[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) › 409 # سندبادنامه 409 English (machine translation) 409 - **Language:** English ### [409.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.409.1) "In his cheek is radiance, in his teeth coolness, / in his eye is a backward glance, in his waist slenderness; Her cheeks and two locks are like the full moon and the darkness; / the down of her cheek and her two rubies are like dates and palm branches." When the young man's eye fell upon her beauty, with a single glance he threw his heart to the wind; the fire of bewilderment entered and burned down the house of well-being; the hand of ardent passion entered and cast the harvest of patience to the wind. The sultan of love pitched his litter in the station of the heart, and the watchman of separation handed over the substance of patience to the tumult of youth; the sparks of longing began to flare up in his heart, and the matter of endurance was brought to the point of extremity. He said to himself: \[and\] said to himself: ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.409.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.409](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.409) · Pramāṇa