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Manuchehr's Army with Armored Elephants

Manuchehr's Army with Armored Elephants

From A6.19, Manuchehr Marches for Vengeance. It illustrates A6.19.21–31:

  • A6.19.21
    Two ranks of battle elephants stretched wide,Two thirds of a farsang, marching side by side.
  • A6.19.22
    Of these, full sixty bore gold thrones on high,With varied jewels blazing to the eye.
  • A6.19.23
    Three hundred more bore baggage for the train,And moved beneath their burdens on the plain.
  • A6.19.24
    Three hundred battle elephants came last,In armor bound from forehead downwards fast.
  • A6.19.25
    Their bodies vanished under plate and gear;Except their eyes, no naked flesh showed clear.
  • A6.19.26
    From Tammisheh the army reached the plain,Its ordered ranks advancing in a chain.
  • A6.19.27
    Bold Gharan led three hundred thousand horse,All fighting riders gathered in that force.
  • A6.19.28
    Famed men in jowshans, heavy gorz in hand,Like raging lions charged to the command.
  • A6.19.29
    Their purple swords flashed brightly through the sky;Kaveh’s standard streamed before them high.
  • A6.19.30
    Then elephant-bodied Gharan rode besideManuchehr from Narvan’s woods in martial pride.
  • A6.19.31
    Manuchehr viewed his army, broad and deep,And spread the battle lines in ordered sweep.

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