", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "A distinct figure from Faylaqus and from Maryam’s father; a shared royal title does not merge identities.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "caesar_katayun", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-goshtasb", "name": "Goshtasb", "label": "Goshtasb", "display_name": "Goshtasb", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Katayun’s husband and father of Esfandiyar and Bishutan.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "goshtasb", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-esfandiyar", "name": "Esfandiyar", "label": "Esfandiyar", "display_name": "Esfandiyar", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Son of Katayun and Goshtasb; Bahman’s father.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "esfandiyar", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-bishutan", "name": "Bishutan", "label": "Bishutan", "display_name": "Bishutan", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Son of Katayun and Goshtasb.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "bishutan", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-bahman", "name": "Bahman", "label": "Bahman", "display_name": "Bahman", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Esfandiyar’s son. The poem separately gives his parentage and marriage ties to Homahyi Chehrzad, and their child Darab.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "bahman", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-darab", "name": "Darab", "label": "Darab", "display_name": "Darab", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Son of Homahyi Chehrzad and Bahman, raised in a washerman’s household. Birth parentage and foster care remain distinct.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "darab", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-faylaqus", "name": "Faylaqus", "label": "Faylaqus", "display_name": "Faylaqus", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Nahid’s father and Iskandar’s maternal grandfather. The poem’s claim that he publicly calls himself the father is not accepted here as biological parentage.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "faylaqus", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-iskandar", "name": "Iskandar", "label": "Iskandar", "display_name": "Iskandar", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Son of Nahid and Darab in this poem’s genealogy, distinct from the public story that Faylaqus announces.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "iskandar", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-khosrow_parviz", "name": "Khosrow Parviz", "label": "Khosrow Parviz", "display_name": "Khosrow Parviz", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Marriages to Maryam, Gurdiyeh and Shirin are kept separate. 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He is not merged with the earlier Caesars in other cycles.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "caesar_maryam", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-shiruyeh", "name": "Shiruyeh", "label": "Shiruyeh", "display_name": "Shiruyeh", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "The child of Maryam and Khosrow Parviz, privately named Qobad.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "shiruyeh", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-bahram_chubin", "name": "Bahram Chubin", "label": "Bahram Chubin", "display_name": "Bahram Chubin", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Gurdiyeh’s brother; this is a sibling link, not a guessed common parent.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "bahram_chubin", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-ardeshir", "name": "Ardeshir", "label": "Ardeshir", "display_name": "Ardeshir", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Golnar’s companion in flight. The selected passages do not narrate a marriage ceremony, so this tie is labeled companionship.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "ardeshir", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-abtin", "name": "Abtin", "label": "Abtin", "display_name": "Abtin", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Faranak’s husband and Fereydoon’s father.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "abtin", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-fereydoon", "name": "Fereydoon", "label": "Fereydoon", "display_name": "Fereydoon", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Son of Faranak and Abtin, nourished and protected in a refuge.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "fereydoon", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-gazhdaham", "name": "Gazhdaham", "label": "Gazhdaham", "display_name": "Gazhdaham", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "Gordafarid’s father at the White Fortress.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "gazhdaham", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-qaydrush", "name": "Qaydrush", "label": "Qaydrush", "display_name": "Qaydrush", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "A son of Kaydafa, named in the account of his captivity and return.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "qaydrush", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-taynush", "name": "Taynush", "label": "Taynush", "display_name": "Taynush", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "A son of Kaydafa. No father is inferred from the other son’s presence.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "taynush", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-keeper", "name": "The cow’s keeper", "label": "The cow’s keeper", "display_name": "The cow’s keeper", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "The unnamed keeper who accepts Faranak’s infant and guards him.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "keeper", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-washerman", "name": "The washerman", "label": "The washerman", "display_name": "The washerman", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": false, "kind": "human", "note": "An unnamed foster caregiver of Darab, distinct from his birth father.", "registry_id": null, "identity_note": "", "key": "washerman", "evidence": [], "unassigned": false}, {"id": "kin-washerwoman", "name": "The washerwoman", "label": "The washerwoman", "display_name": "The washerwoman", "principal": false, "home_book": null, "female": true, "kind": "human", "note": "The unnamed woman who nurses and raises Darab as her own son. 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B10.23 names Giv’s wife Banu Gashasp. The identification is made across these passages and confirmed by the genealogy plate; the later passage does not repeat her personal name.", "evidence": [{"id": "C2.15.55", "lines": ["For Giv and Rostam shared a bond well known:", "Giv wed brave Rostam’s daughter as his own."]}, {"id": "C2.15.56", "lines": ["Giv’s sister too became brave Rostam’s wife,", "And bore him Faramarz, his pride in life."]}, {"id": "C2.15.57", "lines": ["Thus Bijan, honored under every sky,", "Was Rostam’s daughter’s son through that first tie."]}, {"id": "B10.23.30", "lines": ["At last from every suitor he chose me,", "And gave his child, more dear than crown could be."]}, {"id": "B10.23.31", "lines": ["Banu Gashasp, his eldest child by name,", "A rider and a champion known to fame."]}, {"id": "B10.23.32", "lines": ["From all those great ones, Rostam chose me best,", "And raised my glory far above the rest."]}], "additional_sources": [{"title": "Champions of Iran · Plate VIII", "asset": "/insight-graphs/assets/weave-evidence/champions-of-iran.png", "note": "The plate explicitly labels Bijan as born of Banu Gashasp, daughter of Rostam."}]}, {"id": "wg16", "source": "kin-giv", "target": "kin-bijan", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → son", "note": "Bijan directly names Giv as his father.", "evidence": [{"id": "C2.5.38", "lines": ["And thus did Bijan answer in this strain:", "“O messenger of sweet speech, hear me plain;"]}, {"id": "C2.5.39", "lines": ["No Siavash am I, no fairy’s seed;", "From Iran am I come, of noble breed."]}, {"id": "C2.5.40", "lines": ["I am Giv’s son, and Bijan’s name is mine;", "From Iran came I, sharp-clawed, on the swine."]}]}, {"id": "wg17", "source": "kin-giv", "target": "women-shahr_banu", "type": "sibling", "label": "Brother ↔ sister", "note": "Giv names his sister Shahr-Banu and says that she married Rostam. No common parent is invented here.", "evidence": [{"id": "B10.23.30", "lines": ["At last from every suitor he chose me,", "And gave his child, more dear than crown could be."]}, {"id": "B10.23.31", "lines": ["Banu Gashasp, his eldest child by name,", "A rider and a champion known to fame."]}, {"id": "B10.23.32", "lines": ["From all those great ones, Rostam chose me best,", "And raised my glory far above the rest."]}, {"id": "B10.23.33", "lines": ["My sister too, the fair Shahr-Banu, wed", "Great Rostam; moon of women, so all said."]