Vikram Seth - some more problems

[Peter D Banos]

On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Jan Dvorak wrote:

> Is anyone able to help me with the following words found in Vikram Seth's A
> Suitable Boy?...
 
> Ruksh - this should be a name of some war-horse, the sentence sound like
>         'he is not a war-horse like Ruksh or Bucephalus' (this is not 
>         a citation), where Bucephalus is the name of the horse of Alexander
>         the Great.

This sounds like the name of the horse of one of the heroes of the
Shahnameh - Rustam I think?

						-Peter D. Banos
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