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One Shaft Through Lion and Gur-e-Khar
Book D9 · Yazdegard I and the Rise of Bahram Goor

One Shaft Through Lion and Gur-e-Khar

From D9.3, Bahram Meets a Lady While Hunting. It illustrates D9.3.36–39:

  • D9.3.36
    Next week he hunted with a noble train,With hawk and cheetah ranging on the plain.
  • D9.3.37
    Beside a mountain stood a lion, bentUpon a Gur-e-Khar, whose back it rent.
  • D9.3.38
    He strung his dark bow, swift to strike the prey,And nocked a shaft, three-feathered, straight away.
  • D9.3.39
    His shaft joined lion’s back and quarry’s heart;The lion bled above, pierced by the dart.

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Bahram Goor
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