traduza o texto completamente e perfeitamente para o portugues When the king visited the prince thereafter, he greeted him respectfully and said, “Your Majesty! I haven’t been able to understand why I
am incarcerated in this lonely mansion? Why am I forbidden to go out in
the open? Is it a punishment for any crime that I have committed? If the
reason is to keep me ignorant of the matters of life and death, then how
281long I could be kept in such ignorance? One day the world will itself inform me of all this! I seek your permission to let me go out. Otherwise
the curiosity will kill me one day!”
The king understood that the secret of keeping the prince in seclusion
has somehow come into his knowledge. He ordered the special retainers
to take the prince out in a procession of horses.
Yuzasaf stirred out in great pomp and pageantry. It was like a festival
in the entire realm. From that day Yuzasaf used to go out in the city occasionally. One day he noticed two men. One had a swollen and yellowish
face. The other was blind. He asked people about the condition of the
persons.
They said, “The person with swollen body suffers from pains that
have caused his present condition. The other person lost his sight because of an ailment of the eyes!” Yuzasaf asked them if they were the
only two sickly persons or there were any more of them?
People said several persons fall ill.
The prince was affected learning about the suffering of the people.
He went out on an excursion on another day. He saw a feeble, old person. His hair was grey and his back was bent forward that made it difficult for him to walk.
He asked people, “Is the old man the only of his type or there were
many more such persons?”
The people said, “Everyone reaches this stage in his advanced age!”
The prince asked, “In how many years a person becomes like the way
the old man was?”
They said, “About a hundred years of age!”
The prince asked, “what happens to them, thereafter?”
They said, “The person dies or goes to the other world!”
The prince was much affected hearing all this.
He called the person from his companions in the mansion, who was
his confidante. and asked him, “If this world is not the permanent abode
of men, and the Hereafter is really the final abode, then why people are
so much enamoured of the world!?”
The man related to the prince all the reasons in detail as to why the
king wanted to keep him in seclusion.
The prince asked, “Are there any men of God who are not attached to
the world?”
The man said there were many such persons in the realm but they
have been banished to other countries by the king. It might be possible
that a few are still there hiding themselves from the fear of the king’s
282anger and punishment. They must be awaiting the end to this tyrannical
rule to be able to freely preach the people.
From that day onwards the prince became very pensive and contemplative. It was the talk of the town that the prince has turned his mind towards piety. At this time there arrived from the island of Sarandeep a
man of piety, Balohar by name, and he got wind of the interest of the
prince in piety. Balohar had come to the kingdom by boat and had met
the courtier close to the prince in the guise of a merchant. He told them
that he had a miraculous medicine that can bring back sight to totally
blind persons. It can also give the faculty of hearing to persons who are
totally deaf. The medicine also had, he said, power to cure any incurable
ailment. It can give strength to the physically weak, it will make the
mentally weak into wise and can give the possessor control over his mortal enemies. He told them that he wanted to show the medicine to the
prince. that he thought he was the right person to own it. He requested
them to get an audition from the prince for him. The courtier first
wanted to see the medicine before he could seek an appointment from
the prince. The man said that none other than the prince could bear to
look at the medicine.
Hearing this from Balohar, the courtier went to the prince and recounted what transpired between him and the merchant. The intuition of the
prince gave him a feeling that he could learn something interesting from
the merchant newly arrived from Serendeep. He wanted Balohar to meet
him privately in the quiet of night. The prince treated him with due respect and courtesy. Balohar said, “I never thought that your highness
would give such respect to a
total stranger?” The prince said, “The secret that I wish to unravel,
seems possible of solution through you!”
Balohar said: I am deeply grateful to you for the kindness you have for
me! I wish to tell you a tale. There was a king in a certain country. The
king was well known for his good nature and kindness to his subjects.
One day while he was riding for pleasure, the king noticed two persons
dressed in tattered garments. The king dismounted his steed, greeted
them and talked to them with respect. He shook hands with both the
persons. The courtiers accompanying the king didn’t like the gesture.
They couldn’t tell anything to the king but went to his elder brother and
complained about what they thought was the indiscretion of the king.
The brother went to the king and admonished him. He heard his elder
brother with respect and patience.