[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) › 378 # سندبادنامه 378 English (machine translation) 378 - **Language:** English ### [378.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.378.1) My wretched state has reached such a pass that the cry of 'O Lord!' from me has reached the heavens. At last, there must be a cure for the pain of separation, and an end to the night of parting. When the slave-girl delivered the message and greetings, the woman feigned anger, reviled the slave-girl, blackened her face, took her hand, and sent her out through the watercourse of the vineyard, and said: This is the punishment for one who speaks unconsidered words! The slave-girl returned, and explained the situation. The man consulted with the old hag. She said: She meant this to you: 'When the world-illuminating day grows dark and the eye of the sun is blinded by darkness, come to me by way of the vineyard's watercourse!' According to this plan, at the time of the bedtime prayer the man went out, and entered the beloved's house by way of the vineyard's watercourse. The woman came out, spread bedding beside the water, and they both lay down together. The woman's father-in-law was walking around the vineyard to guard the tillage and cultivation; when he reached that place, he saw his son's wife sleeping with a strange man. He approached softly, slipped the anklet off the foot of his son's wife, and went away. The woman awoke, realized that situation, ### [378.14](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.378.14) \[...\] ### [378.15](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.378.15) 18. The Story of the Son's Wife with the Father-in-Law and the Lover immediately sent the lover away, and went to her husband; and when she had slept for a little while, she said: O husband, I feel restless. The man said: You have grown hot; come, let us go out into the open field! Both came out and lay down in that very place. When some time had passed, the husband was asleep; she woke him and said: Just now your father came and stole my anklet, and I knew it, but was ashamed to say anything. ### [378.21](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.378.21) The man grew angry with his father. When morning came, the father-in-law entered, and the anklet he showed him the anklet and recounted what he had seen. The son said, “They have said truly: ### [378.23](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.378.23) ‘The enmity between a father-in-law and his son’s wife is like the enmity between a mouse and a cat; at no time can they be safe from one another.’ Last night it was I who was lying asleep in that place with my own wife: ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.378.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.378](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.378) · Pramāṇa