}]}, {"id": "wg18", "source": "kin-rostam", "target": "women-shahr_banu", "type": "marriage", "label": "Marriage", "note": "Giv’s sister is named Shahr-Banu in B10.23; the retrospective in C2.15 repeats that marriage.", "evidence": [{"id": "B10.23.33", "lines": ["My sister too, the fair Shahr-Banu, wed", "Great Rostam; moon of women, so all said."]}, {"id": "C2.15.55", "lines": ["For Giv and Rostam shared a bond well known:", "Giv wed brave Rostam’s daughter as his own."]}, {"id": "C2.15.56", "lines": ["Giv’s sister too became brave Rostam’s wife,", "And bore him Faramarz, his pride in life."]}]}, {"id": "wg19", "source": "women-shahr_banu", "target": "kin-faramarz", "type": "parent", "label": "Mother → son", "note": "C2.15 identifies Giv’s sister as the mother of Faramarz. B10.23 supplies her name Shahr-Banu. She is not Banu Gashasp, Rostam’s daughter.", "evidence": [{"id": "C2.15.55", "lines": ["For Giv and Rostam shared a bond well known:", "Giv wed brave Rostam’s daughter as his own."]}, {"id": "C2.15.56", "lines": ["Giv’s sister too became brave Rostam’s wife,", "And bore him Faramarz, his pride in life."]}, {"id": "C2.15.57", "lines": ["Thus Bijan, honored under every sky,", "Was Rostam’s daughter’s son through that first tie."]}, {"id": "B10.23.33", "lines": ["My sister too, the fair Shahr-Banu, wed", "Great Rostam; moon of women, so all said."]}]}, {"id": "wg20", "source": "kin-rostam", "target": "kin-faramarz", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → son", "note": "The retrospective says Rostam’s wife, Giv’s sister, bore him Faramarz.", "evidence": [{"id": "C2.15.55", "lines": ["For Giv and Rostam shared a bond well known:", "Giv wed brave Rostam’s daughter as his own."]}, {"id": "C2.15.56", "lines": ["Giv’s sister too became brave Rostam’s wife,", "And bore him Faramarz, his pride in life."]}, {"id": "C2.15.57", "lines": ["Thus Bijan, honored under every sky,", "Was Rostam’s daughter’s son through that first tie."]}]}, {"id": "wg21", "source": "kin-afrasiab", "target": "women-manijeh", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → daughter", "note": "Manijeh is directly named as Afrasiab’s daughter.", "evidence": [{"id": "C2.4.28", "lines": ["Manijeh, Afrasiab’s daughter bright,", "Will make the garden blaze with solar light."]}, {"id": "C2.22.36", "lines": ["I am Manijeh, Afrasiab’s child, whose face", "No sun had seen unveiled in any place."]}]}, {"id": "wg22", "source": "women-manijeh", "target": "kin-bijan", "type": "love", "label": "Lovers", "note": "The selected passages portray the relationship as love and companionship. This type does not assert a formal wedding or assign them children.", "evidence": [{"id": "C2.23.34", "lines": ["Bijan replied: “The truth is on your side;", "For me you lost your fortune and your pride."]}, {"id": "C2.23.35", "lines": ["I should not have said that, beloved friend,", "Prudent companion, faithful to the end."]}, {"id": "C2.23.36", "lines": ["Counsel me in all things; grief and pain", "Have clouded wit and judgment in my brain."]}, {"id": "C2.23.37", "lines": ["That jewel-merchant, he who gave last night", "The roasted bird, has come to end my plight."]}, {"id": "C2.23.38", "lines": ["He came to Turan for my sake alone;", "He had no need of any precious stone."]}, {"id": "C2.23.39", "lines": ["The Maker looked on me with pity’s grace;", "Perhaps I may again see earth’s broad face."]}, {"id": "C2.23.40", "lines": ["That man will free me from this prison’s chain,", "And end your weary wandering and pain."]}, {"id": "C2.23.41", "lines": ["Go near to him and whisper in his ear:", "‘O Kayanian Pahlevan, make clear:"]}, {"id": "C2.23.42", "lines": ["Kind-hearted, swift in finding ways to free,", "If you are lord of Rakhsh, then answer me.’”"]}, {"id": "C2.23.43", "lines": ["Manijeh sped away with urgent speed,", "And bore to Rostam Bijan’s secret need."]}, {"id": "C2.23.44", "lines": ["When Rostam heard the words that she conveyed,", "After the long, hard journey she had made,"]}, {"id": "C2.23.45", "lines": ["He knew Bijan had made the secret known,", "And to that cypress all the story shown."]}, {"id": "C2.23.46", "lines": ["He pitied her and said: “May God above", "Keep strong for Bijan all your faithful love."]}]}, {"id": "wg23", "source": "kin-piran", "target": "women-jarireh", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → daughter", "note": "Piran describes his daughters and names Jarireh as his eldest.", "evidence": [{"id": "B9.34.17", "lines": ["I too have daughters four, whom I commend;", "If you accept, as servants they attend."]}, {"id": "B9.34.18", "lines": ["Yet Jarireh, my eldest, leads them all;", "No beauty can compare within the hall."]}, {"id": "B9.34.19", "lines": ["If she should please you, she is yours to choose,", "Your servant, if her hand you not refuse.”"]}]}, {"id": "wg24", "source": "women-golshahr", "target": "women-jarireh", "type": "parent", "label": "Mother → daughter", "note": "The narrator says Golshahr brings her daughter forward for the marriage.", "evidence": [{"id": "B9.34.24", "lines": ["When Piran left, he hurried from the hall,", "And told Golshahr what soon would them befall."]}, {"id": "B9.34.25", "lines": ["He said: “Prepare Jarireh for the day,", "For Siavash and his farr without delay."]}, {"id": "B9.34.26", "lines": ["Shall we not celebrate this noble tie,", "And knit our house to Qobad’s line thereby?”"]}, {"id": "B9.34.27", "lines": ["Golshahr then brought her daughter forward dressed,", "A coronet of gold adorned her crest."]}, {"id": "B9.34.28", "lines": ["With diba, dinars, silver, fragrant gold,", "And costly ornaments of finest mold."]}, {"id": "B9.34.29", "lines": ["She shone as springtime shines in fullest flower,", "And they brought her before the prince that hour."]}, {"id": "B9.34.30", "lines": ["They joined her to the prince with honor due,", "And led her to her royal station new."]}]}, {"id": "wg25", "source": "kin-siavash", "target": "women-jarireh", "type": "marriage", "label": "Marriage", "note": "Golshahr brings her daughter to the prince and the union is completed.", "evidence": [{"id": "B9.34.24", "lines": ["When Piran left, he hurried from the hall,", "And told Golshahr what soon would them befall."]}, {"id": "B9.34.25", "lines": ["He said: “Prepare Jarireh for the day,", "For Siavash and his farr without delay."]}, {"id": "B9.34.26", "lines": ["Shall we not celebrate this noble tie,", "And knit our house to Qobad’s line thereby?”"]}, {"id": "B9.34.27", "lines": ["Golshahr then brought her daughter forward dressed,", "A coronet of gold adorned her crest."]}, {"id": "B9.34.28", "lines": ["With diba, dinars, silver, fragrant gold,", "And costly ornaments of finest mold."]}, {"id": "B9.34.29", "lines": ["She shone as springtime shines in fullest flower,", "And they brought her before the prince that hour."]}, {"id": "B9.34.30", "lines": ["They joined her to the prince with honor due,", "And led her to her royal station new."]}]}, {"id": "wg26", "source": "women-jarireh", "target": "kin-forood", "type": "parent", "label": "Mother → son", "note": "The birth notice names Forood and the narrator identifies Jarireh as his mother.", "evidence": [{"id": "B9.45.1", "lines": ["A rider came to Siavash like the wind,", "With joyful news he swiftly brought to mind."]}, {"id": "B9.45.2", "lines": ["He said: “The chief’s daughter has borne a child,", "Moon-faced and noble, fortunate and mild."]}, {"id": "B9.45.3", "lines": ["They named him Forood from the hour of birth,", "A prince of high good fortune on the earth.”"]}, {"id": "B9.45.4", "lines": ["When Piran heard the news that very night,", "He sent two riders forth in urgent flight."]}, {"id": "B9.45.5", "lines": ["He said: “Go quickly to the prince and tell", "The news that makes each heart with gladness swell.”"]}, {"id": "B9.45.6", "lines": ["Jarireh, mother of the noble boy,", "Chief of exalted women, stood with joy."]}, {"id": "B9.45.7", "lines": ["She bade them mark his hand with saffron dye, ", "And press it on the letter for his eye."]}, {"id": "B9.45.8", "lines": ["“Take this to Siavash,” she bade them say: ", " “Pure Yazdan crowns our lives with joy today.”"]}, {"id": "B9.45.9", "lines": ["Then Siavash blessed the child in solemn prayer: ", " “May royal glory never lack an heir!”"]}]}, {"id": "wg27", "source": "kin-siavash", "target": "kin-forood", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → son", "note": "The birth notice is sent to Siavash; Jarireh names their joy and he blesses the child.", "evidence": [{"id": "B9.45.1", "lines": ["A rider came to Siavash like the wind,", "With joyful news he swiftly brought to mind."]}, {"id": "B9.45.2", "lines": ["He said: “The chief’s daughter has borne a child,", "Moon-faced and noble, fortunate and mild."]}, {"id": "B9.45.3", "lines": ["They named him Forood from the hour of birth,", "A prince of high good fortune on the earth.”"]}, {"id": "B9.45.4", "lines": ["When Piran heard the news that very night,", "He sent two riders forth in urgent flight."]}, {"id": "B9.45.5", "lines": ["He said: “Go quickly to the prince and tell", "The news that makes each heart with gladness swell.”"]