traduza o texto completamente e perfeitamente para o portugues Now the prince turned back and quietly returned to his palace and lay
down on his bed. He stared into the roof for sometime. Then he called a
servant and asked him, “Have the rafters of the roof been in the same
way as they are now or they had some other shape?” The servant
replied, “The seedlings grew into huge trees in the soil. Then they were
cut into timber that was finally shaped into the rafters that have been
fixed on the roof!”
Around the same time the king sent his vizier to inquire about the progress of the prince and to ascertain what he talks about. When the vizier
met the prince, he too was asked similar questions. The vizier went to
the king and told him that the prince speaks like an abnormal person.
The king called for the astrologers and discussed the matter with them.
The astrologers felt that the remedy for the prince would be to get him
married. The king liked the suggestion and gave orders for arranging a
suitable match for the prince. Men of wisdom and discretion were sent to
the neighboring kingdoms to search for a girl of exceptional beauty as
the consort for the prince.
Therefore, they selected a very pretty princess to be the bride of their
prince. Preparations for the royal wedding were afoot. The city was decorated grandly. Arrangements were made for feasts, songs and dances.
People from far and near started coming to witness the pageant. The
prince started wondering why there was so much commotion in the city.
He asked one of the servants about the spate of activity in the capital.
295The servant said, “Preparations are going on for your wedding! You
must be very happy for that!” Hearing this, the prince kept quiet.
Alas, an auspicious day was fixed for the wedding. One day the king
called the bride-to-be and told her that she was chosen to consort the heir
apparent of the crown. He told her that the prince was his only son and
dearer to him than his own life! He asked her to speak with the prince in
a manner that he got attracted to her.
When the wedding took place, the princess took good care of the
prince. She tried her best to create love for her in the heart of the prince.
When food was served, the bride took beverages as was her wont. The
drinks intoxicated her and she went to sleep. The prince got the opportunity to slip away from the palace. He started going round the city. In a
lane he found a youth of his own age and made friends with him. He
made the youth wear his expensive clothes and himself wore the ordinary garments of his friend. With mutual consent they went out of the city
and early morning hid themselves in a secluded place.
When the bride woke from her sleep of intoxication, she found the
prince missing. When she didn’t find him anywhere in the palace, she sat
down losing all hope. At dawn all the servants started searching for the
prince in the entire city. At sunset the prince started on his journey with
his friend. In this manner they were hiding themselves at dawn in a secluded place and start their onward journey around dusk. They arrived
in the capital of another king. The king had a daughter who was a very
pretty lass. The king had made a resolution that he would marry his
daughter to anyone she personally liked. He had constructed a separate
palace for his daughter to live with the husband of her choice. There was
a balcony in the palace towards the main thoroughfare from where the
princess could watch the youth passing by and make her choice of the
consort.
The princess was watching from the balcony when the prince and his
friends passed that way. She noticed the youth with majestic manners
dressed in the garments of ordinary people. She took instant liking to
him. She sent word to the king that she wished to marry the youth. The
king was very happy to hear this and rushed to the youths in a disguise.
He asked, “Who are you, and from where you are coming?” The prince
said, “I am a poor wayfarer. What work you have with me?” The king
said, “You look strangers in this city. Tell me about yourself in detail!”
The prince said, “I am not poor and needy! What is the need for you to
inquire about me?” However much the king tried to ask him, the prince
296didn’t respond. He returned to the palace and briefed some men to make
full inquiries about the youths.
When the agents of the king failed to extract any information from the
prince, the king sent his men to bring the youths to his court. He asked
the men, “What work has the king with me? Neither I know the king nor
do I have to seek any favors from him” When the prince adamantly refused to go along with the king’s men, they forcefully took him to the
court. The king was very delighted to see the youth and treated him with
affection and respect. He offered him a chair to sit in the court. The
king’s wife and daughter too were watching him from behind the
curtain.