Author: Firdausi

Cited by

• Rohinton Mistry (1)
  • IN: Such a Long Journey (1991) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: He assembled the aged priests and put questions to them concerning the kings who had once possessed the world. 'How did they,' he inquired, 'hold the world in the beginning, and why is it that it has been left to us in such a sorry state? And how was it that they were able to live free of care during the days of their heroic labours?'
    FROM: Shah-Nama, (1010), Poem, Iran (Persia)