How Shangul followed Bahrám, learned who he was, and was reconciled to him

Bahrám replied : “ O thou of evil mark ! Why didst thou urge thy steed as madmen do ? Thou hast had testimony that in war I am as with the cup and boon-companions. A hundred thousand men of Hindústán Before me would not equal, as thou knowest, One horseman like me and my thirty comrades, Famed, clad in mail, and wielding Persian swords. I will fulfil the Indians’ eyes with blood, And will not spare a soul.”