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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	12	Perhaps the Priest-Kings, whoever or whatever they might be, reasoned that such a man was dangerous, that such a man might in time raise his own banner of dominion; perhaps they realized that I, of all on Gor, did not revere them, would not turn and bow my head in the direction of the Sardar Mountai...	10
2	172	"The Priest-Kings," said my father, "maintain the Sacred Place in the Sardar Mountains, a wild vastness into which no man penetrates.	10
2	219	"Frankly," said my father, "I believe the ship was remotely controlled from the Sardar Mountains, as are said to be all the Voyages of Acquisition".	10
2	271	In fact, there is so little probability that this tale will be believed that the Priest-Kings of Sardar, the Keepers of the Sacred Place, have apparently granted that it may be recorded.	10
5	148	I kept my course by the luminescent dial of my Gor compass, the needle of which pointed always to the Sardar Mountain Range, home of the Priest-Kings.	10
19	97	I knew almost nothing of the fabled Priest-Kings, but I did know that something of the sort must exist, for I had been brought to Gor by an advanced technology, and I knew that some force or power lay in the mysterious Sardar Mountains.	10
20	73	If I should once again walk the green fields of Gor, I know that I should attempt to solve the riddle of the Priest-Kings, that I should enter the Sardar Mountains and confront them, whoever or whatever they might be.	10

Book 2. (50 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	92	What of the interminable prayers of the Initiates, the sacrifices, the observances, the rituals, the innumerable shrines, altars and temples to the Priest-Kings? Could it be that the smoke of the burning sacrifices, the fragrance of the incense, the mumblings of the Initiates, their prostrations and...	10
26	107	But I go to the Sardar for more than truth; foremost in my brain there burns, like an imperative of steel, the cry for blood-vengeance, mine by sword-right, mine by the affinities of blood and caste and city, mine for I am one pledged to avenge a vanished people, fallen walls and towers, a city frow...	10
1	99	"Ta-Sardar-Gor".	10
1	105	And in that sudden instant of startled, awe-struck silence, I heard him clearly, intensely, repeat in a hoarse whisper that strange phrase, "Ta-Sardar-Gor!" The bartender, a heavy, soft-faced man, waddled to the table.	10
2	15	There was no love in my heart for the Priest-Kings, those mysterious denizens of the Sardar Mountains, whoever or whatever they might be, but there was gratitude in my heart, either to them or to the strange forces that moved them.	10
2	17	The Priest-Kings, Keepers of the Holy Place in the Sardar Mountains, seeming knowers of all that occurred on Gor, masters of the hideous Flame Death that could with consuming fire destroy whatever they wished, whenever they might please, were not so crudely motivated as men, were not susceptible to ...	10
5	120	Like every man of Gor I knew the direction of the Sardar Mountains, home of the Priest-Kings, a forbidden vastness which no man below the mountains, no mortal, may penetrate.	10
5	123	I resheathed my sword, fastened my helmet over my shoulder, lifted my shield and spear and set out in the direction of the Sardar Mountains.	10
6	1	Vera The Sardar Mountains, which I had never seen, lay more than a thousand pasangs from Ko-ro-ba.	10
6	5	Torm, my friend of the Caste of Scribes, had been to such fairs to trade scrolls with scholars from other cities, men he would never have seen were it not for the fairs, men of hostile cities who yet loved ideas more than they hated their enemies, men like Torm who so loved learning that they would ...	10
6	38	It would shorten the trip to the Sardar Mountains by weeks.	10
8	64	I determined that I should try to secure a tarn and proceed as quickly as possible to the Sardar Mountains, to keep my appointment with the Priest-Kings.	10
8	83	That I was determined to reach the Sardar Mountains he need not know.	10
16	47	I was pleased, for though I would have little use for such riches in the Sardar Mountains, Linna and Andreas, and the poor wretches of the arena, might well profit from them.	10
17	66	I was far from the Sardar Mountains, far from the Priest-Kings of Gor.	10
19	123	Andreas knew as well as I that men did not return from the Sardar Mountains.	10
19	149	I must begin my journey to the Sardar Mountains.	10
19	151	I knew that little passed on Gor that was not somehow known in the Sardar Mountains.	10
19	159	I knew then as I knew now that I would go instead to the Sardar Mountains, that I would enter them and seek the Priest-Kings themselves.	10
20	65	One is the fairs at the Sardar Mountains, which occur four times a year and are numbered chronologically.	10
20	72	* * * * Some four days after I had recovered the tarn, we sighted in the distance the Sardar Mountains.	10
20	78	The mountains of the Sardar were not such a vast, magnificent range as the rugged scarlet crags of the Voltai, that almost impenetrable mountain vastness in which I had once been the prisoner of the outlaw Ubar, Marlenus of Ar, ambitious and warlike father of the fierce and beautiful Talena, she who...	10
20	79	No, the Sardar Range was not the superb natural wilderness that was the Voltai.	10
20	88	In the Sardar Range nothing grew.	10
20	90	I took the tarn as high as I could, until his wings beat frantically against the thin air, but could see nothing in the Sardar Mountains that might be the habitation of Priest-Kings.	10
20	91	I wondered—an eerie suspicion that suddenly swept through me—if the Sardar Mountains might actually be empty—if there might be nothing, simply nothing but the wind and the snow in those gloomy mountains, and if men worshipped, unknowingly, nothing.	10
20	138	I felt unaccountably sad, and turned to face the mountains of the Sardar.	10
20	140	I had not walked more than a pasang when, from a cluster of trees to my right, on the other side of a thin, swift stream that flowed from the Sardar, I heard the terrified scream of a girl.	10
21	186	He hurled the bucket of cold water, from the melted snow in the Sardar, on the chained girl, who, sputtering and shivering, opened her eyes.	10
21	244	She could not go with me into the Sardar, of course, and when I abandoned her, she, alone and unprotected, would soon fall prey to a beast or find herself on yet another slaver's chain.	10
23	2	I could see before me, some pasangs away, the pavilions of the Fair of En'Kara, and beyond those the looming ridges of the Sardar, ominous, black, sheer.	10
23	4	Men seeking the mountains, men tired of life, young idealists, opportunists eager to learn the secret of immortality in its recesses, would use the gate at the end of the central avenue of the Fair, a double gate of black logs mounted on giant wooden hinges, a gate that would swing open from the cen...	10
23	22	Yet though I could not repress my admiration of this girl and the transformation which had been wrought in her from the cold Tatrix of Tharna to the humiliated slave to the glorious creature who now stood beside me my thoughts were mostly in the Sardar, for I knew that I had not yet kept my appointm...	10
23	41	It was unthinkable that I should take this girl into the Sardar to be destroyed as I would be destroyed, that I should devastate this young life so recently initiated into the glories of the senses, which had just awakened into the victories of life and feeling.	10
23	54	"I cannot take you to the Sardar.	10
23	73	"It is hard to be first in Tharna," I said, and led her down the hillock, away from the Sardar Mountains.	10
24	66	"Andreas told me you intended to enter the Sardar," he said.	10
24	68	Kron meant that if I had entered the Sardar I would not have returned.	10
24	69	"I am going to the Sardar," I said, "but I first have business in Tharna".	10
25	161	Indeed, I myself had business to attend to—an account to settle—only my affairs would lead me to the Sardar Mountains, for the business to which I must attend was with the Priest-Kings of Gor.	10
26	3	Now that it is told I must begin my journey to the Sardar Mountains.	10
26	5	I shall strike with my spear upon the gate and the gate will open, and as I enter I will hear the mournful sound of the great hollow bar that hangs by the gate, signifying that another of the Men Below the Mountains, another mortal man, has dared to enter the Sardar.	10
26	6	I shall deliver this manuscript to some member of the Caste of Scribes whom I shall find at the Fair of En'Kara at the base of the Sardar.	10
26	103	She will rule in Tharna and rule well, and I will begin the journey to the Sardar.	10
26	110	Yet I, Tarl Cabot, shall go to the Sardar; I shall meet with Priest-Kings, and of them, though they be the gods of Gor, I shall demand an accounting.	10
26	114	I wonder sometimes if I would have gone to the Sardar had not my city been destroyed.	10
26	115	It now seems to me that if I had simply returned to Gor, and to my city, my father, my friends and my beloved Talena, I might not have cared to enter the Sardar, that I would not have cared to relinquish the joys of life to inquire into the secrets of those dark mountains.	10
26	116	And I have wondered sometimes, and the thought awes and frightens me, if my city might not have been destroyed only to bring me to the mountains of the Priest-Kings, for they would surely know that I would come to challenge them, that I would come to the Sardar, that I would climb to the moons of Go...	10
26	117	Thus it is that I perhaps move in the patterns of Priest-Kings—that perhaps I pledge my vengeance and set out for the Sardar as they knew that I would, as they had calculated and understood and planned.	10
26	122	I regret only that none return from the Sardar, for I have loved life.	10

