The Gulistan of Shaik Saday : a complete analysis of the entire Persian text / by R.P. Anderson; prepared by an author purely to facilitate the study of the Persian language.

Saʻdī. Gulistān. English

Date:: 1861

Credit: The Gulistan of Shaik Saday : a complete analysis of the entire Persian text / by R.P. Anderson; prepared by an author purely to facilitate the study of the Persian language. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$3 • < jj 12 11 10 9 8 J 8,2^.0 1 40 19 18 17 16 15 14 (A?J isri 13 26 25 isjilas 24 2J 22 t^tU) Ij 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 OJ..) 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 28 z' »5 IjsJ 39 27 Xaaaj f tXj 38 / 8^^: 1 Either 2 gold 3 in each—4 two hands—5 will do, (will arrive with)— 6 the merchant 7 on the shore—8 or the waves—9 some day, one day—10 will throw him—11 dead—12 cn the bank, shore—13 proper, fit, just—14 I did not think, observe—15 from—16 this—[17 more, further]—18 the wound 19 internal of his, his inside—20 to scratch—21 and salt—22 to sprinkle—[23 with these—24 two lines of (poetry,)—25 I abridged, abbi-e- viated, curtailed, shortened, ({. e., my ideas, expressions]—26 and said—27 know you not? 28 that—29 you see—30 chains, fetters, bindings—31 on feet—32 when 33 in—34 your ear—35 does not come, you do not accept— 36 the advice—37 of men—38 another time—39 if—40 you cannot bear, possess not 41 the power 42 of the sting, (i.e., bf bearing the pain,)—43 place not, do not—44 finger—45 into—46 the hole—47 of the scorpion, (from crooked and tail.) “ The merchant either gains the shore with both hands full of gold, or else one day the waves cast him dead upon the beach.” I did not think it advisable* to afilict his inward wound with more scratching, nor to sprinkle salt upon it, but satisfied myself with repeating the two following lines,Know you not that you will see your feet in fetters when you listen not to the admonition of mankind, another time if you are not able to endure the sting, put not your finger into the scorpion’s hole.” . ” • * Revised No. 17.-» Add” further (to afflict.) f Revised from No. 23 to No. 25-But abbreviated (my expressions,) in these two lines.-N. B.-As no word is given, it might also be my admonitory lecture,” instead of “ my expressions.”$