Note 165 — THE TEN WAZIRS; OR THE HISTORY OF KING AZADBAKHT AND HIS SON.[130]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Dihkán,” in Persian a villager; but here something more, a village-elder or chief. Al-Mas’udi (chap. xxiv.), and other historians apply the term to a class of noble Persians descended from the ten sons of Wahkert, the first “Dihkán,” the fourth generation from King Kayomars.