Book 3. (88 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	13	It was not far to the fair of En'Kara, one of the four great fairs held in the shadow of the Sardar during the Gorean year, and I soon walked slowly down the long central avenue between the tents, the booths and stalls, the pavilions and stockades of the fair, toward the high, brassbound timber gate...	10
2	1	In the Sardar I looked down the long, broad avenue to the huge timber gate at its end, and beyond the gate to the black crags of the inhospitable Sardar Range.	10
5	143	"Yes," she continued, "I, armed with my beauty, would come to the Sardar and wrest the riches and power of the Priest-Kings from them, for men had always sought to serve me, to give me what I wanted, and were the Priest-Kings not men?" People had strange reasons for entering the Sardar, but the reas...	10
31	182	I supposed there might be tidal waves in distant Thassa, that crags in the Sardar and the Voltai and Thentis Ranges might be collapsing, that mountains might be falling and new ones rising, that the Sa-Tarna fields might be broken apart, that towers of cities might be falling, that the ring of black...	10
33	1	Out of the Sardar Vika and I, clad in robes cut from the pelt of the snow larl I had slain, set out for the great black gate in the somber timber palisade that encircles the Sardar.	10
33	122	Most who had returned from the Sardar would, eventually at least, I was sure, try to gain admittance in new cities, where they were not known, and attempt to work out new lives, as though they did not keep in their hearts the secret of the Sardar.	10
1	2	It came about late in the month of En'Kara in the year 10,117 from the founding of the city of Ar that I came to the Hall of Priest-Kings in the Sardar Mountains on the planet Gor, our Counter-Earth.	10
1	3	I had arrived four days before on tarnback at the black palisade that encircles the dreaded Sardar, those dark mountains, crowned with ice, consecrated to the Priest-Kings, forbidden to men, to mortals, to all creatures of flesh and blood.	10
1	4	The tarn, my gigantic, hawklike mount, had been unsaddled and freed, for it could not accompany me into the Sardar.	10
1	7	None of the animals of Gor, as far as I knew, could enter the Sardar.	10
1	14	I would stop briefly at the fair, for I must purchase food for the journey into the Sardar and I must entrust a leather-bound package to some member of the Caste of Scribes, a package which contained an account of what had occurred at the city of Tharna in the past months, a short history of events ...	10
1	51	If I should meet him I knew he would thrust himself upon me and insist on being taken into the Sardar, though he would know it would mean his death, and I would have to bundle him in his blue robes, hurl him into a rain barrel and make my escape.	10
1	75	The reason for this is not simply that here is a fine market for such wares, since men from various cities pass freely to and fro at the fair, but that each Gorean, whether male or female, is expected to see the Sardar Mountains, in honor of the Priest-Kings, at least once in his life, prior to his ...	10
1	77	This pilgrimage to the Sardar, enjoined by the Priest-Kings according to the Caste of Initiates, undoubtedly plays its role in the distribution of beauty among the hostile cities of Gor.	10
1	89	They had thought to come to the Sardar as free women, discharging their obligation to the Priest-Kings.	10
1	93	Indeed, I had come to the Sardar to encounter the fabled Priest-Kings, whose incomparable power so inextricably influences the destinies of the cities and men of the Counter-Earth.	10
2	2	It took not much time to purchase a small bundle of supplies to take into the Sardar, nor was it difficult to find a scribe to whom I might entrust the history of the events at Tharna.	10
2	7	The fair lay behind me and the Sardar before.	10
2	10	None would know who entered the Sardar.	10
2	17	I would not be the first, of course, to enter the Sardar.	10
2	32	Men had broken their own bones on the timber spokes of the Sardar windlasses.	10
2	37	I had heard the tolling before, and knew that it signified that yet another mortal had entered the Sardar.	10
2	39	As I listened it occurred to me that the purpose of the bar might not be simply to inform the men of the fair that the Sardar had been entered but to inform the Priest-Kings as well.	10
2	45	Whether these were the remains of men who had starved or frozen in the barren Sardar, or had been destroyed by Priest-Kings, I did not know.	10
2	74	I was puzzled that I might encounter a larl in the Sardar.	10
2	77	I then understood that the larl I had heard must be a larl of Priest-Kings, for no animal and no man enters or exists in the Sardar without the consent of Priest-Kings, and if it was fed it must be at the hand of Priest-Kings or their servants.	10
2	132	I hesitated for a moment and then the fierce war cry of Ko-ro-ba burst from my lips in the clear, chill air of the Sardar and I threw myself into the open, my spear arm back, my shield high.	10
3	30	There was no wood in the Sardar with which to build a fire.	10
4	2	I remember one last glimpse of the Sardar Range, the path I had climbed, the cold, blue sky and two snowy larls, one chained on either side of the entrance.	10
4	28	"Frankly," said Parp, "I think we make a mistake in sacrificing certain creature comforts in the Sardar".	10
4	51	"Did you have a good trip to the Sardar?" asked Parp.	10
4	59	I began to feel all the hatred of all the years that I had nursed against the Priest-Kings now uncontrollably, slowly, violently growing in my body, wild, fierce, those foliating scarlet vines of my fury that now seemed to encircle me, to enfold me, to engulf me, swelling, steaming, now writhing afl...	10
4	121	I wondered why I had been allowed to reach the Sardar, to find the Hall of Priest-Kings, to stand before this throne.	10
5	136	"Long ago," she said, "when I first came to the Sardar and found the Hall of Priest-Kings, I was a young and foolish girl.	10
5	153	"Here in the Sardar," she said, turning to face me, trembling, "they took me into the tunnels and locked over my head a hideous metal globe with lights and wires and when they freed me they showed me a metal plate and told me that the patterns of my brain, of my oldest and most primitive memories, w...	10
5	194	"I came to the Sardar," she laughed, "to conquer the Priest-Kings and rob them of their riches and power!" She ran to the far wall, suddenly breaking into tears.	10
5	247	There stood before me insolently the beautiful, predatory girl who had come so long ago to the Sardar to exploit Priest-Kings.	10
8	32	No wonder the Priest-Kings hid behind their palisade in the Sardar and let the myths of the Initiates build a wall of human terror about them, no wonder they let their nature and ends be secret, no wonder they took such pains to conceal and obscure their plans and purposes, their devices, their inst...	10
8	107	Treve was alleged to lie above Ar, some seven hundred pasangs distant, and toward the Sardar.	10
8	152	Treve's other needs seemed to be satisfied much in the same way as her agricultural ones, for her raiders were known from the borders of the Fair of En'Kara, in the very shadow of the Sardar, to the delta of the Vosk and the islands beyond, such as Tyros and Cos.	10
8	153	The results of these raids might be returned to Treve or sold, perhaps even at the Fair of En'Kara, or another of the four great Sardar Fairs, or, if not, they could always be disposed of easily without question in distant, crowded, malignant Port Kar.	10
9	82	"He followed me into the Sardar, to try and save me," she said.	10
9	101	"What became of him," I asked, "when he entered the Sardar?" Vika would not speak.	10
9	108	"How is it," I asked, "that he allowed you to come to the Sardar?" "He did not," said Vika.	10
9	110	I did not, of course, tell them my true reason for desiring to come to the Sardar".	10
9	247	"Lo Sardar," it said.	10
16	3	"I must tell you, Misk," I said slowly, "that I came to the Sardar to slay Priest-Kings, to take vengeance for the destruction of my city and its people".	10
16	6	"You have come to the Sardar to save the race of Priest-Kings".	10
16	10	"Because my city was destroyed!" "That is why your city was destroyed," said Misk, "that you would come to the Sardar".	10
16	14	"If I had my sword," I said, pointing to the young Priest-King, "I would kill it!" "No, you would not," said Misk, "and that is why you and not another were chosen to come to the Sardar".	10
16	86	We can also speak and act by means of them, when the control web is activated in the Sardar".	10
16	145	"Was the ship operated from the Sardar?" I asked.	10
16	185	"Thus you would be more willing to come to the Sardar to find us".	10
17	71	Patterns of small ships, not satellites, invisible from the ground and remotely controlled, carry the lenses and receptors which beam information to the Sardar.	10
17	76	The receptors on the surveillance craft were equipped to handle patterns of light, sound and scent, which, selectively collected and reconcentrated, were beamed to the Sardar for processing and analysis.	10
17	112	I, in the very Nest of Priest-Kings, was more free than he who walked the stones of some road in the bright sun, somewhere beyond the palisade, far from the mountains of Priest-Kings yet still in the shadow of the Sardar.	10
20	133	"But I came to the Sardar," she cried, "in order that I might never be a slave girl—never a slave girl!" The collar made a small, heavy click as it closed about her throat.	10
27	176	Had the translator been turned on, I would have heard "Lo Sardar"—"I am a Priest-King".	10
27	311	I wondered how long the scent-message, whatever it was to be, would linger in the air before fading into an unrecognizable blur of scent to be drawn through the ventilator system and dispelled somewhere far above among the black crags of the treeless, frozen Sardar.	10
28	163	The battle would, I supposed, given the undoubted stores of food available to Sarm and his forces, ultimately hinge on the firepower of the silver tubes, of which Misk's side had few, but still I conjectured that the skills and courage of former Muls might yet play their part in the fierce issues to...	10
32	77	I would have liked to have seen once more the surface of the world, the blue sky, the green fields beyond the black Sardar, but rather I said, "I choose to remain here with Misk, who is my friend".	10
32	246	"But I also like to think," he said, "it may be because this is the most comfortable chair in the entire Sardar".	10
33	3	Whereas it had taken four days for me to climb to the lair of Priest-Kings in the Sardar it was on the morning of the second day that Vika and I sighted the remains of the great gate, fallen, and the palisade, now little more than broken and uprooted timbers.	10
33	33	I knew that never before in the history of the planet had a man been seen to return from the Sardar.	10
33	34	The Initiates, hundreds of them, knelt in long lines to the crags of the Sardar, to the Priest-Kings.	10
33	37	Behind the Initiates, standing, as befits the men of other castes, I saw men of a hundred cities, joined here in their common fear and plea to the denizens of the Sardar.	10
33	79	He pointed to the smoke which, as the wind had changed somewhat, was now drifting toward the Sardar.	10
33	83	Then somewhat to his momentary embarrassment the wind shifted again and the smoke began to blow away from the Sardar and out towards the crowd.	10
33	88	Now, as the crowd rejoiced and began to disband, I knew that I was no longer important, that I was only another indication of the mercy of Priest-Kings, that someone—who had it been?—had returned from the Sardar.	10
33	98	"He did not truly come from the Sardar," said another Initiate.	10
33	108	"We were in the Sardar.	10
33	112	Perhaps, if they were silent, they might return to the surface, but even then, probably not to their own cities, for the Initiates of their cities would undoubtedly recall that they had left for, and perhaps entered, the Sardar.	10
33	121	Others, perhaps, to keep the skies of Gor over their head, might confess to deceit; but I suspected there would be few of those; yet I was sure that there would indeed be confessions and admissions of guilt, from individuals never within the Sardar, but hired by Initiates to discredit the tales of t...	10
33	134	"Do you know of the Sardar?" I asked him.	10
33	155	I trembled for a moment, perhaps from the chill winds sweeping down the Sardar.	10
33	164	"I saw no one emerge from the Sardar," he said.	10
33	167	They parted, and Vika and I walked between them, and through the ruined gate and palisade which had once encircled the Sardar.	10
34	37	"Forgive me, Vika," I said, and introduced her to my father, to the Older Tarl and Torm, the Scribe, and explained as briefly as I could what had befallen us in the Sardar.	10
34	38	My father, the Older Tarl and Torm listened amazed to my account of the truths of the Sardar.	10
34	145	Though I had met them only for a moment in the shadow of the Sardar, we had renewed our affection and comradeship, one to the other, in the timeless instant of friendship.	10
34	190	Once more I looked to the Sardar.	10
34	198	I remained some days beside the Sardar, in the camp of some men from Tharna, whom I had known several months before.	10
34	201	I remained with them, accepting their hospitality, while going out to meet various delegations from different cities, as they came to the Sardar for the fair.	10
35	3	We had left the Fair of Se'Var and were making our way around the perimeter of the Sardar Range before crossing the Vosk on the way to Ar.	10
35	5	We were still within sight of the crags of the Sardar.	10
35	12	About two hundred yards above the camp, toward the Sardar, whose crags could be seen looming in the background against the black, star-shattered night was a strange figure, outlined against one of the white, rushing moons of Gor.	10
35	34	The ships that had sped from the Sardar had now returned, for, as I had feared, they were not made welcome by the cities of Gor, nor by the Initiates, and those who had ridden the ships had not been accepted by their cities.	10
35	177	How could I tell him that he looked, with incredulity and horror, on one of the awesome denizens of the grim Sardar, on one of the fabulous and mysterious monarchs of his very world, on one of the gods of Gor—on a Priest-King? "I can hurl my spear through it," said the man with the spear.	10

Book 4. (29 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	26	Briefly, for those it might interest, all directions on the planet are calculated from the Sardar Mountains, which for the purposes of calculating direction play a role analogous to our north pole; the two main directions, so to speak, in the Gorean way of thinking are Ta-Sardar-Var and Ta-Sardar-Ki...	10
1	29	Accordingly, the main divisions of the map are Ta-Sardar-Var, and the other seven; taking the Sardar as our "north pole" the other directions, clockwise as Earth clocks move (Gorean clock hands move in the opposite direction) would be, first, Ta-Sardar-Var, then, in order, Ror, Rim, Tun, Vask (somet...	10
1	28	Ta-Sardar-Var is a direction which appears on all Gorean maps; Ta-Sardar-Ki-Var, of course, never appears on a map, since it would be any direction which is not Ta-Sardar-Var.	10
1	24	I had left the vicinity of the Sardar Range in the month of Se'Var, which in the northern hemisphere is a winter month, and had journeyed south for months; and had now come to what some call the Plains of Turia, others the Land of the Wagon Peoples, in the autumn of this hemisphere; there is, due ap...	10
1	31	From the Sardar I had gone largely Cart, sometimes Vask, then Cart again until I had come to the Plains of Turia, or the Land of the Wagon Peoples.	10
2	6	It was only in the Sardar Mountains that I had learned the nature of their mission, and what it was that they had carried.	10
2	9	What is this object? One might speak of it as many things, the subject of secret, violent intrigues; the source of vast strifes beneath the Sardar, strifes unknown to the men of Gor; the concealed, precious, hidden hope of an incredible and ancient race; a simple germ; a bit of living tissue; the do...	10
2	22	I recalled a windy night in the shadow of the Sardar when we had spoken of strange things, and I had left him and come down the hill, and had asked the leader of those with whom I had traveled the way to the Land of the Wagon Peoples.	10
7	206	Who, or what, could dare such a thing? Besides, how did I know that the message was not from Priest-Kings? I knew, as Kamchak and Kutaituchik did not, of the recent Nest War beneath the Sardar, and of the disruption in the technological complexes of the Nest—who knew to what primitive devices...	10
7	215	I would try, for Misk, to find the egg, and return it to the Sardar.	10
9	19	Merchants also, in effect, arrange and administer the four great fairs that take place each year near the Sardar Mountains.	10
9	20	I say "in effect" because the fairs are nominally under the direction of a committee of the Caste of Initiates, which, however, largely contents itself with its ceremonies and sacrifices, and is only too happy to delegate the complex management of those vast, commercial phenomena, the Sardar Fairs, ...	10
9	108	"Ta-Sardar-Gor," he had said, and this phrase had been repeated by the others in the room.	10
10	128	I must attempt to obtain it and return it to the Sardar.	10
11	239	I was a bit reminded of some of the loose, tumbled rocks I had once glimpsed in certain abandoned portions of the Place of Priest-Kings, far beneath the Sardar.	10
12	4	I realized that I must, somehow, gain access to the wagon and find and carry away the sphere, attempting to return it to the Sardar.	10
12	23	If this was true, and I thought it likely, I realized I must obtain the egg as rapidly as possible and attempt to return it to the Sardar.	10
13	226	I must attempt—this night or some other in the near future—to purloin the sphere, to return it somehow to the Sardar.	10
15	41	I must somehow attempt to seize it and return it to the Sardar.	10
16	306	They could have learned of the destruction of much of the surveillance equipment of the Sardar, of the substantial reduction in the technological capabilities of Priest-Kings, at least for a short time—and, most importantly, that the War had been fought, in a way, over the succession of dynas...	10
16	309	Thus, the Others might well infer that there was one, or more, concealed eggs, hidden away, which must now be secured that the new generation might be inaugurated, but hidden away quite possibly not in the Place of Priest-Kings itself, but elsewhere, out of the home of Priest-Kings, beyond even the ...	10
16	317	This suggested to me that possibly the Others had even followed the movements of the two men who had brought the egg from the Sardar to the Wagon Peoples.	10
16	318	Perhaps they had now struck more openly and quickly—employing Gorean tarnsmen—fearing that I might myself seize the egg first and return it to the Sardar.	10
16	328	Their weapons and devices would rust and crumble in the Sardar.	10
26	244	"To return it to the Sardar," I said.	10
26	248	"We knew that in time someone would come from the Sardar.	10
26	422	"To find the last egg of Priest-Kings," I said, perhaps irritably, "and to return it to the Sardar".	10
26	444	"Do not tell me where it is," I said, "or I should feel bound to attempt to seize it and take it to the Sardar".	10
28	6	It would be at least another hour before I was ready to take wing for the Sardar, with the egg of Priest-Kings safe in the saddle pack of my tarn.	10

