Note 217 — THE TEN WAZIRS; OR THE HISTORY OF KING AZADBAKHT AND HIS SON.[130] (continued 2)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Pardon, lit. = security: the cry for quarter already introduced into English
“Or raise the craven cry Aman.”
It was Mohammed’s express command that this prayer for mercy should be respected even in the fury of fight. See vol. i. 342.