سندبادنامه 158.3

158.3

When some days had passed in this state, one day the ram butted the woman with its horn.
The woman was pained by it, and struck the ram’s head with a stone. From the force of the blow, the ram fell off
its feet and fell unconscious. When it regained consciousness, it harbored malice in its heart, until one day
it saw the woman facing a wall, attacked, and gave her a butt with its horns such that she was pinned against the wall.
The woman had a blazing fire in her hand and struck the ram with it. The ram’s wool caught fire;
the ram, in terror of the fire, threw itself into the elephant-stable, and rubbed itself against
the bundles of reed so that the fire might be put out. The fire caught the reed and grew strong,
and the elephant-stable caught fire. Some of the elephants were wounded and some perished. And this news