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X Y Z Jamshid (Persian: جمشید, Jamshīd) (Middle- and New
Persian: جم, Jam) (Avestan: Yima) is a mythological figure of
Greater Iranian culture and tradition. In tradition and
folklore, Jamshid is described as having been the fourth and
greatest king of the epigraphically unattested Pishdadian
Dynasty ( before Kayanian dynasty). This role is already alluded
to in Zoroastrian scripture (e.g. Yasht 19, Vendidad 2), where
the figure appears as Avestan language Yima(-Kshaeta) "(radiant)
Yima," and from which the name 'Jamshid' then derives. Jamshid
remains a common Iranian and Zoroastrian male name. Edward
FitzGerald transliterated the name as Jamshyd. In the eastern
regions of Greater Iran, Central Asia, and by the Zoroastrians
of the Indian subcontinent it is rendered as Jamshed. The name
Jamshid is originally a compound of two parts, Jam and shid,
corresponding to the Avestan names Yima and Xšaēta, derived from
the proto-Iranian *Yamah Xšaitah. Ya