سندبادنامه 77.7

77.7

Beginning of the Book of Sindbād
(1/1) Thus relate the narrators of tradition and the masters of history: in past days
and former years, there was in the realm of Hindūstān a king named Kūrdīs, who had adorned the leaves
of the heights of sovereignty with praiseworthy moral virtues, and embellished the mantle of royal glories
with the vestiges of noble descent. His time was adorned with the beauty of justice,
and his qualities were renowned for perfection of excellence. His dominion was obeyed, his dignity commanding obedience; his reign was long
and his kingdom vast. The usurping hand of the envious and the aggression of the malicious were restrained and shortened from his kingdom,
and the eyes of corrupt ambitions of transgressors were covered and closed throughout his reign.
He was ever an adherent of justice and compliant with intellect, and he would listen to the traditions and accounts of the ancients, and their customs and ways.
The mention of his good nature and the renown of the obedience of his servants and retinue reached the hearing
of the rulers of the age, and the tongues of narrators and declarations of trustworthy witnesses brought the fame of the welfare of the subjects,
and the abundance and security of his territory, to the ears of humanity. From the dawn of youth, which is the prime of life
and the luster of existence, until the rising of the morning of grey hairs, which announces the farewell to life, he stepped
only in the highway of caring for subjects and the path of relieving and comforting the weak of the realm; and