Story has it that the king of Zahak had a beautiful daughter and the king of a nearby rival town of Gholghola had a handsome son. The two youngsters were in love, but since they knew that their parents would never agree to their marriage, they decide to elope. When the parents find out about the elopement, they send their guards to find the lovers and kill them both. Then the two rival towns went to war with each other ruining and burning down both towns.