سندبادنامه 223.1

English (machine translation) 223.1

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223.1

So diminished that, just as sleep [flees] from the eyes of discord, / water [fled] from the eye of this sea of a thousand springs.
Famine and drought seized mastery over the realm, and ill fortune and misery dominated the world;
grains and seeds attained no ripening or growth, and all kinds of yields in pastures and fields suffered loss
and diminution. The male partridge said to the female: "The condition of an intelligent and prudent one is that
he prepare what is needed for the winter season in the days of summer, and in times of ease
and during the ease and comfort of present moments, think of the hardship of future times, and make provision
to hoard [stores]:

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سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian