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روضهٔ ششم بهارستان — در لطایف و مطایبات / Sixth Garden of Baharestan — On Witticisms and Jests

Sixth Garden (Rowze 6) of Jami's Baharestan

The Baharestan of Jami is arranged, after the model of Sa'di's Golestan, into eight rowzas (gardens), each devoted to a distinct theme. The sixth garden gathers short humorous and satirical anecdotes — witty retorts, clever excuses, boasts, and comic exchanges — narrated in prose and capped with a few lines of verse.

The present anecdote (a man pressing a false claim of kinship, met with an equally sharp reply about mutual inheritance) belongs to this garden, alongside its neighbors: the boastful big-nosed suitor, the schoolteacher who claims seniority over his brother, the greedy heir, and the barbed exchanges of Mu'awiya and the Alawi. As a container this garden sits between the whole Baharestan collection and its individual numbered sections, so that the witty pieces are grouped by their garden rather than attaching directly to the entire work.

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