[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) › 374.1 # سندبادنامه 374.1 English (machine translation) 374.1 - **Language:** English ### [374.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.374.1) In her hand a cake, you would say, is a full moon / Like a radiant moon \[emerging\] from a cloud. She found favor in the merchant's eyes and heart, acquiring great importance and a lofty place, and lodging in his nature and disposition. He went home and at once gave a kerchief to a slave-girl and sent \[her\] to the market, saying: "In such-and-such a place there is a slave-girl of such an appearance and form; give \[her\] gold and buy the cakes, and instruct \[her\] not to sell cakes to anyone after this, so that for the duration of our stay you buy cakes every day." In accordance with her master's wish, the slave-girl went to the market and bought the cakes. For a long time he restricted himself to this, eating nothing but the cakes. In the midst of this situation, one day the cake-selling slave-girl disappeared. - [Previous: 373.53](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.373.53) - [Next: 374.9](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.374.9) - [Up: 374](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.374) ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.374.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.374.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.374.1) · Pramāṇa