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# سندبادنامه 374.27

سندبادنامه 374.27

- **Language:** Persian

### [374.27](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.374.27)

17 داستان بازرگان لطیف طبع وانگبین هرروز عجینی میساز وبر وی تکمید می کن ، تا مادها نضج می دهذ ، وبتدریج بحلیل می کنذ ، مدت دو ماه آن طلی می نهاذم ، وآن ضماد می کردم ؛ وچون برگرفتمی ، قدری آرد وروغن با آن یار کردمی وکلیچه ییختمی وبفروختمی ، اکنون آن آماس فرو نشست ، ومادها پالوذ ، ونیز بذان حاجت نبماند . بازرگان چون این کلمات بشنیذ ، صفراش بشورید ، وگفت : لعنت برو باذ ، وبر خواجهٔ‌ت ! وقرین بر من باذ وبرین سؤال نابرجایگاه! وراست گفته اند : طلب الغایة سؤم ! کاشکی هرگز ترا بدیدمی ، واز تو کلیچه نحریدمی ! واز غایت کراهت ونفرت خواست کی جملهآ آلات شکمش با احشا وأمعا از منفذ بالا بطریق قی واستفراغ بر آیذ . قی واسهال بر وی افتاذ ، ومخارج اسفل واعلاش بگشاذ . ومدتها در رنج آن علت ، ومحنت آن بلتت بماند ، وهرچند می کوشیذ تا صورت این حادبه تر خاطرش پوشیذه گردذ ، ممکن بوذ ، وهر ساعت با خوذ می گفت :

> 17. Tale of the Fastidious Merchant  
> and honey a dough be prepared each day to apply as a poultice upon it, until it ripened the humors  
> and gradually dissolved them. For a period of two months I applied that paste and made that plaster;  
> and when I took it off, I mixed a little flour and fat with it,  
> baked cakes, and sold them. Now that swelling has subsided, the humors have been purged,  
> and there is no longer any need for that." When the merchant heard these words, his bile  
> was stirred, and he said: "May a curse be upon him and upon your master! And may shame be upon me and upon this  
> inappropriate question! Truly have they said: 'Seeking the ultimate truth is a misery!' Would that I had never seen you  
> and had never bought cakes from you!" And from the extremity of his loathing and revulsion he wished that all  
> the organs of his stomach along with his viscera and intestines would come up through his upper opening by way of vomiting and evacuation. Vomiting and diarrhea  
> fell upon him, and opened his lower and upper vents. For a long time he remained in the pain of that ailment  
> and the affliction of that torment; and however much he strove to have the image of this event veiled from his mind,  
> it was \[not\] possible, and every hour he would say to himself:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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