"Brahmani" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "By Allah, thou sayst sooth!" Then she rose to her feet, hending lute in hand, and played and sang, whilst the Jinns and the Shaykh Abu al-Tawaif danced. Presently the Father of the Tribes came up to her bussing her bosom, and gave her a Brahmani[FN225] carbuncle he had taken from the hidden hoard of Yafis bin Nuh[FN226] (on whom be the Peace), and which was worth the reign of the world; its light was as the sheen of the sun and he said to her, "Take this and be equitable therewith to ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... home the Brahmani told her parents of her meeting with her husband, and what a valuable piece of paper he had given her; but not liking to go before the king herself, she sent one of her relations. The king read the paper, and ordering the man ...
— Indian Fairy Tales • Collected by Joseph Jacobs |