}, {"id": "B9.45.6", "lines": ["Jarireh, mother of the noble boy,", "Chief of exalted women, stood with joy."]}, {"id": "B9.45.7", "lines": ["She bade them mark his hand with saffron dye, ", "And press it on the letter for his eye."]}, {"id": "B9.45.8", "lines": ["“Take this to Siavash,” she bade them say: ", " “Pure Yazdan crowns our lives with joy today.”"]}, {"id": "B9.45.9", "lines": ["Then Siavash blessed the child in solemn prayer: ", " “May royal glory never lack an heir!”"]}, {"id": "B12.3.19", "lines": ["Your brother now commands Iran’s great throne,", "Wise, vigilant Khosrow, world-ruler known."]}, {"id": "B12.3.20", "lines": ["Your lineage and native worth he knows,", "From Siavash the blood in both you flows."]}, {"id": "B12.3.21", "lines": ["No champion like Siavash ever rode,", "Or girded for the warrior’s heavy load."]}, {"id": "B12.3.22", "lines": ["Great Piran gave me first to Siavash;", "For never did his heart with rivals clash."]}, {"id": "B12.3.23", "lines": ["Thus from both sides your blood is nobly born,", "A royal lineage no man may scorn."]}]}, {"id": "wg28", "source": "kin-afrasiab", "target": "women-farangis", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → daughter", "note": "Piran names Farangis among Afrasiab’s daughters.", "evidence": [{"id": "B9.35.7", "lines": ["It better fits your station and your worth", "To seek a jewel of the Shah’s own birth."]}, {"id": "B9.35.8", "lines": ["Among his daughters, Farangis is best,", "No fairer form was ever seen or guessed."]}, {"id": "B9.35.9", "lines": ["Her form outshines the cypress, tall and fair,", "Black musk itself forms a crown upon her hair."]}, {"id": "B9.35.10", "lines": ["Her skill and wisdom pass all measured worth,", "And wisdom waits upon her here on earth."]}, {"id": "B9.35.11", "lines": ["Ask Afrasiab; nowhere shall you find", "In Kashmir or Kabul a face so kind."]}, {"id": "B9.35.12", "lines": ["The king himself will join your royal line,", "And farr and orung brighter still shall shine."]}]}, {"id": "wg29", "source": "kin-siavash", "target": "women-farangis", "type": "marriage", "label": "First marriage in this selection", "note": "The marriage pact is witnessed and Farangis is brought to Siavash.", "evidence": [{"id": "B9.37.24", "lines": ["They brought the gifts to Farangis with praise,", "And blessed her for the fortune of her days."]}, {"id": "B9.37.25", "lines": ["Golshahr kissed earth and cried before them all:", "“Now Venus joins the Sun within this hall.”"]}, {"id": "B9.37.26", "lines": ["Piran and Afrasiab, both as one,", "Hastened the work for Kavus’s royal son."]}, {"id": "B9.37.27", "lines": ["They gave the bride as custom did require,", "And witnesses confirmed the pact entire."]}, {"id": "B9.37.28", "lines": ["When all was done, a message sped like smoke,", "And Piran sent to Golshahr as he spoke:"]}, {"id": "B9.37.29", "lines": ["“Go now and seek the bride without delay;", "Bring Farangis to Siavash today.”"]}, {"id": "B9.37.30", "lines": ["She went to Farangis and made it known:", "“Tonight, like moonlight, you adorn his throne.”"]}]}, {"id": "wg30", "source": "women-farangis", "target": "kin-kay_khosrow", "type": "parent", "label": "Mother → son", "note": "The later marriage passage explicitly calls Farangis Khosrow’s mother.", "evidence": [{"id": "B13.16.65", "lines": ["Since Rostam pressed, and she at last agreed,", "They called the Mobadan to seal the deed."]}, {"id": "B13.16.66", "lines": ["The marriage contract then was drawn and read;", "Farangis joined with Fariborz to wed."]}, {"id": "B13.16.67", "lines": ["By wedding Khosrow’s mother in that rite,", "He entered royal kinship in full right."]}]}, {"id": "wg31", "source": "kin-siavash", "target": "kin-kay_khosrow", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → son", "note": "Giv identifies the prince as Siavash’s son, carrying Khosrow’s royal farr.", "evidence": [{"id": "B10.17.42", "lines": ["Giv heard these words and stood transfixed with awe,", "Then praised the God whose guiding hand he saw."]}, {"id": "B10.17.43", "lines": ["He said: “O noble chief, exalted one,", "All hearts still yearn for you, long-lost king’s son."]}, {"id": "B10.17.44", "lines": ["You are the son of Siavash; now I know", "Kayanian blood and Khosrow’s farr you show."]}]}, {"id": "wg32", "source": "kin-kay_kavus", "target": "kin-siavash", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → son", "note": "Kavus receives news of the birth, names Siavash, and hears the reading of his son’s fate.", "evidence": [{"id": "B9.3.1", "lines": ["When spring put on its colors, fresh and bright,", "Nine months had turned beneath the wheeling height."]}, {"id": "B9.3.2", "lines": ["They said to Kay Kavus: “Rejoice in this;", "The moon of fortune brings you royal bliss."]}, {"id": "B9.3.3", "lines": ["A glorious child has now appeared in sight;", "Raise now your throne toward the moon’s high light.”"]}, {"id": "B9.3.4", "lines": ["Like some bright fairy, radiant was his face;", "An Azari idol in his form and grace."]}, {"id": "B9.3.5", "lines": ["The people spoke of face and flowing hair;", "No mortal child had ever seemed so fair."]}, {"id": "B9.3.6", "lines": ["The king named Siavash, then sought to read", "What turning heaven for the child decreed."]}, {"id": "B9.3.7", "lines": ["Yet those who read the wheeling heavens’ course,", "And traced each sign back to its hidden source,"]}, {"id": "B9.3.8", "lines": ["They saw his star disturbed within the sky,", "His fortune sleeping, and they grieved thereby."]}, {"id": "B9.3.9", "lines": ["They told the Shah what waited for his son,", "And showed each road before him, one by one."]}]}, {"id": "wg33", "source": "kin-siavash_mother", "target": "kin-siavash", "type": "parent", "label": "Mother → son", "note": "The young woman taken into Kavus’s household in B9.2 is followed by Siavash’s birth in B9.3 and the report of his mother’s death in B9.5. This is a role identity across episodes; the poem supplies no personal name in these cited passages.", "evidence": [{"id": "B9.2.43", "lines": ["Then Kavus said: “Who sought to cast away", "Your hair, your face, your lineage in one day?"]}, {"id": "B9.2.44", "lines": ["Come dwell within my golden women’s hall,", "And reign as chief among the beauties all.”"]}, {"id": "B9.2.45", "lines": ["She answered: “From the first my heart inclined", "Toward you above all others of your kind.”"]}, {"id": "B9.2.46", "lines": ["The Shah gave both sepahbods crown and throne,", "Ten noble steeds, rich gifts to call their own."]}, {"id": "B9.2.47", "lines": ["He sent the maiden to the women’s hall,", "And ordered her enthroned before them all."]}, {"id": "B9.3.1", "lines": ["When spring put on its colors, fresh and bright,", "Nine months had turned beneath the wheeling height."]}, {"id": "B9.3.2", "lines": ["They said to Kay Kavus: “Rejoice in this;", "The moon of fortune brings you royal bliss."]}, {"id": "B9.3.3", "lines": ["A glorious child has now appeared in sight;", "Raise now your throne toward the moon’s high light.”"]}, {"id": "B9.3.4", "lines": ["Like some bright fairy, radiant was his face;", "An Azari idol in his form and grace."]}, {"id": "B9.3.5", "lines": ["The people spoke of face and flowing hair;", "No mortal child had ever seemed so fair."]}, {"id": "B9.3.6", "lines": ["The king named Siavash, then sought to read", "What turning heaven for the child decreed."]}, {"id": "B9.5.1", "lines": ["When all was done as Kay Kavus ordained,", "The prince’s mother died, and mourning reigned."]}]}, {"id": "wg34", "source": "kin-kay_kavus", "target": "kin-fariborz", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → son", "note": "Fariborz is explicitly called Kavus’s son.", "evidence": [{"id": "B13.16.47", "lines": ["Victorious Fariborz, Kavus’s son,", "Is fit to wear the crown when deeds are done."]}, {"id": "B13.16.48", "lines": ["The throne itself gains luster from his name;", "His royal blood and worth uphold his fame."]}, {"id": "B13.16.49", "lines": ["He was Siavash’s brother and his peer,", "Of one great royal house and lineage clear."]}]}, {"id": "wg35", "source": "women-farangis", "target": "kin-fariborz", "type": "marriage", "label": "Later marriage", "note": "The marriage to Fariborz follows Siavash’s death. The cited scene preserves Farangis’s grief and the pressure of the request; the marriages are not simultaneous.", "evidence": [{"id": "B13.16.38", "lines": ["Then tears arose; at last she spoke her mind:", "“I do not blame great Rostam, just and kind."]}, {"id": "B13.16.39", "lines": ["I do not blame him; yet, if I were free,", "This is no time for marriage now for me."]}, {"id": "B13.16.40", "lines": ["Who but the heavens could refuse his plea,", "When Rostam asks for such a gift from me?”"]}, {"id": "B13.16.61", "lines": ["Yet at your words my tongue is bound in chain;", "Against your counsel I cannot complain."]}, {"id": "B13.16.62", "lines": ["What does the famous monarch ask of me?", "I gird myself to honor his decree.”"]}, {"id": "B13.16.63", "lines": ["Khosrow rejoiced to hear the words she said;", "His face bloomed like a spring rose newly spread."]