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A Turk's Lasso Snares the Royal Crown

A Turk's Lasso Snares the Royal Crown

From E6.6, Gurdiyeh’s Counsel and Khosrow’s Purpose. It illustrates E6.6.4–10:

  • E6.6.4
    That horseman rushed forth, grim and seeking fight,His kamand wound in sixty coils held tight.
  • E6.6.5
    He neared the Shah’s bright ivory-colored steed,And aimed at crown and head, kamand half-freed.
  • E6.6.6
    He cast his sixty-coiled kamand in flight,And snared the royal crown in all men’s sight!
  • E6.6.7
    Quick Gostaham unsheathed his blade to tearThe rawhide loops, and cut the deadly snare;
  • E6.6.8
    While Bandvi loosed a shaft of whistling fire,To pierce the treacherous raider in his ire.
  • E6.6.9
    Bahram cried, “May dust conceal your head,And may the earth alone become your bed.
  • E6.6.10
    Who bade you strike the Shah before my eyes?I stood in parley under open skies.”

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