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روضه هشتم بهارستان / The Eighth Garden of Baharestan (Animal Fables)

The eighth rowzeh (garden) of Jami's Baharestan gathers short animal fables in the tradition of Kalila wa Dimna. Each tale uses beasts, birds, and insects — a camel, a fox, a wolf, a bull, a jackal, a rooster, a sparrow — to dramatize a moral lesson about prudence, greed, self-knowledge, and dealing with the powerful. Section 6, in which a grazing camel avoids a thornbush because a viper is coiled within it, belongs to this garden, as do the other beast-fables of the same chapter (Sections 1, 4, 7, 11, 16, 18, 21, 22). Grouping these sections under their shared rowzeh preserves the structural level that sits between the whole Baharestan and its individual fables.

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