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Part I, Chapter VI: On the Excellence of Justice and of Just Kings. | |||
f118b | f76a | Introduction: a dissertation on the virtue of justice, with a panegyric on the Wazír. (Anwarí’s satire on poets cited). | |
f119a | 363 | How the torments of hell were mitigated to Núshírwán and Ḥátim of Ṭayy. | |
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f119a | f76a | 364 | Bahrám Gúr and hís minister Rást-rawish. (Cf. N. S. N. pp. 19—25). (See above, pp. 76—84). |
f119b | ” | 365 | Núshírwán punishes the governor of Ádharbáyján at the complaint of an old woman. (Cf. N. S. N. pp. 28—35). |
” | ” | 366 | Story of an Indian Ráy’s justice to the persecuted Muslims of Kunbáyat (Cambay). (Autobiographic: data for the residence of the author, as a judge in that place about 620 A. H.). |
f120a | f77a | 367 | The famous story of Qubád and the milk-maid. |
f120b | ” | 368 | Ma’mún discovers the grave of Núshírwán and finds his body undecayed. |
” | f77b | 369 | The old woman who refused to sell her house, which was situated in the great palace of Núshírwán. |
” | ” | 370 | Núshírwán and Mazdak: Núshírwán suppresses the Mazdakites and restores peace to the land. |
” | ” | 371 | The Caliph al-Mahdí appears before the judge: his law-abiding character. |
f121a | ” | 372 | The king of Kirmán and the treasure-finder. |
” | ” | 373 | Story (from Indian sources) of the honest buyer of a house wherein was concealed a treasure. |
” | f78a | 374 | Memorable justice of the Indian ruler <Arabic> (probably Jaysingh): The tank of Nuh-Lak in Nahrwála built from the unclaimed money on deposit. |
” | ” | 375 | King Hurmuzán and a comparison of the duration of the life of a hawk and a vulture. |
f121b | ” | 376 | Warning of the Indian Ráy to the king of Turkistán. |
” | ” | 377 | A tyrannical king reproved by a madman. |
” | f78b | 378 | How the king of Kirmán lost his three fingers. |
f122a | ” | 379 | How the Qayṣar’s life was spared by the Caliph. |
” | ” | 380 | The Ráy and his perfidious brother, the governer of Nahrwála, who wanted to poison him. |
” | ” | 381 | How al-Mu‘tadhid detected the peculations of a judge and restored the stolen purse. (Cf. N. S. N. pp. 77—80). |
f122b | f79a | 382 | How ‘Adhudu’d-Dawla made the Qádhí return the two jars filled with Dínárs, which he was refusing to the owner. (Cf. N. S. N. pp. 69—77). |
f123a | ” | 383 | Amír Ismá‘íl b. Aḥmad the Sámánid and the hoax about the treasures of ‘Amr b. Layth. (Cf. N. S. N. pp. 14—17). |
” | f79b | 384 | How a courtier’s tyranny results in the death of a Persian king. |
” | ” | 385 | The Sultan Maḥmúd punishes publicly a courtier for his tyrannical exactions. |
” | ” | 386 | The Caliph ‘Umar, the widow of a warrior and her orphans. (Cf. N. S. N. p. 128). |
f123b | ” | 387 | How ‘Umar b. ‘Abdu’l-Azíz was scrupulously honest about public rights, so much so that he closed his nostrils when the musk of the war-spoil was brought to him. |
” | f80a | 388 | How Alptigín won Ghazna by an act of justice: the Turkish guards and the poultry. |
” | ” | 389 | Muḥammad b. Isḥáq, the ruler of Khúzistán, and his most capable and just Wazír. |
f124a | ” | 390 | Núshírwán’s chain and the old ass. (Cf. N. S. N. pp. 36—37). |
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f124a | f80b | 391 | How Ṭamgháj Khán the Great, the ruler of Samarqand, prevented a rise in the price of meat. |
f124b | ” | 392 | The deaf king of Chín orders red clothes to be worn by the oppressed (Cf. N. S. N. p. 10). |
” | ” | 393 | Maliksháh the Saljúq and the old woman whose cow was killed by his slaves. |
” | f81a | 394 | The Qádhí of Raqqa compels ‘Ísá b. Ja‘far to discharge his liabilities. (The Khalqu’l-Insán, as the source. See above, p. 66). |
f125a | ” | 395 | al-Mu‘tadhid abides by the decision of Abú Ḥázim, the judge, about the inheritance of Ṣafi (?), his store-keeper. |
” | ” | 396 | How Sultan Sanjar atones for accidentally shooting a child in Ṭálaqán. |
f125b | f81b | 397 | How the Ráy of Nahrwála <Arabic> submitted himself to the punishment of being burnt to death by the Brahmins. |
” | ” | 398 | The Sultan Maḥmúd kills a miscreant in the dark, lest he might recognise in him his own son. |
f126a | f82a | 399 | Story of a tailor who made the Amír pay his debt to the merchant. The significance of his prayer-call at an unusual hour. (Cf. T. F. S. pt. II, pp. 17—19, also N. S. N. pp. 45—54). |
f127a | f82b | 400 | Sultan Mu‘izzu‘d-Dín Muḥammad Ghúrí refuses to confiscate the wealth of Awsábhar(?). |
The chapter ends with a eulogy upon the Wazír. |