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Publications of the Kama Shastra Society. Author. Translator. 1. The Kama Sutra. 1883 Vatsyayana. Bhagvanlal Indraji. 2. The Ananga Ranga. 1885 Kullianmull. The Arabian Nights. 1885-1886. " Burton. 4. Nafzawi. Burton and others. 5. The Beharistan. 1887. Jami. Rehatsek. 6. The Gulistan 1888. Sadi. " or Rose Garden. Works still in Manuscript. Author. Translator 7. The Nigaristan Jawini. Rehatsek. 8.
Nafzawi, who was a pagan, begged pardon of God and prayed not to be cast into hell fire for having written it, and implored his readers to pray for him to Allah that he would have mercy on him." Still she hesitated. "It was his magnum opus," she went on, "his last work that he was so proud of, that was to have been finished on the awful morrow that never came.
We who anticipate walls of jasper and streets of gold ought not, perhaps, to be too severe on the Tunisian. It must also be added that Nafzawi had a pretty gift of humour. Origin of The Scented Garden.
But there are sundry things which you will have to treat about yet." And he mentioned other subjects, chiefly of a medical character. "Oh, my master," replied Nafzawi, "all you have said here is not difficult to do, if it is the pleasure of Allah on high."
In short, the literary merits or the work are trifling. Although Nafzawi wrote his extended Scented Garden for scholars only, he seems afterwards to have become alarmed, and to have gone in fear lest it might get into the hands of the ignorant and do harm.
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