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# Description This is a prose narrative page from what appears to be a Victorian literary work titled "Salaman and Absal" (page 58). The text, presented in verse form, begins "Part I" of "The Story" and recounts a legendary tale: a Shah ruled the realm of Yun wearing the Ring of Empire of Sikander, and during his reign a wise Sage of great insight attracted scholars from across the world. The Shah, observing this, took the Sage into his confidence, and under the Sage's counsel—granted divine sanction—the Shah's dominion expanded from Kaf to Kaf, with all peoples and princes bowing to him in battle and rising peacefully under his just rule. Footnotes provide historical context, identifying Yun/Younan as Persia's name for Greece and Sikander as Alexander the Great.
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\N 58 SALAMAN AND ABSAL. THE STORY. Part I. A Suau there was who ruled the realm of Yun,' And wore the Ring of Empire of Sikander ; And in his reign A Saas, of such report For Insight reaching quite beyond the Veil, That Wise men from all quarters of the World, To catch the jewel falling from his lips Out of the secret treasure as he went, Went in a girdle round him.—Which Tue SHA Observing, took him to his secresy ; Stirr’d not a step, nor set design afoot, Without the Prophet’s sanction; till, so counsel’d, From Kaf to Kaf* reach’d his Dominion : No People, and no Prince that over them The ring of Empire wore, but under his Bow’d down in Battle; rising then in Peace Under his Justice grew, secure from wrong, And in their strength was his Dominion strong. 1 Or “ Yavan,”’? Son of Japhet, from whom the Country was called “ Younan,’’—Ion1a, meant by the Persians to express GREECE generally. Sikander is, of course, Alexander the Great. 2 The Fabulous Mountain supposed by Asiatics to surround the World, binding the Horizon on all sides. ee ee ee Comuicoooks.com