[Footnote 40: He offered his own wife and sister to the
prophet; but the prayers of Nushirvan saved his mother, and
the indignant monarch never forgave the humiliation to which
his filial piety had stooped: pedes tuos deosculatus (said
he to Mazdak,) cujus foetor adhuc nares occupat, (Pocock,
Specimen Hist. Arab. p. 71.)]