
Bahram's Hunting Train and Toghri
From D10.13, Bahram Weds the Daughters of Noble Barzin. It illustrates D10.13.1–12 (to D10.13.21):
- D10.13.1Three hundred servants from the royal hallRode out with hunting gear at Bahram’s call.
- D10.13.2Ten camels bore fine housings of brocade,With silver stirrups richly overlaid.
- D10.13.3Their panniers shone with gold upon the plain,As all the hunting splendor formed his train.
- D10.13.4Ten camels bore the Shah’s own seat of state,Brocade adorned the throne of one so great.
- D10.13.5Before them seven elephants progressed,The turquoise throne upon their backs at rest.
- D10.13.6Its feet were gold and crystal, bright and pure,The throne itself of mighty Bahram Goor.
- D10.13.7Each swordsman’s thirty handsome pages rodeWith golden belts; their steeds’ gold trappings glowed.
- D10.13.8A hundred camels carried minstrels crowned,Whose jeweled coronets flashed all around.
- D10.13.9The falconers had eight score hawks in line,Two hundred other falcons, proud and fine.
- D10.13.10Among them flew one bird of sable hue,More prized by Bahram than the rest he knew.
- D10.13.11Its talons black, its beak a yellow flame,Like gold on lapis when the morning came.
- D10.13.12They called that bird Toghri; its eyes were red,Like goblets full of blood within its head.
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