Book 5. (23 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	49	Many of the Players dreamed of the day they might be nominated for intercity competitions at the Fairs of the Sardar, for a victor in the Sardar Fairs earns enough to keep himself, and well, for years, which he then would devote to the deeper study of the game.	10
3	61	The Player was a rather old man, extremely unusual on Gor, where the stabilization serums were developed centuries ago by the Caste of Physicians in Ko-ro-ba and Ar, and transmitted to the Physicians of other cities at several of the Sardar Fairs.	10
4	87	We were confident that this attempt on my life, for that it seemed to be, had something to do with the Sardar, and the Priest-Kings, and the Others, not Priest-Kings, who desired this world of Priest-Kings and men, and, surreptitiously and cruelly, were fighting to obtain it, though as yet, perhaps ...	10
4	194	A year later, by slave wagon, I reached the fair of Se'Var near the Sardar, where I was sold to the House of Clark, from which house I and many others were fortunate enough to be purchased by the House of Cernus, in Glorious Ar".	10
5	146	In the vicinity of the Sardar Mountains I had brought the tarn down on the quiet, flat, gray-metal, disklike surface, some forty feet in diameter, of the ship, some two miles above the surface of Gor.	10
5	149	In the distance far below, and to the right, I could see, through the cloud cover, the black, snow-capped crags of the Sardar.	10
5	184	* * * * Elizabeth and I had remained with Misk in the Nest of Priest-Kings, that incredible complex beneath the Sardar, for some weeks.	10
5	187	"What of Ko-ro-ba, and of Talena?" I had questioned Misk, even on the ship, before we returned to the Nest beneath the Sardar.	10
5	214	Misk had soon brought the ship to the Sardar.	10
5	218	Indeed, few of the Nest's humans were any longer slaves, save certain of the men and women who had betrayed us in the Nest War, certain men and women who had been reduced to such bondage because of transgressions, and certain others who had entered the Sardar to seek and acquire the riches of Priest...	10
5	612	Month names differ, unfortunately, from city to city, but, among the civilized cities, there are four months, associated with the equinoxes and solstices, and the great fairs at the Sardar, which do have common names, the months of En'Kara, or En'Kara-Lar-Torvis; En'Var, or En'var-Lar-Torvis; Se'Kar...	10
7	50	The spires of Ar, depending on the weather, can normally be seen quite clearly from the nearer ranges of the Voltai, or the Red Mountains, the greatest mountain range of known Gor, superior to both those of Thentis and the Sardar itself.	10
14	51	"Our problem," said Elizabeth, "will be to get the copies to the Sardar".	10
14	63	"The best we can do," I said, "is to convey the materials which Caprus copies in portions to the Sardar.	10
14	71	Also he fears there may be spies of Others in the Sardar itself who, if they found out about the information being sent from the House of Cernus, would investigate and, doubtless, find us".	10
14	77	"When the information is complete," I said, "I gather that we three will depart for the Sardar".	10
14	107	I was angry and frustrated that Caprus would not surrender the results of his labors before their completion, but I could understand his reasoning, his fears; and, on the other hand, the fact that he had himself located the documents we wished and was copying them gave me great satisfaction, for it ...	10
14	109	I could buy a tarn, with carrying basket, easily and in five days, with Caprus and Elizabeth, be in the black Sardar, safe with Misk, Kusk, Al-Ka, Ba-Ta and my other friends.	10
15	7	More than once I had called on Caprus myself, though it was perhaps not wise, to urge him to speed in his work, or to permit me to transmit portions of the documents he was copying to the Sardar.	10
17	455	I assumed the agent of Priest-Kings, who would purchase the girls, might be eager to take them to the Sardar, or perhaps to Ko-ro-ba.	10
20	366	My champion was Hup, a Fool, that of Cernus was the brilliant, fiery, competitive Scormus of Ar, the young, phenomenal Scormus, who played first board of the city of Ar and held the highest bridge in the city as the province of his game, the master not only of the Players of Ar but doubtless of Gor ...	10
24	137	"He is now, chained, on his way to the Sardar, along with the materials taken from the room of the beast and what had been brought in from the black ships.	10
24	140	"Was the strange crossbow taken to the Sardar?" I asked, referring to the rifle in that fashion.	10

Book 6. (9 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	35	Coming from the Sardar, I knew only that I was to travel to Port Kar and there make contact with Samos, first slaver of Port Kar, scourge of Thassa, said to be trusted of Priest-Kings.	10
9	171	While returning her to the Sardar I had thought long on the matter of her safety.	10
9	176	When at last I had brought her safely back to the Sardar I had thus told her I would arrange with Misk, the Priest-King, that she be returned to Earth.	10
9	206	Yet, that night, he had permitted Elizabeth Cardwell, only a girl, to saddle him, to fly him from the Sardar.	10
10	27	The official "Stone," actually a solid metal cylinder, is kept, by the way, near the Sardar.	10
10	28	Four times a year, on a given day in each of the four great fairs held annually near the Sardar, it is brought forth with scales, that merchants from whatever city may test their own standard "Stone" against it.	10
10	29	The "Stone" of Port Kar, tested against the official "Stone" at the Sardar, reposed in a special fortified building in the great arsenal, which complex was administered by agents of the Council of Captains.	10
10	36	As in the case of the official "Stone," so, too, at the Sardar is a metal rod, which determines the Merchant Foot, or Gorean foot, as I have called it.	10
17	284	I had driven him from the Sardar.	10

Book 7. (10 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	15	Indeed, the preceding fall, at the fair of Se'Kara, near the Sardar Mountains, he had contracted with a marauder, Haakon of Skjern, for one hundred northern beauties, to be taken from the villages north of the Laurius and from the coastal villages, upward even to the edges of Torvaldsland.	10
12	440	The stockades are governed under Merchant Law, legislated and revised, and upheld, at the Sardar Fairs.	10
13	90	It had been decided that she should now undertake the journey to the Sardar, which, according to the teachings of the Caste of Initiates, is enjoined on every Gorean by the Priest-Kings, an obligation which is to be fulfilled prior to their attaining their twenty-fifth year.	10
13	98	It is a custom of the Initiates of Teletus, and of certain other islands and cities, if the youth agrees to go to the Sardar when they request it, then his, or her, family or guardians, if they wish it, will receive one tarn disk of gold.	10
13	109	Ute did indeed get to see the Sardar.	10
13	113	They were then transported overland in slave wagons to the Sardar, where they were sold at the great spring fair of En'Kara.	10
13	114	When she was sold, from the block, over the palisade, she could see the peaks of the Sardar.	10
13	116	Then she was taken by a master, with others of his slaves, again to the Sardar, again to be sold, to defray business debts resulting from the loss of a caravan of salt wagons.	10
13	479	I had little doubt but what they would care for me, and be kind to me, for I had been a friend of Ute, their foster daughter, so long ago fallen slave on the journey to the Sardar.	10
18	2	I wish to add a small note to this manuscript, which I shall have transmitted to the Sardar.	10

Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	65	Then, in the Sardar, I had decided what was best for her.	10
4	75	But that night she had fled the Sardar.	10
4	80	In fury I had driven him from the Sardar.	10
4	221	"Are you angry," she asked, "that I fled the Sardar?" "No," I said.	10
4	336	She had fled the Sardar.	10
4	362	Free me!" "In the Sardar," I said, "you made your decision.	10
5	348	"Ta-Sardar-Gor.	10
11	32	It was said that Scormus of Ar and Centius of Cos would sometime meet at the great fair of En'Kara, in the shadow of the Sardar.	10
18	11	He turned to face the Sardar, thousands of pasangs away.	10
18	13	He lifted his hands to the Sardar, to the Priest-Kings of Gor.	10
22	975	She had fled from the Sardar, when I, in her own best interest, would have returned her safe to Earth.	10

Book 9. (18 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	94	He had entered the Sardar and was one of the few men who knew the true nature of Priest-Kings, those remote and extraordinary beings who controlled the world of Gor.	10
1	99	And he had gone to the Land of the Wagon Peoples, to the Plains of Turia, and had obtained there the last egg of Priest-Kings and had returned it, safe, to the Sardar.	10
1	459	But she had not honored my will, but, that night, had saddled my tarn, great Ubar of the Skies, and fled the Sardar.	10
1	683	"Ta-Sardar-Gor," said I, pouring a libation to the table.	10
2	99	The invisible barrier about the Sardar is evidence of that, and the policing, by flame death, of illegal weapons and inventions.	10
2	108	The attitude of Priest-Kings toward Initiates, as I recalled, having once been in the Sardar, is generally one of disinterest.	10
2	214	The temple, incidentally, is oriented to the Sardar.	10
2	215	When the high initiate stands facing the altar, before the circle of gold, he faces the distant Sardar, the abode of Priest-Kings.	10
2	216	He bows and prays to the Sardar and lifts the burned meat to the remote denizens of those mysterious mountains.	10
2	280	He bowed thrice to the Sardar and then turned to face the congregation.	10
3	87	The Forkbeard then leaped over the rail of the sanctuary and strode among the people lying on their stomachs, the wall facing the Sardar being eaten by fire, illuminating the interior of the temple.	10
3	215	Standing on the broken fragments of the circle, Ivar Forkbeard cried out, his ax lifted, and his left hand, too, "Praise be to Odin!" And then, throwing his ax to his left shoulder, holding it there by his left hand he turned and faced the Sardar, and lifted his fist, clenched.	10
4	34	The Gorean compass points always to the Sardar, the home of Priest-Kings.	10
15	72	Sooner or later, if Gor fell to native Kurii, those of the ships would destroy the denizens of the Sardar.	10
18	412	"Ta-Sardar-Gor," said I, "to the Priest-Kings of Gor".	10
18	654	Native Kurii, bred from ships' survivors over centuries, would not, it seemed, if limited to the primitive weapons permitted men, be capable of conquering Gor, isolating the Priest-Kings in the Sardar, until they could be destroyed, or, alternatively, perhaps be used to lure the Priest-Kings into a ...	10
20	138	Long ago, in the Sardar, Misk, the Priest-King, had told me that Priest-Kings see little difference between Kurii and men, that they regarded them as equivalent species.	10
22	133	She had once, against my wishes, fled the Sardar, when I had wished, as a foolish Earthling, to return her to her home planet, for safety.	10

Book 10. (22 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	247	"But this possibility, doubtless," smiled Samos, "too, is one which will not fail to be considered by the rulers of the Sardar".	10
1	249	It had been long since I had been in the Sardar.	10
1	589	"Information from the Sardar," said Samos, "suggests that that is true, that they have been stopped.	10
1	719	"Kurii have delivered to the Sardar an ultimatum".	10
1	732	"And how has the Sardar responded to this?" I asked.	10
1	734	"Misk, a Priest-King," said he, "one high in the Sardar, has asked Kurii for a further specification of details".	10
1	777	But now the Kurii worlds, sensing the weakness of the Sardar, following the Nest War, damages that had destroyed their basic power source and had split the very Nest open to the sky, prowled more closely.	10
1	786	Had they known the weakness of the Sardar, and the time required to restore the power source, regenerating itself now at inexorable concentration rates determined by natural law, they would have surely launched their fleets.	10
1	806	"Strange that at this time, too," said I, "the slave runs should cease, and the imperative, inexplicable, to surrender Gor should be served upon the Sardar".	10
5	722	Would Talena not have cut her throat, under the metal collar? And had I freed her would she not, soon, have fallen again to a man's collar? Her flight from the Sardar had not won her freedom.	10
5	726	She had, in fleeing the Sardar, taken my tarn.	10
5	735	She had declined, fleeing the Sardar.	10
5	764	"She fled the Sardar," had said Samos to me.	10
7	403	"It tallies with the reports of other humans, who, once, long ago, fled the Sardar".	10
7	433	"Investigating her further, understanding she accompanied you to the Sardar, with the last egg of Priest-Kings, we looked for further connections.	10
11	417	"Surrender Gor," had been the ultimatum delivered to the Sardar.	10
21	289	"Surrender Gor," had been the message to the Sardar, from the Kurii ships.	10
21	295	It seemed clear to me then that a new force had come to power among the enemies of the Sardar, one willing, if necessary, to sacrifice one world to gain another.	10
22	10	Presumably there would be routine provisionings or communications with Kurii agents, though not by radio or any similar device which might attract the attention of listening stations in the Sardar.	10
24	97	She had revealed all she knew of the Sardar, the plans of Priest-Kings, their practices and devices, the weakness of the Nest.	10
26	294	"You left me in a paga tavern in Lydius," she cried out, "a chained paga slave!" "You chose to flee the Sardar," I told her.	10
26	1182	Even had they not have been, their information, they, seldom leaving the Sardar, not being as humans, was little better than that of their human agents, widely separated in space and time.	10

Book 11. (4 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	268	The game of Girl Catch is played variously upon Gor; it can be played as informally and simply as it was in the camp of my captor, for the pleasure of his men, or it can be a fairly serious business, closely supervised and regulated in a sophisticated manner, as it is by merchant administrators in t...	10
11	204	Similarly, the merchant caste, which is international, so to speak, in its organization, arranges and conducts the four great fairs which occur annually in the vicinity of the Sardar mountains.	10
24	61	Oh, I was sure that they were both excellent judges of women, yes, but of what sort of women, I asked myself, women stripped or lightly clad, women in collars or chains! And in what sort of venues had this superb taste in women been developed and honed? In the streets of Ar, seeing girls on leashes ...	10
25	88	"Why should they be interested in such things?" "Such studies were conducted originally, at least publicly, as opposed to the presumed secret studies of cryptographers, in connection with the Sardar Fairs," said Bosk, "at meetings of Scribes concerned to standardize and simplify the cursive alphabet...	10

