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25. Convert the following piece of Sindbad's Autobiography into a Biography.
I narrated my tale of suffering and hardship to the king. The king was a noble and
kind
person. He
He sympathized with me and appointed me as an officer on the spot.
Soon, I became friendly with the people on the island. There were a number of other
small islands nearby. These islands were under the king, too. During my stay, I
witnessed a number of remarkable sights. The seawater around the islands contained
huge and terrible fishes. A few were hundred times bigger than the largest ship. Once I
saw a fish that had a head like a bull. I witnessed many unimaginable wonders.
Ships from different parts of the world visited this small island kingdom's port
regularly. Every day I would ask the visiting sailors about my city Baghdad, but no one
knew about my city. I longed to go back home.​

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Many of these Mahāyāna sūtras were written in Sanskrit (in hybrid forms and in classical Sanskrit) and then later translated into the Tibetan and Chinese Buddhist canons (the Kangyur and the Taishō Tripiṭaka respectively) which then developed their own textual histories.