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Sohrab Tears Down the Shah's Pavilion
Book B8 · The Tragedy of Rostam & Sohrab

Sohrab Tears Down the Shah's Pavilion

From B8.17, Sohrab Attacks Kavus’s Army. It illustrates B8.17.23–26:

  • B8.17.23
    He spoke and waited; silence gripped the field,No voice from Iran’s gathered lines would yield.
  • B8.17.24
    He bent and tore the tent-pegs from the ground;At one great wrench, seventy came unbound.
  • B8.17.25
    One section of the royal tent caved in,And karnay thundered terror through the din.
  • B8.17.26
    Kavus cried out in fear to all his band,“O men of noble name throughout the land!

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