The Bagh-o-behar

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W. Thacker and Company, 1851 - 174 oldal
 

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117. oldal - IMl 5rí», f. a ceremony performed in adoration of the gods, by moving circularly round the head of the image a platter containing a burning lamp with several wicks.
6. oldal - Where are you going?" There were thousands of cities in that king's dominions, and many princes paid him tribute. Though he was so great a king, he never for a moment neglected his duties or his prayers to God. He possessed all the necessary comforts of this world; but male issue, which is the fruit of life, was not in the garden of his destiny, for which reason he was often pensive and sorrowful, and after the five51 regulated periods of prayer, he used to address himself to his Creator and say,...
29. oldal - The best thing that can be done for him now is that he should receive a hundred bags of gold pieces, and having got his property all right, let him return to his native country." On hearing these words, I became a block of withered wood ; if any one had cut my body, not a drop of blood would have issued ; all the world began to appear dark before my sight; a sigh of despair burst involuntarily from my heart, and the tears flowed from my eyes. I had at that time no hope from any one except God ; driven...
78. oldal - ... nobles and officers of state were in waiting in their respective places, and the ambassadors of different sovereigns, who had come to congratulate me [on my accession to the throne], were likewise present. I then sent for the ruby, according to custom; the officer of the jewel office brought it; I took it in my hand and began to praise it, and gave it to the ambassador of the Franks [to look at it].
91. oldal - ... requires." I approved of these words of his, and having sent for the cages, and caused those two to be taken out, made them stand near the merchant. The merchant said, O king! this man who is on the right hand is your slave's eldest brother, and the one on the left is my second brother (lit., middle brother.") I am younger than both of them. My father was a merchant in the country of Fars.
101. oldal - We put our horses to their speed, and went forward ; on the road he continued to sigh and show signs of regret. By the time of mid-day,2 we reached an island. There the young man got off his horse, and made me also dismount ; he took off the saddles and pads from the horses...
129. oldal - ... they went away, it came into my head to kill the old man, and take possession of his chest of provisions. So, having taken up the leg of an old chest, I went up to him; he was, poor wretch, sorely perplexed, seated with his head resting on his knees. I came behind him, and struck him such a blow, that his skull was fractured and his brains came out, and he instantly resigned his soul to God. I seized his stock of provisions, I began to live on it. For a long while this was my way, that whatever...
104. oldal - ... kind treatment of them, and on their part, no evil action took place, so as to be the cause of my displeasure. When I used to go out riding any where, they remained at home. "It happened, that my good wife went one day to the bath; when she came to the diwan-khana, seeing no male person there, she took off her veil; perhaps my second brother was lying down there awake, and immediately on seeing her, he became enamoured of her. He imparted [the circumstance] to our eldest brother, and they formed...
66. oldal - I made him a very low1 saldm; he beckoned me to sit down; I sat down with respect. What do I see but the young man sitting alone on a masnad, with the tools of a goldsmith lying before him; and he had just finished a branch of emeralds. When the time came for him to rise up, all the slaves that were around the place concealed themselves in [different] rooms ; I also from fear hid myself in a small closet. The young man rose up, and having fastened the chains of all the apartments, he went towards...
61. oldal - ... seven daughters born in his house. One day, the king held a festival, and these seven daughters were standing before him [superbly dressed], with each sixteen jewels, twelve ornaments, and in every hair an elephant pearl. Something came into the king's mind, and he looked towards his daughters and said, ' If your father had not been a king, and you had been born in the house of some poor man, then who would have called you princesses ? Praise God that you are called princesses ; all your good...

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