}, {"id": "B13.16.64", "lines": ["He turned to Rostam: “Bring this to its end;", "Proceed at once; no further time expend.”"]}, {"id": "B13.16.65", "lines": ["Since Rostam pressed, and she at last agreed,", "They called the Mobadan to seal the deed."]}, {"id": "B13.16.66", "lines": ["The marriage contract then was drawn and read;", "Farangis joined with Fariborz to wed."]}, {"id": "B13.16.67", "lines": ["By wedding Khosrow’s mother in that rite,", "He entered royal kinship in full right."]}]}, {"id": "wg36", "source": "kin-hamavaran_king", "target": "women-sudabeh", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → daughter", "note": "The king calls her his child, summons Sudabeh, and asks her view of Kavus’s proposal.", "evidence": [{"id": "B6.2.29", "lines": ["My wealth sustains me, yet my child is more,", "The dearest treasure in my heart’s own store."]}, {"id": "B6.2.30", "lines": ["If Iran’s Shah should take my child away,", "What heart or life remains to me that day?"]}, {"id": "B6.2.31", "lines": ["Yet I submit and grant what he has sought,", "Though grief destroys the peace that joy once brought.”"]}, {"id": "B6.2.32", "lines": ["He summoned fair Sudabeh to his side,", "And spoke of Kavus with a troubled pride:"]}, {"id": "B6.2.33", "lines": ["“An envoy comes from that exalted throne,", "Whose lord lacks nothing power can make his own."]}, {"id": "B6.2.34", "lines": ["A smooth-tongued envoy bears a letter here,", "From Kavus, written so his will is clear."]}, {"id": "B6.2.35", "lines": ["He seeks to rob my heart of all repose,", "Though I would rather flee such heavy woes."]}, {"id": "B6.2.36", "lines": ["What say you? Speak your settled will to me,", "And choose with wisdom what your course shall be.”"]}]}, {"id": "wg37", "source": "kin-kay_kavus", "target": "women-sudabeh", "type": "marriage", "label": "Marriage", "note": "The narrator explicitly says Kavus joins Sudabeh in marriage by rite and faith. This assigns her no birth parentage of his sons.", "evidence": [{"id": "B6.2.51", "lines": ["Kavus invoked the name of Yazdan then,", "And gazed amazed beyond the gaze of men."]}, {"id": "B6.2.52", "lines": ["He called the wise in council at his side,", "The aged chief of Mobadan to guide."]}, {"id": "B6.2.53", "lines": ["He deemed Sudabeh fit to be his wife;", "By rite and faith he joined with her for life."]}, {"id": "B6.2.54", "lines": ["“When first I saw you, I approved your grace;", "My golden chambers were your proper place.”"]}]}, {"id": "wg38", "source": "women-golshahr", "target": "women-farangis", "type": "care", "label": "Shelter and attendance", "note": "Piran asks Golshahr to keep Farangis concealed and nurse her; the birth scene then shows Golshahr attending her.", "evidence": [{"id": "B9.56.40", "lines": ["Once home, to Golshahr Piran whispered low:", "“Keep Farangis concealed, and let none know."]}, {"id": "B9.56.41", "lines": ["Once from the Shah’s attention she is freed,", "I will devise the remedy we need."]}, {"id": "B9.56.42", "lines": ["Attend her like a nurse until the birth,", "And guard the child she carries to the earth.”"]}, {"id": "B9.57.7", "lines": ["He said: “Arise, delay no moment more;", "Attend on Farangis and seek her door."]}, {"id": "B9.57.8", "lines": ["I saw Siavash shining in a dream,", "Outshining moon and sun in sovereign gleam."]}, {"id": "B9.57.9", "lines": ["He cried: ‘Awake! To Kay Khosrow’s feast bring", "Your joy and greet the birth of this new king.’”"]}, {"id": "B9.57.10", "lines": ["Golshahr ran swiftly to the queen and saw", "The newborn prince, and stood transfixed with awe."]}]}, {"id": "wg39", "source": "kin-piran", "target": "women-farangis", "type": "care", "label": "Protection and shelter", "note": "Piran obtains Farangis’s release and leads her to safety. This is protection, not parentage.", "evidence": [{"id": "B9.56.33", "lines": ["If you would grant me peace, then hear my plea,", "Entrust Farangis and leave her with me."]}, {"id": "B9.56.34", "lines": ["If all your fear concerns the child she bears,", "That grief is small; put by these killing cares."]}, {"id": "B9.56.35", "lines": ["Wait only till the hour of birth is through;", "I will bring the child and leave its fate to you.”"]}, {"id": "B9.56.36", "lines": ["The king replied: “Then do as you have said;", "Your words have spared the need to see her dead.”"]}, {"id": "B9.56.37", "lines": ["Piran rejoiced and shook off sorrow’s weight,", "Then hurried off to find her at the gate."]}, {"id": "B9.56.38", "lines": ["He freed Farangis from the guards’ array,", "And sharply drove the murderous men away."]}, {"id": "B9.56.39", "lines": ["He led her safe to Khutan’s distant plain,", "While court and hall cried out in grief and pain."]}, {"id": "B9.56.40", "lines": ["Once home, to Golshahr Piran whispered low:", "“Keep Farangis concealed, and let none know."]}, {"id": "B9.56.41", "lines": ["Once from the Shah’s attention she is freed,", "I will devise the remedy we need."]}, {"id": "B9.56.42", "lines": ["Attend her like a nurse until the birth,", "And guard the child she carries to the earth.”"]}]}, {"id": "wg40", "source": "kin-caesar_katayun", "target": "women-katayun", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → daughter", "note": "The poem identifies Katayun as Caesar’s child. This Caesar is kept distinct from the others.", "evidence": [{"id": "C6.2.18", "lines": ["At length Nahid, illustrious Caesar’s child,", "Whom Goshtasb named Katayun, bright and mild,"]}, {"id": "C6.2.19", "lines": ["Bore him two sons, both moonlike in their light:", "Esfandiyar, famed prince of warlike might,"]}, {"id": "C6.2.20", "lines": ["And Bishutan, a valiant swordsman born,", "A prince whose blows made hostile armies mourn."]}]}, {"id": "wg41", "source": "women-katayun", "target": "kin-goshtasb", "type": "marriage", "label": "Marriage", "note": "Caesar weds the pair, then sends them away; Katayun stands by her choice of Goshtasb.", "evidence": [{"id": "C5.8.1", "lines": ["When Caesar heard, he fixed his will that day:", "He wed the pair and sent them on their way."]}, {"id": "C5.8.2", "lines": ["He said, “Go with her as you stand, no more;", "I give no crown, no signet, gold, or store.”"]}, {"id": "C5.8.3", "lines": ["Goshtasb saw this and stood in stunned surprise,", "And called upon the Maker of the skies."]}, {"id": "C5.8.4", "lines": ["He spoke to noble Katayun in pain:", "“You have been sheltered from all want and strain."]}, {"id": "C5.8.5", "lines": ["What moved you here to make your choice of me,", "Among these chiefs and crowns of high degree?"]}, {"id": "C5.8.6", "lines": ["The man you chose is destitute, alone;", "With him no wealth, but hardship, will be known."]}, {"id": "C5.8.7", "lines": ["Choose one your equal from these noble men,", "And win your father’s favor back again.”"]}, {"id": "C5.8.8", "lines": ["But Katayun replied, “O doubting heart,", "Do not rage at the sky or fortune’s part."]}, {"id": "C5.8.9", "lines": ["If I am pleased with you and with my fate,", "Why seek for crown and throne and royal state?”"]}]}, {"id": "wg42", "source": "women-katayun", "target": "kin-esfandiyar", "type": "parent", "label": "Mother → son", "note": "The narrator names Katayun, whom Goshtasb called by that name, and the two sons she bears him.", "evidence": [{"id": "C6.2.18", "lines": ["At length Nahid, illustrious Caesar’s child,", "Whom Goshtasb named Katayun, bright and mild,"]}, {"id": "C6.2.19", "lines": ["Bore him two sons, both moonlike in their light:", "Esfandiyar, famed prince of warlike might,"]}, {"id": "C6.2.20", "lines": ["And Bishutan, a valiant swordsman born,", "A prince whose blows made hostile armies mourn."]}]}, {"id": "wg43", "source": "kin-goshtasb", "target": "kin-esfandiyar", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → son", "note": "The narrator names Katayun, whom Goshtasb called by that name, and the two sons she bears him.", "evidence": [{"id": "C6.2.18", "lines": ["At length Nahid, illustrious Caesar’s child,", "Whom Goshtasb named Katayun, bright and mild,"]}, {"id": "C6.2.19", "lines": ["Bore him two sons, both moonlike in their light:", "Esfandiyar, famed prince of warlike might,"]}, {"id": "C6.2.20", "lines": ["And Bishutan, a valiant swordsman born,", "A prince whose blows made hostile armies mourn."]}]}, {"id": "wg44", "source": "women-katayun", "target": "kin-bishutan", "type": "parent", "label": "Mother → son", "note": "The narrator names Katayun, whom Goshtasb called by that name, and the two sons she bears him.", "evidence": [{"id": "C6.2.18", "lines": ["At length Nahid, illustrious Caesar’s child,", "Whom Goshtasb named Katayun, bright and mild,"]}, {"id": "C6.2.19", "lines": ["Bore him two sons, both moonlike in their light:", "Esfandiyar, famed prince of warlike might,"]}, {"id": "C6.2.20", "lines": ["And Bishutan, a valiant swordsman born,", "A prince whose blows made hostile armies mourn."]