Was Manouchehr's Kingdom a Hundred and Twenty Years Old One? A Discussion on Manouchehr's Years of Life and Kingdom, Based on Pahlavi and Historical Narratives and Orally-Narrated Scrolls )

Copies of the Shahnameh contain titles that describe the beginning of the kingdom or the title of the event. At the beginning of Manouchehr's kingdom, the following statement "Manouchehr's kingdom was one hundred and twenty years old" is written and in the speech, under " advising Manouchehr", his death is recorded to occur at the age of one hundred and twenty years. The question, therefore, arises as to whether Manouchehr's kingdom was one hundred and twenty years old or he lived for one hundred and twenty years? For, if he lived for one hundred and twenty years, naturally his years of reign must have been fewer than this. Some historical texts and narrated scrolls cite narratives that have described Manouchehr's life for more than one hundred and twenty years. In many historical sources, Moses is a contemporary of Manoochehr Pishdadi, and in the Torah and many historical texts, Moses is mentioned to live for a hundred and twenty years. It is likely that Manoochehr's narratives is confused by that of Moses.  In myth-telling narratives, there are examples of the transfer of certain traits and deeds from one character to another, forming the hypothesis that, given the coincidence of Moses and Manouchehr, some features of these characters have been transferred to each other, the most important of which is to attribute Moses's lifespan to Manouchehr's. Therefore, this study attempts to provide answers by examining official and cited sources to prove or disprove this hypothesis as well as discovering the length of Manouchehr's life.