Piran Finds Bijan beneath the Gibbet

From C2.9, Piran Pleads for Bijan’s Life. It illustrates C2.9.2–13:

C2.9.2
While men prepared the gibbet by decree,Piran, by chance, approached the place to see.
C2.9.3
He reached the road and saw, on every side,Turks with their belts girt fast in martial pride.
C2.9.4
A lofty gibbet had been set upright,A kamand hanging from it, coiled and tight.
C2.9.5
He asked the Turanians: “For whom prepared?Whose death has now the angry king declared?”
C2.9.6
Then Garsivaz replied: “It is Bijan,Foe of Turan and champion of Iran.”
C2.9.7
Piran urged on his charger, drawing near,And found Bijan struck deep by grief and fear.
C2.9.8
He saw him naked, both hands bound behind,With parched mouth, sallow cheek, and troubled mind.
C2.9.9
Piran asked: “By what road did you set out?From Iran, and for blood, beyond a doubt.”
C2.9.10
Bijan told all the pain he had endured,And how his false companion had him lured.
C2.9.11
Piran took pity, weeping as he spoke,And ordered them to spare him from the stroke.
C2.9.12
“Keep him from harm until I reach the throne;I go to make his desperate plight known.
C2.9.13
That I may see the king with my own eye,And show to him the good star’s road on high.”