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Wells Dug on the Road to Jaz
Book D10 · The Bahram Goor Cycle: Justice, Foreign Adventures, and End of a Reign

Wells Dug on the Road to Jaz

From D10.17, Bahram’s Lion-Hunt. It illustrates D10.17.33–37:

  • D10.17.33
    They brought pavilions, tents, enclosures wide,With beasts and shelters moving at his side.
  • D10.17.34
    Before Bahram, the laborers rode ahead,And dug fresh wells along the route they led.
  • D10.17.35
    They fitted wheels above the wells they made,To draw the water for the army’s aid.
  • D10.17.36
    The Shah came later with his royal mien,And saw the hunting ground, both wide and green.
  • D10.17.37
    He saw the plains alive with Gur-e-Khar,And heard the lions roaring from afar.

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Bahram Goor
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