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The Khan's Vengeance on the Khatoon

The Khan's Vengeance on the Khatoon

From E6.38, The Khan’s Vengeance for Bahram. It illustrates E6.38.7–16:

  • E6.38.7
    The Khan sought out the author of the crime,And traced the hand that struck at such a time.
  • E6.38.8
    Kulun had in Turan two children, bredAmong close kin who shared their roof and bread.
  • E6.38.9
    When truth was known, he burned the dwelling down,With all its quarter in that stricken town.
  • E6.38.10
    He flung the children in the leaping flame,And gave their goods to plunder, spoil, and shame.
  • E6.38.11
    He knew that Kharrad’s schemes had shaped it all,That guile and wrong had brought about this fall.
  • E6.38.12
    He sent swift dromedaries through the land,But Kharrad did not fall into his hand.
  • E6.38.13
    He cried, “How did that dog escape and flee,Who kindled such a raging fire for me?”
  • E6.38.14
    The Khatoon next he seized; from private placeHe dragged her by the hair in grim disgrace.
  • E6.38.15
    He seized her wealth and would not heed her pain,Nor let her grief awaken mercy’s reign.
  • E6.38.16
    The Khan and court put on the mournful blue,And draped the realm in sorrow’s darkling hue.

In the picture

Khan of Chin (Bahram Chubin’s exile)The Khatoon (queen of Chin, E6)

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