Shydah

Also known as: Shydah-Poshang · Family: Túrán · Role: son of Afrásiyáb · First appears: The Expedition of Gúdarz · Part 1

Life events

• Afrásiyáb appointed Shydah-Poshang to command a hundred thousand horsemen.(The Expedition of Gúdarz · Part 1 · 📍 Túrán)
  • With: Afrásiyáb
  • “appointed his son Shydah-Poshang to the command of a hundred thousand horsemen.”
• Afrásiyáb sent Shydah-Poshang to offer Kai-khosráu peace terms.(The Expedition of Gúdarz · Part 1)
  • With: Afrásiyáb Kai-khosráu
  • “but first sent his son to Kai-khosráu in the character of an ambassador to offer terms of peace.”
• Kai-khosráu agreed to fight Shydah.(The Expedition of Gúdarz · Part 2)
  • With: Kai-khosráu
  • “‘But,’ observed the youth, ‘I have come to fight thee!’ which touched the honor of the king, and he replied: ‘Be it so, let us then meet to-morrow.’”
• Kai-khosráu killed Shydah in their wrestling encounter.(The Expedition of Gúdarz · Part 2)
  • With: Kai-khosráu
  • “He sprang upon him as the lion fierce Springs on the nimble gor, then quickly drew His deadly dagger, and with cruel aim, Thrust the keen weapon through the stripling's heart.”
• Kai-khosráu ordered Shydah's body buried and a tomb raised to his memory.(The Expedition of Gúdarz · Part 2)
  • With: Kai-khosráu
  • “Khosráu, immediately after slaying him, ordered the body to be washed with musk and rose-water, and, after burial, a tomb to be raised to his memory.”

The Expedition of Gúdarz · Part 1

• parent: Afrásiyáb “Afrásiyáb, in the meantime, had not been neglectful. He had all his hidden treasure dug up, with which he assembled a prodigious army, and appointed his son Shydah-Poshang to the command of a hundred thousand horsemen.”
• king or master: Afrásiyáb “Afrásiyáb, in the meantime, had not been neglectful. He had all his hidden treasure dug up, with which he assembled a prodigious army, and appointed his son Shydah-Poshang to the command of a hundred thousand horsemen.”

The Expedition of Gúdarz · Part 2

• enemies with Kai-khosráu “He sprang upon him as the lion fierce Springs on the nimble gor, then quickly drew His deadly dagger, and with cruel aim, Thrust the keen weapon through the stripling's heart.”
• parent: Afrásiyáb “When Kárun reached the court of Afrásiyáb with the answer to the offer of peace, intelligence had previously arrived that Shydah had fallen in the combat, which produced in the mind of the father the greatest anguish.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Sháh Námeh. Made with Rho MD.