This arrangement, however, was not lasting.

Saif, after a short reign, was murdered by his body-guard; and Chosroes then conferred the government of Yemen upon a Persian officer, who seems to have borne the usual title of Marzpan, and to have been in no way distinguished above other rulers of provinces.

Thus the Homerites in the end gained nothing by their revolt but a change of masters.

They may, however, have regarded the change as one worth making, since it gave them the mild sway of a tolerant heathen in lieu of the persecuting rule of Christian bigots.
According to some writers, Chosroes also, in his later years, sent an expedition by sea against some portion of Hindustan, and received a cession of territory from an Indian monarch.

But the country of the monarch is too remote for belief, and the ceded provinces seem to have belonged to Persia previously.