Sudabeh

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Siyâwasch is seduced by Sudabeh.

Sudabeh ( Persian سودابه, DMG Sudābeh ) is a female given name from Persian . Sudabeh is a character in the Shāhnāme of Firdausi .

Sudabeh in Shahname

Sudabeh (also: Sūdābe) is the daughter of the king of Hamaweran (also Hāmāvarān ; area of ​​today's Yemen ). She must have been a sharp-tongued beauty, for Firdausi describes her in the Shāhnāme in the following words:

“Her growth robs her of the price of Zipresse
. A wreath of black musk is around her head.
Her hair a fetter,
her walk charm, her tongue a dagger, her lip candelabra.
Her hair flows from head to toe,
God hail such a moon.
She is adorned like a paradise,
Like a ray of sunshine in spring. "

Shah Kai Kawus heard of this beauty and finally sent a messenger who asked her father for her hand. By marrying Shah Kai Kaoos Sudabeh was the stepmother of siyâvash .

When Sudabeh first saw Siyâwasch, fell in love with him. Siyâwasch rejects the stepmother who is in love with him, whereupon Sudabeh wants to take revenge on him. She scratched her face, tore her clothes and accused Siyâwasch before the Shah of trying to rape her while visiting the women's room. To prove his innocence, Siyâwasch underwent a trial by fire. He rode his horse through a huge fire and was unharmed. When Sudabeh was about to be executed for her false slander, Siyâwash asked the Shah to forgive her and thus saved her from certain death.

Firdausi ends the story of Siyâwasch and Sudabeh with the verses:

“A wise man did well the saying:
'There is no love' about the love of blood.
Where God gave you a good son, then
abandon the love of women!
They talk and think differently,
and if you look for them there, they are here. "

Well-known namesake

Individual evidence

  1. Jürgen Ehlers (ed. And trans.): Abū'l-Qāsem Ferdausi: Rostam - The legends from the Šāhnāme . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2002, p. 366 ( Hāmāvarān , Hamūr ) and 372 ( Sūdābe )
  2. Friedrich Rückert : Firdosi's King Book (Schahname) Sage I-XIII. 1890. Edited from the estate by EA Bayer. Reprint: epubli GmbH, Berlin 2010, p. 380f.
  3. Friedrich Rückert: Firdosi's King's Book (Schahname) Sage XV-XIX. 1894. Edited from the estate by EA Bayer. Reprint: epubli GmbH, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86931-407-5 , p. 35.