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The Arrow Lost Inside the Gur-e-Khar
Book D10 · The Bahram Goor Cycle: Justice, Foreign Adventures, and End of a Reign

The Arrow Lost Inside the Gur-e-Khar

From D10.18, Bahram’s Gur-e-Khar Hunt before the Princes. It illustrates D10.18.10–13:

  • D10.18.10
    He urged Shabdiz and neared a buck at speed;Then loosed his shaft while racing on his steed.
  • D10.18.11
    The arrow struck exactly as he meant;Through haunch and breast its deadly passage went.
  • D10.18.12
    When it fell dead, the golden-belted came,And marveled at the shot and praised his name.
  • D10.18.13
    They could not see the arrow’s point or vane;Both lay concealed within the creature slain.

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