Book 12. (29 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	24	The other was a pristine world, virginal in its beauty and fertility, one not permitted by its masters, called the Sardar, or Priest-Kings, to follow the example of its tragic sister.	10
1	31	Indeed, is not weakness the ultimate irrationality? Gor, too, it must be remembered, is also the habitat of the Sardar, or Priest-Kings.	10
2	512	"It is time for the Kaissa matches at the Fair of En'Kara, at the Sardar," I said.	10
2	529	The war persisted but now both players had been brought to the Sardar by armed men from their respective cities, under a special flag of truce, agreed upon by Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, and Marlenus of Ar, called the Ubar of Ubars, who ruled in Ar.	10
2	667	"It was told by a man of the polar basin who had come south to sell skins at the Sardar".	10
3	39	I watched him press on through the crowds, toward the looming palisade which ringed the Sardar mountains, black and snow-capped, behind it.	10
3	48	There he would climb one of the platforms and, putting the girl on her knees, her ankles and wrists crossed and bound, at his feet, facing the Sardar, he would unbind her hair.	10
3	49	Then he would lift her in his arms, hair unbound, before the mountains of the Sardar, rejoicing, and giving thanks to Priest-Kings that she was now his.	10
3	70	Indeed, one might buy slaves here and there, publicly and privately, at many places in the Fair of En'Kara, one of the four great annual fairs at the Sardar.	10
3	116	The Sardar fairs are organized, regulated and administered by the Merchant Caste.	10
3	120	The prohibition against violence at the Sardar, of course, does not extend to slaves.	10
3	166	They would stand before the palisade, paying the homage of their presence to the mysterious denizens of the Sardar, the mysterious Priest-Kings, rulers of Gor.	10
3	167	Each young person of Gor is expected, before their twenty-fifth birthday, to make the pilgrimage to the Sardar, to honor the Priest-Kings.	10
3	171	More than one beauty who thought to have stood upon the platforms by the palisade, lifting laurel wreaths and in white robes singing the glories of the Priest-Kings, has found herself instead looking upon the snow-capped peaks of the Sardar from the slave platforms, stripped and heavily chained.	10
3	454	From where I stood I could see the great palisade, and the black, snow-capped mountains of the Sardar.	10
3	491	The markets of the Sardar fairs are large and important ones in the Gorean economy.	10
3	1300	In time I found myself near the palisade ringing the Sardar mountains.	10
3	1302	From these platforms one may look upon the Sardar.	10
4	40	I would look upon the Sardar in the morning light.	10
4	63	It looked toward the Sardar.	10
4	100	Indeed, generally the great amphitheater is not used for Kaissa, and the Sardar matches are played in shallow fields, before lengthy sloping tiers, set into the sides of small hills, many matches being conducted simultaneously, a large vertical board behind each table serving to record the movements...	10
4	179	Scormus of Ar, though almost universally a versatile and brilliant player, was particularly masterful in this opening; he had used it for victory in the Turian tournaments of the ninth year of the Ubarate of Phanias Turmus; in the open tournaments of Anango, Helmutsport, Tharna, Tyros, and Ko-ro-ba,...	10
4	433	It would later be said the Sardar itself shook with sound.	10
4	459	* * * * I was well pleased that I had come to the Sardar.	10
4	541	His caravan had been delayed in arriving at the Sardar because of spring floods on the Cartius.	10
5	3	"While you sported at the fair," said he, "here in Port Kar catastrophe has struck!" I had seen the flames in the arsenal as I had returned on tarn from the perimeters of the Sardar.	10
15	217	"I was thinking," I said, "that if I had bought you in the Sardar and thrown you to my men you would have been slain by now".	10
15	324	"And then, one day, on a platform in the Sardar, I learned that it was not a simple dream, but that it had been a dream to which there corresponded a fearful reality".	10
17	5	I had originally obtained it at the Sardar Fair, at the booth of the curio dealer.	10

Book 13. (28 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	288	It was a clearing house, too, for information, which, processed, was forwarded to the Sardar.	10
1	545	I had given the Tahari ring to Samos, long ago, shortly after returning from the Tahari, that he might send it to the Sardar for analysis.	10
1	549	"Are you absolutely sure," asked Samos, "that this is the ring which you gave me to send to the Sardar?" "It certainly seems much like it," I said.	10
1	565	"This is information which I have received but recently from the Sardar, but it is based on an intelligence thousands of years old, obtained then from a delirious Kur commander, and confirmed by documents obtained in various wreckages, the most recent of which dates from some four hundred years ago.	10
1	606	"The secret, doubtless, could be unraveled by those of the Sardar," I said.	10
1	607	"What progress have they made with the ring from the Tahari?" "The Tahari ring never reached the Sardar," said Samos.	10
1	611	"To whom," I then asked, "did you entrust the delivery of the ring to the Sardar".	10
1	637	"It seems then," I said, "that Shaba intends to surrender the ring to agents of Kurii, receive fees for this, and then carry to the Sardar this ring we have before us".	10
1	642	"I suspect the depression of the switch, presumably to be accomplished in the Sardar, will initiate an explosion".	10
1	645	He, through my discussions with him, and his work with the Sardar, was familiar with certain technological possibilities.	10
1	699	The Sardar could then be warned to intercept Shaba with the false ring and deal as they will with him".	10
5	661	If we could acquire once more, of course, the Tahari ring, the fourth ring, which had been brought to Gor by a Kur faction intent upon preserving the planet from destruction, we could, presumably, have it duplicated in the Sardar.	10
6	551	One of their major markets, to which they generally arrange for the shipment of girls overland, is the Sardar Fairs, in particular that of En'Kara, which is the most extensive and finest.	10
8	87	I used the Telnus Defense on the fellow, a response to his Ubara's Gambit, which I thought might be unknown in Schendi, as it had first been seen only last spring at the Fair of En'Kara, near the Sardar Mountains.	10
12	38	"I will bring with me, when I return, of course," I said, "the false ring, that it may be borne to the Sardar".	10
12	40	"No agent of Priest-Kings would wish the ring conveyed to the Sardar".	10
12	42	"You will then, of course," I said, to Shaba, "as an agent of Priest-Kings, bear the ring to the Sardar".	10
14	717	From the sea bag I drew forth the notes for fortunes, made out to Shaba, to be drawn on various of the banks of Schendi, and the false ring, that which he was supposed to carry to the Sardar in place of the true ring.	10
14	718	For the notes I, as a putative agent of Kurii, was to receive the true ring, the Tahari ring, which I would then return to Port Kar, that Samos might arrange for its delivery to the Sardar.	10
14	720	If he should actually dare to deliver the false ring to the Sardar he would doubtless there fall into the power of the Priest-Kings.	10
14	722	If he did not choose to deliver the false ring to the Sardar I might then, at a later date, hunt him down, to kill him.	10
15	133	"Cash them before you carry the false ring to the Sardar," said Msaliti.	10
15	135	"But what if I do not carry the false ring to the Sardar?" asked Shaba.	10
15	148	"If the notes are not genuine, obviously I would not carry the ring to the Sardar".	10
15	150	It must be depressed only in the Sardar".	10
15	161	"I think there is little point in carrying the false ring to the Sardar," I said.	10
15	226	Shaba now had both the true ring, the Tahari ring, and the false ring, that which Kurii had intended to be delivered to the Sardar in lieu of the true ring.	10
55	21	The false ring would never be delivered to the Sardar.	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	37	It is said on Gor that only slaves, outlaws and Priest-Kings, rumored to be the rulers of Gor, reputed to live in the remote Sardar Mountains, are without caste.	10

Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	644	"If you would speak with Priest-Kings," said Samos, "you must go to the Sardar".	10
1	651	Not a little of the hesitancy and tentativeness of the militaristic incursions of such creatures was, I suspected, a function of their ignorance of, and fear of, the true nature and power of the remote and mysterious denizens of the Sardar.	10
2	165	"Will you make a report of this morning's business to the Sardar?" I asked.	10
2	167	"Do you expect the Sardar to take action?" I asked.	10

Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
35	20	Misk, at night, stood in the grasses near the Sardar, lofty, slender, grand against the moons, on a small hill, the wind moving his antennae.	10

