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Ardeshir Banished to the Stables
Book D6 · The Ashkanian Dynasty

Ardeshir Banished to the Stables

From D6.4, Ardeshir Babakan and His Rival. It illustrates D6.4.58–63:

  • D6.4.58
    Go now and tend my Arab steeds each day;Beside the royal stables you shall stay.
  • D6.4.59
    Be master of the stables; ply the tradeOf every groom, and lend the others aid.”
  • D6.4.60
    In tears, Ardeshir went to tend the steeds,His heart consumed by grief at Ardavan’s deeds.
  • D6.4.61
    “See how I suffer from him, how I smart!May anguish seize his body and his heart.”
  • D6.4.62
    He wrote his grandfather, with heart distressed,While schemes and stratagems his mind possessed.
  • D6.4.63
    He told the tale of all that had occurred,And why the king to such great wrath was stirred.

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Ardeshir Babakan
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