[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) › 272 # سندبادنامه 272 English (machine translation) 272 - **Language:** English ### [272.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.272.1) He said: When the fair ones remove the veil, / lovers die before them in this way. ### [272.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.272.3) 11 Tale of the Soldier, the Child, the Cat, and the Snake That man passed day into night and brought night into day in separation from his wife. ### [272.5](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.272.5) He had brought a compassionate wet-nurse and a skillful nanny to nurture the suckling infant, who was the envy of the spring rose, like the morning breeze, and to tend him like the northern breeze; and he counted union with the son as compensation and substitute for separation from the mother, for 'whoever is barred from the trace is content with the report.' And in the absence of hopes and the bitterness of life, he would say: \[verse\] ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.272.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.272](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.272) · Pramāṇa