سندبادنامه 118.6

118.6

The story of the king of Kashmir and the elephant-driver
Sindbād said: "In past epochs and bygone years, in the land of Kashmir, which is the index of the register of the inhabited quarter and the preface of the opening of the populated center,
there was a dominant king, renowned and celebrated for justice and equity, distinguished and famous for impartiality and redress; and by virtue of the loftiness
famed and mentioned for justice and equity, renowned and celebrated for fairness and vindication; and by virtue of the supremacy of
aspiring in resolution, overwhelming in ambition, fully furnished with equipment, and perfect in preparation, he kept countless elephants for the days
of battle. At the time of departure, he would set his litter upon an elephant, and each day the chief
of the elephant-drivers would present all the elephants before him. One day, hunters captured a wild elephant,
swift of pace, weighty in bulk, wind-footed, thunder-voiced, lightning-playing. You would say
it was Mount Bīsutūn suspended upon four pillars, or a cloud that, accompanied by a shooting star,
had descended from the height of the air to the seat of the earth, so that whoever saw it in the open plain
would say: