Now a warrior of the train of Rustem rode with all speed unto Zaboulistan...

Now a warrior of the train of Rustem rode with all speed unto Zaboulistan, and told unto Zal the tidings of sorrow. And Zal was dismayed thereat, and his grief was boundless, and he cried continually after his son, and he heaped curses upon Shugdad, that had uprooted this royal tree. And he said- "Wherefore have I been suffered to see this day? Wherefore have I not died before Rustem, my son?

Wherefore am I left alone to mourn his memory?" Now while he lamented thus, Feramorz, the son of Rustem, gathered together an army to avenge his father. And he went into Cabul, and he laid low all the men he found therein, and he slew the King and all his house,…