Book 20. (36 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	29	A major victory in this matter was secured a few years ago when the caste of Merchants, which organizes and manages the Sardar Fairs, agreed to a standardized version, proposed by, and provisionally approved by, the high council of the caste of Players, for the Sardar tournaments, one of the attract...	10
1	34	It is the first fair in the annual cycle of the Sardar Fairs, gigantic fairs which take place on the plains lying below the western slopes of the Sardar Mountains.	10
1	884	Indeed, for such a strategy to eventually prove successful, it seemed not unlikely they would have at least the tolerance of the Sardar itself.	10
1	887	"Have you heard aught from the Sardar?" I asked.	10
1	947	"Have you heard anything from the Sardar?" I asked, again.	10
2	863	As I recalled, he intended to soon sell her, with several others, at the Fair of En'Kara, near the Sardar.	10
2	1133	"I think there is a new order in the Sardar," he said.	10
2	1137	"Twice, rather recently, I have heard from the Sardar," he said, "once some ten days ago, and once yesterday".	10
2	1145	I sent back to the Sardar for confirmation, if only to buy time".	10
2	1164	"I shall send a report to the Sardar tomorrow," he said, "dated tomorrow.	10
2	1165	I shall inform the Sardar that I am unable to carry out their orders for I am unable to locate you, that you have apparently left the city".	10
2	1193	"Is that what I am to tell the Sardar?" asked Samos, ironically.	10
2	1195	"The Sardar, by now," said Samos, "probably views you as an agent of one of the parties of Kurii, and as a traitor, and one who probably knows too much".	10
2	1204	"I think the Sardar has already acted".	10
2	1213	"The Sardar transmits a clear message," I said.	10
2	1215	This informed the Sardar that you were reluctant to carry out the orders.	10
2	1216	Furthermore, our friendship is not unknown, I am sure, to the Sardar.	10
2	1217	It is not difficult to conjecture the nature of the response in the Sardar.	10
2	1221	"That may have been to conceal from you any apprehensions existing in the Sardar as to your loyalty".	10
2	1258	There was a new order, I surmised, in the Sardar.	10
3	121	From the location of our camp, indeed, from our chain line, between two stakes, we could see the Sardar Mountains in the distance.	10
3	127	That we were so near the Sardar, incidentally, after a presumed five days of unconsciousness, followed by two days of travel on foot, drawing her wagon, further suggested that she was not likely, really, to be the mistress of a work chain.	10
3	131	This was presumably to make it appear, at least in the vicinity of the Sardar, that we were truly a work chain.	10
3	202	I feared she would now announce to me that she knew my true identity, that she was going to put me to her pleasure, and rape me, and then turn me over, a woman's catch, to the Sardar.	10
4	13	We could see the Sardar Mountains in the distance.	10
4	31	I had little doubt this had to do with her business in the vicinity of the Sardar.	10
5	407	I assumed they must actually be transmissions to the Sardar.	10
6	161	"Last year I did not have one, admittedly, due to some fearful inadvertence," admitted Boots, "but I would not risk that twice at the Sardar Fair.	10
6	209	She was perfectly safe, of course, for she was within the perimeters of the Sardar Fair.	10
6	434	She was on the protected ground, the truce ground, of the Sardar Fair.	10
7	98	There are four such fairs, administered by the merchants, held annually in the vicinity of the Sardar, those of En'Kara, En'Var, Se'Kara and Se'Var.	10
12	482	First, Flaminius, it seemed, who was to have received the messages from the Lady Yanina, had apparently intended to deliver them not to the Sardar, but to some party in Ar.	10
12	505	I myself was now in hiding from Priest-Kings, presumably to remain under cover until Samos had resolved certain matters with the Sardar, or until some new developments might be forthcoming.	10
12	583	The tournament he referred to was doubtless the one held at the Sardar Fair, in En'Kara of that year.	10
13	110	I even found her chained like a slave under a table near the Sardar fairgrounds.	10
14	293	Too, I thought of the stately, delicate, golden Priest-Kings in their tunneled recesses and chambers underlying the Sardar Mountains.	10

Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	58	It is located at the intersection of various routes, the Genesian, connecting Brundisium and other coastal cities with the south, the Northern Salt Line and the Northern Silk Road, leading respectively west and north from the east and south, the Pilgrims' Road, leading to the Sardar, and the Eastern...	10
16	1413	It is cultural for white-clad pilgrims from certain cities to carry such staffs, often entwined with flowers, in pilgrimages to the Sardar.	10
24	152	The form of Tau near the call rope I had seen before, long ago, in Ar, on another street, and, more than once, at the Sardar Fairs.	10
25	7	I had also seen it at different times at the Sardar Fairs, at his display spaces.	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
34	200	"I think perhaps they are put on the platforms outside the palisade of the Sardar Mountains, for Priest-Kings.	10

Book 23. (6 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	219	The reform of chronology is proposed by a small party from among the caste of scribes almost every year at the Fair of En'Kara, near the Sardar, but their proposals, sensible as they might seem, are seldom greeted with either interest or enthusiasm, even by the scribes.	10
24	758	All Goreans, on the other hand, are expected to make at least one pilgrimage during their lifetime to the Sardar Mountains, taken to be the home of Priest-Kings.	10
24	765	The major Gorean fairs occur seasonally, incidentally, in the vicinity of the Sardar Mountains, indeed, within sight of their black, snow-capped peaks.	10
24	1025	An important exception to this, as suggested earlier, is the pilgrimage to the Sardar, which every Gorean, male and female, is expected to undertake at least once in his life.	10
24	1026	The journey, of course, from many points on Gor to the Sardar is, at least in certain parts, dangerous.	10
24	1028	Her glimpse of the Sardar is likely to be obtained from the height of a sales platform.	10

Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	204	Some claim to have seen them even in the vicinity of the Sardar.	10
28	141	To be sure, the scrolls should be, at least among the high cities, in virtue of conventions held at the Sardar Fairs, particularly the Fair of En'Kara, much in agreement.	10
32	176	I did not think I would have entered any of them in the Sardar Games, held at the fairs.	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	374	Every year at the Sardar Fair there is a motion before the bankers, literally, the coin merchants, to introduce a standardization of coinage among the major cities.	10

Book 27. (5 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	514	Supposedly they were strange men of some sort, and lived in a remote area called the Sardar Mountains.	10
12	206	Two others were sisters from a city called Venna, taken when returning from a pilgrimage to the Sardar Mountains.	10
27	1014	"Your trick is older than the Sardar itself," said the first rider.	10
27	1501	Speaking as though one might be on Earth, and ignoring the complexities of the Gorean compass, which points always to the Sardar, each of the four tarns, each with its suspended basket, went to a different quadrant, one to the north, the others to the east, south and west.	10
28	385	"If they do exist, perhaps in the Sardar Mountains, as many claim," said Portus Canio, "I think it is clear that we have little to fear from them, indeed far less to fear from them than from the caste of Initiates, which claims to speak in their name.	10

Book 28. (16 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	134	A certain area of the polar region was at that time being used as staging area, under the command of the aforementioned Zarendargar, a staging area with munitions and such, for an attack on the Sardar enclave, destined to suddenly, decisively, and irremediably terminate the rule of Priest-Kings, des...	10
1	152	Perhaps this has to do with transitions or dislocations in the Sardar, such as have been occasionally rumored.	10
1	158	I personally suspect that this lapse of attentiveness or this seemingly tolerant permissiveness, or this seeming lack of zeal, on the part of Priest-Kings, and their ships, presumably mostly automated and remotely controlled, has less to do with technological limitations than with some reordering of...	10
1	324	In these respects, the Sardar is silent.	10
2	209	This breach of the Prison World must be detectable in the Sardar.	10
2	212	Perhaps even now investigatory ships were rising swiftly, silently, from the Sardar.	10
8	65	"Within the Sardar?" "Unfortunately not, but Priest-Kings deal with humans and humans may deal with us".	10
8	67	"Perhaps you may tell us of the interior precincts of the Sardar one day," came from the device, "of the nature of Priest-Kings, and such".	10
12	63	He would expend humans, swarming them into the Sardar to exterminate Priest-Kings, thus robbing Kurii of the glory of victory".	10
21	587	"That of enlisting a human leader, one men will trust, a warrior, a seeming champion, a seeming hero, one whom men, properly motivated, will unquestioningly, eagerly follow, one who will lead armies against the Sardar".	10
24	155	"You would decline the offer of Agamemnon, to arm and lead the humans of Earth against the Sardar," said Grendel.	10
81	118	"How can that be?" "There are intermediaries betwixt the Sardar and the worlds," said Grendel.	10
81	129	"But you spoke not of the Sardar, of Priest-Kings, and their will?" said Grendel.	10
81	136	"How is this?" "Agamemnon, and his ambitions, it seems, were of some concern in the Sardar," said Grendel.	10
81	137	"Lord Zarendargar made clear to the Sardar your refusal to accept his plans, and your role in his downfall".	10
81	138	"I did nothing by intent for the Sardar," said Cabot.	10

