[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Persian](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa) › [Story books adapted from India](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa) › [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt) › 162 # سندبادنامه 162 English (machine translation) 162 - **Language:** English ### [162.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.162.1) As soon as the man stepped outside the door, the mistress of the house wrote a note to her lover, and with the ink of yearning, set forth the narrative complaining of the pain of separation, sending it to her friend by the hand of a trusted confidant, and reciting: “In the lover’s heart is a fire of passion; / the hottest fire of Hell is cooler than it. ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.162.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.162](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.162) · Pramāṇa