The Shahnama of Firdausi Done into English by Arthur George Warner and Edmond Warner

How Bans returned to the Land of Iran and farwelled Rust. 59 63 66 70 76 PART H. THE DOINGS OF KAI Kiie6 IN THE LAND OF BAIiA1IISTAN AND OTHER TALES— I. Kai Kills warred with the King of Hannivartin 82 2. How Kans asked to Wife Stidaba the Daughter of the King of Hatmivaran. 86 3. How the ICiu of Himavaran made Kilns Prisoner. 84. How Afrasiyab invaded the Land of Iran. H [...] THE STORY OF SIY.kWUSI. The Prelude. 191 2. The Story of the Mother of Siytiwush 193 3. The Birth of Siytiwush. 195 4. How Siytiwush arrived from ZahnEstill 197 5. The Death of the Mother of Siydwush 199 6. How Sfidtilta fell in Love with Siydwush 200 7. How Siytiwush visited Sinhiba. 202 8. How Siyziwush visited the Bower the second Time. 2o6 9. How Siyawnsh.visited the [...] He then tells of the coming of Zarduhslit (Zoroaster) of his evangel and of the religious wars that ensued taking occasion in this connexion to rescue from oblivion the name of the poet He next narrates the extinction of the heroic race of Iran and the circumstances that led to the conquests of Sikandar (Alexander the Great) with whose death the Kahinian dynasty collies to an end. [...]. He carries the chariot of the lords ; carries the chariot of the lordly ones the chariots of the sovereigns. [...] There is ibundance of water fruits figs and mulberries olives and oranges and the vigorous creepers of the vines run even to the summits of the trees.2 On the other hand the climate is itnheidthy and the air of the marshes blanches the inhahitants l' who for this reason were known to the trillions as white divs or (lemons.