[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) › 288 # سندبادنامه 288 English (machine translation) 288 - **Language:** English ### [288.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.288.1) in her hand and sent her in search of a suitable woman. The old bawd took the gold, and since there was no one more beautiful than his own wife, she went to her house and said: "A young man, exceedingly comely, and a merchant with great wealth, has arrived, and he desires for a few days to clap hands \[in revelry\]; he has given so much gold and prepared a chamber. Take the gold and come, so that I may take you there." The woman arose immediately and came with the old bawd to that place. ### [288.6](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.288.6) When she set foot inside the door of the chamber, she saw her own husband; without fear or perplexity, she raised an outcry, seized the man's beard, cried out "Help, O Muslims!" and said: "O faithless scoundrel, and O traitorous evildoer! A long time has passed since you went away, leaving me in the hands of sorrow, while you yourself have been busy with moon-faced beauties in sight-seeing and pleasure: occupied: ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.288.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.288](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.288) · Pramāṇa