Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.

Finding it was silver not gold he gave the money away to the bathkeeper a refreshment seller and the slave who had carried the coins. See also

Iranian Studies
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List of Persian poets and authors
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Jerry Clinton. There has also been speculation about the satire Ferdowsi allegedly wrote about Mahmud of Ghazni after the sultan failed to reward him sufficiently.

After the fall of the Samanids he dedicated his work to the new ruler Mahmud of Ghazni who was also a great patron of Persian arts and literature. Hakīm Abul-Qāsim Ferdowsī Tūsī (Persian: حکیم ابوالقاسم فردوسی توسی‎) most commonly known as Ferdowsi (فردوسی; also spelled as Firdausi; 940 – 1020 CE) was a highly revered Persian poet. Ferdowsi spent over three decades (from 977 to 1010) working on the Shahnameh which became one of the most influential works of Persian literature.