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Badasht Gathering Disbands and heads to Mázindarán
The remnant of the companions who had gathered in Badasht accordingly decided to depart for Mázindarán. QuddĂşs and Táhirih seated themselves in the same howdah [a carriage usually on a mule or a horse] which had been prepared for their journey by Bahá’u’lláh.Â
Drawing of a Persian howdah [a carriage usually on a mule or a horse]. 103ACT6
On their way, Táhirih each day composed an ode which she instructed those who accompanied her to chant as they followed her howdah. Mountain and valley re-echoed the shouts with which that enthusiastic band, as they journeyed to Mázindarán, hailed the extinction of the old, and the birth of the new Day.104ACT6
In this manner, the BábĂ caravan from Badasht, in the province of Semnán, slowly made it is way westward towards the province of Mázindarán. In a few days, it crossed the border and reached the village of NĂyálá in Mázindarán.
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