The Tooti Nameh: or tales of a parrot in the Persian language : with an English translation

Ḍiyāʾ-ad-Dīn Naḫšabī

Debrett, 1801

Contents

• The old Lion and the Cat who having killed: 76
• Of Shapoor Commander of the Frogs: 80
• A Lion whom a Syagosh dispossessed of: 84
• Zereer the Weaver whom Fortune would: 89
• Four Rich Persons who became Poor: 92
• How the Jackal was made King and then: 95
• Of the Intimacy of Besheer with a Woman: 98
• Of a King and his Sons and of a Frog and: 108
• The Merchant whose Daughter was lost: 113
• Of a Brahmin falling in love with the King: 117
• How the Son of the King of Babylon fell: 122
• Of a Woman who having gone to buy Sugar: 126
• The Merchants Daughter whom the King: 129
• The Potter who is taken into the Service of: 134
• The Lion and his Whelps and how: 137
• The Nobleman who concealed a Snake in: 140
• The Soldier and the Goldsmith the latter: 144
• Of the Merchant and the Barbers beating: 148
• The Frog the Bee and the Bird who killed: 151
• The Emperor of China in a Dream falls: 155
• The Elk and the Ass who are both taken: 161

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Tooti Nameh: or tales of a parrot in the Persian language : with an English translation
• Author: Ḍiyāʾ-ad-Dīn Naḫšabī
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Debrett, 1801
• Original from: the Bavarian State Library
• Digitized: Oct 1, 2009