Khosrau, Khusrau, Khosru and also Khusraw (Kasrâ in Arabic; Chosroes or Chosroës in Greek) was the name of a mythical Persian leader, in the Avesta known as Kavi Haosravah, with the meaning 'with good reputation'. A number of rulers of Persia and the Middle East were known by this name.
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Chosroes was the most illustrious of the Sasanian rulers and he gave his name to the common designation of Sasanian rulers by the Arabs, Kisra, much as Caesar gave his name to Roman rulers.
Chosroes had failed but whether he sought a scapegoat in Shahrbaraz,who revolted, or whether a large conspiracy dethroned the ruler, the king was imprisoned and killed with the connivance of his son Shiroe at the end of February 628.
For example, the throne of Chosroes II was famous in legend for its luxury and the rock carving of a hunting scene of the king at Taq-e Bustan indicates the sumptuousness of even such a mundane affair.
Although Chosroes had in the last years of his father extirpated the heretical and communistic Persian sect of the Mazdakites (see KAvADH) and was a sincere adherent of Zoroastrian orthodoxy, he was not fanatical or prone to persecution.
CHosRoEs II., the Victorious (Parvez), son of Hormizd IV., grandson of Chosroes I., 590628.
Chosroes fled from his favorite residence, Dastagei~1 (near Bagdad), without offering resistance, and as his despotism and indolence had roused opposition everywhere, his eldest son, Kavadh II., whom he had imprisoned, was set free by some of the leading men and proclaimed king.
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