ABSTRACT
King Gav, the great and good, affected much The game of chess suggested through Talhand ;
His mother studied it. Her heart was filled With anguish for that prince. Both night and day She sat possessed by passion and by pain, With both her eyes intent upon the game. Her whole desire and purpose centred there ; Her mind was full of anguish for Talhand. She kept for ever shedding tears of blood, With chess to medicine her sufferings, And thus she fared and neither ate nor stirred Until her life had reached its period. So now my tale is done that I heard told
With other stories of the days of old.
