Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 487 — Appendix. VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES OF SOME OF THE TALES IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS. VOLS. I. AND II.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

There was an older “Tútí Náma,” which Nakhshabí modernised, made from a Sanskrit story-book, now lost, but its modern representative is the “Suka Saptatí,” or Seventy (Tales) of a Parrot, in which most of Nakhshabí’s tales are found.

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