Ahasue rus

or Ahashverosh. A title common to several Persian kings. The three mentioned in the Bible are supposed to be Cyaxarēs (Dan. xi. 1); Xerxes (Esther); and Cambyses (Ezra iv. 6).

An alabaster văse found at Halicarnassus gives four renderings of the name Xerxes, viz., Persian, Khshāyarsha; Assyrian, Khisiharsaha; Egyptian, Khshyarsha, and the Greek, Xerxes; the Sanskrit root Kshi means “to rule,” Kshathra (Zend Ksathra), a king.