}]}, {"id": "wg45", "source": "kin-goshtasb", "target": "kin-bishutan", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → son", "note": "The narrator names Katayun, whom Goshtasb called by that name, and the two sons she bears him.", "evidence": [{"id": "C6.2.18", "lines": ["At length Nahid, illustrious Caesar’s child,", "Whom Goshtasb named Katayun, bright and mild,"]}, {"id": "C6.2.19", "lines": ["Bore him two sons, both moonlike in their light:", "Esfandiyar, famed prince of warlike might,"]}, {"id": "C6.2.20", "lines": ["And Bishutan, a valiant swordsman born,", "A prince whose blows made hostile armies mourn."]}]}, {"id": "wg46", "source": "kin-esfandiyar", "target": "kin-bahman", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → son", "note": "Bahman names Esfandiyar as his father.", "evidence": [{"id": "C8.8.28", "lines": ["The youth replied, “Renowned Bahman am I,", "Son of Esfandiyar, whose fame stands high.”"]}]}, {"id": "wg47", "source": "kin-bahman", "target": "women-humai_bahman", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → daughter", "note": "The narrator identifies Homahyi, also called Chehrzad, as Bahman’s daughter.", "evidence": [{"id": "D1.5.1", "lines": ["King Bahman had a son, a lion in might;", "He named him Sasan, dauntless in the fight."]}, {"id": "D1.5.2", "lines": ["He had a daughter, Homahyi the wise,", "Accomplished, prudent, lovely in all eyes. "]}, {"id": "D1.5.3", "lines": ["They called her Chehrzad, wondrous to his sight;", "Her father looked upon her with delight."]}]}, {"id": "wg48", "source": "kin-bahman", "target": "women-humai_bahman", "type": "marriage", "label": "Father and daughter also wed", "note": "The next couplet separately records Bahman marrying his daughter. This relation remains distinct from the parentage link between the same two people.", "evidence": [{"id": "D1.5.1", "lines": ["King Bahman had a son, a lion in might;", "He named him Sasan, dauntless in the fight."]}, {"id": "D1.5.2", "lines": ["He had a daughter, Homahyi the wise,", "Accomplished, prudent, lovely in all eyes. "]}, {"id": "D1.5.3", "lines": ["They called her Chehrzad, wondrous to his sight;", "Her father looked upon her with delight."]}, {"id": "D1.5.4", "lines": ["He took his lovely daughter as his bride,", "As Pahlavi belief then justified."]}, {"id": "D1.5.5", "lines": ["Fair Homahyi, bright as the moon at night,", "Conceived a child by Bahman, lord of might."]}]}, {"id": "wg49", "source": "women-humai_bahman", "target": "kin-darab", "type": "parent", "label": "Mother → son", "note": "Darab is directly identified as Homahyi’s son. Homahyi Chehrzad is the publishing-plan spelling of this queen’s name.", "evidence": [{"id": "D3.4.35", "lines": ["But when twelve years had passed across the land,", "Both life and wealth slipped from the ruler’s hand."]}, {"id": "D3.4.36", "lines": ["Darab, Homahyi’s son, began to fade;", "The other world called him into its shade."]}]}, {"id": "wg50", "source": "kin-bahman", "target": "kin-darab", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → son", "note": "D1.5 states that Homahyi conceives by Bahman. D2.7 identifies Darab as her son and Bahman’s surviving line. The father–son identification is supported across these episodes, rather than converting Bahman’s grandfather relation into the only link.", "evidence": [{"id": "D1.5.2", "lines": ["He had a daughter, Homahyi the wise,", "Accomplished, prudent, lovely in all eyes. "]}, {"id": "D1.5.3", "lines": ["They called her Chehrzad, wondrous to his sight;", "Her father looked upon her with delight."]}, {"id": "D1.5.4", "lines": ["He took his lovely daughter as his bride,", "As Pahlavi belief then justified."]}, {"id": "D1.5.5", "lines": ["Fair Homahyi, bright as the moon at night,", "Conceived a child by Bahman, lord of might."]}, {"id": "D1.5.6", "lines": ["Six months had passed; her heart was weighed with woe;", "The king fell ill to see her burdened so."]}, {"id": "D2.7.6", "lines": ["In Bahman’s month, on Shahrivar’s bright day,", "At dawn she called Darab without delay."]}, {"id": "D2.7.7", "lines": ["She filled one cup with rubies rich and bright,", "The next with yellow gems that caught the light."]}, {"id": "D2.7.8", "lines": ["When young Darab approached the palace gate,", "She came from far to bow before his state."]}, {"id": "D2.7.9", "lines": ["She scattered royal gems before her son,", "While blood-like tears into her lap would run."]}, {"id": "D2.7.10", "lines": ["She kissed her son and touched his youthful face,", "Then held him in a mother’s warm embrace."]}, {"id": "D2.7.27", "lines": ["Homahyi then revealed what she had done,", "And all the anguish suffered for her son."]}, {"id": "D2.7.28", "lines": ["She said, “Of mighty Bahman’s royal line,", "This prince remains its sole surviving sign."]}, {"id": "D2.7.29", "lines": ["You must obey whatever he commands;", "He is the shepherd of the warrior bands."]}, {"id": "D2.7.30", "lines": ["His are the greatness, diadem, and throne;", "Rely on him; his strength shall be your own.”"]}]}, {"id": "wg51", "source": "kin-faylaqus", "target": "women-nahid_darab", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → daughter", "note": "The negotiation names Nahid as Faylaqus’s daughter and Darab as his intended son-in-law.", "evidence": [{"id": "D3.3.30", "lines": ["“Go tell your master, ‘If you wish to stand", "With crown and honor in your native land,"]}, {"id": "D3.3.31", "lines": ["Behind your curtains dwells a daughter fair,", "The crown that all the world’s great ladies wear."]}, {"id": "D3.3.32", "lines": ["Her name is fair Nahid, renowned and bright,", "Who sits upon a golden throne of light."]}, {"id": "D3.3.33", "lines": ["Send her with Rum’s own tribute to my hand,", "If you would keep all hardship from your land.’”"]}, {"id": "D3.3.34", "lines": ["The envoy heard and hastened from the court,", "To bear the Shah’s reply in full report."]}, {"id": "D3.3.35", "lines": ["Faylaqus and his legions hailed the plan:", "His son-in-law would be so great a man."]}]}, {"id": "wg52", "source": "kin-darab", "target": "women-nahid_darab", "type": "marriage", "label": "Marriage", "note": "Nahid is brought as a bride and given to Darab. Their later separation does not erase the recorded marriage.", "evidence": [{"id": "D3.3.43", "lines": ["The nobles chosen to escort the bride", "Brought royal gifts and treasures at her side."]}, {"id": "D3.3.44", "lines": ["They built a golden litter, richly wrought,", "And crowned attendants to its side were brought."]}, {"id": "D3.3.45", "lines": ["Ten mules bore loads of Roman cloth of gold,", "With jeweled figures bright on every fold."]}, {"id": "D3.3.46", "lines": ["Three hundred camel-loads of carpets rare", "Were sent among the gifts and costly ware."]}, {"id": "D3.3.47", "lines": ["Within the litter sat the lovely maid,", "A monk and bishop lent their guiding aid."]}, {"id": "D3.3.48", "lines": ["Behind Nahid came sixty maidens bright,", "Each with a golden cup that caught the light."]}, {"id": "D3.3.49", "lines": ["Their cups held royal jewels of costly glow;", "Their crowns and earrings graced the lovely show."]}, {"id": "D3.3.50", "lines": ["The bishop gave the bride to Darab’s care,", "And to his treasurer counted jewels rare."]}]}, {"id": "wg53", "source": "women-nahid_darab", "target": "kin-iskandar", "type": "parent", "label": "Mother → son", "note": "The returned bride bears a son and names him Iskandar; this is Nahid, not Katayun under her alternate name.", "evidence": [{"id": "D3.4.11", "lines": ["He sent her back to Faylaqus, her sire,", "For nothing could restore the former fire."]}, {"id": "D3.4.12", "lines": ["She carried his child, but kept the matter sealed,", "And told no one what lay within concealed."]}, {"id": "D3.4.13", "lines": ["When nine full months had passed, the lady bright", "Bore forth a child who shone like morning light."]}, {"id": "D3.4.14", "lines": ["His body fragrant, fair, and strong of frame,", "His mother chose Iskandar for his name."]}, {"id": "D3.4.15", "lines": ["She held that healing name a lucky sign,", "For it had cured her mouth, that herb benign."]}, {"id": "D3.4.16", "lines": ["To every lord the Caesar thus made known:", "“A Caesar from my seed has sprung, my own.”"]}, {"id": "D3.4.17", "lines": ["None spoke of Darab; none would name that one:", "The Caesar was the father, he the son."]}, {"id": "D3.4.18", "lines": ["He hid his shame, lest anyone should know", "That Darab had dismissed his daughter so."]}, {"id": "D3.4.19", "lines": ["When that pure mother bore her shining boy,", "A herald told his grandfather with joy."]}]}, {"id": "wg54", "source": "kin-darab", "target": "kin-iskandar", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → son", "note": "The narrator says Nahid carries Darab’s child. Faylaqus’s subsequent public claim of fatherhood is identified as a cover story, not a second biological father.", "evidence": [{"id": "D3.4.10", "lines": ["Though now her breath was fragrant as pure musk,", "The Shah’s desire had faded into dusk."]}, {"id": "D3.4.11", "lines": ["He sent her back to Faylaqus, her sire,", "For nothing could restore the former fire."]}, {"id": "D3.4.12", "lines": ["She carried his child, but kept the matter sealed,", "And told no one what lay within concealed."]}, {"id": "D3.4.13", "lines": ["When nine full months had passed, the lady bright", "Bore forth a child who shone like morning light."]