It happened that one of his favourite ladies was afflicted with nervous headaches, the pain of which distracted her so much that she desired death, and observing a vessel with 'Poison' written on it, she took it and swallowed its contents.

The wine, for such it had become, overpowered the lady, who fell down in a sound sleep, and awoke much refreshed.
Delighted with the remedy, she repeated the doses so often that the King's 'poison' was all drunk.

He soon discovered this, and forced the lady to confess what she had done.

A quantity of wine was then made, and Jamshed and all his Court drank of the new beverage, which, from the circumstance that led to its discovery, is to this day known in Persia as _zahr-i-khush_, or the pleasing poison.

After that the manufacture of wine became a regular industry, and spread from Shiraz, where it originated.