Aghrirat () or Aghrirath () is a famous
Turanian character in
Shahnameh
The ''Shahnameh'' (, ), also transliterated ''Shahnama'', is a long epic poem written by the Persian literature, Persian poet Ferdowsi between and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,000 distichs or couple ...
and
Iranian mythology. He and
Piran Veyse are the only Turanians that are described positively in Iranian mythology. Aghrirat is son of
Pashang and brother of
Afrasiab and
Garsivaz. Unlike Afrasiab, Aghrirat is kind and gentle.
Although mostly unsuccessful, he tries to put an end to hostilities between Iran and Turan and bring peace to both countries.
References
Shahnameh characters
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