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Click to Expand/Collapse OptionIntroduction
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionSpread of the Christian faith to India (1)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionKing Abenner of India, his childlessness and persecution of Christian monks
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionOne of the King’s servents becomes Christian and the King upbraids him in a dialogue (2)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe servant’s sermon: Rage and Greed are our worst enemies
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe servant explains why he became a monk
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe King had decided to torture the servant to death, but instead chases him away
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionA most beautiful son is born to the King
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionVice men phrophecy that the son will be not a King of this world, but another, and will be Christian (3)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe King places his son in a palace in luxurious isolation from all the suffering of the world
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe King’s formost and most noble servant brings home a sick man from the hunt; but he is a Christian, and the other servants plot against him before the King (4)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe sick man advices the nobleman how to cope with the King’s rage, and the King forgives him, but continues his persection of Monks
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionOut hunting, the King meets monks, talks with them and then burns them
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince wonders why he cannot go out of the palace, and one of his teachers then says that it is because the King does not want him to hear about Christian teachings (5)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince asks the King to go out, and he is allowed to go to places which are only pleasant.
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince sees a leper and a blind, and becomes very depressed
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince sees an old and crippled man on the next trip out, and is told he soon will die, as humans will
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince goes home and reflect on death, in sorrow
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionBy the calling of the Holy Spirit the monk Barlaam seeks admission to the prince as a trader, with the pretext of selling him a jewel
G.R. Woodward, H. Mattingly, 1914, p. 8,1-10,1
μέγας μὲν γενόμενος πλούτῳ καὶ δυναστείᾳ καὶ τῇ κατὰ τῶν ἀντικειμένων νίκῃ, γενναῖός τε ἐν (10,1) πολέμοις, καὶ μεγέθει σώματος ἅμα δὲ καὶ προσώπου ὡραιότητι σεμνυνόμενος, πᾶσί τε τοῖς κοσμικοῖς καὶ θᾶττον μαραινομένοις προτερήμασιν ἐγκαυχώμενος·
Jacobus Billius Prunaeus, 1577 A.D., Migne no. 73, col. 446a1
vir opibus quidem ac potentia, victoriisque et bellica fortitudine, corporisque proceritate insignis, ac praeterea vultus elegantia clarus, atque ob mundanos ocissimeque marcescentes rerum successus insolenter se efferens;
G.R. Woodward, H. Mattingly, 1914
mighty in riches and power, and in victory over his enemies, brave in warfare, vain of his splendid stature and comeliness of face, and boastful of all worldly honours, that pass so soon away.
Keyser & Unger p. 1,1
mykyll oc mattogr at viti oc vallde. rikr at ollum verlldlegom auðœvom gulli oc silfri oc goðom kleðom. rikum steinum ymissra kraptta.
H.E.Kinck, 1852 p. 2,1
stor og vældig i Klogskab og Magt, rig paa alle verdslige Skatte, Guld og Sölv og gode Klæder og kraftige Ædelstene med forskjellige Egenskaber.
Ed. Gimaret 1972
وكان عزيز المملكة كثير الجنود مرزوق الظفر مهيبا في اعين الناس وكان عظيم الملك في الدنيا كثير الرغبة فيها شديد الالحاح عليها لا يجعل رايه ولا قوته الا فيها ولا يستعد الا لها ولا يشتغل الا بها ولا يرى الناصح له الا من اعانه عليها ولا الغاش له الا من اعانه على الدين والزهد في الدنيا وكان يعده عدوا وكان قد اصاب الملك في عنفوان الشباب وعند شرة الشهوات وكان رجلا ذا راي فيما كان فيه وذا شباب يعرف ذلك من نفسه ويعجب به فاجتمع عليه سكر السلطان وسطر الشباب سكر العجب وسكر الشهوات ثم شب ذلك وقواه ما اصاب من الظفر والغلبة والقهر حتى استطال على الناس واحتقرهم وقهرهم ثم استحكم ذلك منه باستماعه من الناس في (101,1) مديحهم اليه نفسه وتزيينهم له رايه وتقريرهم في صدره بانه لا علم الا علمه ولا راي الا رايه
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