D. | G. | Serial. | TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES. |
Part III, Chapter XX = LXX: On the Contemptibility of Hastiness and the Advantages of Slowness. | |||
f264a | ff275 | 1730 | Introduction. The life-story of Rúzbih and Bihrúz, the sons of the hasty Jewel-merchant. (Cf. Bakhtiyár-náma, pp. 93—107; also above, pp. 74—6). |
f265b | f276a | 1731 | The hasty prince of Aleppo, and his anxiety to marry the daughter of the king of Egypt; his precipitate action results in a calamity just before the marriage. (Cf. Bakhtiyár-náma, pp. 33—45; also above, pp. 74—6). |
D. | G. | Serial. | TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES. |
f266b | f276b | 1732 | The tale of the Ráy of India and the four brothers that guarded the throne, one of whom was suspected of misbehaviour, while he was trying to save the sleeping queen from a snake. |
f267a | ” | 1733 | The tale of another brother, in connection with the previous story, about the king who unwisely killed the hawk that prevented him from drinking a poisoned cup. |
f267b | f277a | 1734 | Another tale, in the same connection, about the king who killed the weasel that saved the life of his son from the fangs of the serpent. (Tales of Indian origin). |
f268a | ” | 1735 | ‘Abdu’r-Raḥmán Khál from personal motives falsely accuses a sage of Herát of idolatry; the Sultan Maḥmúd of Ghazna warns him of the dreadful consequences, upon which the accuser confesses his guilt. (Cf. N. S. N., p. 120; also above, p. 82). |
The chapter ends with a panegyric as usual. |