سندبادنامه 302.3

302.3

The guiding intellect was repeating these words in its ear, and impressing upon it: ‘The best of what a man eats is from his own labor.’ In the midst of these conditions, a hog, having fled in rout from the wound of a hunter's arrow
and escaped the peril and terror of destruction, suddenly landed on this island;
and when it saw the island full of blessings, it set its heart upon making that place its home and dwelling.
It entered the fig-grove and inspected the trees one by one; when the boughs of a tree
[appeared high...]
empty of fruits, he was astonished: "Who has eaten so many figs? And who
has brought these bounties and fruits into their possession and control?" In the midst of this contemplation
and perplexity, he looked at a fig tree and saw ripe figs, and a monkey had climbed upon it;
he was eating some and gathering some. When the boar saw that ease and luxury,
the abundance and pleasantness of life, and witnessed the monkey obtaining his sufficient livelihood and complete restraint,
envy and anger overcame him, and malice and wrath appeared within
his heart, and sparks from the fire of hatred began to cast flames in his heart: