The Nāṣirī Generations 244.1.2

244.1.2

That learned man placed the face of acceptance to the ground of service, and occupied himself in his task. When the prescribed period of the youth’s education terminated, and the seeds of instruction came up, and the honorary robe of erudition became fitted to the person, and that son, the one fruit of the king’s tree, became embellished in all accomplishments, they made known to the monarch the matter of his son’s perfect acquirements. He commanded, saying: “It is necessary that the preceptor should be present in the audience-hall of sovereignty to-morrow at morning dawn ; and let the prince also be brought thither, in order that the divers pearls of learning, which he has acquired, he may string upon the thread of demonstration, so that gentle and simple — high and low — may become enlightened and cognizant of the perfect knowledge, the elegance of attainments, the realities of capacity, and performances of penetration of my son.”