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Let them bring him here." So they brought Biyapri. When
he arrived he bowed low before the prince.
"
The prince said : Biyapri, go back to your own country
and change your conduct. The woman whom you seek you
will never see again." And the prince made him a gift of two
keti of gold.
" Let all assemble. I am
The King of Roum then said :
about to pronounce judgment between the King of Bagdad
and the minister of Damas." The minister and the officers
assembled therefore in the presence of the King, together
with many of his subjects.
The King
of Roum said :
" O my executioner, let the three
children of the minister of Damas be all killed; such is the
divine command."
were all three killed.
So the children of the minister of Damas
After they were dead the prince said :
"
Minister, return to
the country of Damas, with a rag for your girdle, and during
your last days change your conduct. If you do not know it,
I am the princess Djouher-Manikam, daughter of the Sultan
of Bagdad, wife of Chah Djouhou, my lord, and the sister of
Minbah-Chahaz. God has stricken your eyes with blindness
on account of your crimes toward me. It is the same with the
cadi of the city of Bagdad."
The minister of Damas, seized with fear, trembled in all
his limbs. He cast himself at the feet of the princess Manikam,
and thus prostrated he implored pardon a thousand and
a thousand times. Then he returned to Damas all in tears,
and overwhelmed with grief at the death of his three sons.
The cadi, covered with shame on account of his treachery to
the Sultan of Bagdad, fled and expatriated himself.
The King of Roum commanded them to bring the King
Chah Djouhou and give him a garment all sparkling with
gold, and he sent him to dwell in the company of his fatherin-law,
the Sultan of Bagdad, and his brother-in-law, the
prince Minbah-Chahaz.
Then the princess Djouher-Manikam retired. She en-
tered the palace and returned clad in the garments of a
woman. She then went out, accompanied by ladies of
the court, and went to present herself to her father, the Sultan
Qf Bagdad. She bowed before her father, her brother the