[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) › 211 # سندبادنامه 211 English (machine translation) 211 - **Language:** English ### [211.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.211.1) One ill-fated acts not upon the wise man's word; / An ill-fated man never becomes fortunate through stratagem. Until one day, while the bleacher was busy working, the son mounted the donkey, rode into the stream, and entered a deep whirlpool. Suddenly the tumult of the waves and the convergence of torrents arrived, and both fell into an abyss of drowning. The whirlpool at times bore them like a seashell to the bottom of the water, and at times brought them like chaff to the surface. When the bleacher saw the son ### [211.7](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.211.7) The Slave-Girl's Incitement of the Shah to Punish His Son and the donkey on the brink of destruction, on account of natural intimacy, cultivated love, inherent tenderness, and innate compassion, he wished to plunge in and rescue the son and the donkey from the onslaughts of calamities and the abyss of the torrent, and deliver them from the perils of the waves and the paths of rushing waters. He cast himself into the water and seized the son; and the son, also out of fear for his life and dread of destruction, clutched at the father, for 'the drowning man clutches at every straw'—so that he might cast himself from the abyss of the whirlpool onto the shore of safety and deliverance. To release his father proved impossible, and in the end father and son gave up their sugar-sweet lives to the plain water, and bid farewell to precious life and noble soul: ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.211.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.211](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.211) · Pramāṇa