سندبادنامه 124.21

124.21

Sindbād builds a cubic house for the instruction of the prince
and social intercourse, along with morals, etiquette, ascetic disciplines, acts of obedience, and devotions, he depicted. Upon another
surface, he inscribed the forms of illnesses, the names of medicaments, their properties and benefits, the varieties of diseases,
and the classes of temperaments, compounds, and the like. Upon another surface, kinds of melodies,
classes of sounds, the rhythm of beats, disparate and proportionate intervals of time, proximate and distant
movements, the gradations of strings, and the degrees and combinations of musical meters and airs, he marked out. Upon
another surface, he drew geometric figures such as triangles, squares, polygons, circles,
arcs, curves, and straight lines. Upon another surface, the management of rule, the ordering of
punishment, the canons of justice, and the principles of equity and redress, he wrote down. Then he instructed
the prince to study [them] constantly over a period of six months; and the prince, in enduring
that, suffered toils, showed perseverance, and bore hardships. By the power of sight he observed the figures
and forms, and through the sense of hearing he heard the subtleties of the sciences and the fine points of wisdom, until within this
period, all the benefits, advantages, wonders, curiosities, rare novelties, pleasantries, pearls,
and gems were memorized and mastered by him. When the period expired and the allotted time reached completion