The Sasani's, who were defeated at the shores
of river Oxus in 483 by the Ak-Huns and were imposed to pay yearly taxes, had brought
their country into a revolution due to a religious-social disaster they experienced at
this time. This had been the rebellion of Mazdek. Mazdek, who had been inspired from the
doctrine of Zoroaster, using the knowledge of the duality of the contrariness (the
struggle between light-darkness, goodness-badness), started to spread out his ideas,
including the factor of the social uneasiness with the claim for improvement of the tired
community, that fell into an economical crisis in those days. According to this belief,
the two elements destroying the human happiness are: if wealth and woman would be accepted
as the common property of everybody, badness would disappeare from the world. As a
consequence of this typical communist propaganda, Mazdek and his disciples against the
possessors of wealth and the family institution incited people to rebellion. Noble and religious men were
killed. The women were raped, the houses and the mansions were plundered and destroyed.
Shah Kavad (488-531), who acted heedlessly with believing to Mazdek that the state would
gain health, was imprisoned, too; but he found a possibility to escape and sheltered
himself to his neighbours, the Ak-Huns. The khan of Ak-Huns, who had followed the
happenings in Iran up close, had sent Kavad on top of the 30 thousand men Huns cavalry
unity to Iran (499) to annihilate the Mazdek's movement, since the khan didn't find
Mazdek's ideas useful for the benefit of the humanity. Accordingly, the Shah suppressed
the rebellion and with the help of the inhabitants, who realized the disaster by the
events that progressed, Mazdek and his disciples were executed. Since bringing purity and
peace to the country took a long time, the normal order in the justice, truth and property
rights in the Sasani Empire moreover had been realized in the time of Kavad's son Anurşivan
(531-579), who was known with the title "just".
According to
Chinese sources, the Ak-Huns who took Karaşar, Kuça, Aksu, Kaşgar and surroundings in
inner Asia under their sovereignty, had captured in the years 484 North India. This
operation was administrated by the commander named Toramana who was known as
"Tegin" and whose residence was in Kabul (Cain).
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