Ahoshta Tarkaan
Also known as Ahoshta
An older Calormene grandee chosen as Aravis’s prospective husband. His political position places him inside the secret council chamber where Rabadash proposes the attack on Archenland.
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The Horse and His Boy8 cited passages⌄
- Chapter III · paragraph 1
…ther's house. And so she persuaded my father to promise me in marriage to Ahoshta Tarkaan. Now this Ahoshta is of base birth, though in these latter years he has won the favour of the Tisroc (may he li…
Open passage → - Chapter III · paragraph 5
…d now my wonder was so great that I forgot about killing myself and about Ahoshta and said, 'O my mare, how have you learned to speak like one of the daughters of men?' And Hwin told me what is…
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 26
…hed telling her story, Lasaraleen said, "But darling, why don't you marry Ahoshta Tarkaan? Everyone's crazy about him. My husband says he is beginning to be one of the greatest men in Calormen. He has …
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 62
…gnised with a shudder the new Grand Vizier and her own betrothed husband, Ahoshta Tarkaan himself.
Open passage → - Chapter VIII · paragraph 20
…inty dish as Narnia. Gifted was that poet who said----" but at this point Ahoshta noticed an impatient movement of the Prince's toe and became suddenly silent.
Open passage → - Chapter VIII · paragraph 38
"O eternal Tisroc," answered Ahoshta, "the strength of paternal affection is not unknown to me and I have often heard that sons are in the eyes of t…
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 8
"Yes, and I'd sooner be killed than married to Ahoshta. So come on."
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 13
…. "Won't you change your mind? Now that you've seen what a very great man Ahoshta is!"
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