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', FOURTH DISCOURSE. Ok PHYSICIANS<br />
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avoid relishes and preserves so } that the 'treatment cannot succeed."<br />
, Thea Fadl. ibn Ya'hya applauded thef- acumen and dis-<br />
^cernrnentof that great man, and revealed to him his real complaint,,<br />
saying, " It was for this that I summoned thee, and what I did<br />
was for a proof."<br />
Then the Catholicos applied himself /o the treatment of the<br />
case, and did all that w&s possible In this matter. When some<br />
time had elapsed and there was no improvement, the Catholicos<br />
writhed inwardly, for this had appeared no great matter, yet it<br />
was thus protracted. At last one day when he was sitting with<br />
Fadl ibn Yahya, he said, " Honoured Sir, I have tried every<br />
available remedy without effect. Perchance thy father is displeased<br />
with thee. Satisfy him, and 'I will Eemovet.this disease<br />
from thee."<br />
So that night Fadl arose, went 'to<br />
[his father] Yahya, fell at<br />
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his feet, and asked for his forgiveness. His old father<br />
forgave<br />
him, [and the Catholicos continued to treat him after the same<br />
sort as before, and he began to improve, and ere long was com<br />
pletely cured].<br />
Then Fadl asked the Catholicos, " How didst thou know that<br />
the cause of my complaint was my father's displeasure ?<br />
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The<br />
Catholicos answered, " I tried every known remedy without<br />
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effect. So I said to myself, This great man has received a blow<br />
from some quarter.' (\Y) I looked about, but could find no one<br />
who lay down at night dissatisfied and afflicted through thee ;<br />
on the contrary, many were those who lived in comfort through<br />
thy alms, gifts and marks of favour. At length I was informed<br />
that thy father was vexed with thee, and that there had been<br />
an altercation between thee and him, and I knew that [thine<br />
aiVment] arose from this. So I adopted this treatment and ft<br />
passed away, and my conjecture was not at fault."<br />
After this Fadl ibn Yahya enriched the Catholicos and sent<br />
him back to Pars.<br />
ANECDOTE XLIII.<br />
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In the year A.H. 547 (=A.D. 1 1 52-3)2, when a battle took place<br />
at the gates of Awba 3 between the King of the World ,Sanjar ibn<br />
Malikshah and my master 'Ala'u'd-Dunya wa'd-Dm al-Husayn<br />
ibnu'l-Husayn (may God immortalise their reigns and domains !),<br />
I wandered<br />
and the Ghurid army sustained so grievous a reverse,<br />
about Herat in the guise of a fugitive, because I was cowpected<br />
with the House of Ghur, against whom enemies utterecT all 1<br />
,J For the meaning of anbajdt (pi. vianba oranbaja), seep. C