Brahmanبرهمن

Rostam Brings Back Kay Kavus🔎🧓😠🙏

Rostam, Giv and Tus find the fallen king, and Gudarz rebukes him bitterly for his follies. Ashamed, Kavus repents with forty days of prayer and alms-giving. God forgives him, and he returns to rule with justice.

• B6.10.16
  Again you made yourself the foeman’s guest,An idol turned to Brahman in this test.

Afrasiab Writes to Puladvand👑📜🏇💪

Afrasiab has a letter written to Puladvand, lord of the mountains of Chin, promising half his kingdom for Rostam’s death, and sends Shideh with it. Puladvand arrives with his army. Wary of Rostam, he advises cunning, then boasts over his wine that he will cut him to pieces.

• B14.22.65
  The Brahman trembles when he hears my cry,And fears my proud troops marching boldly by.

Bijan Slays Houman👦🤼💀🚩

Exhausted, the two wrestle again; Bijan throws Houman, beheads him and gives thanks. He hides in Houman’s khaftan, rides his horse and carries his banner to safety, then reverses the flag, and both armies learn the truth at once.

Esfandiyar Vaunts His Lineage👦👑🧬🛕

Esfandiyar answers with his own line, from Goshtasb through Lohrasp, Aurand, Kay Pashin and Kay Qobad to Fereydoon, and through his Roman mother to Salm. He recounts his war for the Faith, his Seven Stages, and the taking of the Ruyin Dezh.

• C8.16.39
  No enemy remained in any place;No Brahman in the temples left a trace.

Iskandar Questions the Brahmans🧘🚫👕❓

Iskandar visits the Brahmans, who write that their wealth is patience and knowledge. He finds them naked, feeding on seeds, and questions them about the dead, the sea, greed and wrongdoing; they tell him his own soul desires hell. He answers that no one escapes God’s decree.

• D5.24.43
  The Brahman answered: “Water cloaks earth’s face,And keeps the land within its broad embrace.”
• D5.24.46
  The Brahman answered: “Pure of heart and keen,O chief who seeks the truths that lie unseen,
• D5.24.53
  The Brahman said: “Greed is the king within,The source of hatred and the home of sin.”

Iskandar Sees the Great Western Sea🐋🚢⬇️🦂

Traveling west, Iskandar reaches a shore of veiled fish-eaters whose speech nobody knows. A yellow mountain proves to be a fish, and it drags a boat of thirty men under. Beyond lie reeds like plane-trees, and a sweet lake where snakes, scorpions, boars and lions kill many of his men.

Bozorgmehr Answers Chess with Nard👴🎲❓🏆

Bozorgmehr shuts himself in a dark room and works out nard, then carries it to Hind with two thousand camel-loads staked on the Raja’s sages solving it. They fail in a week; he explains the game, and comes home with the stake, a year’s tribute and gifts.

• E2.2.45
  From Iran he came before the Raja’s seat,The Brahman guiding him with willing feet.

The Kalila and Dimna Comes to Iran🩺🌿💡📖

The physician Barzvi goes to Hind for a herb said to raise the dead, and finds none. An old sage reads the riddle: the herb is wisdom, the corpse the ignorant man, the cure a book. Barzvi memorizes the Kalila chapter by chapter and sends it home.