D. | G. | Serial. | TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES. |
Part III, Chapter XXV = LXXV: On the Cunning of Women and the Stories of their Wiles. | |||
f285b- f286a |
f287b- f288a |
1783 | Introduction dealing with the craftiness of women; reference is made to the Sindbád-náma, and Bakhtiyár-náma. How the artful sister of Qúbád contrived the release of her brother from the prison in which he was put by the people. |
f286a | ” | 1784 | The wife of a trader of Ahwáz plays a trick upon her husband, and compels him to divorce his other wife in Baṣra. |
f286b | ” | 1785 | The wife of an Indian athlete, and her illicit connection with a Brahmin. |
f287b | f288b | 1786 | The cunning of the wife of a goldsmith’s son, and a similar story of the faithlessness of the wife of the Ráy of India, and her intercourse with the elephant-keeper. |
f288b | f289b | 1787 | How a person who used to study books on the cunning of women is astounded at the mischievous activities of a woman who convinces him that there is no limit to the wiles of her sex. (The Ḥiyalu’n-Nisá’ (?) is referred to). |
f289a | ” | 1788 | A crafty woman makes a tool of her husband who jealously guarded her. |
f289b | f290a | 1789 | A clever woman shows her husband the futility of keeping women in strict privacy, as the safeguarding of chastity depends on women alone. |
(Again at the end of this chapter the Sindbád-náma and Kalíla wa-Dimna are mentioned as the popular books on this topic). | |||
The chapter ends with a short panegyric on the Wazír, and with it Part III also. |