[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) › 346 # سندبادنامه 346 English (machine translation) 346 - **Language:** English ### [346.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.346.1) We are sick and have no physician, / and we are sorrowful and have no beloved. And we have nothing of pleasures except / our hopes of them and the sight of them as our portion. ### [346.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.346.3) \[...\] ### [346.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.346.4) 15. Story of the Lover, the Old Crone, and the Weeping Dog The young man's purple-red cheek turned saffron-pale in bearing the hardships of separation, and from carrying the burdens and weights of distance—which the wombs of the mother of worldly calamities kept bearing—his arrow-straight stature bent like a bow, and the juniper and cypress of his form were broken by the violent blasts of fate and the tempests and afflictions of the times; deprived of the beauty of union, he was content with the phantom of imagination, and would divert himself with this verse: ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.346.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.346](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.346) · Pramāṇa