Bijan and Manijeh
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Bijan and Manijeh is a classical love story in the Persian literature epic of Shahnameh. Bijan was the son Giw, a great warrior of Iran during the rule of Kai Khosrow. Bijan fell in love with Manijeh the daughter of Afrasiyab the king of Turan. When people from Arman complained to Kai Khosrow that wild boars were attacking their fields, Bijan volunteered to go and combat the boars. Bijan fought the wild boars, followed them to their lairs, and not one of them could escape. The day after that Girgin told Bijan about the garden of Afrasiyab on the other side of border, Turan. Young Bijan was tempted to go to Turan and see women in that garden celebrating spring. Bijan and Manijeh met each other in that garden and fell in love. When Bijan wanted to leave, Manijeh gave him a cup of wine, which made him sleep. The maidens bare him to the house of Afrasiyab, and Manijeh hid him there, as no one, just her maidens, was aware of her secret. When Afrasiyab learned that his daughter has hidden a man in her house, he sent guards to break the door and seize Bijan. Bijan was captured and prisoned into a hole and the hole was blocked with a heavy stone. Manijeh was also punished by her father. She was rejected from her house and abandoned to the desert where Bijan was prisoned. Manijeh made a hole to Bijan's prison, and through that whole she spoke to him and feed him. She went to the city every day and begged for food and brought the food to Bijan. Eventually, Kai Khosrow sent Rostam to rescue Bijan. Rostam went to Turan as a merchant, and met Manijeh in the city, who took him to the desert and to the hole where Bijan was prisoned.
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The meaning that I have understood that the name Bijan derives is that he is "dearer to others than to oneself".