}, {"id": "D3.4.14", "lines": ["His body fragrant, fair, and strong of frame,", "His mother chose Iskandar for his name."]}, {"id": "D3.4.15", "lines": ["She held that healing name a lucky sign,", "For it had cured her mouth, that herb benign."]}, {"id": "D3.4.16", "lines": ["To every lord the Caesar thus made known:", "“A Caesar from my seed has sprung, my own.”"]}, {"id": "D3.4.17", "lines": ["None spoke of Darab; none would name that one:", "The Caesar was the father, he the son."]}, {"id": "D3.4.18", "lines": ["He hid his shame, lest anyone should know", "That Darab had dismissed his daughter so."]}, {"id": "D3.4.19", "lines": ["When that pure mother bore her shining boy,", "A herald told his grandfather with joy."]}]}, {"id": "wg55", "source": "kin-washerwoman", "target": "kin-darab", "type": "care", "label": "Foster mother → Darab", "note": "The washerwoman nurses and raises the child as her own; the narrator names him Darab. She is distinct from his birth mother Homahyi Chehrzad.", "evidence": [{"id": "D2.2.13", "lines": ["The washerwoman saw the child and prayed,", "Astonished at the sight the box displayed."]}, {"id": "D2.2.14", "lines": ["His radiant face shone from the silken bed;", "He looked like Ardeshir, the king now dead."]}, {"id": "D2.2.15", "lines": ["His pillow gleamed with pearls of costly sheen,", "His feet with carnelian and emerald green."]}, {"id": "D2.2.16", "lines": ["Gold coins lay on his left in yellow light;", "And many rubies glittered on his right."]}, {"id": "D2.2.17", "lines": ["She gave her breast; he drank, and at the sight", "The lovely infant filled her with delight."]}, {"id": "D2.2.18", "lines": ["The lovely child and treasures round him lay", "Before her eyes and drove her grief away."]}, {"id": "D2.2.19", "lines": ["The washerman then said, “From this day on,", "We guard this child until our lives are gone."]}, {"id": "D2.2.20", "lines": ["This child shall win distinction and renown,", "And in this world shall wear a royal crown.”"]}, {"id": "D2.2.21", "lines": ["The woman loved the boy as her own son,", "And tenderly she raised the little one."]}, {"id": "D2.2.22", "lines": ["Upon the third day, Darab was his name,", "For from the running water’s midst he came."]}]}, {"id": "wg56", "source": "kin-washerman", "target": "kin-darab", "type": "care", "label": "Foster caregiver → Darab", "note": "The washerman brings the child into the household and pledges that they will guard him.", "evidence": [{"id": "D2.2.8", "lines": ["Within that channel stood a coffer sealed;", "Inside it lay a child, from sight concealed."]}, {"id": "D2.2.9", "lines": ["When I raise the lid, you shall see his face,", "And long to hold the child in your embrace."]}, {"id": "D2.2.10", "lines": ["Our own dear son now lies among the dead;", "Let this fair child be cherished in his stead."]}, {"id": "D2.2.11", "lines": ["He brings a fortune gathered at his side,", "In gems and brocade richly beautified.”"]}, {"id": "D2.2.12", "lines": ["He laid the clothes upon the ground, then drew", "The coffer’s narrow lid aside from view."]}, {"id": "D2.2.19", "lines": ["The washerman then said, “From this day on,", "We guard this child until our lives are gone."]}, {"id": "D2.2.20", "lines": ["This child shall win distinction and renown,", "And in this world shall wear a royal crown.”"]}, {"id": "D2.2.21", "lines": ["The woman loved the boy as her own son,", "And tenderly she raised the little one."]}, {"id": "D2.2.22", "lines": ["Upon the third day, Darab was his name,", "For from the running water’s midst he came."]}]}, {"id": "wg57", "source": "kin-khosrow_parviz", "target": "women-gordyeh", "type": "marriage", "label": "Marriage", "note": "Khosrow takes Gurdiyeh, called Gurdiyeh in the poem, as his wife.", "evidence": [{"id": "E6.47.20", "lines": ["Khosrow beheld that cypress, tall and bright,", "Spring-cheeked, with pheasant gait and queenly light."]}, {"id": "E6.47.21", "lines": ["Her face was day, her locks were dark as night;", "Her lips seemed to rain pearls of purest white."]}, {"id": "E6.47.22", "lines": ["He placed her first within the royal bower,", "Endowed with majesty, renown, and power."]}, {"id": "E6.47.23", "lines": ["He sought Gurdiyeh’s hand to make her bride,", "Then bade the Mobad wed them by old rite."]}, {"id": "E6.47.24", "lines": ["By custom of their faith, he took his wife,", "And cherished her as dearly as his life."]}]}, {"id": "wg58", "source": "kin-bahram_chubin", "target": "women-gordyeh", "type": "sibling", "label": "Brother ↔ sister", "note": "Tobarg asks for Bahram’s sister and Gurdiyeh identifies herself. No unrecorded mother or father is invented to join them.", "evidence": [{"id": "E6.42.23", "lines": ["He said, “Where does brave Bahram’s sister stand?", "I seek that noble lady by command."]}, {"id": "E6.42.24", "lines": ["I bear a message touching old and new,", "Of present grief and what the past made true.”"]}, {"id": "E6.42.25", "lines": ["She answered, “Here am I, prepared to ride", "And charge a ravening lion in his pride.”"]}, {"id": "E6.42.26", "lines": ["He heard the voice of that heroic dame,", "Who rode a lion-steed with warrior flame."]}, {"id": "E6.42.37", "lines": ["Beneath her sable helm she showed her face,", "And spoke with royal courage, scorn, and grace."]}, {"id": "E6.42.38", "lines": ["“You saw Chubin’s great horsemanship in fight,", "And marveled at his deeds and all his might."]}, {"id": "E6.42.39", "lines": ["He was both mother and a father dear;", "His days are ended; now I face you here."]}, {"id": "E6.42.40", "lines": ["Now I shall test you; let our weapons show", "If I am fit to wed, and you shall know.”"]}]}, {"id": "wg59", "source": "kin-khosrow_parviz", "target": "women-shirin", "type": "marriage", "label": "Marriage", "note": "The narrative announces Khosrow’s marriage and names Shirin in the royal bower. The selected evidence does not assign them a child.", "evidence": [{"id": "E7.3.1", "lines": ["When news of Khosrow’s marriage reached the court,", "The nobles and the troops heard this report:"]}, {"id": "E7.3.2", "lines": ["They heard, “Shirin is in the royal bower;", "The old affair has gained its former power.”"]}, {"id": "E7.3.3", "lines": ["The city grieved; in every street and square", "Rose curses, pain, and sorrow everywhere."]}, {"id": "E7.3.4", "lines": ["For three days none of them came to his hall;", "At dawn upon the fourth he sent his call."]}]}, {"id": "wg60", "source": "kin-caesar_maryam", "target": "women-maryam", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → daughter", "note": "Caesar’s daughter is explicitly named Maryam.", "evidence": [{"id": "E6.21.4", "lines": ["He had a daughter, Maryam by name,", "Wise, grave, resolved, and high in royal fame."]}, {"id": "E6.21.5", "lines": ["He gave her to the Shah by sacred rite,", "And prayed that God would bless their union bright."]}, {"id": "E6.21.6", "lines": ["Gostaham took her in the royal way,", "And gave her to the Shah in due array."]}]}, {"id": "wg61", "source": "kin-khosrow_parviz", "target": "women-maryam", "type": "marriage", "label": "Marriage", "note": "Caesar gives Maryam to the Shah by sacred rite.", "evidence": [{"id": "E6.21.4", "lines": ["He had a daughter, Maryam by name,", "Wise, grave, resolved, and high in royal fame."]}, {"id": "E6.21.5", "lines": ["He gave her to the Shah by sacred rite,", "And prayed that God would bless their union bright."]}, {"id": "E6.21.6", "lines": ["Gostaham took her in the royal way,", "And gave her to the Shah in due array."]}]}, {"id": "wg62", "source": "women-maryam", "target": "kin-shiruyeh", "type": "parent", "label": "Mother → son", "note": "The birth episode gives the child’s two names, including Shiruyeh, and Khosrow’s letter explicitly names Maryam as the mother.", "evidence": [{"id": "E6.52.1", "lines": ["When he had reigned five years, he had no peer,", "And in the sixth a child to him drew near."]}, {"id": "E6.52.2", "lines": ["For Caesar’s moonlike daughter bore a son,", "The Shah’s own likeness in the little one."]}, {"id": "E6.52.3", "lines": ["No prayer-call then was whispered in the ear;", "That custom was not yet established here."]}, {"id": "E6.52.4", "lines": ["For princes reared in luxury and grace,", "Two names were given in that ancient place."]}, {"id": "E6.52.5", "lines": ["One name in secret to the child was said,", "The other spoken for the realm instead."]}, {"id": "E6.52.6", "lines": ["The Shah named him Qobad in whispers low,", "But called him Shiruyeh for all to know."]}, {"id": "E6.52.31", "lines": ["Then Khosrow smiled and, shaking off his gloom,", "Summoned a trusty scribe into the room."]}, {"id": "E6.52.32", "lines": ["He bade him write: “Great Caesar, joy is spread;", "For Maryam now has borne a prince,” it read."]}, {"id": "E6.52.33", "lines": ["“He has no peer; the throne and wisdom’s art,", "With skill and bounty, suit his royal heart."]}, {"id": "E6.52.34", "lines": ["As I rejoice, join in my celebration;", "You too are worthy of a kingly station.”"]