When they asked her to intercede on their behalf...

When they asked her to intercede on their behalf, she took out an expensive and glamorous robe of hers, the value of which equalled to the amount demanded of them. The representative of the ruler in Balkh took his wife’s robe and placed it in front of the merciless ruler.

The ruler demanded to know whose robe it was, and when the representative informed him of the events, the ruler was touched by the merciful act of the lady and forgave the villagers asking that the robe should be returned to its owner. The lady on receiving the robe asked whether the ruler had glanced at her robe. “Yes,” said her husband. “Well, I shall not wear a dress on which a stranger’s eye has befallen, so sell…