Book 29. (21 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	120	How then would I know the will of the denizens of the Sardar, even to judge whether or not I should honor it, or endeavor to comply with it? "You have been to the Sardar?" I asked.	10
1	15	This mode of orientation is not Gorean, the common compass of which, with its eight cardinal points, is oriented to the Sardar, the dark, walled, mountainous abode of Priest-Kings, but founded on the Gorean poles.	10
2	119	Much can be done with the body, it seems, but little with the mind, saving, perhaps, by Priest-Kings in the recesses of the Sardar.	10
2	199	Little took place in the Sardar which was not planned without an end in view, their own end.	10
4	78	The dark, palisaded Sardar itself, the abode of Priest-Kings, is sealed away.	10
5	39	"How is it that you, an agent of Priest-Kings, know not of Kurii?" "To serve our lords, the masters of the Sardar," he said, "one needs know no more than they deem suitable".	10
5	74	Who is to tell Priest-Kings who will be their instruments? Are you privy to their councils, can you read the mists, the fogs and clouds, which hover about the Sardar?" I supposed it was possible that this man might be an agent of Priest-Kings.	10
5	103	I lowered my head respectfully to the symbol, as one might salute the Sardar, but I kept my eyes raised, to keep in view its purveyor.	10
5	137	I was reassured, then, that the Kurii still knew little of the denizens of the Sardar.	10
5	152	If there were agendas here they were not ours; they were those of the Sardar.	10
5	171	The translator would presumably, as it was outside the Sardar, open only to a code, and only at a certain time, and for a certain time.	10
5	196	If their designs held firm, and their deception was successful, I would then, supposing me obedient to Priest-Kings, pursue their design in place of that of the masters of the Sardar.	10
5	198	Fortunately for me, they knew little of the Sardar, of Priest-Kings themselves, of their modalities of communication, of their caution, of their security measures.	10
5	274	"Attend," said he, "fellow partisan of the plans of Priest-Kings, attend the commands of the Sardar!" "What is your sudden concern?" I asked.	10
5	318	The principal point of his contact with me, I supposed, was to convince me that I had now kept my appointment with the agent of Priest-Kings, and had thereby received my instructions from the Sardar.	10
12	156	"Is that not lost in the wisdom of the Sardar?" asked Thrasilicus.	10
12	164	With the new dynasty in the Nest had they not turned against me? Had I not been imprisoned in the holding capsule on the Prison Moon, in such a manner as to torture me, and jeopardize my honor? Might I not, then, of my own will, so treated, have turned from the Sardar to the Steel Worlds? "Our loyal...	10
18	173	A variant on this theory, though one less benign, or misguided, is that the regulation from the Sardar was intended to help keep the numbers of human beings on the planet in check, that it functioned, in a sense, as a populational control device.	10
18	174	They might have been less inclined to use other devices, say, disease, because of the danger of a mutation which might affect the denizens of the Sardar, sooner or later, as well.	10
25	211	I still did not know what might lie in the dark background of these strange matters, whether the meshes about us had been woven in the Sardar or on one or another of the distant Steel Worlds.	10
28	22	Two important fairs take place in the vicinity of the Sardar Mountains, in the spring and fall, that of En'Kara in the spring, and Se'Kara in the fall.	10

Book 30. (6 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	2	One feared it was a ship of no mortal creation, but rather a vessel of Priest-Kings, come from the clouds over the Sardar, gone on air.	10
2	198	Some claimed to have seen them over the palisade of the Sardar.	10
3	322	It seemed obvious that such an ensuance could be explained, if at all, only in terms of a sky ship, and, such, if it existed, would presumably emanate from the Sardar, allegedly the abode of Priest-Kings.	10
17	202	Perhaps from the Sardar, a sign of the displeasure of Priest-Kings".	10
17	203	"The Sardar is far," he said.	10
21	205	Linguistic drift, at least on the continent, is managed by the standardization promulgated in scribal conferences held during the great fairs, held four times annually in the vicinity of the Sardar.	10

Book 31. (10 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	11	I have gathered that much of this has to do with the rulings of your gods, called Priest-Kings, reigning from the dark, palisaded Sardar.	10
8	1187	The pervasiveness of Gorean on your world, as I understand it, has something to do with your gods, the Priest-Kings, laired in the Sardar Mountains.	10
8	1193	The standardization of Gorean is accomplished largely in virtue of the meetings of Scribes four times a year on the neutral ground of the great seasonal fairs held in the vicinity of the Sardar itself.	10
10	237	And there were the mysterious Sardar Mountains, within which, supposedly, resided the gods of Gor, called Priest-Kings.	10
19	97	This probably has to do with the Sardar Fairs.	10
35	58	"The first phase," he said, "is likely to be securing the surface of Gor, with the exception, perhaps, of the Sardar Mountains, taken to be the range of Priest-Kings.	10
35	64	Their power makes clear their existence, for example the Flame Death, selectively used, usually to enforce the weapon and technology laws, the policing of the skies, to seek out and destroy intruding ships, the inability of tarns to fly over the palisaded Sardar, and such things.	10
35	71	Lastly, the Sardar would be entered, and the Priest-Kings destroyed.	10
45	23	I did know that the Gorean compass needle always pointed to the Sardar Mountains.	10
46	106	Goreans are wary of the Priest-Kings, but, on the whole, leave them to their devices in the Sardar.	10

Book 32. (3 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
38	154	"One hunts women where there are women, where game is plentiful, in cities, towns, even peasant villages, on traversed roads, on caravan routes, on pilgrimages to the Sardar, and such, not in the wilderness of the northern forests, not on the scattered, rocky skerries of Torvaldsland, not in the fro...	10
43	1171	Whereas cities have laws, and most castes have caste codes, there is only one law which is generally respected, and held in common, amongst Gorean municipalities, and that is Merchant Law, largely established and codified at the great Sardar Fairs.	10
50	661	Perhaps, I thought, the clue to the mystery might lie in the distant, formidable Sardar Mountains, of which the legendary or fabled Priest-Kings were supposedly denizens.	10

Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
52	75	I needed not speak to them of the great nest in the Sardar, nor of the Nest War, nor of the fierce aerial battles within those mighty chambers, nor of transportation disks and flame tubes.	10
54	290	Following this, I had turned the dragon east, and, over Thassa, set a course as directly as I could for the Sardar Mountains, the supposed domicile of the gods of Gor, the Priest-Kings.	10
54	300	Indeed, the matter would seem far more urgent and dire once it was clearly turned toward the Sardar.	10
54	301	In such a case there could be no triumphant result of a successful experiment with which to regale a world or a hierarchy, or portions thereof, supposedly having resolved a controversy of generations, but a clear threat to the Sardar itself, perhaps mounted by Kurii.	10
54	310	"Have you heard of the Sardar?" I asked.	10
54	314	"You are laying in a course for the Sardar?" asked Pertinax.	10
61	187	If the altercation between these two houses was indeed wagered on by mysterious gamblers, perhaps treading the depths of a vast nest in the Sardar, or in orbiting worlds of steel, it would lack a resolution.	10

Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	125	"Such vehicles, which tread the skies themselves, are forbidden to the men of Gor by the denizens of the Sardar, the Priest-Kings," he said.	10
40	62	He was, by all accounts, a fine potter, and an honest one, but his work, as far as I knew, had never been singled out in the city, nor, say, had it been displayed in, let alone won prizes in, the exhibitions held in the great Sardar fairs.	10
49	75	Merchant Law, instituted at, and revised in, the Sardar Fairs, is the only common body of law on Gor.	10
49	91	Important matches are often wagered on, and, sometimes, take place at the Sardar Fairs.	10
49	92	The Sardar Fairs, so to speak, are treaty grounds, where lethal enemies may sit side by side, observing the great boards, where the match movements are posted.	10
62	81	It seems they inhabit the Sardar Mountains, from which geographical feature Goreans orient themselves and their maps.	10
63	394	Have Priest-Kings grown lax? I think something is different, somewhere, perhaps in the Sardar itself".	10

Book 35. (4 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	244	Weights are standardized against official weights, so to speak, housed in a merchant fortress in the vicinity of the Sardar Mountains.	10
3	245	Merchants may have access to this fortress four times a year, during the great Sardar fairs.	10
6	131	Sometimes these cities are at war with one another, and the "truce of the port," rather like the "truce of the Sardar fairs," is occasionally sorely stressed.	10
24	81	"Once, long ago, I saw something much like them at a Sardar Fair, one of En'Kara".	10

Book 36. (4 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	1	An Anomaly is Noted, a Day from Daphna "Ho," called down the lookout, from the ringed platform near the top of the single mast, "land, island, tiny, four points Ror!" Whereas I, in the interests of intelligibility, have often had recourse to directions apt to my native world, Earth directions, appl...	10
14	2	Ror is the first of the four divisions left of Ta-Sardar-Var, which, in its orienting role, would be similar to our magnetic north.	10
18	161	At the great Sardar Fairs on the continent, associated with the solstices and equinoxes, there are many permanent structures and no lack of amenities, such as fountains, inns, and paved streets.	10
19	134	That you would not have seen at a Sardar Fair.	10