Kai Khosrow - Advice To Lohrasb

Advice To Lohrasb

Some of his advice to Lohrasb about the kingship, war, people and civility is mentioned on the Shahnama and Gharar al-seyar and also Khwatay namak :

• "Oh Lohrasb! The oldest kings made towns beside the rivers, be aware you should go to them and create new jobs and be aware to follow them and be careful about what they have done!"

• "Lohrasb! The King is like the water and can clean the things but if itself becomes embarrassed then nothing could become clean!"

• "After each battle and war, look after the ordinary people and care about them, because in the war the king is like a surgeon physician, who first cuts the body and also cauterizes (as disinfectant) and then sews and an applies an ointment to the wound."