He ordered his Wazir to carry out this cruel task.įor many days after that, the Sultan mourned of his wife. So he sentenced his wife to death as was the custom of the land. As he was a just king like his own father, he followed the just way. But after some years Sultan Shahriar came to know that his wife had been unfaithful to him. He loved his Sultana more than his own life. He decked her up in the choicest of precious jewels.

In due time, Sultan Shahriar took a beautiful woman to be his Sultana. He declared Shahzaman to be the king of great territory which was an area of the Persian Empire. After some years, the just king died of old age and soon enough, Shahriar, the elder son took up the throne. These young princes were named Shahriar and Shahzaman. The kingdom reached its zenith under a particular kind-hearted and just king who was also an able administrator. For early four hundred years, this prosperous kingdom was ruled by a royal dynasty. It then crossed the borders of China into India where the holy Ganges flowed. The kingdom stretched all the way from Persia to China. Many, many years ago, there was a large kingdom.

The palace of a thousand and one nights