Letter of Victory to Kavus

From C4.12, Khosrow Sends News of Victory to Kavus. It illustrates C4.12.1–12 (to C4.12.13):

C4.12.1
Khosrow then called a ready scribe to hand,With paper, musk, and abir at command.
C4.12.2
They wrote a letter from the battlefield,To tell Kavus what victory had revealed.
C4.12.3
The letter first gave praise to God, whose willProvides our guidance through both good and ill.
C4.12.4
Khosrow declared: “May my great monarch’s mightStand like the mountains, steadfast in their height.
C4.12.5
He fears for me as though I were his son;May grief afflict his foes, each hostile one.
C4.12.6
From fair Iran I reached Farab’s broad land;Three nights we fought three battles on its sand.
C4.12.7
Afrasiab’s horsemen passed all count and lore,Beyond what dreaming sages knew before.
C4.12.8
Three hundred severed heads I send as signs,From famed sepahbods of his battle lines.
C4.12.9
His brother, son, and kinsmen met their end,With honored chiefs on whom he could depend.
C4.12.10
Two hundred captive chiefs I send; in might,Each matched a hundred lions in the fight.
C4.12.11
We fought upon Khwarazm’s open plain,And Heaven’s blessing crowned our hard campaign.
C4.12.12
Afrasiab has fled; we press behind,To see what turn of fortune we shall find.”