Fereydoon Strikes Zahhak's Helmet

From A5.9, Fereydoon Binds Zahhak. It illustrates A5.9.15–26 (to A5.9.27):

A5.9.15
Then Zahhak, fired by jealousy and fear,Drew close in iron, masked in battle gear.
A5.9.16
A sixty-zara kamand he unwound,Then climbed the palace wall without a sound.
A5.9.17
Below, young Fereydoon sat in his place,With Shahrnaz beside him, face to face.
A5.9.18
Her narcissus eyes were dark, her cheeks like day,Her night-black hair across her shoulders lay.
A5.9.19
Her lips were open, cursing Zahhak’s name;At once his jealous heart burst into flame.
A5.9.20
He cast his kamand down into the hall,And risked both life and kingship in that fall.
A5.9.21
He reached the ground, his khanjar bared to kill,And thirsted for the women’s blood to spill.
A5.9.22
But Fereydoon came rushing like the blast,His ox-head gorz in hand, advancing fast.
A5.9.23
He struck Zahhak upon the helmet’s crown,And smashed its iron crest and drove him down.
A5.9.24
He raised the gorz again above his head,Then Soroush cried, “You must not strike him dead.
A5.9.25
His time has not arrived; do not yet slay.Bind him, and bear him from the world away.
A5.9.26
Take him between the mountains, narrow, steep,Where kin and comrades cannot reach his keep.”