[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) › 289 # سندبادنامه 289 English (machine translation) 289 - **Language:** English ### [289.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.289.1) Alas for my covenant of fidelity, O idol, for my suspicion / of your fidelity and love has proved mistaken!" "In waiting for you, my eyes have become like narcissi; and in awaiting your arrival, my limbs and parts have all become ears like sweet basil; I posted spies and informants, so that ### [289.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.289.4) \[...\] ### [289.5](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.289.5) they might bring news from wherever \[you were\]; yet you were in luxury and ease, amusement and leisure, while I remained in pain and hardship, affliction and distress!" The man was left helpless in his wife's hands, ashamed, bewildered, distraught, and anxious, like a sparrow in the talons of a falcon, or an elephant from the sting of a mosquito; he sought an escape and a way out, saying: and sought an escape, saying: ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.289.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.289](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.289) · Pramāṇa