سندبادنامه 63.1

63.1

(5/0) وببایذ دانست کی این کتاب بلغت پهلوی بوذه است ، وتا بروزگار امیر اجل عالم عادل ناصرالدین ابو محمد توح بن منصور السامانی - انار الله برهانه - هیچ کس ترجمه نکرده بوذ ، امیر عادل نوح بن منصور فرمان داذ خواجه عمید ابوالفوارس فناروزی را تا بزبان فارسی ترجمت کنذ، وتفاوت واختلالی کی بذو راه یافته بوذ بر دارذ ودرست وراست کنذ ، بتاریخ سنهآ تسع وثلثین وثلثمایه خواجه عمید ابوالفوارس رنبج برگرفت وخاطر در کار آورد ، واین کتاب را بعبارت دری برداخت ، لکن عبارت عظیم نازل بود واز تزین وتحلی عاری وعاطل ، وبا آنک در وی مقال را فسحت ومجال را وسعت تنوق وتصنع بوذ ، هیچ مشاطه این عروس را نیاراسته بوذ ، ودر مضمار فصاحت مرکب عبارت برانده واین کلم حکم وابکار وعذاری را حله نساخته وحلیه نپرداخته ، ویزدیک بوذ کی از صحایف ایام عمام مدروس گردذ ، واز حواشی روز گار بیکبار محو شوذ ، واکنون بفر دولت قاهره احیا بذرفت واز سر طراوت ورونق گرفت :

And it should be known that this book was in the Pahlavi language, and until the time of
the most illustrious, learned, and just amir, Nāṣir al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Nūḥ ibn Manṣūr al-Sāmānī—may God illuminate
his proof—no one had translated it. The just amir Nūḥ ibn Manṣūr commanded
the eminent master Abū l-Fawāris Fanārūzī to translate it into the Persian language, and to remove
the disparities and defects that had found their way into it, and to set it right and true. In the year
three hundred and thirty-nine, the eminent master Abū l-Fawāris took on the trouble and applied his mind to the work,
and composed this book in Dari phrasing; however, the style was extremely base
and stripped and devoid of ornament and embellishment, despite the fact that in it there was room for discourse and scope for
there was ample scope for refinement and artifice, yet no tire-woman had adorned this bride, nor in
the arena of eloquence had galloped the steed of expression; no robe had she fashioned, nor ornament prepared, for these words of wisdom, virgin maidens and cloistered beauties;
and it was near to being utterly effaced from the pages of the days,
and wiped out all at once from the margins of time. But now, through the fortune of the triumphant dynasty,
it has received new life and regained freshness and splendor anew: