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Rostam Lifts Puladvand Like a Plane-Tree

Rostam Lifts Puladvand Like a Plane-Tree

From B14.25, Rostam Wrestles Puladvand. It illustrates B14.25.29–37:

  • B14.25.29
    But Rostam said, “In battle I am tried;In wrestling, I let patience be my guide.
  • B14.25.30
    What do you fear? Why do your hearts so quake?Why should this one man make your spirits break?
  • B14.25.31
    Now I shall bring his head from heaven’s height,And cast fierce Puladvand to dust outright.
  • B14.25.32
    But if my hand lacks strength to cast him low,Why should your needless fear distress me so?
  • B14.25.33
    If this witless sorcerer breaks his sworn word,And tramples on God’s pact, which you all heard,
  • B14.25.34
    Why fear to break the pact he has overthrown?Upon his own head is the dust now thrown.”
  • B14.25.35
    Then lion-like, great Rostam seized his foe,That nahang, chest and neck, and laid him low.
  • B14.25.36
    He tore Puladvand upward from the ground,Like some great plane-tree wrenched from roots profound.
  • B14.25.37
    He raised him on his neck and flung him prone,Then praised Almighty God in solemn tone.

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