1Cademy - بخش ۳۵ - در صفت کمانداری و تیراندازی وی / Section 35 - On the Description of His Archery and Marksmanship

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بخش ۳۵ - در صفت کمانداری و تیراندازی وی / Section 35 - On the Description of His Archery and Marksmanship

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شه چو گشتی بعد چوگان باختن
چون کمان مایل به تیر انداختن

از کمانداران خاص اندر زمان
خواستی ناکرده زه چاچی کمان

بی مدد آن را به زه آراستی
بانگ زه از گوشه ها برخاستی

دست مالیدی بر آن چالاک و چست
تا بن گوشش کشیدی از نخست

گاه بنهادی سه پر مرغی بر آن
رهسپر کردی به هنجار نشان

گر نشان بودی ازین فیروزه سفر
نقطه ای بی شک شدی آن نقطه صفر

ور گشادی تیر پرتابی زشست
بودیش خط افق جای نشست

گر نه مانع سختی گردون شدی
از خط دور افق بیرون شدی

در سر تیرش نرستی از خطر
گاه صید آهو به پا، تیهو به پر

پی سوی مقصود بردی راست پا
همچو طبع راست محفوظ از خطا

English translation

When the king, after playing polo, became inclined, like a bow, to shoot arrows, he would demand of the elite archers of the time an unstrung Chachi bow. Without any assistance, he would string it, and the twang of the bowstring would rise from its corners. He would rub his hand over it, swift and nimble, and from the very first draw it to the lobe of his ear. At times he would place a three-feathered arrow upon it, and send it traveling along the path of the target. If the target had been this turquoise vault, that point would undoubtedly have become like a zero point. And if he released a long-range arrow from his thumb-ring, the horizon line would be its resting place. Had the hardness of the firmament not been an obstacle, it would have passed beyond the distant line of the horizon. Nothing escaped danger from the tip of his arrow— at times hunting a gazelle by the foot, at times a partridge by the wing. He went straight-footed toward his destination, like an upright nature preserved from error.

Updated 2026-07-07

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