}]}, {"id": "wg63", "source": "kin-khosrow_parviz", "target": "kin-shiruyeh", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → son", "note": "Khosrow’s son is privately named Qobad and publicly Shiruyeh.", "evidence": [{"id": "E6.52.1", "lines": ["When he had reigned five years, he had no peer,", "And in the sixth a child to him drew near."]}, {"id": "E6.52.2", "lines": ["For Caesar’s moonlike daughter bore a son,", "The Shah’s own likeness in the little one."]}, {"id": "E6.52.3", "lines": ["No prayer-call then was whispered in the ear;", "That custom was not yet established here."]}, {"id": "E6.52.4", "lines": ["For princes reared in luxury and grace,", "Two names were given in that ancient place."]}, {"id": "E6.52.5", "lines": ["One name in secret to the child was said,", "The other spoken for the realm instead."]}, {"id": "E6.52.6", "lines": ["The Shah named him Qobad in whispers low,", "But called him Shiruyeh for all to know."]}]}, {"id": "wg64", "source": "women-golnar", "target": "kin-ardeshir", "type": "love", "label": "Companions in flight", "note": "Golnar agrees to leave with Ardeshir and they ride away together. A marriage ceremony or offspring is not inferred from these selected passages.", "evidence": [{"id": "D6.5.45", "lines": ["He thought of flight and asked, “If I leave Rey,", "And seek Iran, where brave men lead the way,"]}, {"id": "D6.5.46", "lines": ["Will you come with me on that dangerous road,", "Or stay and serve the king in this abode?"]}, {"id": "D6.5.47", "lines": ["If you will come, great wealth shall be your own;", "And you shall be the crown upon the throne.”"]}, {"id": "D6.5.48", "lines": ["She pledged to stay with him until she died:", "“I am your slave; I shall not leave your side.”"]}, {"id": "D6.5.49", "lines": ["Cold sighs escaped her lips as thus she spoke;", "From both her eyes the yellow teardrops broke."]}, {"id": "D6.5.50", "lines": ["Ardeshir said, “Tomorrow we depart.”", "Necessity had gripped the young man’s heart."]}, {"id": "D6.5.63", "lines": ["He saw Golnar, and saw the jewels she bore;", "The ruddy dinars gleamed among her store."]}, {"id": "D6.5.64", "lines": ["He said, “We must be gone; we cannot stay;", "No longer here; now we must ride away."]}, {"id": "D6.5.65", "lines": ["May we escape this dragon’s claws and go,", "And save our youthful lives from all this woe.”"]}, {"id": "D6.5.66", "lines": ["He put the cup aside, his purpose steady;", "He bridled both the Arab steeds, made ready,"]}, {"id": "D6.5.67", "lines": ["Put on his khaftan, mounted, helmed, alert,", "And with a poison-watered blade was girt."]}, {"id": "D6.5.68", "lines": ["She mounted on the other steed to ride;", "Together they departed, side by side."]}]}, {"id": "wg65", "source": "women-faranak_abtin", "target": "kin-abtin", "type": "marriage", "label": "Marriage", "note": "Faranak is called Abtin’s wife in the account of his death.", "evidence": [{"id": "A5.3.11", "lines": ["Fereydoon’s father, Abtin, good and true,", "Found all the earth grow narrow as fear grew."]}, {"id": "A5.3.12", "lines": ["He fled from place to place to save his breath,", "Till Zahhak’s guards came on him, armed for death."]}, {"id": "A5.3.13", "lines": ["They seized and bound him like a leopard fast,", "And dragged him off; his freedom now was past."]}, {"id": "A5.3.14", "lines": ["Before Zahhak they brought the captive man,", "And then the tyrant ended Abtin’s span."]}, {"id": "A5.3.15", "lines": ["When Faranak, his wise and faithful wife,", "Beheld the ruin of her husband’s life,"]}, {"id": "A5.3.16", "lines": ["She fled in grief when Abtin’s days were done;", "Her heart was filled with love for her young son."]}]}, {"id": "wg66", "source": "women-faranak_abtin", "target": "kin-fereydoon", "type": "parent", "label": "Mother → son", "note": "The birth and loss of Abtin are followed by Faranak’s flight with her young son and her request for his protection.", "evidence": [{"id": "A5.3.2", "lines": ["Then Fereydoon was born, and from that hour", "The rosebud of the world began to flower."]}, {"id": "A5.3.11", "lines": ["Fereydoon’s father, Abtin, good and true,", "Found all the earth grow narrow as fear grew."]}, {"id": "A5.3.12", "lines": ["He fled from place to place to save his breath,", "Till Zahhak’s guards came on him, armed for death."]}, {"id": "A5.3.13", "lines": ["They seized and bound him like a leopard fast,", "And dragged him off; his freedom now was past."]}, {"id": "A5.3.14", "lines": ["Before Zahhak they brought the captive man,", "And then the tyrant ended Abtin’s span."]}, {"id": "A5.3.15", "lines": ["When Faranak, his wise and faithful wife,", "Beheld the ruin of her husband’s life,"]}, {"id": "A5.3.16", "lines": ["She fled in grief when Abtin’s days were done;", "Her heart was filled with love for her young son."]}, {"id": "A5.3.17", "lines": ["She sought the meadow where Barmayeh fed,", "And wept before the herdsman as she said:"]}, {"id": "A5.3.18", "lines": ["“Protect this nursing child and keep him near;", "Receive him as a father; hold him dear."]}, {"id": "A5.3.19", "lines": ["Nourish my son on Barmayeh’s rich flow,", "And guard the child wherever he may go."]}, {"id": "A5.3.20", "lines": ["If payment you desire, my life I give;", "Ask what you will; only let my child live.”"]}]}, {"id": "wg67", "source": "kin-abtin", "target": "kin-fereydoon", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → son", "note": "The narrator explicitly identifies Abtin as Fereydoon’s father.", "evidence": [{"id": "A5.3.11", "lines": ["Fereydoon’s father, Abtin, good and true,", "Found all the earth grow narrow as fear grew."]}, {"id": "A5.3.12", "lines": ["He fled from place to place to save his breath,", "Till Zahhak’s guards came on him, armed for death."]}, {"id": "A5.3.13", "lines": ["They seized and bound him like a leopard fast,", "And dragged him off; his freedom now was past."]}, {"id": "A5.3.14", "lines": ["Before Zahhak they brought the captive man,", "And then the tyrant ended Abtin’s span."]}]}, {"id": "wg68", "source": "kin-gazhdaham", "target": "women-gordafarid", "type": "parent", "label": "Father → daughter", "note": "Gordafarid is directly identified as Gazhdaham’s daughter.", "evidence": [{"id": "B8.9.1", "lines": ["When word arrived that Hajir had been bound,", "Gordafarid grieved deeply at the sound."]}, {"id": "B8.9.2", "lines": ["She cried in grief and drew a bitter sigh,", "A cold breath rose as sorrow dimmed her eye."]}, {"id": "B8.9.3", "lines": ["Renowned in battle, rider fierce and famed,", "The daughter of Gazhdaham was acclaimed."]}, {"id": "B8.9.4", "lines": ["Gordafarid, peerless in warlike art,", "Took up her arms with steady hand and heart."]}]}, {"id": "wg69", "source": "women-kaidafa", "target": "kin-qaydrush", "type": "parent", "label": "Mother → son", "note": "The returning Qaydrush greets Kaydafa as his mother.", "evidence": [{"id": "D5.20.7", "lines": ["When Queen Kaydafa learned her son was near,", "She listened eagerly, intent to hear."]}, {"id": "D5.20.8", "lines": ["She rode to meet him with a mighty train", "Of famed and fortunate chiefs from her domain."]}, {"id": "D5.20.9", "lines": ["The queen approached; Qaydrush dismounted, bowed,", "And blessed his mother, speaking it aloud."]}, {"id": "D5.20.10", "lines": ["She bade him mount and take his former place,", "Then clasped his hand and rode at equal pace."]}]}, {"id": "wg70", "source": "women-kaidafa", "target": "kin-taynush", "type": "parent", "label": "Mother → son", "note": "Kaydafa directly calls Taynush her son. Their fathers are not assigned by this graph.", "evidence": [{"id": "D5.21.29", "lines": ["Kaydafa said: “One thing I must declare:", "One warning now deserves your closest care."]}, {"id": "D5.21.30", "lines": ["My son Taynush will scarcely heed my voice;", "He follows reckless paths of his own choice."]}, {"id": "D5.21.31", "lines": ["He is the son-in-law of Foor; guard well", "That of your bond you nothing to him tell."]}]}, {"id": "wg71", "source": "kin-keeper", "target": "kin-fereydoon", "type": "care", "label": "Keeper → protected child", "note": "The keeper accepts Faranak’s infant, promises to guard him, and sustains the child in the refuge.", "evidence": [{"id": "A5.3.17", "lines": ["She sought the meadow where Barmayeh fed,", "And wept before the herdsman as she said:"]}, {"id": "A5.3.18", "lines": ["“Protect this nursing child and keep him near;", "Receive him as a father; hold him dear."]}, {"id": "A5.3.19", "lines": ["Nourish my son on Barmayeh’s rich flow,", "And guard the child wherever he may go."]}, {"id": "A5.3.20", "lines": ["If payment you desire, my life I give;", "Ask what you will; only let my child live.”"]}, {"id": "A5.3.21", "lines": ["The herdsman said, “Your wish shall be obeyed;", "Like one who serves your son, I pledge my aid.”"]}, {"id": "A5.3.22", "lines": ["She left her infant son within his care;", "He was to guard the child from every snare."]}, {"id": "A5.3.23", "lines": ["That guardian, a faithful and loving soul,", "Sustained the child on milk that made him whole."]}, {"id": "A5.3.24", "lines": ["For three long years the boy in safety grew,", "On Barmayeh’s milk, safe from Zahhak’s view."]