Rostam Reads the Stars at Kadisiya

From E10.2, Sa’ad Invades, and Rostam Takes the Field. It illustrates E10.2.6–10:

E10.2.6
With battle-tested chiefs he took his stand;For thirty months he stalled in that wide land.
E10.2.7
At Kadisiya they pursued the fight,But Rostam read the heavens’ altered light.
E10.2.8
He said, “This war can bring no victory’s glow;The kings’ stream does not through this channel flow.”
E10.2.9
He took his astrolabe to read the day;Then held his head, foreseeing dark dismay.
E10.2.10
That day’s dark omen spoke of grief and woe;He wrote his brother what the stars would show.