سندبادنامه 384

English (machine translation) 384

Language: English

384.1

A night like a negro with his face washed in pitch; / neither Bahrām visible, nor Kayvān, nor Tīr;
Neither the call of a bird nor the cry of a beast; / the tongue of Time locked against good and evil.
He resolved to go into the midst of the caravan and bring something out. He saw the watchman
circling about the caravan, fulfilling the condition of guard and vigilance in alertness and caution.
However much the rogue contrived to find an opening and strike at some quarter, it was not
possible. He thought to himself: "If I fall short in running, I shall roll on the ground; [proverb]
if no share comes to me of inanimate wealth, I will seize something of the animate." Expediency lay

384.9

19 Story of the Thief, the Lion, and Ḥamdūna
in going into the stable of the quadrupeds and seizing a fine mount, so that my toil should not be wasted
and my effort rendered null, and I might return with an auspicious omen. So he went among the beasts.
By chance, that night a lion had come out with the intention of hunting, and at the station
of the quadrupeds, in dread and terror of the watchman, was trembling, waiting and watching
until perhaps the watchman's stir should subside, and the torch of the caravanners die down, that he might bring down a mount
and make a cure and ointment for the wound of hunger; for:

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سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian