Gilan Comes Bound to the Shah

From D13.7, Anooshirvan Subdues the Borderlands. It illustrates D13.7.64–75 (to D13.7.79):

D13.7.64
Then Anooshirvan marched toward Gilan’s side,Where trouble burned in Dilam far and wide.
D13.7.65
The army stretched from sea to mountain height;Flags filled the air and troops consumed the sight.
D13.7.66
The army coiled around the land entire,And sun and moon seemed dimmed by warlike fire.
D13.7.67
The Shah declared, “Among both small and great,Let wolf and lion meet one common fate.”
D13.7.68
So fierce the slaughter spread through Gilan’s land,That blood ran red across the rock and sand.
D13.7.69
Through killing, pillage, burning, grief, and woe,Both men and women raised their cries below.
D13.7.70
The slain lay heaped in piles on every side;Their brains besmeared the grass, the sand was dyed.
D13.7.71
The warriors, prudent men of rank and weight,Who still remained in Gilan, feared their fate.
D13.7.72
They bound their hands and came in grief and fear,With wives and children weeping, drawing near.
D13.7.73
Their children went before; behind them pressedThe women, dust on each torn-open breast.
D13.7.74
They gathered at the monarch’s court in bands,With wounded bodies and with fettered hands.
D13.7.75
They said, “We have turned back from evil ways;Let now the Shah withdraw his wrathful gaze.