
Piran Sees Gudarz's Array
From C3.6, The Armies Are Set in Array. It illustrates C3.6.65–76:
- C3.6.65Gudarz himself the army’s center held,And watched each danger as it rose and swelled.
- C3.6.66He raised the flag that gladdened every heart,And summoned chiefs to take each central part.
- C3.6.67He called the chiefs around him to the core;Behind him stood Shidush, Farhad before.
- C3.6.68Hajir stood left, with battle in his sight;The lion-taker Katmareh held the right.
- C3.6.69An iron wall enclosed him on the ground;Behind him stood the elephants renowned.
- C3.6.70Above Gudarz, who held the central place,The Kaviani standard shaded all that space.
- C3.6.71It robbed both sun and moon of all their light;Piran from far beheld that ordered might.
- C3.6.72The hills and plains were spears from end to end;Rein wove with rein where all the ranks would blend.
- C3.6.73He turned then to survey his own array,But found no room to fight in ordered way.
- C3.6.74The chieftain of Turan grew sorely grieved,And cursed the fortune by which he was deceived.
- C3.6.75The battlefield displeased his angry eye;He struck his hands together with a cry.
- C3.6.76Forced to arrange his ranks as best he might,He formed for battle and prepared to fight.
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