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

Note 52 — THE SAY OF HAYKAR THE SAGE.[6]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

In the old version “a tenth part of the revenues.” The “Kasím” of the text is an unusual word which M. Houdas would render revenues en nature, as opposed to Khiráj, revenues en argent. I translate it by “tax tribute.”

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