سندبادنامه 245
English (machine translation) 245
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"O most just of men, except in treating me: / in you is the dispute, and you are the adversary and the judge!"
The shah's presence may well be designated by this title; but counselors lacking foresight
have become a veil before the sun of his justice, like a cloud; and a heinous oppression and a great
tyranny, which was visited upon this slave by the shah's son, will bring ill repute upon his forebears and his descendants.
Yet the just king, through the instigation and incitement of the slandering backbiter and the wicked,
lying fomenter of discord, does not command equity for this slave; and I suspect that the shah's case with his viziers
is just like that of the king of Kirmān with the vizier." The shah asked: "How
was that? Relate it!"
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10. The Story of the Prince with the Vizier and the Ghouls
The slave-girl said: "Thus it is related that in past ages and bygone days
there was a king, learned and just, frugal and beneficent; he had a son who, in gravity
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celebrated for his intellect and noted for his personal courage; his beauty was the epitome of grace and goodness,
and his speech the very index of joy and freedom from sorrow. One day, when the world had donned the garment of beauty
and put on the robe of perfection, he asked leave of his father, saying: “My heart
longs to view the open country, and my soul is inclined toward surveying the hills and meadows, for
it is the season of spring and the time for plain and meadow:
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- سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian