ABAS (Schah) his grandson, 9th king of Persia, of the race of the Sophis, succeeded his father Sefi at 13 years of age: he was but 18 when he made himself master of the city Candahar, which had surrendered in his father's reign to the Great Mogul, and all the province about it; and he preserved it afterwards against this Indian emperor, though he besieged it more than once with an army of 300,000 men. He was a very merciful prince, and openly protected the Christians: he had formed a design of extending the limits of his kingdom toward the north, and had for that effect levied a powerful army; but death put a stop to all his great designs, at 37 years of age, in 1666.