[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Persian and Urdu literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab) › Tutinama # Tutinama (Ṭūṭīnāma) The Tales of a Parrot Fifty-two nights of tales told by a parrot to keep a merchant's wife from infidelity, reworked from an older Persian version of the Śukasaptati. - **Date:** 1330 CE - **Author:** [Ẓiyāʾ al-Dīn Nakhshabī](https://indike.org/pramana/person/nakhshabi) - **Place:** Badāʾūn (Budaun) - **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry) ## Translations (1) - [Tales of a Parrot (from the Tooti nameh)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.tutinama~en-gerrans) — English, not yet digitised ## Based on - [Śukasaptati](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.short_stories.sukasaptati) ## Translates - [Hikayat Bayan Budiman](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.sea.ms.hikayat-bayan-budiman) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.tutinama](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.tutinama) · Pramāṇa