Another example not very generally known is found in the Urdu romance, “Gul-i Bakawali:”  When the hero, Taj al-Maluk, the youngest son of King Zayn al-Maluk, is born, the astrologers cast his horoscope and predict that the king will lose his sight as soon as he looks upon him.  In order to prevent such a calamity, the king causes the child and his mother to be placed in a house far distant from the city, where Zayn al-Maluk grows up into a handsome, courageous youth.  By chance he meets his father, the king, while the latter is hunting, and the king no sooner casts his eyes on the youth than he becomes blind.  The royal physicians tell him that only the Rose of Bakawali can restore his sight, and the four other sons of the king set out together to procure this wonderful flower.  They fall victims to the wiles of a courtesan, who wins all their money at play and ultimately imprisons them in her house.  In the meantime Taj al-Maluk has started on the same errand; he outwits the courtesan, obtains the liberation of his brothers, and then journeys to Jinnistan, where, by the help of a friendly demon, he plucks the Rose in the garden of the beauteous fairy Bakawali, and retraces his way homeward.  Meeting with his four brothers on the road, he acquaints them of his success, and on their doubting the virtue of the flower, it is applied to the eyes of a blind man, and his sight is instantly restored.  Upon this the brothers take the flower from Taj al-Maluk by force and hasten with it to their father.  But the hero’s friends the demons build for him a splendid palace, and the fame of his wealth soon reaches the court of his father, who, with the four brothers and the ministers of state, visits him, and after a great feast Taj al-Maluk makes himself known to the king and relates the whole story of how he procured the flower that had restored his sight.  The king falls upon his son’s neck and weeps tears of joy, saying, “You have restored the light of my eyes by the Rose of Bakawali, and by the sight of you the door of cheerfulness has been opened in my sorrowful heart.  It is incumbent on me to make known this enlivening news to your mother, who has looked out for you with anxiety and I must cause her, who has been afflicted with grief at your absence, to drink the sherbet of the glad tidings of your safety.”  Then the king went to Taj al-Maluk’s mother, made many apologies for his ill treatment of her, exalted her higher than she was previously, and gave her the joyful news of her son’s arrival.  The remainder of the romance recounts the marvellous adventures of the hero in fairyland, whither he proceeds to rejoin Bakawali, and where he undergoes many strange transformations; but ultimately all is “merry as marriage beds.”—­Nothing is said about the punishment or pardon of the treacherous brothers, but doubtless in the original form of the story the hero acted as generously towards them as did Khudadad when his father would have put the forty brothers to death.  It seems somewhat strange that after Khudadad’s brothers had killed him (as they believed) they did not take the Princess Daryabar away with them, which generally happens in stories of this kind.