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Zahhak Seizes Jamshid by the Sea
Book A4 · The First Kings: Jamshid and the Rise of Zahhak

Zahhak Seizes Jamshid by the Sea

From A4.4, Fortune Flies from Jamshid. It illustrates A4.4.14–17:

  • A4.4.14
    The world went dark; Jamshid withdrew from sight,And lived concealed, a fugitive in flight.
  • A4.4.15
    A hundred years he lingered thus concealed,His fate by time and shifting fortune sealed.
  • A4.4.16
    But in the hundredth year he came in viewBeside the Sea of Chin, where he withdrew.
  • A4.4.17
    Zahhak seized Jamshid, granting no delay,And sawed him end to end in halves that day.

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