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The Ruyin Dezh Burns behind the Caravan
Book C7 · Esfandiyar’s Seven Stages and the Ruyin Dezh

The Ruyin Dezh Burns behind the Caravan

From C7.15, Esfandiyar Returns to Goshtasb. It illustrates C7.15.10–17:

  • C7.15.10
    He furnished litters, splendidly arrayed,And draped them with the richest silk brocade.
  • C7.15.11
    From Chin he carried two full troops of maids,With spring-bright cheeks, tall cypresses in glades.
  • C7.15.12
    Their waists were slender, and their steps as fleetAs pheasants moving lightly on their feet.
  • C7.15.13
    A hundred beauties, women of renown,Accompanied his sisters from the town.
  • C7.15.14
    Five women of Arjasp’s own royal raceWere taken too from that defeated place:
  • C7.15.15
    His mother and two daughters wept in pain;His sisters, two, went grieving in their train.
  • C7.15.16
    At last he fired the Ruyin Dezh’s proud wall;Its tongues of flame rose heavenward over all.
  • C7.15.17
    He razed the ramparts level with the ground,And shook all Chin as dust rose all around.

In the picture

Bih AfridEsfandiyarHomahyi (Goshtasb)
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