[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) › 263 # سندبادنامه 263 English (machine translation) 263 - **Language:** English ### [263.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.263.1) He went along swiftly in the wilderness, / he made one stage into two stages. ### [263.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.263.2) \[...\] ### [263.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.263.3) 10. The Tale of the Prince with the Vizier and the Ghouls A desert so cold and so severe / that from it whoever entered would never come out; From its wind the blood froze in the veins, / for its wind possessed the nature of deadly poison; From ice the streams had become like silver platters, / or like lead cauldrons; Like isinglass, / mud rose up from its stony ground. In this manner he went on, praising and lauding God, until after many hardships and countless wiles, within ten days he reached his father’s realm: ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.263.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.263](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.263) · Pramāṇa