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# سندبادنامه 384.9

English (machine translation) 384.9

- **Language:** English

### [384.9](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.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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## Linked texts (1)

- [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.384.9) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian

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