Bahram-e Pazhdo (, meaning "Bahram (son) of Pazhdo") was a

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and

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poet of the 13th century. Bahram-e Pazhdo's only surviving work is his ''Bahāriyyāt'' (), "Spring", a 330-couplet composition, in

hazaj meter Hazaj meter is a quantitative verse meter frequently found in the epic poetry of the Middle East and western Asia. A musical rhythm of the same name is based on the literary meter. Hazaj in Arabic poetry Like the other meters of the ''al-ʿar ...

, that dates to 1257. The poem celebrates the spring season, the Iranian new year festival

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, the prophet

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, the praise of Kings and leaders who upheld or propagated the

religion, the righteous deceased of that faith, as well as those who might copy his poem. According to Professor Jaleh Amuzegar, the ''Bahariyyat'' "has little literary merit and is poorly composed." The oldest surviving copy of the ''Bahariyyat'' is in a greater collection that dates to 1653-1655. That edition of the ''Bahariyyat'', dated 1654, covers folios 219-223 of the 512-folio codex. As of 1989, the compendium was in the custody of the Public Library in

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. Bahram-e Pazhdo was the father of Zartosht Bahram, composer of the better-known '' Zartosht-nama''. In the son's verse adaptation of the ''

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'' and which immediately precedes the father's poem in the above-mentioned 512-folio codex, Bahram-e Pazhdo is described as a writer (''dabir''), as a man of letters (''adib''), as a priest ('' herbad'') and astronomer, and as someone who wrote good poetry in

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and in

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