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Rustem having received the highest acknowledgments of his merit, took leave, and returned to his father Zál at Zábulistán. Suddenly an ardent desire arose in the heart of Káús to survey all the provinces and states of his empire. He wished to visit Túrán, and Chín, and Mikrán, and Berber, and Zirra.
And she uttered a cry of thunder, and flung it amid the ranks of Turan, and she defied the champions to come forth to single combat. And none came, for they beheld her how she was strong, and they knew not that it was a woman, and they were afraid. But Sohrab, when he saw it, stepped forth and said: "I will accept thy challenge, and a second prize will fall into my hands."
There was a slightly puzzled expression on her face there was something tantalizingly familiar about that smile of his. She had met many a panthan they came and went, following the fighting of a world but she could not place this one. "From what country are you, Turan?" she asked suddenly. "Know you not, Tara of Helium," he countered, "that a panthan has no country?
A-Kor might have been ten years younger than he, but such differences in age are scarce accounted among a people who seldom or never age outwardly after maturity and whose span of life may be a thousand years. "And where lies Gathol?" asked Turan. "Almost due east of Manator," replied A-Kor. "And how far?"
Then Feridún sent his three sons to Yemen, and they married the three daughters of the king, who gave them splendid dowries in treasure and jewels. It is related that Feridún afterwards divided his empire among his sons. To Sílim he gave Rúm and Kháwer; to Túr, Túrán; and to Irij, Irán or Persia. The sons then repaired to their respective kingdoms.
If I fail my life is forfeit that you all know and I know. I demand therefore to be heard. It is my right!" "It is his right," echoed the voices of a score of warriors in various parts of the chamber. "That O-Tar is a coward and a liar I can prove," continued I-Gos. "He said that he faced bravely the horrors of the chamber of O-Mai and saw nothing of the slave Turan.
"I am a panthan," replied Turan, "and I have served many countries, among them Gathol." "It is what the slaves from Gathol have told me," said A-Kor, thoughtfully, "and my mother, before O-Tar sent her to live at Manatos. I think he must have feared her power and influence among the slaves from Gathol and their descendants, who number perhaps a million people throughout the land of Manator."
"They took her back to O-Tar?" asked Turan, for now he knew whom the other meant, and he would know more. "They took her back to The Towers of Jetan," replied the warrior. "Tomorrow the games commence and doubtless she will be played for, though I doubt if any wants her, beautiful as she is. She fears not even O-Tar. By Cluros! but she would make a hard slave to subdue a regular she-banth she is.
The same messenger was dispatched by Sílim accordingly on that mission, Charged with unfilial language. "Give," he said, "This stripling Irij a more humble portion, Or we will, from the mountains of Túrán, From Rúm, and Chín, bring overwhelming troops, Inured to war, and shower disgrace and ruin On him and Persia."
The result was inevitable. The eastern provinces of Syria under their unprotected or even insurgent satraps fell into subjection to the Parthians; Persia, Babylonia, Media were for ever severed from the Syrian empire; the new state of the Parthians reached on both sides of the great desert from the Oxus and the Hindoo Coosh to the Tigris and the Arabian desert once more, like the Persian empire and all the older great states of Asia, a pure continental monarchy, and once more, just like the Persian empire, engaged in perpetual feud on the one side with the peoples of Turan, on the other with the Occidentals.
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