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The clever Bahmanyar

Bouzarjomehr Parkhideh:   7 year old Bahmanyar went to the iron smith to get fire from him.  The iron smith asked for a container to put the fire in.  After thinking for a while, Bahmanyar put some ash in the palm of his hand and took the fire home this way.
Young Ave Sina, who, in his time, was a famous scientist and physician, noted this clever solution of Bahmanyar and made him his pupil and started training him.
Bahmanyar turned out to be an outstanding scientist of his time.  One of the books written by Bahmanyar is about logic, nature, and theology, which he wrote in Arabic for Mansour Bin Bahram Bin Khorshed Bin Izadyar Zartoshti, and it is said that he himself translated it into Farsi.
Bahmanyar Bin Marzban Azarbaijani, a pupil of Ave Sina, died 1000 years ago.


Translation by Rowshan Lohrasbpour