Why yes...yes it does! Good bit of sleuthing there, Iskander. But no such reference to the beast in the epic...although there's that great album cover...
[Edit]...with the manticore! Alas, the great bio-mechanical beast Tarkus is slain by the monster from Persian myth. Indeed, my friend...you beat me at my own game.
Beware the manticore on the rugged plains of Baktria...I shall keep an eye to the horizon.
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