}]}, {"id": "wg72", "source": "kin-parmayeh", "target": "kin-fereydoon", "type": "care", "label": "Milk and nurture", "note": "The child grows on the wondrous cow’s milk. This is a nurturing relation, not biological parentage or a new human entry in the women’s index.", "evidence": [{"id": "A5.3.19", "lines": ["Nourish my son on Barmayeh’s rich flow,", "And guard the child wherever he may go."]}, {"id": "A5.3.20", "lines": ["If payment you desire, my life I give;", "Ask what you will; only let my child live.”"]}, {"id": "A5.3.21", "lines": ["The herdsman said, “Your wish shall be obeyed;", "Like one who serves your son, I pledge my aid.”"]}, {"id": "A5.3.22", "lines": ["She left her infant son within his care;", "He was to guard the child from every snare."]}, {"id": "A5.3.23", "lines": ["That guardian, a faithful and loving soul,", "Sustained the child on milk that made him whole."]}, {"id": "A5.3.24", "lines": ["For three long years the boy in safety grew,", "On Barmayeh’s milk, safe from Zahhak’s view."]}]}], "views": [{"id": "long", "title": "Rudabeh to Bijan", "description": "Follow the kinship thread from Sindokht through Rudabeh, Rostam, Banu Gashasp and Bijan. Tahmineh and Shahr-Banu keep their own children’s parentage; neither is silently made the mother of every child of Rostam.", "placements": [{"id": "women-sindokht", "column": 0, "row": 0}, {"id": "kin-mehrab", "column": 0, "row": 2}, {"id": "kin-sahm", "column": 0, "row": 5}, {"id": "women-simorgh_guardian", "column": 0, "row": 7.5}, {"id": "women-rudabeh", "column": 1, "row": 0.7}, {"id": "kin-zal", "column": 1, "row": 4.5}, {"id": "kin-samangan_king", "column": 1, "row": 7.5}, {"id": "women-shahr_banu", "column": 2, "row": 0}, {"id": "kin-rostam", "column": 2, "row": 3.5}, {"id": "women-tahmineh", "column": 2, "row": 7}, {"id": "women-banu_gashasp", "column": 3, "row": 1}, {"id": "kin-giv", "column": 3, "row": 3.2}, {"id": "kin-faramarz", "column": 3, "row": 5}, {"id": "kin-sohrab", "column": 3, "row": 7}, {"id": "kin-afrasiab", "column": 3, "row": 9}, {"id": "kin-bijan", "column": 4, "row": 2}, {"id": "women-manijeh", "column": 4, "row": 8.5}], "link_ids": ["wg01", "wg02", "wg03", "wg04", "wg05", "wg06", "wg07", "wg08", "wg09", "wg10", "wg11", "wg12", "wg13", "wg14", "wg15", "wg16", "wg17", "wg18", "wg19", "wg20", "wg21", "wg22"]}, {"id": "sons", "title": "Siavash’s two sons", "description": "Forood and Kay Khosrow share Siavash as a father. Jarireh and Farangis carry different maternal lines. Farangis’s later marriage to Fariborz is shown separately; Sudabeh is not made Siavash’s birth mother.", "placements": [{"id": "kin-piran", "column": 0, "row": 0}, {"id": "women-golshahr", "column": 0, "row": 2}, {"id": "kin-siavash_mother", "column": 0, "row": 4}, {"id": "kin-afrasiab", "column": 0, "row": 6}, {"id": "kin-kay_kavus", "column": 0, "row": 9}, {"id": "kin-hamavaran_king", "column": 0, "row": 12}, {"id": "women-jarireh", "column": 1, "row": 1}, {"id": "kin-siavash", "column": 1, "row": 4.3}, {"id": "women-farangis", "column": 1, "row": 7}, {"id": "kin-fariborz", "column": 1, "row": 9.5}, {"id": "women-sudabeh", "column": 1, "row": 12}, {"id": "kin-forood", "column": 2, "row": 2}, {"id": "kin-kay_khosrow", "column": 2, "row": 6}], "link_ids": ["wg23", "wg24", "wg25", "wg26", "wg27", "wg28", "wg29", "wg30", "wg31", "wg32", "wg33", "wg34", "wg35", "wg36", "wg37", "wg38", "wg39"]}, {"id": "crown", "title": "Katayun to Iskandar", "description": "The selected royal line passes through Katayun, Homahyi Chehrzad and Darab’s bride Nahid. Two different Nahids remain distinct. Bahman’s father–daughter and marriage ties to Homahyi Chehrzad are separate strands, as the poem records them.", "placements": [{"id": "kin-caesar_katayun", "column": 0, "row": 1}, {"id": "women-katayun", "column": 1, "row": 1}, {"id": "kin-goshtasb", "column": 1, "row": 5}, {"id": "kin-esfandiyar", "column": 2, "row": 1.7}, {"id": "kin-bishutan", "column": 2, "row": 6}, {"id": "kin-bahman", "column": 3, "row": 1.7}, {"id": "women-humai_bahman", "column": 4, "row": 1.7}, {"id": "kin-faylaqus", "column": 4, "row": 6}, {"id": "kin-darab", "column": 5, "row": 2.8}, {"id": "women-nahid_darab", "column": 5, "row": 6}, {"id": "kin-iskandar", "column": 6, "row": 4.3}], "link_ids": ["wg40", "wg41", "wg42", "wg43", "wg44", "wg45", "wg46", "wg47", "wg48", "wg49", "wg50", "wg51", "wg52", "wg53", "wg54"]}, {"id": "courts", "title": "Royal homes and their gaps", "description": "Several selected royal households sit beside one another here; they are not one synchronized generation. Maryam’s son belongs to her line. The two late queens remain visible with kinship unassigned, rather than attached by an uncited assumption.", "placements": [{"id": "kin-bahram_chubin", "column": 0, "row": 0}, {"id": "women-gordyeh", "column": 1, "row": 0.4}, {"id": "kin-caesar_maryam", "column": 0, "row": 2.6}, {"id": "women-maryam", "column": 1, "row": 2.8}, {"id": "kin-khosrow_parviz", "column": 1, "row": 5.4}, {"id": "women-shirin", "column": 1, "row": 8}, {"id": "kin-shiruyeh", "column": 2, "row": 4}, {"id": "kin-ardeshir", "column": 0, "row": 10.6}, {"id": "women-golnar", "column": 1, "row": 10.6}, {"id": "women-purandokht", "column": 2, "row": 8}, {"id": "women-azarmidokht", "column": 2, "row": 10.6}], "link_ids": ["wg57", "wg58", "wg59", "wg60", "wg61", "wg62", "wg63", "wg64"]}, {"id": "roots", "title": "Three shorter family threads", "description": "Faranak, Gordafarid and Kaydafa belong to separate families in this selection. Shorter threads reflect the chosen evidence, not smaller lives, lesser importance, or an absence of other relatives.", "placements": [{"id": "kin-abtin", "column": 0, "row": 0}, {"id": "women-faranak_abtin", "column": 0, "row": 2.5}, {"id": "kin-fereydoon", "column": 1, "row": 1.3}, {"id": "kin-gazhdaham", "column": 0, "row": 5.2}, {"id": "women-gordafarid", "column": 1, "row": 5.2}, {"id": "women-kaidafa", "column": 0, "row": 8.7}, {"id": "kin-qaydrush", "column": 2, "row": 7.7}, {"id": "kin-taynush", "column": 2, "row": 10}], "link_ids": ["wg65", "wg66", "wg67", "wg68", "wg69", "wg70"]}, {"id": "care", "title": "Care beyond birth", "description": "The Simorgh, a keeper and a nurturing cow, Piran and Golshahr, and Darab’s foster household all carry lives forward. Where birth parents are included they keep their parentage strands; care does not overwrite them.", "placements": [{"id": "women-simorgh_guardian", "column": 0, "row": 0}, {"id": "kin-sahm", "column": 0, "row": 2.2}, {"id": "kin-zal", "column": 1, "row": 1.2}, {"id": "women-faranak_abtin", "column": 0, "row": 4.6}, {"id": "kin-keeper", "column": 0, "row": 6.8}, {"id": "kin-parmayeh", "column": 0, "row": 9}, {"id": "kin-fereydoon", "column": 1, "row": 6.8}, {"id": "kin-piran", "column": 0, "row": 11.2}, {"id": "women-golshahr", "column": 0, "row": 13.4}, {"id": "women-farangis", "column": 1, "row": 12.3}, {"id": "women-humai_bahman", "column": 2, "row": 0}, {"id": "kin-washerwoman", "column": 2, "row": 3.8}, {"id": "kin-washerman", "column": 2, "row": 6}, {"id": "kin-darab", "column": 3, "row": 2}], "link_ids": ["wg04", "wg05", "wg38", "wg39", "wg49", "wg55", "wg56", "wg66", "wg71", "wg72"]}], "guides": [{"id": "maternal", "title": "Sindokht to Bijan", "view": "long", "description": "Four parent–child links carry this thread through Rudabeh, Rostam and his daughter Banu Gashasp. The mother of Banu Gashasp is not assigned to one of Rostam’s wives merely because they share a household.", "link_ids": ["wg01", "wg07", "wg13", "wg15"], "person_ids": ["women-sindokht", "women-rudabeh", "kin-rostam", "women-banu_gashasp", "kin-bijan"]}, {"id": "sons", "title": "Two mothers, two sons", "view": "sons", "description": "Forood and Kay Khosrow share Siavash as a father. Jarireh and Farangis remain distinct mothers; their children are not merged into a single maternal branch.", "link_ids": ["wg26", "wg27", "wg30", "wg31"], "person_ids": ["women-jarireh", "kin-forood", "kin-siavash", "women-farangis", "kin-kay_khosrow"]}, {"id": "humai", "title": "A daughter and a wife", "view": "crown", "description": "The poem makes Homahyi Chehrzad both Bahman’s daughter and his wife. These are two separate ties between the same two people. Both parentage lines to Darab are also retained.", "link_ids": ["wg47", "wg48", "wg50", "wg49"], "person_ids": ["kin-bahman", "women-humai_bahman", "kin-darab"]}, {"id": "maryam", "title": "Maryam’s child", "view": "courts", "description": "The cited birth episode names Maryam as the mother of Shiruyeh. Khosrow’s marriages to Shirin and Gurdiyeh do not make either woman Shiruyeh’s birth mother.", "link_ids": ["wg62", "wg63", "wg61"], "person_ids": ["women-maryam", "kin-shiruyeh", "kin-khosrow_parviz"]}, {"id": "care", "title": "Care beyond birth", "view": "care", "description": "Zal’s father Sahm and his foster guardian the Simorgh remain distinct. Darab’s birth mother Homahyi Chehrzad remains separate from the foster household that raises him.", "link_ids": ["wg04", "wg05", "wg49", "wg55", "wg56"], "person_ids": ["kin-sahm", "kin-zal", "women-simorgh_guardian", "women-humai_bahman", "kin-darab", "kin-washerwoman", "kin-washerman"]}]}