[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) › 63 # سندبادنامه 63 English (machine translation) 63 - **Language:** English ### [63.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.63.1) And it should be known that this book was in the Pahlavi language, and until the time of the most illustrious, learned, and just amir, Nāṣir al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Nūḥ ibn Manṣūr al-Sāmānī—may God illuminate his proof—no one had translated it. The just amir Nūḥ ibn Manṣūr commanded the eminent master Abū l-Fawāris Fanārūzī to translate it into the Persian language, and to remove the disparities and defects that had found their way into it, and to set it right and true. In the year three hundred and thirty-nine, the eminent master Abū l-Fawāris took on the trouble and applied his mind to the work, and composed this book in Dari phrasing; however, the style was extremely base and stripped and devoid of ornament and embellishment, despite the fact that in it there was room for discourse and scope for there was ample scope for refinement and artifice, yet no tire-woman had adorned this bride, nor in the arena of eloquence had galloped the steed of expression; no robe had she fashioned, nor ornament prepared, for these words of wisdom, virgin maidens and cloistered beauties; and it was near to being utterly effaced from the pages of the days, and wiped out all at once from the margins of time. But now, through the fortune of the triumphant dynasty, it has received new life and regained freshness and splendor anew: ### [63.14](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.63.14) \[...\] ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.63.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.63](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.63) · Pramāṇa