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Pēkan was a patron of not only bards but was known to bestow lavish gifts on just about anyone who visited his court. This incited his court poet
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era. He was the lord of the Āviyar clan of Vēls, a contemporary of poet
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According to tradition, once when Pēkan was going around his country, he sees a peacock shivering in the rain and cloaks it with his gold laced silk robe; (
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But the gift for which I beg is that tonight you may mount your chariot strung with bells and free her of the anguish she lives with,
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they may with sweet smoke perfume the hair lush as the tail of a peacock and then lifted by the wind.
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