The Anvar-I Suhaili, Or, the Lights of Canopus; Being the Persian Version of the Fables of Pilpay or the Book Kaliah and Damnah, Rendered Into Persion (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The plant thou waterest now with tender care, Must on its boughs the fairest1 produce bear. Then the Brahman having opened the lid of the casket of secret knowledge, filled the shell of the king's ear with the jewels of wisdom, and putting aside his own avocations for some days, employed himself in instructing the monarch, and in the midst of their converse, mention was made of the testament of Hushang. The king recounted to the sage, the precepts, one by one; and the Brahman addressed the great monarch on the subject: and Dabishlun indited his words, with the pen of understanding, on the tablet of memory; and the book ' Kaliluh and Damnah,' is composed of the questions and answers of the King and Brahman; and we have arranged it in fourteen chapters, after the manner set forth in the catalogue of the book, and, ' A.id is from God from ichom help is supplieated; He is sufficient for Ms, and in Him w our trust.' The great kin Dabishlim said to the Brahman Filpai, ' The purport of the first precept was, that when one is exalted by being honored with the confidence of kings, he will assuredly be envied by his peers, and those who envy him, endeavouring to destroy the pedestal of his honor, will, by deceitful words, work a change in the king's disposition towards him. Wherefore it behoves a king to ponder well on the speech of interested persons; and, on discovering that it is not devoid of an admixture of falsehood and corruption, not to conduct it to the confines of acceptance. DISTICHS. Admit not interested men, for they With honey too the poisoned sting convey. Thy honey-bringing frieud, to outward eye? Both stings and wrongs thee, in reality. And 1 make my request to the Brahman, that hu may be pleased to relate a story suitable to this case, and may detail the ...