Khosrow Sounds the Bowl on His Elephant

From C3.3, Kay Khosrow Sends Gudarz against Turan. It illustrates C3.3.28–35:

C3.3.28
He gave command; before his palace-gateHorns, gavdam, brazen khom proclaimed his state.
C3.3.29
He left the palace for the open ground;His throne upon an elephant was bound.
C3.3.30
Upon that elephant, the Shah struck loudThe sounding bowl before the gathered crowd.
C3.3.31
The earth seemed coated with an indigo stain,Dark blue across the gathering ranks and plain.
C3.3.32
The air turned blue; earth shone in colors bright,The warriors moved like leopards in their might.
C3.3.33
With gorzes gripped, their wrathful ranks took form;The land surged like a sea beneath a storm.
C3.3.34
A proclamation from the court was cried:“O Pahlevans of Iran, far and wide,
C3.3.35
No man who knows the stirrup and the reinMay sit at home for comfort or for gain.”