سندبادنامه 83.1
English (machine translation) 83.1
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83.1
"You must observe justice if you govern a realm, / and beware of tyranny in it with the utmost caution.
For kingship endures with blatant unbelief, / but does not endure with tyranny in desert or settled land."
And the unseen herald of the movements of day and night said to him: "Whoever, in the office of kingship, becomes occupied with following
diversions and amusements, and through deficiency of justice and loss of intellect desists from using"
forbearing and virtue remains abandoned, is like a husbandman who scatters seed in the earth, and in
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- سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian