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Rambehesht (Middle Persian: Rām Vahišt, New Persian: رام‌بهشت), also known as Denag (Middle Persian: Dēnag, New Persian: دینگ) was a 3rd-century Sasanian noblewoman from the Bazrangi family and the wife of Sasan, the eponymous ancestor of the Sasanian Dynasty (ruled 224-651) in Persia. She was the mother of Pabag and the grandmother of Ardashir I, the founder of the Sasanian Empire. According to Tabari she "possessed beauty and perfection".

References

1. Gignoux 1994, p. 282.
2. (Tabari 1999) page 4.
3. (Frye 1990)

Sources

• Gignoux, Philippe (1994). "Dēnag". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. VII/3: Dehqān I–Deylam, John of. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 282. ISBN 978-1-56859-021-9.
• Tabari (1999), "The Sāsānids, the Byzantines, the Lakhmids, and Yemen", Tarikh-e Tabari, vol. 5, translated by C. E. Bosworth (SUNY series in Near Eastern studies ed.), SUNY Press, p. 458, ISBN 0-7914-4355-8
• Frye, R. N. (1990), "BĀZRANGĪ", Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 4, New York, London

• 3rd-century Iranian people
• 3rd-century deaths
• Women from the Sasanian Empire
• 3rd-century women