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# سندبادنامه 373.44

سندبادنامه 373.44

- **Language:** Persian

### [373.44](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.373.44)

ازین نازک طبعی ، خرده گیری، عیب چوی ، ند خوی ، کی از آب کویر نفرت گرفتی ، واز نعیم خلد کراهیت داشتی ، بهر شهر کی در آمذی ، نخست برستهٔ‌ طتاخان ، وخوردبی نزان طواف کردی . روزی بر مرکب اشتها کالهیمان العطشان ، أو کالغرثان السغبان سوار شذه بوذ ، ودر بازار2 طوف می کرد ، ونظر بر هر مقر وممر می افگند ، وخیار اطعمه اختیار می کرد . در اثنای نظر کنیزکی دیذ بر طرف دکانی با لباس پاکیزه ، برطبقی لطیف ودستاری نظیف ، از آرد میده وروغن وانکبین کلیچه بخته ، واز بهر حریذار، بر ممر بازار نهاذه ، وچشم انتظار گشاذه ، در غایت

> From this delicacy of temperament he was fastidious, faultfinding, and ill-tempered, so that he felt disgust at the water  
> of Kawīr and disliked the bliss of Paradise. In whatever city he entered,  
> first of all he would make the rounds of the row of cooks and victuallers. One day, mounted upon the steed of  
> appetite 'like the thirsty madman or the hungry famished one', he was riding and in the market  
> he wandered about, casting his eye on every dwelling and thoroughfare, selecting the choicest foods.  
> In the midst of his inspection he saw a slave-girl at the edge of a shop in clean clothes, upon a dainty  
> tray and a clean napkin, who had baked cakes of fine flour, butter, and honey, and  
> had placed them along the passage of the market for any purchaser, waiting with expectant eyes, of the utmost  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.373.44) — English, machine translation

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