D. | G. | Serial. | TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES. |
Part III, Chapter XVI = LXVI: On the Contemptibility of Dishonesty and Misappropriation. | |||
f250b- f251a |
f267b | 1703 | Introduction. The shepherd who implored his master to sell pure milk, and his witty reply when the flock was swept away by a flood. |
f251a | ” | 1704 | When Rást-rawish, the Wazír, is ruining the state by his extortions, Gushtásp, warned by the example of a shepherd who hanged his treacherous dog, takes the administration into his own hands and kills the Wazír. (Cf. N. S. N., pp. 19—22). |
f251b | ” | 1705 | The Imám Abú Ḥanífa’s clever device to recover the money of a poor pilgrim from a dishonest trustee. |
f252a | f268a | 1706 | The Shaykh Abu’l-Mu’ayyad’s (?) intercession on behalf of Muḥammad Múydúz, who was accused of embezzling the money of his master Sunbul, the late treasurer of the Sultan Mas‘úd; and the Sultan Bahrámsháh’s story of Núshírwán’s visit in disguise to the garden of a person who was famed for honesty, hospitality and piety, resulting in his repentance and in the real beginning of the era of his justice. |
The chapter ends with a glorious panegyric on the illustrious monarch and his Wazír. |