[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) › 368 # سندبادنامه 368 English (machine translation) 368 - **Language:** English ### [368.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.368.1) "Your adversaries were ants and have become serpents; / O Shah, destroy the ants that have turned into serpents! Do not delay, and let not more time pass than this, / for a serpent becomes a dragon if it gains time." ### [368.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.368.4) 16. The Story of the Hunter, the Honey, the Dog, the Weasel, and the Grocer "And if the shah would hear in this regard the testimony of a just witness and the proof of a weighty discourse, I shall speak: it is the story of a city that was laid waste on account of a drop of honey, and seventy thousand men became fodder for the sword." The king asked: "How was that?" ### [368.8](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.368.8) 16. The Story of the Hunter, the Honey, the Dog, the Weasel, and the Grocer She said: "I have read that in past times and bygone ages, a hunter possessed a trained dog: broad-chested, slender-shanked, lean-loined, stout-headed, lop-eared, tail-raised, leopard-breasted, eagle-vindictive, lion-strong, elephant-assaulting, wolf-dashing, crocodile-springing; like a tempest in the open desert and like a gale in the open air, he would bring down birds from the sky and hunt deer in the wilderness: ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.368.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.368](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.368) · Pramāṇa