سندبادنامه 125

125.1

A duckling, even if it is one day old, / the water of the sea reaches only to its breast."
Thereupon the sage Sindbād stood up, and for the sake of this matter, held an astrolabe
before the sun, and examined the degrees of the ascendant of that moment; in the ascendant of the prince,
for up to seven days, continuous inauspiciousness and danger were indicated. Sindbād was bewildered by this,
and said: